To be nice to Leila, we made her a hard boiled egg yesterday. She use to love them, before we banned them from our house for Nina’s sake. Sure enough, as temperamental 3 year olds often do, she decided she didn’t really want much of it, an she just played with it, crumbling it on her plate.
Of course, Nina, the fastest crawler in the west, went right under Leila’s chair and picked up something and shoved it into her mouth. Carrie jumped on her and called me away from dish duty, and we tried to fish out what it was she had put in her mouth. I saw a very small yellow crumb, which looked like it could have been yolk, but it was too small to get out, and Nina was not very accommodating of our efforts, to say the least. Her six razor sharp incisors didn’t help the situation either.
So we spend the second half of Christmas day watching her. After an hour, her cheeks started getting a bit flushed, and became more so over the course of the afternoon. We gave her Benadryl. She also started having a hint of eczema all over her body. She was acting fine, and wasn’t itchy, as she had been with the flu shot attempt. She was also very tired and wanting to nap. We called the allergist, and surprisingly were able to get in touch with the on-call physician. By then she had fallen asleep, so he said to keep giving her Benadryl every 4 hours, and to wake her up every 15 throughout her nap. That was fun — waking up the girl I had just rocked to sleep, for 20 minutes.
In the end, she’s fine today. But eggs are officially banned from the house.
