August- Week 2

After staying the weekend at Mantua, we came back on a Tuesday and McKenna had her last day of ballet for the Summer.  She loved being able to be in a class with cousins Whitney and Katie.  I wish I could have watched them more, but I was kind of recovering from having a baby and Sarah Jane and Brynn were nice enough to drive McKenna every time! 

 Along with Anna's increased fussiness, her skin started to break out.  I thought it was "baby acne" though neither of my other two had it this bad.  I also thought maybe it was because I went back on birth control and the hormones were causing it.  She also developed a really phlegmy cough.  She wasn't very content nursing anymore either.  She would latch on, suck for a bit, then arch her back and come off.  She would do this several times during a feeding and it clearly meant something was up.  

Well, thanks to the observations and advice of many loving friends, aunts, sisters, and cousins, I decided to give up DAIRY and see if this was causing all of the above issues.  

Her cough and face cleared up within a 5-7 days.  The discomfort while nursing lasted a little longer as did the evening time fussiness.  But after two full weeks off dairy, she was like a new baby!  Hooray!!

Saturday, the 17th, we let the kids spend some of their piggy bank money and we bought three goldfish!  This was our first experience with pets.  Before we could even acclimate them to their bowl (from the pet store bag) one of them died.  That's the picture of Ben in the top left corner.  He's touching the dead one.  Yuck!  As it turns out, all three died within three days.  We must have bad water or something.  We'll try again someday, just haven't gotten around to it and the kids haven't really cared.