Not the Ant Hill!!!

Meghan took a trip to the local Splash Park to visit with friends today.

After about 30 minutes of splashing fun, she decided it would be even more fun to play hide and go seek with Mama. When she finally got bored of that, it was time to investigate her surroundings. Unfortunately, those surroundings included a large ant hill. Meghan thought it would be great fun to plant both hands deep into this interesting mound of dirt and play with it. Mama ran over and grabbed her up, stuck her in the water and began pulling the ants off.

Too late.

Poor thing got around 20-30 bites all over her little body, her hands the worst of it.

Luckily, our friend Summer had a tube of Benadryl Gel (Mama highly recommends this for your bags!) and quickly applied generous amounts to all of Meghan's boo boos. Mama also took Meghan to the nearest pharmacy and gave her a dose of liquid children's Benadryl as well. A quick stop to pick up some lunch and home to bed.

Benadryl is some good stuff! The swelling went down considerably and no other reactions popped up. The side effect of Benadryl is drowsiness, which while isn't funny, it did make for a cute naptime video. (Please excuse the bad quality, Meghan has black out curtains on her windows and it was quite dark!)



Hopefully next time Mama yells "NO!" Meghan will remember those ants.