Happy Birthdays

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Happy Birthday Marcus. We celebrated Marcus' 4th birthday today. It is acutally on Tuesday, but it'll be much easier to do it today after church when we have plenty of time. Anyways Marcus all of a sudden loves to watch Transformers. He has his Transformer underware that he loves but he saw the original, and the best, Transformers cartoon on Utube and he loves it. So we were able to find a Transformers DVD, not the original, but it'll do. I know I am able to find all of the originals online, so maybe that that'll be a Christmas present sometime.

This will do for now. He was so excited to get this movie. Marcus chose a chocolate cake with a sprinkle frosting. He had a couple of choices and he thought that the sprinkle cake with sprinkle frosting would be too boring. Huh? Go figure. We had a fun time! We got a family picture while we were at it. Ok, for those who don't know Marcus has a milk/dairy allergy, just like his dad when he was a kid, and so we have been trying so hard to make sure he dosn't have milk/dairy. Marcus and Annabella have become aware of the situation and make sure what ever we give him doesn't have milk in it. Cool. Oh the allergy would make Marcus very tempermental. When I mean tempermental I mean he would rather take the punishment then do what we asked him. When he took the punishment he would look at me with a look that said "is that all you got." Kinda of that Rocky Balboa look after he was pumbled by Clubber Lang, but then got up and said "is that all you got." Then Marcus would still not do what he was asked to do, and again got the punishment and the cycle would go on, until I couldn't do it anymore. At this point I knew I was in troble when he is a teenager, and great fear entered my heart and I think at that point I was truly scared for Marcus. If he is like this now, I could only imagine what it is going to be like later. Not the kind of thoughts a parent wants to have about their kids. All the "what if " came to my mind and I needed to figure something out. Long story short I was asking my mom if I did the same thing when I was a kid hoping that it was cause I turned out all right, though some people in my presence would beg to differ, any how as I was explaining all this it popped into my head "what if Marcus is having an allergy to the milk?" Cause my reaction would also cause me to become grumpy and so what if Marcus is having the same issue just way worse than what I had. So, Emily and I removed Milk and eventually all dairy products from his system and He is doing great. For the most part you ask him to do something and he says "yes" and off he goes to accomplish what ever. Alot of fear and stress was taken off our shoulders. Luckly for Marcus there is Soy Milk and other non dairy products that he can have in place of. Me, I had Orange Juice on my ceral and later had this nasty powder milk. No fault to my parents they were using what was avalible to them. That I am grateful cause I have a great story that everybody gets grossed out about. So an even longer story longer, Marcus and Annabella had a Primary Program Practice on Saturday and so Emily and I dropped them off and took off to Costco to go shopping by ourselves for the first time sence having kids, it was awsome, and when we got back there was Marcus chowing down on Pizza, covered in Cheese !!!! Oh Crap we said to each other. "Ok we know how to handle this and we know what is going to happen we just need to have patients and send him to bed as soon as posible" Lucky for us he did not have a reaction and he was quite pleasent for the remander for the day. Nice. So the next day was the program and it went well. Annabella had a speaking part and she bailed out at the last minute, for those who don't know Annabella, deathly shy and hate to be in front of groups or crowds nontheless, so that was not a big surprise. After the program the kids went to primary and Emily and I ended up talking to one of the leaders outside of the classroom and she said that the kids were having Ice Cream Sundays for what ever reason cause that's all the we heard was Marcus is eating Ice Cream. "Oh Crap" we went inside and sure enough there is Marcus eating Ice Cream. We went in and Emily asked Marcus if he was eating Ice Cream, hoping it would jog his memory that he was allergic and we just had this talk about not eating these certain foods. His reply, "This has no milk in it." all we could do was laugh. It was funny. Well we weren't so lucky tonight, at dinner he had to finish what was on his plate before we could do his birthday, that is when Diablo (the devil) showed his ugly face. All we could do was laugh. He did eventully finish his meal and the rest of the night went well, so it was not as bad as it could be, but there was definitaly a difference his his whole being. Crazy.

Whew !! That was a story hope it was good. Next up is Emily's birthday. The kids and I did a cake and presents for her. Nothing big. The kids decorated the cake with those little beads of sugar that roll everywhere. Mental note never use those again they hurt to step on and they go everywhere. This is how the cake started




and this is how the caked ended.





And as you can see it ended on us. The kids thouht it was the best thing ever to see mom and dad smearing cake all over each other. And for the record she started it. But he deserved it! (Emily finished typing!) Good times, Good times. Well it's been fun and I don't want fatigue to set in and so I will sign off for now.

Peace and Love








P.S.

It's Sunday night and the weekend is over and tomorrow will be Monday, back to the same ol same ol; however, just remember that it'll be one day closer to Friday.