Allergies, Stroller-skate & Cherry Blossoms!

We have been having so much darn fun! Today we took the kids to a roller skating rink where they let the mommies push the strollers around the rink. It was fantastic! Of course, dodging little people was mighty difficult & the fact that I haven't been on rollerskates in about 20 years made it "interesting" to say the least.

It was my birthday on Tuesday - 35. God it sounds so old now. When I got home with the kids from the gym, Dan had all the lights dimmed, and candles on a cake, along with dinner & pressies. It was so sweet of him! However, Terryn and I ate half an entire cake between us. I've gained almost 7lbs over the last two weeks. I've been on a binge. Last night I had Godiva chocolate cheesecake. I can't stop. It's pathetic.

We had an appointment with an allergist on Tuesday. I decided at the last minute to take my daughter too, so when we got there, they did the prick test thing on both kids. Milan who has serious eating issues, and diarrhea several times a day, came up negative! We've now got a name and number for a Pediatric GI specialist at Georgetown Hospital. The allergist said that a lot of preemies who were born drug addicted & with fetal alcohol issues have immature intestinal tracts & although no "allergies" he probably does have an intolerance to most foods that have glucose in them as it puts more of a strain on the digestive system.... So my daughter, she came up positive... Totally allergic to dairy products.

This is the same girl who wolfs down ice cream, loves milk in her cereal, ate half a cake stuffed with vanilla pudding and freshly whipped cream with me the night before the testing, and eats cheese every day! My son on the other hand hates dairy of any kind, including cake and ice cream (and we assumed he was just really smart and knew what upset his stomach, so would choose to avoid those foods)!

Now we have to remove everything dairy related from our daughter's diet. Boy will that be hard. Signs that I missed - a runny or stuffy nose, annoying cough and general cold sypmtoms. He said that as she approaches 2 years old, the symptoms would get much worse and that she will be more at risk for being allergic to other things - like pollen etc., later in life. I thought she just kept getting sick, (daycare at the gym, changes in weather and that kinda stuff). Boy do I feel awful. I've been giving her triaminic and other stuff unnecessarily.

Monday we went to the Building Museum in DC, it was AWESOME! The building itself is pretty spectacular and the kids had so much fun in the "construction zone". Afterwards we metro'd up to the Smithsonian and walked over to the Tidal Basin. They were having an outdoor concert when we arrived, and the weather couldn't have been anymore perfect! It was absolutely beautiful.