Peace in the house!

Finally, the girls are in a phase of life where we finally have peace in the house most of the time. I just realized I haven't called my parents as teachers counselor or educator at all this summer. What an improvement! In the last month I can actually say that most of my days I have really been enjoying being around my girls. They play together more and are fighting less. They seem to cooperate a bit more...at least when options are presented to them. They are in a very silly phase of life, and are asking lots of questions--not the why questions yet, but just about everything. Emily and I had a conversation about God and Jesus the other day. Mostly she was asking if they were going to come to our house, or if they were going to by our house. Then she said she was afraid of them and didn't want them to come. And then a few minutes later, she stated that she wanted God to hold her on his lap when he comes to our house. And then many questions revolving around that situation. Sometimes I'm not quite sure how to answer. I often get the feeling that Emily is frightened by the whole idea that God can be near us without us seeing him like we see each other everyday. I just bought some Bible lesson materials from Mardel and have set a goal to do one lesson per week with Emily and Savannah. I'm hoping that will help with the fear factor a bit. Emily is still afraid to say prayers to God. Savannah on the other hand, requests prayers for God to keep her safe "from the thunder and the lightning and the rain, and keep us safe when we are in the car wash". I hope that I can do a good job of presenting the lessons in a fun way.

Here We Go Again

This morning Savannah woke up saying she was itchy. When I was helping her get dressed, I noticed she had rash under her arms and on her torso and it was spreading down to her hands. I'm almost positive it's hives. I'm pretty sure I know what's causing it--Amoxicillian (Penicillian). She has been on that antibiotic for a Swimmer's Ear infection for 9 days...When Emily had a reaction to this same drug it was on the 10th day of her course of treatment. I'm allergic to it as well, so I guess I'm not surprised. I hope the one dose of Benadryl will take care of it. With Emily we had to load her up on baby prednisol, Benadryl, Zyrtec, and Zantac before she would quit having daily episodes of hives all over her body. Time will tell I guess.

What a busy summer! I haven't sat down much to write about our days because we have been so busy trying to get our house ready to sell. We've been painting, cleaning, fixing, and now photographing our house. It's a long process while trying to take care of 2 1/2 year old twins. Today I owe them some fun. We'll play at the park and swim and hopefully I'll still have energy left to start trying to clean out our basement.