Ants and School Update

Fire Ants

The kids aren't showing any signs of being ithcy or bothered by their fire ant bites. Lydia does have one or two that look redder than the rest, so I'm watching them....but other than that no reactions.

Interesting though that my kids are allergic to MILK, EGGS, PEANUTS, and Christopher is now allergic to WATERMELON, CANTALOUPE, SQUASH.....

But NOT fire ants!!

Homeschool Preschool

I did change the schedule to divide up Anna's reading time. She did the easier part in the morning when the two little ones were still content with "quiet play" and then she did the more "intensive" reading part when they were in bed for naps. And honestly it worked beautifully. Anna had had a break from the reading so she was excited to start the story part and we enjoyed the "alone" time with each other.

For our FIAR time we tried to paint one of the trees from the book.... it was a story set in the winter so it didn't have leaves...etc! Anyway, they didn't quite paint trees, but we were able to talk about why these trees didn't have leaves and they had some art time....which they enjoyed.... sometimes I do wonder if I have three budding little artists in my midst....

Bite Update

The kids are doing fine.... you wouldn't know they were bitten unless you looked at their legs:( But I was told not to give them Benadryl until they indicated that the bites hurt or itched... so they haven't had any Benadryl since the initial bites, but I have been putting on plenty of hydrocortisone cream !! So far though, they've been ok!! I'm just waiting for the itchy feeling to really start....

Anna explained to me last night "how" Christopher got bitten (since I was cleaning up Lydia, at the time). She told me that Christopher was just sitting in the little chair. Then the ants saw him and thought, "he would be someone we can bite". So they went over to Christopher, climbed up his legs and onto the chair and bit him....
After we finished reading this afternoon, Christopher looked down at his little legs and he looked up to me and asked, "Like my dots?" What a hoot!!!

I just hope that the bites continue NOT to bother the kids and that they'll heal up with no problems (infections,etc)! For now they think it's funny that they have "chicken pocks"... we read it out of a library book a couple of weeks ago and they remembered!!