Emerie woke up yesterday morning with one of her eyes swollen almost completely shut. There wasn't anything else wrong with it (no redness, watering, etc.) so we weren't sure what was going on. Luckily Josiah already had an appointment to get a vision assessment done with my uncle Sam who is an optometrist in the city. His associate looked at the eye & told us to keep an eye on it & if it the swelling didn't go down by taking Benadryl or if she ran a fever to take her to a pediatrician. Well, the swelling actually got a little worse in the afternoon so Andrea went ahead & took her to a doctor. Seems she had a bug bite near her eye (from playing outside on Monday afternoon) and had a secondary allergic reaction to it, which was causing the swelling. After using the medicine he prescribed the swelling began to go down. This morning it is at about 90% and is looking much better. Amazingly it is the first time since we moved in May that we have had to go to the doctor. It has been a fortunate summer with all the kids being in good health. That is above average for our house as it seems that we always have one or more of them coming down with something at least every other week at times. I began to feel better Monday afternoon as my nose cleared up. Both the boys have been sniffling the past couple of days, but are holding up fine.

Tonight is our house church 'off/fun night.' We're all meeting at the OKC Zoo for dinner & playtime. The zoo has a thing called "Way Back Wednesdays" during August to celebrate their 100th anniversary. Admission/drinks/hot dogs, etc. are only $.75 each. It should be a fun time.