Thank you for all the well wishes and good thoughts. Tessa seems to be on the mend. Target has special ordered dye free flavor free Benedryl for my stock pile (hopefully we won’t find ourselves this bad off again). For the next few days I’m keeping her diet Vitamin C and citric acid free. By the weekend I will slowly start adding watered down juice back into the mix and see how she handles things. Hopefully this is more of a sensitivity then an allergy.

Since we are still on the topic of Tessa, I want to share one of those things that make you say “AWWWWWWW!” Turkey breakfast sausage is just about her favorite food in the entire universe. If given the opportunity she would eat the entire box of 10 links. Recently she was able to con the Hubster and I into allowing her to consume 6 pieces. After the last piece was gone she took her diaper off declaring “it to tight mama!” I looked over and said “Wow look at that belly! You ate all those sausages and now your tummy is big!” Tessa must have absorbed this cause/effect relationship and this past weekend applied the learned lesson.

After exiting the shower, Tessa caught me mid toweling off. She pointed to my belly and cried “Your tummick’s big Mama, you ate all the sausages!” I started giggling uncontrollably, I’d love to explain the real reason but sausage eating will have to suffice for now. Besides having ZERO concept of a long term time line, I don’t want to have to explain a miscarriage should one happen. Six more weeks in my big danger zone, after that I will start to feel more comfortable. I don’t think I will explain about the baby until they are able to feel him/her kicking.

Tickled with Tessa’s explanation about my stomach I tootled off to tell The Hubster who was diligently reinstalling our leaky back door. With the girls out of eye sight and ear shot he responded to my sausage eating tale by grabbing himself Michael Jackson style and saying “Oh yeah you love the sausage”.