Chloe's pasttime

Chloe has taken on some new pursuits. We hung a birdfeeder this spring that K's sister Lauren gave us.Chloe at first enjoyed just watching the birds flit around. Then she started watching them from hidden positions so that she could then spring out and ambush them.

When she didnt have much success catching the birds, she decided to just eat whatever bird seed fell to the ground from the feeder.

Chloe's troubles

We recently had a big scare with poor little Chloe. As many of you know, she has severe epilepsy and will have major seizures every two to three weeks that will last several days. Typically we have been able to medicate her and pull her out of the seizure cycle. This past Friday she began to have a grand mal seizure which for her normally consists of two large seizures and a recovery time. Except this time, she kept having the larger seizures. We finally administered some valium to her that stopped the immediate seizures but over the next few days she kept having them and we couldnt break the cycle. We finally ran out of valium and didnt want to give her any more phenobarbitol and on Sunday she had seizure after seizure to the point where we needed to take her to the emergency room. By that time the seizures and the medicine had affected her so badly that she could barely move. But we got her in the car and to the emergency room where they took some blood samples and administered more medicine by IV. She stayed there overnight and only had one more seizure. We brought her home Monday morning and for two days she didnt move very much but on Tuesday afternoon we got her outside and she was able to walk around which always seems to be the best medicine for her. We were very frightened that once the medicine wore off she would start the grand mal seizures again, but we have been fortunate in that she has gotten back to her old self. She is feeling so well in fact that she is once again on the prowl for squirrels, strangers, and young boys. We don't know how much longer Chloe will be with us but we are happy for all the extra time we can get!

Buddies

Turner's Excellent Week

Lots going on in Turner World this week. It started with lots of candy on Halloween...none of which he could eat.

Turner invited over his good friend Caleb (along with his mom Sabrina) for the evening.

Unfortunately the scary decorations didn't actual scare away any kids, so we had to give away most of our candy.

On Saturday, Turner attended the Cary Band Day parade with his parents. The banging drums, clashing cymbals, and Elvis impersonators didn't phase him as he slept through most of the parade, until he was hungry.

Gran and Granpa came by on Wednesday for a visit and dinner at the Longhorn. For full coverage, see http://maboone.blogspot.com/ .

Thursday, mom's friend Kelly arrived to help out over the weekend. Kelly has two young ones of her own (see them here: http://brookswildkingdom.blogspot.com/) and she had lots of great ideas including the instant sleep swing.

Finally on Sunday, Grams came by to say hello.

Turner decided to show off a little bit by actually picking up his stuffed monkey unassisted. Even Chloe was impressed.

Beat that Chloe!

Another crazy Wednesday night

Yep, real crazy. Our major activities were walking the dog and eating some fake chicken.

We only have five weeks left and K's doctor visit went well this week. She starts going every week now. They think that the baby's head is in the down position and all of the moving that he is doing is a good sign. For Turner. It's pretty annoying for K.

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Chloe says hello. Please come out and play.