Updates on Ashley

Thanks for all the great advice yesterday. I did walk Ashley to her room when she said no, but she wouldn't stay in it. I finally went in her room into her closet and took out her precious High School Musical shirt and took it away from her. You would have thought I cut off her foot. She finally calmed down enough, stayed in her room for the allotted time I gave her. She lost books at bedtime as well which I hate taking away since it's beneficial for both of us; I get to spend one-on-one time with her and she gets the benefits of being read to. I just hate having bad evenings with her. During the week, the evenings are all I have and when I have a bad one like the other night, guilt sets in and I hate it.

So last night I was giving Ashley a bath, and out of the blue she asked me why people cry at weddings. No idea where that came from, and I told her that sometimes people cry when they are really, really happy.

We also found out that Ashley is not allergic to nuts. We actually didn't think she was, but with Ray's peanut allergy, neither of the girls have had peanuts (although they have eaten stuff cooked in peanut oil which Ray can eat as well...). If anyone has a food allergy, it will probably be Audrey since she has seasonal allergies, asthma and eczema. She has already been on her Zyrtec for a month now. Anyways, so Friday night Ashley had her two friends over for a movie and one of the Mom's brought over cookies that happened to have nuts in them. And Ashley ate one. We watched her carefully, and she was fine. And the next day when we stopped for ice cream at Cold Stone, I got my usual chocolate and peanut butter, and she had a taste of it and was fine then too. The only problem? She said she didn't like it. Sucks, I love peanut butter, I was hoping at least one of my kids would like peanut butter too.