Sick

At our house everyone has had a little something gone wrong.......This past 2 weeks it seems like everyday somebody has something wrong with them.  I can't even remember who or when it started.  

I will start with Grace she has had two double eye infections in a month and a nasty cough with a running nose which you know she just loves to have wiped. 

Logan has thrown up twice in two weeks.  Took him in to get him checked out and they (we) decided to have some blood work done because he was also be complaining that he is tired and his head hurts all the time.  Got the results back on Friday and they told us he has mono.  Do you know this time each month for the past three months Logan has had something going on.  Tuesday we go see a doctor for his seizures.  I am prepared for not too much to happen.

Tim has had a migraine last week and even stayed home which he does not do.  Now today he is not feeling well again and in bed.  

Me, Meghan and Allie have had the 24 hour bug this past week.  And that's all.

So I am hoping for a better week this week.  We will soon tell.

Prom

This morning I received a call from Rachel (Meghan's friend) to ask me if Mike (this guy who likes Meghan) can come over tonight to decorate room to ask her to prom.   I said that would be fine but her room is a mess.  About 9:00 p.m. they showed up to decorate so Tim and I were finally able to meet him.  He is very polite and nice.  Mike and Rachel blew up lots of balloons and put streamers all around her room.  Then they were going over to her work to decorate her car.  

Meghan had a hard day at school today someone broke her mirror on her car.  Needless to say she was not thrilled and didn't have any money to fix it.  Her dad took the car and fixed the mirror and cleaned it all up for her.  I am sure that made her feel better.  I never understand why people want to damage other people things. 

I don't know what her answer is yet she is still at work.  I am sure she will say YES and be very excited about going.  We will see.

The Night Before

So it is the night before we go and see the neurologist.  Logan is such a tough guy and will be able to deal with anything put in his way.  Today I took the day off from everything and went to the mall.  What a nice diversion.  We spent the day yesterday at the hospital all day having a MRI done and this guy is such a trooper.  He wasn't able to eat from midnight on and the test was 1 1/2 hours late so he didn't eat until 2:00 p.m. which was so hard for him.  He doesn't understand how long time is.  But, we headed to Burger King after ward because they had the new "Spongebob" toys.  He was so excited.  

I don't know what we are going to hear in the morning but, I do know we will be stronger from it. Once again we are not in charge of life.  

Sad Today

Today I am feeling sad because of Logan and the unknown.  I know in my heart he will be okay. But, today is not easy.  So many thoughts and feelings going on with me.  But, what I find amazing today is that I have received an email from a great friend with lots of love and support.  And then I thought of two other friends and then they called and they were a great comfort.  Also, I am not good with waiting for answers and that is what I am having to do waiting for the doctors to call and schedule an appointment.  I think as parents we all want nothing to be wrong with our children, we don't want them to be different or have any hard times.  But, I know that I am not in charge of this and I know he will be stronger because of it.  I love this guys so much it hurts.  I keep asking him if he doing okay, if anything hurts and how he is feeling.  I am sure I am driving him crazy and myself.  But, as I am writing this Logan is with his buddies, he couldn't do his homework fast enough because he had to get out the door.  He is very normal and crazy.  I love having this blog so I am able to write all these feelings.  

Another Seizure.......

You just never know how someday's will end up.  Wednesday night we were sitting down getting ready for dinner and I look up because I hear Logan "talking" and I realized he is having another seizure.  I tell Tim to pick him up and put him on the carpet so he will not hurt himself. During all of this Logan's eyes have rolled back and he is holding his arms to his chest, his lips are turning blue, he is not aware of anything going on, he is talking but you can't understand a word of it.  We are scared to death.  I get 911 on the phone and they dispatch the fire truck to our house which feels like forever.  They take him to Banner Desert and the care at the hospital was not helpful at all.  Note to everyone if you have a child with an emergency take them to Phoenix Children's if you can.  The ER doctor call the Neurologist and he decided to put him on Keppra and sent us home.  With not to many instructions about what to do next.  

So for the past 2 days I have been trying to be on the computer and phone trying to figure out our next step.  So I have gotten Logan's records and have faxed them to a neurologist hoping they will see us soon.  

I am so sad for this little guy.  I know he is going to be okay this is just hard for our family to go through since we never know when he will have another one.  And just the image of him having the seizure makes me very sad and upset.  I am stressed about him going to school, riding his bike, being a 5 year old.  But, I know he needs to be as normal as possible and I will do my best to let him be 5.  

I will keep everyone updated............

Gracie

I have finally have some photos of Gracie.  She is doing great.  Today we start swim lessons which I know she is just going to be so excited about.  Gracie is crawling everywhere, pulling herself up on everything, she loves to be outside, talking, Logan can make her bust a gut.  She is getting so big so fast and such a blessing in our lives.  

4 Kids...Who knew

I never thought first of all that I would have 4 children one day let alone so far apart and my last one at 39.  I love the ages of all my children.  We have so many different things going on all the time.  From Meghan going off to work, Allie talking on the phone all the time, Logan running in the door after school and yelling HI and going right back outside to play with his cronies and Gracie who is just excited about chewing on her plastic spoon.  Life is awesome. Even on my worst days I would not trade this in.  My children are amazing young people and I hope they know how much they are loved and grow up to be responsible adults which I know they will.  

I hope Meghan and Allie will become closer as they get to become adults and understand how important it is to love your sister.  Someone the other day was talking about how they couldn't image there life without their sisters and I hope one day my girls will have those feelings about each other.    

This just goes to tell you once again we are not in control of everything.