The Tale of Too Many Cars

Julie is gone to girls camp this week and it is just me and the boys, so they are finding ways to entertain themselves while dad studies. Dallin told me he had to show me his cars, I looked at his design and said to him how symmetrical which he ignored. Then he told me that " this design was hard work daddy, and I'm going to sleep good tonight now. Really where does he get it from.

Who needs a mom or dad

When I started feeding Preston Dallin came up stairs and let me know that there was something down stairs that needed my attention. When I came back up this is what I saw, Dallin feeding Preston breakfast. Dallin is a great son and an amazing brother to Preston we are so blessed to have such a kind and sweet son.

New Moves

Dallin loves to show us his new moves, this latest move I think was inspired by our trip to the climbing gym and our family climbing adventure up Rock canyon.
Just for the record he is only clinging to the wall, this kid loves to show off just like his mother.

Patty Cake

Preston really does love to play patty cake with his mom despite what this silly video may indicate, he just really likes to play anything these days.

What did Dallin do!

So when you tell people that your kid is allergic to something often times you get the feeling that they don't believe you or that they think you are just overly cautious. This is for you people. Dallin and his favorite aunt at the request of Nick made peanut butter bars. I didn't think Dallin would help but he now loves to bake and demanded that Natalie allow him to assist. Dear Natalie being the great aunt that she is gave into Dallins pleadings and let him help. All went well and the bars were near completion when it came time to frost them with the yummy peanut butter frosting. Dallin of course had a hard time not getting the creamy concoction on his hands but he did well and he wiped his hands off with a paper towel.

About an hour or two after frosting Dallin was on the couch and Julie noticed that his eye loooked strange, at which time a panicked scream arose from her "NICK" at which time I responded with haste to find that my son now looked like Will Smith from the shellfish scene in "Hitch". We decided to bathe him in hopes that it would help to resolve the swelling by removing the toxin from his eye. This picture was taken immediately before that bath, Dallin looks miserable because he is cold. This is actually very little swelling compared to what happened over the next 10 minutes where his eye was completely swollen shut and his cheek doubled in size. He said it didn't hurt but he was miserable, but most important to him was letting us know that he had not eaten any peanut butter. The mere mention of P.B. and his eye brought exasperated panic on his part, he feared he was in trouble. So we had to agree with him that it could not have been P.B.. The first words out of Natalie's mouth was " I should have washed his hands", I think Natalie actually felt worse than Dallin. In the end, we went to the after hours pediatrician who told us to go home and give Dallin some Benadryl. It is now the day after and Dallin is back to normal thank goodness. The moral of the story, Dallin had his face swell up like a balloon after rubbing his eye with his hand that had been cleaned with a towel two hours before, he is very allergic to peanuts. Now, imagine his airway is about as large as three McDonalds straws combined diameter, had he eaten any P.B. his airway would have swollen in the same fashion and to the same degree. Good bye breathing. In closing don't feed my kid peanuts, love Nick.