Riley and Avery

So we went to the library Luau on Saturday. It was really quite a lot of fun. They had so many crafts and the dancers were phenomenal! I think that my favorite was the slap dance that the men and boys did. It's really great that the library puts on these programs for free.

Sorry that the pictures are so horrible. I brought my camera only to find that the batteries were completely missing (lesson learned: the kids can steal batteries from you at any time), luckily Riley brought her camera, but it ran out of batteries too. So I was left with my cell phone. Hence the horrible pictures.

At the end, the dancers taught the kids some moves. We learned that Riley has absolutely no body-awareness. (Dear, your shoulders are not the same as your hips! But hey, you're the first to dance the hula with your shoulders!) Avery was actually pretty good and followed the directions well. Rudi took one look at Riley and was like "Um, that girl needs to take dance lessons." So yeah, maybe we'll put Riley in dance classes. Who knows?

So, as everyone already knows, Avery ate a contaminated cookie from Perkin's restaurant. It wasn't too bad, but still scary. Just wanted to document it here in case I need to reference the experience later. You know, this is like my online diary. The first time she coughed and vomited, and her mouth turned red. That was at Riley's school when she actually ate a bite of a peanut butter cookie. This time the cookie didn't have peanuts or peanut butter in it, just cross-contaminated somehow. She coughed, said her throat was hurting (perhaps hives in her throat? I should have looked, in hindsight) and vomited. An immediate dose of Benadryl stopped the reaction. But I keep hearing that the third time's the charm, and that reactions get worse, so I just now called her allergist and she has an appointment on Friday at 10:15 to discuss an epi-pen. Yay. This also means that the epi pen must go everywhere with her, which means that I should carry a bag. Which means I should get a bag.