Peanuts is about Alli. I had taken notice over the last few weeks that she gets terrible dark circles under her eyes during the school week and they clear up on the weekends. So we kept trying to put her to bed earlier during the week, makes sense, right? But she couldn't fall asleep and she kept claiming she just wasn't tired. Then it dawned on me that she eats a peanut butter sandwich *every* day for school lunch. (Don't ask, it wound up being the only thing she would let me pack so we just decided it was easier to make that every day so we knew she would eat.) On the weekends though, we rarely have peanut butter. So I decided to do a little experiment and I told her she was not allowed to have peanut butter sandwiches for a couple of days, nor peanut butter snack bar after school. It was a dramatic difference in her eyes. So, apparently, she has a mild allergy to peanuts. Now her lunches consist of either chicken noodle soup or Boar's head turkey breast sandwich. Why Boar's head? Well, believe it or not, she's actually allergic to some of the lunch meats too, and after doing some research, I found that some of the companies use a dairy product in their curing process. Boar's Head does not. Interesting!!
Natalie is giving us some new challenges. You know how the terrible two's are pretty much about the fact that the child knows what she wants but can't express it and so they throw fits? Yea, we're hitting that a bit early. Natalie doesn't use many words, but she does point, smile, wave hands, etc. and usually we can figure out what she wants. But when we can't, or we tell her "no", we have complete and utter melt-down. It's like the world has ended. She screams, cries, throws her head back like any good drama queen does... I told her this morning that she tricked us into thinking she was an easy going child, just so we wouldn't trade her in! ;) haha
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