Swinging safely at home, happy wire free

On way home

Getting ready to leave and wire free

Going home in a few hours

Slept hard, 52 Hours since last seizure

Her last one happened yen her foot was lance and squeezed for blood work. Instead of crying. Left arm and leg twitches.

It has been 29 Hours since the last seizure. She had two when i had left the room and nobody was with her. The last one was

Morning medicine wiggling time

Talking to daddy

Hi everybody!

Iv unplugged

Dreaming and smiling

Switching to oral medicine slowly. Pray she accepts it as it tastes very bad. Still plan to in home monday.

Alert and chatty

Evening update

Tonight while Rachel was updating the post, the baby had another siezure.  This one was very mild.  We were able to get some medicine in her and she is back to normal.  The doctor is on the floor now since there are new patients on the floor.  That man works some wierd hours.  Sometimes it is nice to have a doctor with a work ethic.

Thelia had one of her friends come over.  Allison brought some left over turkey and pie.  Very good.  She brought some items to help rachel get her milk back up.

Mother is still bruised and in some pain.  She was holding onto the overhead handle when the care rolled.  She was taking some perscription drug which was making her dizzy so we are now back on just plain Tylonol. 

Anyhow, thanks for your prayers.  Hopefully we can get back to something close to normal next week.

Tim

Sleeping

After nursing this morning

Thankful for Gods Protection

Two days after accident

No change but no seizures either

Six hours without a seizure

Sedated and wants lots of quiet

Please pray. She is stable but have increased care level and no nursing. I an begining to feel frantic with so little sleep.

Had two seizures keeping through weekend

Staying another night

Our car accident made the news

Keeping overnight for observation

I wish I had better pictures than the cell phone.

This was just before we left Longview.

Of course you know that overnight turned into almost a week so far.

Going to sheport

Ruth's MIL "Gramdma Kay" came to the ER, where she was to work in a few hours, to check on us.

The doctors had already checked LaRue, and amazingly, she showed no signs of any injury.   They released her to focus on Joel.

Kay came in and saw some glass in her hair while I was nursing her, when she reached to remove it, LaRue began to cry ... a LOT.  She looked harder and found the swelling and went to find the doctors to have her checked again.  Kay took charge of her for the most of the rest of the evening - taking her for scans and helping do the IV.  They released Joel just before we left.

Major car accident joel and baby and me. And friend and her two youngest

Harvest Fest Photo Shoot

Our special guest was our midwife.
She caught or helped deliver in some way every single one of these.

Awesome.

But how to get 9 kids ages 5 and under to all sit still and smile at the same?

Nobody cried - though I think a few wanted to.
And we did get everybody smiling ... just not all at the same time in the pictures I took.

Must find Daddy's camera and see what we got in the other set of pictures.

Harvest Fest Cakes

The "main cake" that Karen made.
It was a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting.

Kendra wanted to make the "special" cake.
For our special guest

It was regular frosting,
but Papa helped her cut it to make an "oreo" sandwich effect.

Good start on cake making.

Harvest Fest Kids Show

The kids wanted to do a show for the adults at the Eagle's Nest Family Harvest Fest.

So they sang introduction songs that they made up themselves.

Then Anthony and Kendra did a play that Anthony wrote ... with just a bit of help from Kendra.

Then the kids took turns singing...

Vannan sang "How Much is that Doggie in the Window" while the little ones wagged their tails and howled at the moon.
Marriana sang a solo ... so did Vannan and Anthony.

Everybody did "Don't be a Fly on the Ceiling"

Jori and Jordan sang a song from the Mulan play they were in this summer.

And Kendra introduced us to some alterations of some Santa Clause songs that she wrote.

She plans to talk about the play and her songs on her blog ... so I'll leave that to her.

LaRue Meets Mamaw

These pictures were taken at our Nov. 7 Family Harvest Fest.

We were really glad that Mamaw and Papaw and Uncle Roy were able to make it.

This was the very first time that Mamaw had seen LaRue - she enjoyed it very much.

Mamaw is my mother's mother - LaRue's Great Grandmother.

I was very glad that Mamaw was able to hold her for so long, and LaRue didn't cry for her.
Mamaw was delighted to finally see her, although for her she only remembers people when they are actually with her.

Marriana and Counting Lentils

Silly faces are contagious.

We practiced counting and fine motor skills.

And loved the sticky glue.

Joel at School

Yep, he did dress himself.

He's caught the silly bug.

Joel jumped down our steps from the bedroom and landed in the bookshelf.

I've got to find a better place for it.
This is his third head injury on the corner of the bookshelf.

He loves how it looks though and has proudly shown it off to everybody.