My poor little Elijah

[momof3youngboys]

Last night when we got home we let the boys run around in the yard for a while, it had been a long trip in the car (we went to my sisters).  After a little while Elijah came running and screaming towards me, crying too.  He aparently was poking around in the ground with a stick and found a yellow jacket home!!  He was swarmed with bees, I told Dan to grab the twins and get in the house and I was wiping bees off of my poor little man.  I grabbed him and we all went inside, he was lucky to only get stung twice, once in each arm, but he was SO sad and I felt so bad!!! 

Over the weekend it seemed that we got SO MANY MORE BEES in our yard!!!  Elijah is doing good today, you can hardly even tell where he was stung, we gave him benadryl and tylenol last night, he wouldn't let us put and ice pack on them, he said it burned.  His arms were so red and puffy last night I was amazed at how much better they looked today. 

So today we are NOT playing outside. 

Dan is going to be bringing home something to hopefully kill off some of the oh so many bees we have flying around, unfortuatly he is allergic so I am in charge of going out and spraying them, I hate them too!!!!

[cmy3kids]

Aug. 13, 2007 at 3:36 PM

Ugh! I wrote a reply to you and then CafeMom went blank on me! Anyways... spray at dusk or at night for the best results. Bees will actually return to their nest to sleep and if you want to totally get rid of them the only way to do so is to spray stuff in their nest at night!

Hope your little guy is feeling better! 

[mommaof3boys]

Aug. 13, 2007 at 3:55 PM ahh poor baby I hope he feels better

[kater]

Aug. 13, 2007 at 4:12 PM raid makes a yellow jacket trap that works fairly well - but P.U. it stinks full of dead bugs!!

[julie2203]

Aug. 13, 2007 at 4:26 PM As for the stings, you can put a couple of drops of honey on each sting mark. I read it in a magazine, it pulls out the redness and it won't itch or burn. 

[JessicaLela]

Aug. 13, 2007 at 4:33 PM

Awww... poor baby! We had a nest of hornets in our yard a few years ago.  If you buy spray to kill the nest in the ground, wait till evening when its cooler and they're sleeping inside to spray... Don't do it during the day-- They'll come out and attack or the ones coming back to find their home destroyed aren't very nice.

[momoflukas]

Aug. 13, 2007 at 4:38 PM Oh man that is so sad.  Horrible luck in your family with the bees.  Poor little guy.  I am glad he is doing better.  Hopefully you don't get stung.  I got stung for the first time since I was little when I was pregnant with Lukas.  I was so scared I was going to be allergic somehow.  When I was pregnant I started being allergic to nacho cheese and it would make me lips swell.  So I was scared that somehow since I was pregnant I would be allergic to the bees as well.  So please be careful your body does wierd things while being pregnant ( I know you know that.  HA HA.)

[AidensMommie]

Aug. 13, 2007 at 7:22 PM awww, poor little guy! i hope he feels better! That must've been so scary!! :( I know i would be freaking out, LOL.

[tracylynnr67]

Aug. 13, 2007 at 7:46 PM Poor little guy! i hope that you get rid of all of those nasty bees!!!