Jake went to the neurologist

Jake went to the neurologist today. He said that Jake is having abnormal sharp electrical waves on the right side of his brain. He said this is associated with seizures. He was put on Phenbarbitol (sp) and also has a MRI scheduled for next Friday. We go back to see the neuro on the 17th. Thats all I know now.

I am glad christmas is finally over. No more shopping trying to find the right gift. Ansleigh woke me up at 3 am Christmas morning crying so hard that her ear hurt. I gave her some Motrin and some earache drops and her ear finally stoped hurting. I felt so bad for her, I have never heard her cry like that. Then at 7 am Lexi started puking and puked all day. She must have puked atleast 30 some odd time if not more. I was afraid she would get dehydrated since she couldnt even keep water down. She finally stopped puking around 4 am this morning and hasnt since, but now she is running a fever and still doesnt feel good. She feels so bad she still hasnt even played with any of her new toys. I am hoping she gst over it soon.

Tomorrow is the day we go to the neurologist. I am hoping to have some answers tomorrow, but i have a feeling I wont get any that they will want to run more test on him. I will update tomorrow sometime after we get back. Just give us some good luck vibes that we will get some answers.

Worn out

Pic of the live Nativity we went to see

Very busy day. I said this year I was gonna be done shopping before Christmas Eve so that I wouldn't be out with all the madness. And where do you think I was at 7 am this morning? At

Walmart getting the last few gifts and groceries I needed. Then I have been wrapping ALL day. After wrapping and cleaning and feeding the kids we took them out to see the live Nativity here in town, then went to Kiroli to let them see the lights. They had a blast. When we got home they were allowed to open 1 gift the pj tradition. They put there new pjs on and then they went out and spread reindeer food out all over the front yard. Then they made Santa his plate of cookies and milk and they went straight to bed. They havent made a peep since. I am now sitting here relaxing waiting to put out Santa stuff. I am so tired. Tomorrow will be a busy day and I know I will be tired again and will be ready for bed by 9 AM lol. I know the kids will be up by 5 am just to what Santa brought. I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas

Long Day

It's been a long day. Got the kids up and off to school and then turned on cartoons for Nathan to watch. I fed Jake and watched some cartoons with Nate. Then when Aaron came home for lunch I had him help me give Jake a bath then while he was eating lunch I jumped in the shower. After he left I had to get Nate and Jake ready to leave. Lexi's school party was at 12:30 and we were going. We went to her party and she had fun, so did Nathan. After the party was over we came home and Lexi went through her goody bag and her and Nate ate some candy and of course made a big mess. The other kids got home around 3:20 and they also went through their goody bags and ate some of their candy. I then sent them out to play while I cleaned up some.

When Aaron got home from work I went with my mom Christmas shopping again. I think I will definatley be done tomorrow. I have to get Ansleigh 1 more thing, Lexi 2 more things, Taylor 1 more and Nate 2 more and I will be done with them. I also have to get Ansleighs best friend something. After I get those few things I should be done, finally.

After we finished Christmas shopping I had to stop and get a few groceries, I was almost out of milk and bottled water and a few other things. Then I finally came home and ate something and now I am sitting here on the computer. As soon as Jake east around 11pm I am gonna try and go to sleep for a while. Hopefully anyway.

Boring day

Nathan stayed home sick from daycare again today. He's still running a fever even with motrin. He also has gunky eyes. You can tell he doesnt feel good. His speech therapist came today and he did great for her. Acted just fine while she was here. She brought him a Christmas gift, a diego jeep with diego. He did all he was suppose to with her. When she left he went back to feeling bad, so he acted anyway. He didnt eat but a couple bites of dinner. I hope he feels better tomorrow. We have lots to do. All 3 girls have Christmas parties at school and I need to go out tomorrow and finish my Christmas shopping so I can sit at home this weekend while the mad rush is out doing last minute shopping. I need to sit down and make a list of what i got the kids and what i still need to get them. And there are a couple more people i need to buy for besides the kids. Christmas is coming up to quick. Before it seemed like it was so far away and I had plenty of time to shop, now it's to close and i need more time lol. Oh well i will hopefully finish tomorrow.

So tired today

Today Lexi had her school program and Christmas dinner. The food was ok and the program was cute. They sang a couple songs. Lexi was the reindeer Cupid. While I was at the program daycare called and Nathan was running a fever and puking so I had my mom pick him up and meet me at home and watch him till I could get there. Poor baby feels bad. He laid around most of the afternoon and he ran fever all day even after i gave him some motrin. Lexi is also getting sick, she has been coughing pretty good all day. Jake is still running a fever also it stayed between 99.4 and 99.7 today. This is week 5 of fever and I want answers, but of course I get none. I just dont understand how a newborn baby can have so many problems already.
I am so tired lately I really dont know how I am functioning. I hardley get any sleep. Jake is up every 2 hours and stays up for an hour at a time. I try and rest during the day when he sleeps, but I have things I have to get done, so most of the time it's impossible. Then the kids get home from school and then I get real busy with homework and dinner and bath and bed time. It's all just wearing me out. I can't wait till Jake starts sleeping all night.

I finally have most of my Christmas shopping done. I went today and picked up a few more things for the kids. I also went and picked up Ansleigh her cell phone and had it activated. Now she will have her own cell phone. She is gone with friends every weekend and now I will be able to get a hold of her when I need to. Ansleigh told me this year that Santa was fake and that she didnt believe in him anymore. I tried to convince her otherwise, but she knows. It's kind of disappointing when your child doesnt believe anymore, but i knew it would happed soon since she is 9.
Anyway all the kids are doing good. Taylor made a 100 in conduct this week so thats a plus. Lexi went to her first birthday party through a school friend. The party was at Excalibur and she had a blast even though it was raining and she didnt get to ride the go karts. Nathan is his usual boy self. Hes learning to talk sentences finally. Hes still in speech working on all that and is come a long way so far.
I will update more later Jake is calling me to eat

The last couple days have been busy for me. Thursday I had my school Christmas party and even though I was on leave of absence I went and took Jake with me. I probably should have stayed home cause Jake was passed around alot, which I figured he would be. He is now starting to get sick. Everyone up there just adored Jake and a few even said now they wanted another baby lol. There's something about holding a newborn that gives people baby fever.

Anyway Thursday night i stayed home for once. I had Aaron take Lexi to her dance class. The first time he has taken her by the way. He wouldnt do it before cause he was embarassed and thought he would be the only guy in a dance studio, I had to convince him that there are other fathers that take their girls. I am glad he finally took her, it gave me a small break cause he also took Nathan with him. Then my mom took Ansleigh and Taylor Christmas shopping, so I only had Jake at home. I still didnt get much accomplished since Jake was fussy that night.
Friday night Ansleigh went to a friends and stayed the night and Taylor, Lexi and Nate went to stay the night with my dad. Aaron stayed home with Jake since he is getting sick and me and my mom went to eat at Pizza Hut in Monroe and then went to Target for some Christmas shopping and also went by the Dollar Tree looking for a stocking for Jake and some Dora stickers. Lexi wants a Dora flashlight from Santa and i have been all over West Monroe and Monroe looking for a dang Dora flashlight. I have yet to find one so i am gonna buy one and decorate it with Dora stickers and she will never know the differance. We then went to Blockbuster looking for the Cars movie for Nathan since he loves cars and he has never seen the movie. We rented a movie and went home and watched it. It was a good funny movie. I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry is the name of it ( I think). We laughed at most of it. We finally went to bed about 2 am. Jake woke up at 5 am and here i am after feeding him holding him and typing this hoping he will soon go back to sleep.

Today we have alot to do. Two of the kids have birthday parties at the same time and across town. One is at skatetown and the other is at Excalibur. I guess i will be taking one and Aaron will take the other. I also need to go buy gifts for the parties still. Then I need to do some major cleaning out of the house. At least start on it. There is so much crap i need to get rid of and I keep putting it off. I am hoping to get it all done before Christmas. Ok well I'm off to see if I can get him to lay down, now that i have been here for 30 min typing. It's not to easy to type fast when hold a baby.

Update on Jake

Where to start. So much has happened that i havent had time to keep up with this dern blog, but now i am back and will keep up as I can. Let me back up to when Jake was 8 days old he started running a low grade temp. I didnt think much of it right then. The next day he was still running a low grade temp but a lil higher now it was going between 99.6-100.3, so i decided to call his pedi. I made him an appt for that day. We went in and they checked him over at that point still had a fever. She couldnt find anything else wrong with him and decided she wanted him admitted to the hospital for testing to make sure he didnt have a bacterial infection. So Jake was admitted and they did a spinal tap on him poor baby i felt so bad, and also did a blood culture on him. They started him on antibiotics just incase he had a bacterial infection. Well the spinal tap came back ok and the blood culture never grew anything so we were released 3 days later. He was still running a temp, but pedi said it was probably a viral infection and had to run its course.
A couple days later i noticed Jake's arms and legs going limp quite a bit every day, but once again didnt think nothing of it thinking it was just a sleepy newborn thing, even though i didnt remeber my other 4 doing that. He seemed fine so we went about our day each time. Well he continued to do this and so i asked a few people including and RN at my school and they all said it could be seizures. So of course i freaked and called the pedi right away and they had me take him to a walk in clinic cause they had no appts left. So we went there and they evaluated him and call our pedi and sent us there. So we go to our pedi and she evaluates him and said she also thinks he is having seizures and once again we are amitted to the hospital for testing, mind you he is still running a fever from the first time. So we get the hospital and the do an EEG on him. We are there for 3 days. He ran fever the whole time we were there every time they took his vitals he had a temp. The rn said they could be linked to the seizures if he is having seizures. It took over a week to get the EEG results back. We just got them back Monday and they came back showing several abnomalities. So now we have an appt with a neurologist on the 27th. My lil man has already gone through so much and is only 5 weeks old. I am a nervous wreck cause I dont even know whats wrong with him and it may take months to find out. I doubt i will find much out when we go see the neuro in 2 weeks. Of course i have been doing reading online and i need to stop that cause it just makes me worry worse. Anyway i will try to keep everyone updated on Jake through here. I must go now and finish dinner for my other kiddos.

Jake is finally here. He was born Nov 5, 2007. My water broke 2 days before my scheduled induction. We went in and had to be given pitocin. Started that at about 330pm and Jake was born at 757pm. It was all done med free and not by choice. Hes just so dern cute. the other kid slove him to pieces. he was 5lbs 12oz and 18.5 inches long.

Induction Date Set

Well i have an induction date set up. I am scheduled to go in on November 7th (next wed) at 6am. I cant wait to get this lil man out.

Busy Day

Ugh will these contractions ever do anything. I have been having them alot and they have been a bit painful and still no baby. I have been doing everything i can to get this labor going. Been takin EPO and walking 500 miles a day and also a few other things. Everything i do gets contractions started but they end up stopping within 6 or 7 hours.
Today we went to walmart to do my weekly grocery and household shopping. Aaron decided to bring the kids and tag along. That wont be happening again soon if i can help it. It ended up taking me 2 1/2 hours to finish up instead of the usual hour and we ended up spending close to 200 instead of the 125-150 a week i usually spend. After we finished at walmart we went home unloaded everything and put it all away and then hurried and fed the kids lunch and we headed to Kiroli Park. We stayed till 4:15 or so and then we left and went home. As soon as we got home i had to get the kids ready in their costumes and take them to the church for trunk or treating at 5:00. They had fun and collected lots of candy. Then we came home around 6:30 ate dinner and then bathed and got them ready for bed and finally put them in bed. It has been one long day. Now i am making banana pudding and watching a lil t.v. As soon as the pudding is done then I am gonna go to eskimos and get some ice cream. I decided i didnt want the pudding i wanted Eskimos. I guess its a pregnancy thing cause i did want the pudding now i dont. Oh well not much longer left of changing my mind.

Get this baby out

I am so ready to have this baby. My back has been killing me everyday for 3 weeks. I have been having lots and lots of contractions that do nothing. I am still only dialted to a 1. Ugh after all the dang EPO i have been taking and it hasnt worked. I am tired of doing weekly NSTs and BPP's.Of course i kinds like doing the BPPs cause i get to see my lil man on u/s. And he is still a boy and not shy at all lol. Every u/s he has his legs spread wide open and showing it all. Since tonight and Friday is a full moon and i will be 37 weeks tomorrow i am hoping that will help start labor. So keep your fingers crossed.
I think i just about have everything i need for Jake. I do need more socks cause i only have one package and still need to pick out a monitor. I have plenty of clothes now i think. I have some blankets. Oh and i finally picked out his car seat/stroller combo, found it at Burlington for 199.00 so not to bad. I have plenty of baby wash (about 25 bottles of gerber grins and giggles) that i got for practically nothing on clearance then had coupons. I have my bag and Jakes bag packed and in the van ready to go to the hospital. I also have his carseat already in the van. So i am pretty much ready just waiting on Jake to decide to make an appearance.
Ok now i can update on the other kiddos. Ansleigh is still doing excellent in school. Made straight A's on her report card. She's growing up so fast. Cant believe after next year she will be in middle school. Taylor is doing better. She is finally getting adjusted to her meds and they seem to help some (better than the last ones anyway) I am still gonna try to get her into some sort of counseling. Lexi is doing great in dance class. She just loves going to dance. Nathan is his usually boy self. Hes always into everything and climbing on everything. His favorite word right now is no, so trying to break him of that. Aaron is working everyday and also getting ready for Jake to come. He has some sick days saved up so he can take off a week when Jake comes. Ok gonna go get some things done i will update again later.

Whats next.

It's been a long last couple days. First our water heater goes out and our laundry room floods. That was a mess and now we have to go and buy a new one. Then Ansleigh gets sick so Monday I take her to the dr and she has strep throat. So dr has told her no school till at least friday. So now today Nathan starts breaking out with blisters on his hands feet and butt and now in his mouth. Turns out he has hand foot and mouth disease. Dr said that the blisters will hurt. So of course that explains why he has been sooo cranky today. I feel so bad for him. Now I am just wondering which kid will be sick next.

Getting Started

Ok let's see how long i can keep up with this blogging thing. Hmm where to start. I am married to a wonderful man Aaron, and we have 4 great kids together and expecting #5 in November. We have 3 girls and 1 boy and are expecting boy #2. Our daily life can get hectic with 4 kids running around. With 3 of them in school, after school is more hectic than any part of the day. While trying to get 2 kids to sit down and do homework, and the other 2 running and going crazy distracting the two trying to do homework, sometime i just want to pull my hair out. On top of that trying to start dinner so the rugrats can eat and having Nathan ontop of my feet everytime i turn around. Yeah some days can be very long days. Then finally we can all sit down and eat, everyone but me that is. I am to busy getting this and that for the kids and for the husband and then cleaning up the spilled drinks and the food Nathan threw on the floor. By the time i get my first bite in Nathan is done eating and wants down so i have to clean him up and and get him down and then i can finally eat. Wait nope Nathan decided it was time to play in the toilet, so i am running in there to get him out and clean him again, turn on Diego and he sits down to watch it so i can finally eat my cold food. Finally i eat and i have to clean the kitchen and then its bath time for the munchkins. Usually Aaron will do this part for me since it's gotten so hard for me to bend over the tub with a big pregnant belly. So he bathes them and i get Nathan dressed. Then Ansleigh gets in the shower and finally its 8:30 and bedtime for the kids. Wait nope, they have to get up for a drink to pee to tell me something that by the time they got in the room to tell me they forgot what it was. So back to bed, 3 minutes later here comes Nathan drink drink no you had a drink go back to bed. wahhhhhhhhhhhhh finally goes back to bed and goes to sleep. Then finally i can sit down and listen to the peace and quiet and watch my shows on t.v. that night. Yeah not everyday is like that but 5 out if 7 are, but i love my kids to death and even though they can drive me nuts i wouldnt trade them for anything.