Aiden Boo

For the past couple of months Aiden has been keeping us on our toes, to say the least. He seems to have really poor balance, causing him to fall and hit his head often, and sometimes his falls just don't make sense. For example, sitting in a high chair and falling forward, hitting his head on the table. I could go on listing these 'weird' falls forever, but I will instead move forward to where we are now. After seeing our pediatrician about the falling he referred us to a pediatric neurologist. Two weeks ago we finally got in to see the neurologist and he suspected that Aiden was having clusters of drop attacks, or collapsing seizures. We scheduled an EEG and MRI for the following week to see if we could find any proof of the seizures. The EEG came back clean (Yay!) and the MRI is still being read and we do not have those results yet. Even though the first EEG was good, the neurologist wants to schedule another one...one that will last a week! So, here we are, preparing for a week long stay at the hospital, and as each moment passes, I find that I am getting more and more anxious. Just the thought of Aiden being in the hospital for a week under 24 hour video surveillance and EEG monitoring gets me a little unnerved. Add on top of that all the 'what ifs' of what is going on with him, being away from Emily, all the medical bills stacking up, being confined to a small area for an extended period of time, the lack of sleep that is sure to follow, and I am on the verge of tears. I am trying so hard to keep myself together for the kids, my family and my friends but really I just want to lock myself in a room and cry for a while. The most important thing right now, though, is Aiden. I am ready for answers so that we can start doing whatever we need to so he gets better. With that at the forefront of my mind, I put my emotions back into the drawer and put on my brave face. Please keep us all in your prayers during the upcoming week. We will update the blog once we know what is going on, but thank you in advance for your prayers and support.

Bubbles!!!

The kids LOVE to be outside, especially if they can be at a park with slides and lots of climbing toys. Lately they have been having SO much fun playing that they bring the park mulch home in their hair, on their hands, under their fingernails, and inside their clothes and shoes causing us to make a bee line for the bath tub. Yesterday I decided to make the bath a little more fun for them and added bubbles! Emily and Aiden had a blast splashing in the bubbles while mommy enjoyed making fun hairdos for them.

Mother's Day

I know this is a little late in posting, but I just wanted to take a few minutes to brag on how wonderful my Mother's Day weekend was this year. On Friday Jon surprised me at work with my favorite flowers, purple and white tulips. They were beautiful! On Saturday we spent the day together as a family just hanging out and relaxing. Sunday morning Daddy went out and got us kolaches for breakfast, we went to church, then had an awesome steak lunch at my Memaw's house. Emily and Aiden gave me beautiful presents that they made at school, too. Aiden put his hand print on a tile square for me and Emily decorated a flower pot with her fingerprints. These are the gifts that I will always treasure. The weekend was absolutely perfect and I feel so blessed to have such a wonderful family.

Aiden and his newest obsession

These days, Aiden can almost always be found with a book in his hands. He loves to go off and "read" them to himself as well as sit in our laps for us to read them to him. The funniest part to me is that he will pick one book and read it the entire day! His favorites right now are No More Pacifiers and any book about colors. Here are a few photos I took this weekend of Aiden enjoying his newest obsession.

Dads and Donuts

On April 14th, Jonathan was able to attend a Dads & Donuts breakfast with Emily and Aiden that was sponsored at their school. Emily was the only one who actually ate any of the donuts but both kids scored big when Daddy took them shopping for books at the book fair. All three of them had such a great morning spending quality time together. Here are a few pictures I took during the breakfast. The kids were not really wanting to corporate with the smiles, but trust me, they had so much fun with their Daddy!