January Already Come and Gone!

So January has already come and gone. It amazes me how quickly time can go by when you are chasing 4 little ones and drained from carrying your 5th. A large majority of the month was spent at home with at least one of the 6 of us sick. It seems as soon as we would get the last person over a virus, someone would start a new one. We had a horrid battle with the stomach flu this past month which had out whole family out for a week! I am so ready for Spring when I can open up all the windows and get all these nasty germs out of our house!

In the midst of all these viruses going through our house we also had an ER visit with Caroline. the girls woke us up very early one morning saying Caroline was shaking and they couldn't get her to talk to them. It looked like Caroline had had another seizure. She's had 3 previous ones but they have all been during some sore of illness and she's had a high fever of over 104 degree. This time there was no illness and a very low fever, but after the seizure she did not regain her language abilities. Anyone who knows Caroline knows she is definitely not lacking for words! So after a nerve racking ER visit, many failed attempts to get a blood sample (poor thing), and seeing 2 doctors they diagnosed it as another seizure resulting form a fever? Everything that led up to it just did not feel right so we were glad that at our follow up visit with our family doctor he suggested that we see a pediatric neurologist just to be sure. Caroline and I went up to Medina to meet a doctor form Children's Hospital. He was such a nice guy and answered all of our questions. He said the previous 3 seizures were fever seizures, but this one looked different. He said he believed this 4th one was an epileptic seizure and he ordered an EEG. He said that her reflexes and such looked great and he thinks the EEG will be fine. He also said that this doesn't mean epilepsy but even if it ended up to be, 75% of all kids grow out of it? I've never heard that before. So we left feeling better that we had our questions answered, but now having a whole new batch of questions. So we go in about a month for her EEG and we'll see the doctor again then. Until we just pray God will protect our Carebear and that there will be some answers when she goes for the EEG.

Miss Caroline also turned 4 this month! That doesn't seem possible! I still think Maddelyn should be just 4 and learning her letters and colors! WOW! Caroline celebrated the day by having her friend form across the street, Isabelle, come rollerskating with us. that was an adventure! Having 4 totally non-skaters and only 2 adults kept us busy. Maddelyn ended up being able to skate around slowly by herself. Emma and Isabelle did an okay job of skating around the room by holding onto the wall. Caroline pretty much gave up after about 30 minutes. She seemed to be having fun, just done with the whole skating idea. On her actual birthday she went out for her Daddy-Caroline Birthday Girl Breakfast and ate up the attention! We also had a family celebration that night with her favorite diner of tacos, decorating the dining room, and opening her gifts. It's hard to believe that out Sweet Little Caroline is no longer my peanut but turning into a little girl! She still is just such a sweetheart and always saying out of the blue "I love you Mom", " Your Beautiful", "I like your shirt", or simply giving hugs and kisses.