Got Milk?

This summer I planted a garden and decided to try my hand at a variety of peppers and chilies. To be honest our sweet peppers didn't do so hot, they kept shriveling up before they could change to the color they were suppose to be such as red, orange or yellow. Our spicy serrano peppers, however flourished and I really don't use them enough to ever justify planting them again. 

Well on several occasions, while picking produce from our garden, Lily would express a desire to taste the "baby" peppers and we then had to explain to Lily that these peppers were hot and if she didn't want to get burned she needed to leave them alone. Usually Lily listens to our warnings about things that could hurt her but I suppose she figured something so small couldn't really hurt her...

I was in my room folding some clothes and I could hear the kids playing on the side of the house and they're giggling and laughing but then their giggling and laughing starts sounding forced and slightly unsure. Then I hear Lily say "Oh! Momma I need a drink, I need water!" I figured they must be eatting dirt, something they've been doing lately, and she must want to wash her mouth out. So I head outside with her sippy and find that she's topless :( her and Caleb have been naughty lately and like to strip outside so I hand her her water and go in search of Caleb cause he's the worse of the two as he likes to get completly naked, where as Lily is simply content to run around without her top on. 

Sure enough Caleb had nothing on, not even a diaper so I'm trying to get him dressed when Lily starts crying and saying her eyes are burning. I look up at her and she's rubbing her eyes pretty fierce, so I tell her to stop rubbing and to come to me so I can check her eyes.  In the mean time Caleb is getting whiney and acting agitated. I finally pry Lily's eyes open can't see anything and that's when I see the broken up bits of serrano chili peppers on the ground. I ask Lily "Did you pick these peppers?" and through her tears she says "Yes."

I run Lily inside, wash her hands off with quite a bit of soap and and then try and rinse her eyes out with cold water. Doesn't do a thing, she's crying and saying its still burning and I can hear Caleb crying outside so I go let him in and I'm trying to think of what else I could do to stop Lily's eyes from burning when Caleb starts pulling at his pants and crying real good so I figure I must not have shaken out all the rocks in his diaper when I put it back on him outside so I undress him (thinking I'll quickly fix his problem and then only have one screaming child). However upon undressing him I quickly discover that he must have been playing with the peppers too cause boy is he red down there. So I throw him in the tub wash his hands and body with soap cause I don't want him to start rubbing his eyes and end up like Lily who is still crying and I don't know what to do so I quickly Google remedies and come across the answer...MILK! So I strip Lily down put her in the tub with Caleb and I'm pouring milk on both of them and in Lily's eyes and it worked! Now it did take a minute or two but it worked.

Lily downing a glass of milk. After her eyes stopped stinging I think she became aware that her mouth was still burning so we used more milk to solve the problem.

Poor thing had red circles around her eyes for several hours after the incident but thankfully they weren't burning for that long.

Caleb feeling much better after his milk bath :)

Another remedy is baking soda, for those of you who may need it in the future, Lily the poor thing had to soak one of her hands (my guess it was the culprit hand) off and on that afternoon in a water/baking soda solution as Lily kept complaining that "it's hot!" I guess some kids just have to learn the hard way and Lily has definitely learned the hard way to NOT touch those "baby" peppers. As for Caleb let's hope he's learned his lesson to keep his clothes on, as they do provide some protection from those dangerous serrano peppers.

 The Serrano bush that is no more...When Eric got home and heard what happened he went outside and ripped it up, just to be on the safe side. 

Sandia National Forest

Eric had a few days off in between rotations this last week so we decided to head out into nature and do a little hiking with the kids. I am pleased to announce that our kids were great! Lily hiked the whole hour without once being asked to be held and this little hike was rather steep with lots of wicked, killer cactus along the trail. Caleb did well when he was allow to hike on his own, but for the most part Eric carried him in the back pack we borrowed from Sharee because he gave us too many scares with his poor balance ;). We had packed a lunch and ate that while we were out there and then let the kiddos explore for a bit before heading home, which was only a 20 minute drive. It's nice to have such beauty to explore so close to home!

Gotta have a crazy shot right? Right.

These are the bad boys I spoke of earlier, they were all along the sides of the trail and Lily was very good at pointing them out and warning us not to touch them :)

Lily's silly face, she really likes to stretch her mouth out like this and I'm pretty sure she learned it from her cousin Hyden.

Caleb was rewarded a walk for good behavior.

Me and the kiddos

Lily being Lily

There's Albuquerque 

Pretty!

Just having fun and exploring after eating lunch.

  

Overall it was a good trip :)

The Past Four Months

Okay you may just wanna go pop yourself a bag of popcorn cause this is gonna get intense ;) I 'm just going to briefly touch basis on the more important happenings that have taken place these past four months, so those of you who were hoping for a very detailed account of everything that has occured...I am sorry to disappoint.

Alright let's get down to the "nitty gritty"... In April we had visitors! Eric's parents flew out from Washington to stay with us for a few days. They were the first lucky visitors to stay in our newly decorated "guest bedroom"(My sister Jenny made me a beautiful quilt last christmas and that quilt is what inspired me to redecorate that room! Thank you again Jenny you are the best!) One of the things Eric's parents were looking forward to, other then seeing us, was the promise of warm, sunny days. Well if my memory is correct I think they got one and half days of sun and the rest of their visit was rain and snow ;) But despite the lack of sunny, warm days we were still able to make a trip to the zoo, put up a fence around my vegetable garden to keep my plants safe from my kids, let the men go golfing, play with play dough ;), take a ride on the "world's longest gondola", play a few games and eat good food! We really enjoyed having them and were sad to see them go.

So one of the afternoons it was snowing we pulled out our play dough and created works of art! 

In April we found out that we were expecting our 3rd! It is going to be another GIRL! Lily is very excited and keeps asking when she can hold the baby ;) The official due date is November 26th but we'll see if this one comes early like the others have (please keep fingers crossed and prayers would be appreciated since my babies keep getting bigger).

I celebrated my 26th birthday May 22nd. Normally birthdays don't phase me but this one I felt really old so I'm a tad worried about future birthdays ;) N-e-ways Eric threw me a "minute-to-win-it"
themed birthday party and it was so much fun we forgot to take pictures :) Oh well I didn't look so good that day anyways! So a BIG thanks again hun for making my birthday special you're the BEST!

My kids both had their very first swimming lessons in the month of June. Lily was in a pre-school class and loved it, and Caleb and I along with his cousin Sydney and Aunt Sharee were in the Parent -
tot class. The very first lesson did not go smoothly but I am happy to say that after that one he did
really well and enjoyed the rest of his lessons.

In July we got visitors again! My sister Jenny, her husband Brandon and their cute kids Jemma, Carter, and Gavin were traveling through on their way to Georgia where they will be living for the
next three years as they serve in the Air force.  Emma was also able to fly out During the same time as Jenny and Brandon were here and we were all able to spend the Fourth of July together and boy did we have fun! 

Since Lily's birthday was on the 10th of July we decided to celebrate early while more family was
around to make it extra fun ;) Lily is now 3 years old but is the size of a 4 year old ;) she is one
spunky girl with lots of opinions of her own. She LOVES her Gariety cousins, enjoys painting and
coloring, likes to sing (by herself, she often tells me to stop singing because "its her turn"). She loves
to rough house, something she's learned from her dad ;) Lily is still a cuddle bug, I get countless hugs and kisses from that girl on a daily basis. She loves getting her nails painted and dressing up as a
princes, which her cousin Daphne has helped her do countless times (thank you Daphne!).

We are so very grateful that Lily is a part of our family and we look forward to sharing many more birthdays with this beautiful girl! 

August brought us PEACHES! Sharee and I did several canning sessions together and a few on our own. We now both have lots of canned peaches, peach jam and freezers chuck full of diced peaches ready

for smoothies or toppings for homemade waffles ;)

And this my friends is finally the end of my "update post" of the past few months! Hope I didn't bore you too bad ;) 

Oh and this picture got thrown in cause I LOVE IT! 

New Post Coming Soon!

Not that I think I have tons of people checking and re-checking my blog everyday for the latest and greatest happenings in the lives of the Anderson Clan, but for you few faithful followers I thought I'd give you a heads up that I will be posting again and soon! I just found the new password and username that I had written down and missed placed in my kitchen months ago so yahoo for me for finding it and stay tuned for an update post coming your way soon!