Allergic to Apples!?!?!?

So Decklyn's been dealing with hives on and off since the start of the school year. A week or so ago he started getting them everyday. Last week he hadn't had them at all during the day and then ended up eating two apples for a snack and within a short time started getting hives that ran down his arms, on his chest, back and his neck. So we have not started experimenting with apples to see if he's really allergic to them. Since last Tuesday he has not had any hives and we've eliminated apples from his diet. So we'll go a few weeks without and see what happens when we try raw apples without skins, as I heard the skin is the worst part for the type of allergy I think he has (cross-reaction birch pollen/apple allergy). Some sites I looked at stated not eating the skin may be helpful, so we'll experiment with that first. I hate to not let him eat apples all together- especially since apples have been so helpful in keeping him regular. I don't need to deal with the constipation issues that he had when he was younger again. We'll just keeping learning about this allergy and see what we can do to help him avoid the hives. Maybe seeing an allergy specialist will be in our future.

Here are some picture of Decklyn's hives that he's been dealing with for the last month and a half. I can't help but feel sorry for the little guy. These pictures don't even show how painful they really look and sometimes are.

Happy Birthday Leyton!!!

First of all, want to wish our nephew Leyton Happy 1st Birthday! This past weekend we celebrated with a birthday bash for the lil man. Decklyn and Leyton got to go out to Grandma Pam's garden and gather up pumpkins. So I thought I'd show pictures of the boys with all their pumpkins. Poor Leyton had to hold on for dear life in the gator with Decklyn driving. I think they both had a great time. Hope you had a great birthday Leyton!!!

20 Week Appointment

I had my 20 week appointment on Friday, Sept. 17th. This was pretty exciting and an appointment that Justin was able to make it to. We got to have an ultrasound and found out what we are having. I shouldn't have doubted that it would be a boy... those boys are pretty dominant, at least on Justin's side of the family. We're all pretty excited to have another lil guy around the Heins Household. Decklyn is still dead set on calling him Zaza. We'll see... maybe we can convince him otherwise.

Anxiously Waiting

It's been way to long since I've made a post. I promised I would try and keep up. This week we've been anxiously waiting for Friday to arrive. Its been busy around our house trying to get everything settled and organized and hopefully ready for baby in February.

Mike and Justin have been working on the bathroom! That's really exciting for me since we haven't been able to use it since we moved in around Christmas time. That's a long time and now that I'm pregnant I get tired of having to go downstairs to use the restroom in the middle of the night. So I'm pretty excited that there is now a tile floor and a tub in place in the bathroom. Can't wait to see it all come together.

Barb has been painting Decklyn's play room in his favorite, Hawk colors. It's a pretty bold looking room, but Decklyn is very excited about the stripes that Grandma Barb is putting on the walls. She has put in a ton of work helping us paint here at the house... not sure how I will ever repay her for all her help! It's looking great!

My mom has helped when she can as well... she's helped me with some organization and is preparing to repaint the floors in the basement after my dad and Mike had an incident with breaking some pipes and water coming in and taking up the newly painted floors. :D I guess they wanna keep my mom busy!!!

Monday we had new furniture come for our Panther Family Room. It's so nice to finally have real furniture down there to relax on. See ya never again futon! LOL! Justin has already moved his DVR box down to that TV and claimed a spot on the new couch. Typical man!

Now we anxiously await Friday to find out if Baby Heins is going to be a Harry or a Zaza. LOL. If it's a girl, Decklyn has the name Harry picked out for her. And no worries... it's not short for Harriet. LOL! If it is a "guy" Decklyn would like to name him Zaza. I think we'll just make sure that both of those are nicknames, but for now that is how we talk about the babies (Harry and Zaza). Look for an update on Friday on whether we'll be having a Harry or Zaza. We are soooo soooo sooo excited to find out. My mom is super excited because Ossian starts their City Wide Garage Sales Friday morning as well... perfect timing! Atleast this time she won't buy both girl and boy. :D

16 Week Appointment

Today was my 16 week doctor appointment. Of course it had to be the first week of school! Even though I missed part of a chaotic day of school I had a pretty good appointment. They did the typical measure my belly, listen for the heartbeat, check my blood pressure and all that jazz. My poor doctor must have been up all night delivering babies because she told me she hoped I got more sleep than she did. LOL!

I got my regular weighing in and I'm gaining weight... that's different than with Decklyn. I think I lost weight the first three or four months with Decklyn and this time I've gained each appointment. I joke that I've gained more weight this pregnancy than I did the entire pregnancy with Decklyn, but its not quite that bad only about 5-8 lbs. to go. HAHA! When the doctor measured me she made a comment about how much I've grown since last time- and she warned me not to worry, some second time moms think they are having twins when they pop so much earlier. I had to laugh and tell her Decklyn's theory on us having twins and the girl being Harry and the guy Zaza. She thought that was pretty cute.

The babies heartbeat was a little slower this time in the 150's and the baby was moving around so we didn't get to hear a long constant heartbeat. Dr. Maker had to keep moving around to hear it. Again, she warned me that she was listening to one baby and that there wasn't another one in there. I'm not sure what to think with all the mentioning of twins- hope that isn't a sign of what is really to come. I guess we'll find out in one month for my 20 week appointment when I get an ultrasound. That will end the twin topic and hopefully Decklyn can say he is going to have a baby brother or sister instead.

Overall, I'm starting to feel better and that taste is leaving my mouth most days. Or maybe I'm just so super busy at school to notice it anymore... not really sure. :D I'm not fitting comfortably into my pants anymore so its nice to have a belly band to expand my pants a little longer. I also did a little school shopping for myself and bought some new maternity outfits to get me through the fall/winter months. I can't believe how out of date some of my maternity clothes I wore with Decklyn already feel.

Gosh... I can't believe the next doctor appointment update will mean we're at about the half way mark! It's gone by fast already and February seems so far away yet.

First Day of School

Justin, Decklyn, and I all started school today. Decklyn was so excited to finally be starting school. I got one of those fun first day of school pics with Decklyn posing at the front door. I'll make sure to post the picture soon. I kept telling him that he couldn't be old enough or big enough for school. He had to tell me that he was 3 and half and that he was big enough for school. Justin took him to school this morning and Decklyn hung out with Dad until he felt ready to go to his room. Grandma Barb got to pick him up and he shared how much fun he had at school with her. By the time I was able to pick him up from Grandma he didn't want to tell me too much about school. I think he was just so tired from all the fun he had at school that he just didn't want to talk about it anymore. :D I guess we'll get to bed early tonight and hope he is in a good mood tomorrow for daycare. Last night was quite a chore getting him to bed. Tried putting him to bed early for school but of course the one night its nice enough to have the air off and windows open someone in the neighborhood has a party and is making noise keeping Decklyn from wanting to sleep in his own room. Took a few hours to get him to stay in his room and fall asleep. Not how we wanted to prepare for the first day of school. Hope that gets better.

As for Justin and my first day we managed to start another school year. Hope the year continues to go well.

Ossian Fest 2010

Last night was Ossian Fest. As usual I spent a few days helping my mom prepare her float for the parade. This year mom's float was Charlie Brown and the Great Pumpkin. I helped mom get costumes and kiddos gathered up for her float.

I made some funny masks for Lucy, Sally, Linus and Charlie to wear. Mom took an old woman's robe and we made a Snoopy outfit out of that for Decklyn. Leyton got to be Woodstock and wore a costume mom found at Goodwill. We even made little caption bubbles for each character to hold. Our float turned out pretty cute.

Decklyn and my mom were joking all day that Decklyn was going to be Snoop Doggy Dog and Decklyn would laugh and say, "No, I'm hot dog diggity dog" haha! I just thought to myself that he was going to be one hot dog in that costume. He loved it and didn't want to take it off when the parade was over.

Decklyn called my mom this morning to ask her if we won the float contest. She told him we didn't win this year and his response was, "bummer". He didn't seem to mind too much.

The kids had fun and I must say the float came together pretty well in two short days. :D