Update on Dylan

I thought that I should update my blog since its been so long. If you are reading this I am sure you know a little bit about what happened on our way to Gulf Shores. We were about 12 hours into the drive, mid Alabama, and Dylan had a seizure on the side of the highway. It all happened so fast yet in slow motion. Once we noticed that he was not responding Tim called 911 while I was in the backseat trying to figure out what was going on. The police, ambulance and firemen were all there within about 10 minutes. The ambulance took Dylan and me to the nearest hospital, which was about 20 miles away. It was also one of the best children's hospital in the country, the Lord was watching over us and the whole situation was in His control. The EMT's were amazing and stayed with me until Tim was able to make it to the hospital. My brother happened to be only 4 miles behind us at that time, so he drove Tim to the hospital. Which meant that there was people to take care of the girls while we were with Dylan. His seizure lasted about 1 hour and he got double the dose of the medication to stop the seizure which made him extremely sleepy. It took him 6 hours to wake up. The longest, scariest 6 hours of my life. We didnt know why he wasnt waking up and when he wakes up would he be the same little boy that we knew? So many questions, a lot of prayers and many tears later he woke up. The first words out of his mouth were a very slow and slurred "are we in gulf shores?" It took a while before he was with it enough to recognize us and talk a little more. He was put into Special Care Unit for most of that day and then to a normal room for the night. That night was really stressful since he was not yet back to himself, he was confused, restless, hallucinating a bit and just wanted to leave. It one point he even pulled out his IV, which then he had to get another one. We got to leave the next morning and head to gulf shores with my parents who drove from there to get us. Dylan still was very "drugged" not real sturdy on his feet and still a little confused.

We had a real hard time letting him out of our sight and still do. I know that I will never forget what happened but I know the fear will go away a little bit. Its hard to see it right now but it must have happened for a reason, maybe it not only affected our family but all of those who were around us in Alabama. We ask for your prayers that it doesnt happen again.

He is scheduled for an EEG next friday, from there we will go to a neurologist for follow up. But until then we have a busy weekend of celebrating his 5th birthday! This birthday is really special to us, for obvious reasons. He is such a blessing to our family and we love him SO much!!

chubby whubby

ballet continued

So the videos were a little hard to get to work so here are some pictures of Natalie's ballet.

Natalies ballet class

Dylan's program

Today was Dylan's Valentines program. I forgot my camera, which I felt SICK about, but one of my friends just emailed these pictures to me. THANKS BECKY!!

Last year in any kind of program Dylan would totally shut down, he would look down and never participate. At the beginning of the program he was bright red and NOT happy, as you can see in the 2nd picture. But as they were singing he started to sing along and do the motions a little bit.

Dylan not happy...

He finally started to smile at the end. What a difference a year makes. When we got home he asked me if I could hear him singing, "cause I was finally singing loud." He was really proud of himself. SUCH a cute kid!!

chapstick

Natalie got some chapstick for her birthday. She was pretty good with it until today. She told me that her chapstick broke. Tim went to see what she did and she had put chapstick on all of her dolls. Apparently she thought they all had chapped lips. But she told me the boy doll had a rash.... ??

The girls

Over Christmas break a couple of college roommates, along with husbands and kids, got together. Erin & her husband are from Spokane WA so its been a while since we have seen her. This was the first time she met Amaya and Ryenn, Tara and Josh's newest addition.

Amaya and Ryenn are only 4 weeks apart and very similar in size. :) Missing in this picture is Dylan and Kyler.

No kids for Erin yet, but she looks like she is ready for a couple!
Amaya and Ryenn, so cute!