No more...

NO MORE BREATHING TREATMENTS FOR KARLA!! We went to the allergist/asthma doctor on Friday. Karla got tested for allergies and is not allergic to anything that she was tested for! Great news! The doctor also said that she could start using an inhaler with a spacer rather than her nebulizer! This means that rather than 10+ minutes of using her nebulizer (breathing treatment machine) every night and cleaning the pieces everyday, she now gets two puffs from her inhaler twice a day. That's about 1 minute in the morning, 1 minute at night! After more than 2 years of the nebulizer this is exciting! I was even excited about having more space on her dresser. I pretty much came home, took the nebulizer off her dresser and packed it up. I didn't put it too far away just in case she were to have an asthma attack or get a bad cold.

Our friends from Guatemala are visiting some other local friends. We got to see them last week and hopefully will see them again this week before they head back. Seeing them always makes us want to go back and visit Guatemala.

Last week Karla got her pictures taken for Easter. They are so cute!! I can't wait to get them later this week.

Karla is getting ready for Easter. She is learning all about why we celebrate Easter...which has led to some interesting questions and discussion. :) Last night she prayed "God, I am really sad that you died on the cross. But I know you did it for all the sins we ever do." I thought that was pretty "grown up" for her, especially since we hadn't talked about it just prior to praying.

She has also had an egg hunt with her friends Aidan and Aaron as well as another hunt at church.

Karla and Aidan were cozy in the chair eating their candy. Aaron was searching for more chocolate.

Lazy Afternoon

This afternoon I didn't feel like doing anything. I had plenty I could do but didn't want to do any of it.

Instead Karla and I had a great afternoon together building a tent and then playing in it for a couple hours. It was fun. We ate a snack in it, we played Go Fish in it, we played "house," and we pretended to be hiding from a giant which required whispering for quite a while. Karla has never really played with baby dolls (just used her stuffed animals as babies) but she used a baby doll in the tent today as my little sister. Karla was the mom. :) Oso was the baby's toy. It was nice that she wanted to play something "different" today. I started to take the camera out but Karla was adamant that there were not to be any pictures of the tent. I decided not to spoil our nice time together.

Jason had a meeting tonight so after dinner Karla and I made No-Bake Cookies. After we spooned them on to some wax paper to set, we each got a spoon and ate a couple of warm cookies. Karla was on my lap and it was just a relaxing time together. It made me think of when I used to do the same thing with those cookies with my mom! Grandma will be happy to find out Karla likes No-Bake cookies too!

I am thankful for afternoons like these!