I learned this month that having two little boys that are best of worst friends can generate some very interesting scenerios.

2 boys + Rough housing = All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth!

Sean (1.5) kicked Mason (6) in the mouth causing both of his front teeth to become loose. He lost one and then a couple days later the other one fell out, with no signs of the permanent teeth coming in. It so funny to hear him talk now!

And here we have the guilty party!

I enrolled Mason into an support group for children with epilepsy. He had a great time at their first meeting. He got to make a seizure dog, which he named biscuit and made lots of friends. He is getting to the age now where he is starting to notice differences between him and other kids. I want to start working on his self esteem now and I think this will be a good way to start!





The next event of November was Sean, my 19 month olds, first haircut!! I absolutely hated to cut off his curls, but he was being mistaken as a girl so something had to be done, plus, I know they will grow back . . .



(He looks like such a little boy now !)



Sean then had his 18 month check up (a tad late lol) He weighed 28.12 pounds, 34 inches tall, and his head circ was 19.75 inches. He checked out well, besides his eczema and anemia, both which I am trying to treat with over the counter meds. He is still having significant issues with asthma/allergies so we have started using claritin and hope to have him allergy tested by age 2.



Waiting at the doctors office



A massive event that took place was on the 22nd. Mason out of nowhere went into what they call epileptic status (a constant seizure). He was unresponsive and nothing we were doing was helping, after 45 mintues we rushed him to the hospital. He started seizing at 630 in the evening and the hospital staff were finally able to stop the seizures by 1030 that night with IV medications. He then slept for 13 hours and finally awoke the next morning. He continued to seize for 2 more days (they called this partial status, because it was stopping and starting) so they kept us in the PICU for 3 days. Nothing is harder than seeing your child go through something that nobody can tell you why it happened, how to fix it, or how to stop it from happening again. Mason appears to have mini strokes when he has bigger seizures like this and this time his face drew up on the left side, it was horrible. He has struggled with this all his life and I feel we are no closer to controlling these seizures then we were when he was a baby. He is currently taking 5 oral medications and has a pacemaker for his brain.

**After about 3 weeks, Mason is back to the way he was before the status, thank goodness**

I took these pictures on day 3 after things calmed down because sometimes when so much is going on, by putting yourself behind the camera . . . you pull yourself away from whats really going on. Its an escape . . .






Lastly we had Thanksgiving! We took it kind of cautiously because of everything that Mason had just went through, but overall we were thankful to have our family together!






So that is the end of my update! This is why I never have time to get on anymore :) I dont even really know if anybody is interested in reading this stuff, but I like to look back on it! I hope everyone has had some great holidays!!

<3 Sara

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