No More August!

I am so done! All of us suffer from burn-out at the end of summer and, when life keeps coming at you, it doesn't take long to use up any reserves. This past weekend Nathan ran a fever. It resolved on its own by Monday afternoon. Monday evening he started acting "weird." He had been walking/running for 3-4 months already and now he was crawling and scooting backwards. When you stood him on his feet, he just pivoted in a circle. He tried to reach for an object out of my hand and missed it by a good 3 inches. He ran his head along the floor and was flip flopping about even though he didn't look like he was in pain. ??? After suffering with a day of unknowns and testing for the worst (spinal tap included), he was diagnosed with post viral cerebellar ataxia. Long story, even longer...The body fights off the infection and then doesn't stop. It keeps attacking the body causing inflammation in the cerebellum and messing with the motor/balance parts of the body. The Doctors say that he should take a couple of weeks to return to baseline. I don't think it will take that long; he's already made great strides. After all is said and done, it wasn't so bad just very scary.

Out of this World Paint

We decided to paint the boys' room. It started out as a weekend project that turned into almost a month. Jeannine and I painted the dark blue and Lee is responsible for the artistic touches. The black is chalkboard. Eli doesn't like us to draw on "his" space room. In fact, after all that work, Sam and Eli both want it back to the original color. Eli cries when we send him to bed. The "space guy" freaks him out. Too bad, so sad.

Foreign Body Removal

Oh, Eli! Believe it or not one of my darling 5 year-olds swallowed a quarter on Friday. He was coughing and crying trying to tell me what happened. He said, "I ate a quarter and it's stuck!" I told him it wasn't stuck because he was breathing. Initially I didn't think about it being stuck in his esophagus. His body was busy trying to expel it while I was on the phone with the pediatrician. She told me that it could be stuck or have possibly done damage and he needed to go to the ER for an X-ray. Sure enough it was very stuck just below his vocal cords. He was sedated and taken up to the OR for a esophageal scope and foreign body removal. We got to come home, with the quarter, that night after a 8-9 hour ordeal. Eli doesn't seem worse for the wear, but I am still recovering.

Missing In Action

Where have we been? No vacation or anything exciting like that...just endeavoring to survive the summer. Now that we have 15 days left, we are totally into the summer routine of going to bed at midnight or after and getting up about 10am...thanks to the end of summer school and start of the Olympics. Life is gonna jerk us into reality soon. Nathan and I are busy planning all the fun we're gonna have with the others at school.