I have a friend from Maine who is allergic to shellfish. It's very sad, poor lobster-loving girl.

My sister was really sensitive to citrus as a baby. She'd even get a rash from something with citric acid.

Daniel, sleep~ma. How long is the training for again?

Sail, I'm in Vernacular, Table 22.

The only allergy Jo had as a baby nearly killed her, and it was apparently inherited. She was virulently allergic to insect venom, especially mosquito venom.

Sara's teething pretty fast, too, Cashmere -- she's thirteen months and she already has two of her bottom molars, plus the top four in front and on the bottom. And boy, does she like to use them.

Wow, no teeth at fourteen months would have freaked me out, Deb. Sooo cool that Joanna met Sir Paul!

We're also holding off on egg whites until one, and may make it two on nuts.

We always held off till one on both of those, with all three kids, but I never waited longer since none of them (and no one in my family) have food allergies. Sara already loves peanut butter crackers. (And chocolate, which her softie of a daddy likes to sneak her every now and then.) She's also addicted to Goldfish and Nilla Wafers already.

Weirdly, it never even occurred to me to not give Joanna anything because of allergy development fears. I mean, that is, it never occurred to me that anyone would develop allergies that way, because I'd been born with all mine, courtesy of mother who not only had two kinds of cancer when pregnant with me, but who was also into her forties.

She was virulently allergic to insect venom, especially mosquito venom.

Eek! That's particularly scary since mosquito bites seem kind of inevitable, at least in this part of the country.

she's thirteen months and she already has two of her bottom molars, plus the top four in front and on the bottom. And boy, does she like to use them.

How do you handle biting? O's taken to biting my shoulder and I'm usually so shocked that I'll yelp and find it hard to follow up with a stern, "no" because he's usually grinning at me.

In non-baby related news (surprise!), when I picked up our recycling bins outside, I found a poor slug that had crawled out on to our mulch and froze to death last night. Poor slug and this freakish weather. I think the forecast is calling for rain of toads tomorrow.

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deb, how does she handle the mosquitos? I think I'm more allergic than most people because I get welts the size of quarters and have to take oral benadryl and use the cream to keep from scratching my skin off.

DH, the bastard, doesn't even welt!

Daniel, sleep~ma. How long is the training for again?

Just one more day, tomorrow, the project goes live Thursday.

If I can work up a second source of income, I could do this one standing on my head.

Also? I got the 9 am-5:30pm shift. Which means I might just be able to stay up long enough to chat and/or call to Andi at night for a bit before going to sleep. (She isn't home before midnight my time on most of the days she works)