Oops, it's been a while!

I'm surprised people haven't been pounding on my door saying...where's my water buffalo, why don't I have a water buffalo...oh wait, that's Veggie Tales, my bad! I'm surprised more people haven't been asking where's the updates??? Guess I don't have that big of a following, that's okay.

Most recently we found out Kaden is allergic to sunscreen! At least he is to the sun screen we used this weekend on him. Monday I noticed his face was covered in tiny spots. I didn't think much of it, not sure why, bad mommy me. Then Tuesday I noticed they were still there and decided to check it out more. He had all these spots on all the spots we used sunscreen on him...hum, I can make a connection! It is a new sunscreen from previous years. Heck last year we used stuff from the $1 store and he was fine! This year we used Coppertone Sport and he broke out. I've been doing a bunch of research online to find out what might be good ones for him to use. I've got a few ideas to try, just need to see if I can find it locally or if I'll have to shop online. Locally would be good as we're going to be outside all this weekend and he's needs protection.

Salem fell last Wednesday in gym class and scrapped a couple layers of skin off his knee. It's still not healed. It's right below his knee so he doesn't bend it too well. With all the kids do at home and bike riding, it's funny how Salem hurts himself in school! And in gym class because he tripped over some other kids shoe...of all things!

Memorial Day weekend we had some bike racing going on. Keith has stuff on his blog about it. Saturday was my b-day and we had Snake Alley Crit. I don't mind races on my b-day, gave us a definate thing to do. And it was a fun race to watch. Weather wasn't too bad, minus the few rain showers and high humidity...hum I guess it wasn't too good then either. Oh well, it's Iowa, lol. Had lots of HBA racers, so lots of company to chat with. The kids had a good time, Kaden wasn't too whiny. I got to play with my new camera presents. After the races we headed off to the hotel where sadly they had a big pool party so we didn't even attempt to swim there. Our room did have a whirlpool, which oddly enough was situated in the corner of the main room! Very weird, was not expecting it there. The boys had a good time playing in that though, well Kaden really wanted to swim in the pool, but there was no room, so the whirlpool worked enough for him.

Sunday was Melon City crit and we decided to let Salem race. They had a Juniors 10-12 group that was supposed to do 2 laps. Ends up they change dit at the start line and they did 5 laps! Good thing we gave Salem a water bottle, it was HOT and sunny that day! The juniors were all exhausted afterwards! Salem did a good job. He finished 9th out of 12 boys and girls. He had a big group and lots of "real" juniors. The one team from Kentucky has a junior junior team (must be very young I guess) and they brought a bunch from their junior team (10-18) to the races. They all have coaches and skin suits and all sorts of things we don't have here. Salem had a fun time though and I think he realizes now he has to train some more!

Next race is this Sunday and it'a MTB (mountain bike) race, so those are always a blast! I've got the posion ivy wipes all set for Kaden (so far no PI this year). I might stop to get him some soccer socks though for this year. Maybe they have some nice green ones for him.

Okay that's all for now, the kids want to go playoutside.