Justice had his 1 year appointment last Friday and while he was there, they took blood samples to perform allergy testing.  The results came back yesterday and he is allergic to soy, eggs and peanuts.  The first two we knew about and the third was one we were hoping to discount.  Only 1.5% of kids are afflicted with peanut allergy, so I guess he is an unlucky one.  It is a moderate affliction so that means he must have epi doses with him from now on.  20% of kids with the affliction grow out of it by age 6 so we are hoping that he at least grows out of some of the allergies.  He will be tested again in 6 months, so we are keeping our fingers crossed.

    It is funny because you can get on the internet and mothers attribute this to not breast feeding because medical studies point to kids with food allergies not breast feeding.  Well, in our case, Jordan did not breast feed, no allergies at all.  Justice did breast feed and he has the most unlucky of food allergies.  I guess it goes to show you that some things are not so clear cut.  It will be an adjustment but I am sure things will be ok.  We are fortunate that there is such an effective remedy if he ever does come in contact with peanuts.  The epi shot stops the reaction cold and gives the child relief.  The bad part is, so many things are made with peanuts or peanut oil.  We are hoping for the best but preparing for this as a lifetime ailment.

     I had a pretty uneventful weekend other than diving in head first into some new programming concepts.  I bought a new alarm clock... whoo hoo.  My previous alarm clock (had for about 15 years) started running fast.  Exciting huh?  

     On Saturday, I took Jordan to the airport observation deck and let her watch some planes land/take off.  I thought she would enjoy that and best of all it is free.  Well, I underestimated how much she would enjoy it.  Now all she talks about is getting to ride on a plane, that could be expensive.   Either way I am glad she liked it. I am sure that she will get her ride someday, but not anytime in the near future.  

     The Monkey man went to his one year appointment on Friday.  He had lots of blood taken for allergy testing.  Hopefully we can nail down what he is allergic to and maybe get a better idea if his soy allergy is going to be permanent or not.  Also, it will be a little more reasuring to know if he has any anaphylactic allergies.  That is always a concern, especially when you are living in a house with the human food disposal (aka Jordan).   

     We got our snow day.  It snowed about 5 inches and stayed around for a couple of days.  Of course, in true North Carolina fashion, the schools freaked and kids were out for 2 days.  The first day I can understand, but the roads were completely fine the second day.  The roads had melted by the end of the first day, snow remained only in the grassy areas.  It is funny, you think back to when you were younger and don't remember getting the extra days break.  It is funny, because if you live in one of the northern states, it takes a natural disaster to disrupt things.  Of course they have the proper road equipment to deal with it, but it puts us in a unique position.   As adults, we don't get to look forward to spring break, or summer vacation but the one thing from childhood we do get, is the occasional snow day that cancels work.  It usually has to be a pretty big event to cancel work, but at least it is something.

     Jordan had a great time in the snow.  The last time it snowed, she was only a year and a half old and didn't really care too much for it.  This time, she wanted to live outside and tried to build multiple snowmen.  Justice didn't care for it too much.  He kind of stood in one place and gave us the stink eye.  He was bundled up so much he couldn't move his arms much, so I kind of understand.

    For me, it was a double edge sword.  I had an interview that was subsequently cancelled and rescheduled for tomorrow.  That is fine, it is better than not getting any snow and missing on Jordans excitement.

Thomas Corriher is in the hospital this week for dehydration due to a bug or bacteria. It is a bug that is going around right now, so keep an eye on your little one.

Get well soon little guy!

     The Weather predictors are spinning their web of hope today.  Though unlike most of their other predictions, this one looks fairly solid.  It has been butt cold for weeks and it will be below freezing with a pretty big blanket of precipitation.  If it does snow, I will be happy but the forecasters will not get a pass.  They need to start actually predicting things that a 3 year old couldn't guess.  Either way, we are pretty stoked right now for it all.  Jordan has been talking about snow ball fights all afternoon.  It would be nice to get enough snow to build a snowman with Jordan for the first time.  However, any snow that can make it look pretty is still all fine and good!  We won't complain!

Another reason that I think it will snow.... I have an interview tomorrow morning and am pretty excited about it.  Bring it on Murphy!

Hello everyone, as you know I have moved my blog over to my personal website and well..... here it is!  Hope you like the new format, I will be continually updating the look and feel so if there are any features or content missing that you are use to viewing, please let me know and I will see about satisfying the request.

 A link to the photo gallery should be on the top right of this page under links.  Melissa hasn't gotten all of the pictures up right now, but she will be working on it.  She is not going to put all of the archived pictures from the past but if there are some that you remember that you like, let me know and we will create a greatest hits section.  Mahalo!

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