Reuter Family

The weather's been great, but we have unfortunately been going through our late spring "crud" and unable to enjoy it.  Can't seem to shake the sore throat/fever thing in spite of my ingenious home remedies.  I recently discovered antibacterial/antiviral manuka honey and have been feeding it to the kids and and slathering it on any body part that will stay still long enough.  Case in point, NiNi's foot. This is the second time NiNi has managed to pick up a staph infection on her foot.  Honey plus a bandaid and viola!  No more staph infection.  Cool, huh?  Well here is one of my less stellar "doctor mom" moments.   I had been treating Ethan's "allergy cough" with Zyrtec for 3 weeks.  I did at least call the doctor and tell her what was going on.  By week 4 he was having such severe coughing fits that we drug our sorry selves into the office.  Doc says, "You can stop giving him allergy medicine because he has pneumonia."  Now don't judge.  He was happy and playing and fever-free.  How was I supposed to know he had a legitimate illness.  So we are on our second round of antibiotics and NiNi and I are still nursing sore throats.  BUT school's out in 2 weeks, flowers are blooming, life is good!  Here is some of what we've been up to...

Ethan selfies

Super heros (that's Thor riding on the back of his bike)

duct tape headbands

green juice

Yum!



at least he's well rounded!