Did you know that May 12-18 of this year is Food Allergy Awareness week? Well I did! This post may be a couple days late from the kick off at the beginning of the week but is no less important. Let me lay some food allergy stats our there for you because it really is astounding. This all come courtesy for fare.org.

-About 8% of children, which is about 6 million kids, are living with food allergies. Most of them are young children.

-Boys are more likely to develop food allergies than girls.

-Allergies to peanuts, tree nuts, fish, or shellfish are generally lifelong allergies.

-From a study that was conducted in 2008, the CDC found the food allergies rose by 18% from the years of 1997-2007. And peanut allergies have tripled in that time frame as well.

-Every 3 minutes a food allergy reaction sends someone to the emergency department. This makes about 200,000 visits a year. Every 6 minutes that reaction is anaphylaxis.

-Teens and young adults with food allergies are more likely to die from fatal food induced anaphylaxis.

-If an individual has asthma, may have an increased chance of a severe or fatal food allergy reaction.

Crazy right? Until I started looking into it, I never realized all the people who had food allergies. And it isn’t just a kids problem. Plenty of adults have food allergies as well. Since it is awareness week, I have a food allergy themed giveaway coming up tomorrow but until then, if you want to do something or help some way, be sure to check out FARE.Org. You can donate or become more involved in helping fund research and awareness for food allergies!

I know it’s been a while since I’ve had just an update. If school wasn’t busy as is, I started an English class that’s only 8 weeks. That pretty much means 4 papers in an 8 week period. Anyway…even though I haven’t been updating all the time, we are still busy busy around here. Going to school full time and being a stay at home parent means you never stop.

Recently Landon asked for a hair cut. He hasn’t had a haircut in probably over a year because that was the last time he said he wanted one.

As you can see, it had gotten kind of long and was starting to get a little tangled when it wasn’t brushed at least once a day. But he decided it was time for a trim.

You would think by that face, it was forced but it wasn’t. I feel like he looks so much older now. I can’t believe how big he’s getting already. My little baby is going to be five years old in about a month and a half.

Do you let your kids pick when they want their hair cut?

We’ve had a pretty crappy week. Literally for this mom because both kids had a horrendous stomach bug that just wouldn’t seem to die. On top of sickly children, I had mid terms and a gigantic speech this week. I don’t even know how I survived both without failing horribly. Luckily I grabbed A’s on both!

Before it became maddeningly hectic, we took the kids out to the mall for the day. We walked around, had ice cream(frozen yogurt for the adults) and rode the carousel. It was a really fun time and got us out of the house for a few hours while it’s been freezing out.

I used my new T3. Have I mentioned how much I adore this camera? I usually got decent pictures of the kids with my old camera but I feel like they come much more often now.

How was your week?