Rachel is Home!!!

We got to bring Rachel home from the hospital yesterday afternoon. We went to the emergency room Monday night after she had a suspected seizure at home around 6 pm. The checked her out, did blood work, and a CAT scan. (All tests were normal...) While we were waiting, she had another seizure that the doctor witnessed...he confirmed it was a seizure, so they decided to admit us. However, our pediatrician doesn't go to the hospital we first took her to, so Rachel rode in the ambulance while I followed her to a different hospital. It was only a 14 mile drive on the interstate, but it felt like forever. Once we got settled into our room in the Pediatric ICU (every parents nightmare), she had another seizure. This one last 2 minutes when the others had only lasted around 1 minute. After the third one, the doctor decided to give her anti-seizure medicine intravenously. She slept all night (and most of Tuesday too). On Tuesday morning, they did an EEG on her brain. They had to attach little electrodes all around her head. (That came back normal too.) They did more blood work, which also came back normal. In the afternoon, they tried giving her something orally to help her sleep through an MRI. It didn't work, so we had to wait until Wednesday morning to try again. This time they sedated her. She was a wake quickly afterwards, but looked kind of out of it. (Everything came back normal on it also.) So basically, there is nothing major causing the seizures...no tumors, no abnormal development of the brain, etc. They said a lot of times they don't know why babies have seizures and hopefully the medicine she is taking will control them and she will just grow out of it. Thank you for all of the prayers that were lifted up for her, me and Ryan. We know that God is with our precious baby girl.

Not Much New

Not much to report...both kids just got over having pretty bad colds. Each only had it for about a week, thank goodness. Isaac's was so bad he wouldn't eat for several days...and if you've seen him eat, you know this is a big deal!

Enjoy the pictures!

Rachel taking a nap with Daddy.

Isaac can now climb onto the kitchen chairs now...just enjoying a snack.

Aren't I stylish?








Rachel loves bath time!







Isaac can now feed himself using a spoon! Some things are pretty messy!








These are my big girl jeans I got for Christmas!






This is Isaac's entourage...every morning and after every nap he has 3 blankets and 4 stuffed animals he wants out with him!


I'm such a good sleeper!!!





Horseback riding bare naked instead of bareback!