Allergic to Amoxicillin

Mallory was feeling sick last week  so I took her to Dr. Daniel on Monday.  Turns out it was an infection and he gave her Amoxicillin.  On Saturday, February 7th  she woke up at 5:30 am and said her eye hurt. I noticed it was really swollen and thought that is random and gave her some Benedryl.  Later as she ate breakfast she started saying more parts of her body hurt and I noticed she had hives.  I couldn't figure out what she could have gotten into and then I remembered she had this same reaction back in November when on amoxicillin. The doc in the box said it wasn't due to the meds, but I wasn't buying that anymore.

I took her to Care Now and the doctor said it was an allergic reaction to the medicine and to take benedryl and/or claritin. Said it would worse before it got better.  That was an understatement.  Mallory missed four days of school because of this and needless to say Dr. Daniel and Target both have her listed as highly allergic to any Penicillin type drug.

The poor child's face  was swollen so bad she looked like we had filled her up with air.

It got really bad all over her body and at night the hives would go away and turn white/blue and then another set of hives would show up.  She truly looked like she was beaten up.  We felt so bad for her. Mallory's spirits were always good though. The only positive to this was she got to go to Maggie's school Valentine's party. That made both of them happy.

100th day of School

Mrs. Rea posted this photo of all the kids being silly on the 100th day of school.  (BTW - I have no idea what the actual day was but it was sometime in February. I know before the 14th and before Mallory missed school.)

Look What I Can Do

While this is occuring I am in the kitchen preparing dinner. I don't remember what I was making, but I know I was stiring something on the stove.  Next thing I know Mallory has walked over and told me to come look at Maggie.  She keeps telling me it is hilarious and she can't stop laughing.  Immediately I get nervous and think "oh no, this can't be good."

This is what I found.  I thought it was hilarious too and told Maggie I thought so. I also had to let her know we don't do this because we can break the shelves.  

This is her face before she realized she couldn't get down. From there everything went south.  She told me that she wanted to get a game from the shelf above so she climbed up to get it.  Using a step stool would have been WAY TOO EASY!

Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo

Grandma and Papa Nick invited us to the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo and it was so much fun.  Papa Nick could only get good seats for the 10 am Rodeo so we spent the night at their house Friday night. Much easier and we didn't have to get up an hour earlier.

Mallory really enjoyed the Rodeo and watching the cowboys and cowgirls.  Maggie got scared by the fireworks (at the beginning) and was unhappy most of the time.  She couldn't let go of being scared and I think she was tired.  

Mallory and Papa Nick - she sat on his lap the majority of the time.

Chuckwagon Racing 

After the show, we had YUMMY corn dogs and then Papa Nick bought some tickets for the girls to ride the rides.  Truthfully, we thought Maggie would get scared. We were WRONG! She had a blast and so did Mallory.  Maggie even rode the huge Ferris Wheel with me.  Mallory wanted no part of it.

She's Crazy

We had gymnastics this afternoon and had to run into Kroger afterwards.  Mallory is wearing a boot sock as a cast to finish off her outfit.  People kept looking at her and she asked "Why do people keep looking at me like I'm crazy?"  Well...the proof is in the pudding sweetie. :)

Harold's 12th Birthday Party

Harold it is really hard to believe that you are TWELVE today.  We have had you for over 11 years now.  Mallory loves you, but Maggie ADORES you.  She feeds you and gives you too many treats.  We have seen you go from a crazy puppy who ate furniture to a senior dog.  You still have some kick in your step when you want to, but have become much slower.  You sleep a lot and sometimes get lost because you can't see.  You are starting to be more like Frank and laying at feet in the kitchen and the bathroom.  Your face has a lot of grey in.  I'm so glad that you are still here with us and we got to have cookie cake!

Harold - the good sport as always 

Music Teacher

I was cleaning today and Maggie decided to play music class.  She didn't want me anywhere near her and told me to stay away.  It was a little rude, but it was funny.  We did have a talk about being polite.