Experimenting

Abrie's sleeping in a light blanket sleeper tonight as part of my experiment.

She's been having the strangest hives since Sunday morning. They're strange because they only occur in the mornings after feeding her. Shortly after feeding her in the morning, you start to see the hives slowly appearing and becoming raised and blotchy just as Maddie's used to do when she had them for that year+ after the lovely hand, foot, and mouth virus of '06. And, then after I put little Beeba down for her first nap of the morning, she wakes up with them all gone. Weird. I can't figure out what it could be. It's only on her arms, and only on the exposed parts of her arms. So, I don't think it could be any reactions to the laundry detergent since it's not where the clothes touches her body. I change her bed sheet all the time, and I don't think it's any type of allergy to the bed sheet. I started to worry- as much as it makes me want to vomit- that perhaps it could be bed bugs? But, I really don't think so because it's only in the morning that she gets these mysterious hives and then they are gone for the day after she awakes from her first nap. I guess I will see how she awakes tomorrow morning since I put her in long sleeves tonight.

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I love my spring baby. I'm so used to winter babies! And, I'm loving the fact that Abrie is outdoors nearly all the time with her big sissys. Of course, both Maddie and Faith have always been outdoors as well even though they were both winter babies. Maddie, of course having been born in Shreveport, it was so much easier to get her outdoors. Faith was more of a challenge in getting her into her snowsuit for the mere 15 minutes or so we could be out at a time, but it was imperative that I get Maddie out for fresh air and all. It's quite easy with Abrie. It doesn't require TOO much effort, besides the typical 'get-three-girls-out-the-door-and-all-in-one-piece' effort. That goes without saying though that there are different things then to worry about with the Breeze. Now I worry about sunburns and not having enough sun hats for my baby instead of keeping Faith out of the 30mph winds and below 30 degree weather for too long. 

But, besides that, Abrie just loves every chance to be outside. I truly think she already loves it. We read stories out on the deck now, and this girl can read 4 or more books in a row. It's great. She sits so quietly kicking her legs while she studies the pictures. We even found some books for her at the library yesterday-- her first borrowed library books!