Update, Anyone?

12 March 2010

I think my uber-boring blog needs a make-over. I have plans swimming around in my head to turn it into something that is actually interesting to read, but there never seems to be enough time and/or motivation.  Stay tuned (if you can stand the boredom), and maybe you will see some changes.

For now, I figure it is time for a little update.  I will start with Lucy Jane.  I am so stinkin' proud if this kid!  She has certainly been testing the limits of my patience (and sanity) these days, but she is making huge strides in her development and contributing a pretty constant stream of happiness to our family. She is so dang funny!  She is always amazing me with her new words and phrases, and she says things in such a gown up way sometimes.  Don't get me wrong, she can throw a tantrum with the best of them, but she also has great manners (a requirement for my children), and is so incredibly eager to learn new things and experience life.  She had her speech and language evaluation for pre-school today and she was doing well up into the 4 1/2-year-old range, which made me totally proud.  Maybe in a way it was a blessing to have such a mean doctor in the NICU tell us that Lucy would never be high-functioning enough to attend school because I think about that, and I am infinitely more grateful for her talents and abilities.  I was made painfully aware of how hard things really could be, and Lucy really makes my heart happy.

Lucy is also doing great with her walker.  For the most part she loves using it and she is starting to be much faster and more independent with it.  It is harder than I thought it would be to make the transition to using it in our daily routine.  Interestingly, it is easier to use it when we are going out somewhere (as long as I am not trying to wrangle Scarlett at the same time) than it is at home.  I think it is just because the downstairs of our house doesn't have a lot of room for her to use it and it really takes a conscious effort to make her use it for such short distances when she can crawl there in a few seconds.  I am working on it though. Scarlett loves the walker too.  She is always climbing all over it and she sits on the back as if expecting Lucy to take her for a ride.  It is pretty sweet.

I am thinking that Scarlett is going to be a total tom-boy.  She is all over the place, all the time.  She climbs on anything and everything and is always exploring and having fun just doing her own thing.  She loves to go outside, and she throws a fit everytime I open a door and don't let her out, or if I make her come inside.  Both of the girls would play in the grass all day long if they could.  Scarlett is really sweet and loving though, and she gets so excited when she sees us.  She gets cuter by the second, and I love watching her learn new things and devlop her own little personality. She loves dolls and stuffed animals, and loves to put headbands and sunglasses on.  We call her a hoarder because she is always gathering random things and carrying them around the house.  I am baffled by her ability to throw an impressive tantrum already, but the word is that she likely inherited that skill from her mama.

For the most part, things have been going well around here.  I can't seem to keep my kids healthy for more than a day or two, which is getting a little frustrating, but it is my fault because I dared to say that we never get sick around here.  This all wouldn't be that big of a deal if it didn't mean fevers and possible seizures.  Lucy had a second seizure a few weeks ago, and it was scary and a little traumatic.  The scenerio was almost identical to the first one, and I was so thankful that I was in her room with her that night.  It required a call to 911, an ambulence ride, and medication to stop the seizure after an hour.  Yes, an hour...the ER doc was busy reading the manual on pediatric seizures, and no one would listen to me when I was telling them that the symptoms that she had were in fact seizure activity. Lesson learned--I will never let the paremedics leave the house without starting an I.V., and I will not let them take her anywhere besides a children's hospital.  They eventually transfered her to Phoenix Children's where the neurologist said it was a seizure, explained it could be life-threatening to let her seize for that long (sounds like something you should learn in med school), and prescribed a medication we can administer when it happens again in hopes of avoiding the 911 call all together.  

A little bit of drama, but life goes on with a few changes.  We did finally get a big bed for Lucy's room.  Steve and I had been taking turns sleeping on the floor since last September, and now sleeping on a real bed every night is heavenly.  We have also had to be more cautious.  We had to bail out of our highly-anticipated Rocky Point vacation with friends at the very last minute because Lucy got a fever, and we just couldn't risk her having a seizure in Mexico.  Of course, I would sleep on the floor for the rest of my life and never take another vacation if that meant keeping my kids safe, but it is still a bit of a bummer and something we are going to have to always be thinking about until she hopefully outgrows this.

Well, that is the not-so-short update on the little peanuts.  I know there are a few people that still read this to find out how they are doing, and I will try to be better about more regular updates.   

Peace. 

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