I Am So Awesome

Look what I did last night.



I painted the walls in her playroom a long time ago but couldn't decide what kind of accent I wanted on them. I didn't like how the yellow turned out, but I didn't know how to fix it without repainting a different color that would probably yield the same result. (I have an extremely difficult time choosing paint colors. They never end up looking how I expected them to look.) I decided to try polka dots that are three shades lighter and I love how it turned out, well the part I've done at least. It looks better in person. Eventually I'd like to do a chair rail in this room also.

I love doing this kind of stuff; I wish I could do it for a living. Although I'm not sure who'd hire me. I have zero creativity and even less artistic ability.


We went to Market Street tonight for, you guessed it, ICE CREAM. Clara enjoyed her first, very own, I-don't-have-to-share-with-anyone, cup of ice cream. With sprinkles of course. I don't have to tell you she loved it and polished off the whole thing by herself. After enjoying the creamy treat, she rinsed off in the fountain.


After consulting with Nurse Lisa, she and I have made a diagnosis for the hives that Clara got the other day. What was confusing me about them was that she got them while she was eating, so I assumed it was something that she ate. That was Friday at lunch. Right before lunch, she and Leah had been playing outside and I had noticed her foot looked a little red, but it just looked like a bug bite and it didn't seem to be bothering her, so I didn't think much of it.


Friday evening, Lisa noticed her foot, and at that point, it was still red, the whole top of it was pretty swollen and she felt a small bump between her toes. Sure enough, the next morning the bump had the little white head on it like she got when she got stung by fire ants a couple of weeks ago. Today, her foot looked purplish and was still a little swollen, and it started itching. It was pretty sad seeing her try to scratch it with a crayon at lunch this afternoon. She wasn't getting much relief, so, being the idiot I am, I scratched it a little, and it got little welts all around it. Nurse Lisa informed me that scratching it was releasing more toxin. Oops. Good thing we have Nurse Lisa around.


Anyway....... I Googled fire ant allergy (of course), and a reaction can occur in a different place from the sting (like the face), and half an hour or so after being stung (like while eating lunch, which really makes diagnosing said reaction very difficult). I'm almost certain that it is a fire ant allergy, because she got several stings on her hand for the first time a few weeks ago. Her hand was a little swollen and the stings got little white heads and took quite a while to heal, but she didn't have the hives. I do know that your body has to get a certain amount of an allergen before it has a reaction, so it would make sense that the second or subsequent times she was stung would be more severe. We'll see what the doc says at her 18 month check up here in a couple of weeks. I guess we need to get some of the yard ant killer.