In unpacking the toys the kids thought it was Christmas all over again. Here's Noah sporting Aaron's boyhood Superman cape that we had just found...again:
With our laminate flooring we have a new dust mop/broom that Noah thinks is tons of fun to play with. He will sneak into the pantry, get it out and play with it for long periods of time. It isn't until I trip over it later on that I find it again.
Sometimes when home life gets boring, Noah makes his own fun. I will always wonder what it is with boys and farting noises...They start thinking it is the best thing ever at such a young age! Geez!
In other happenings Josh had a follow up neurology appointment yesterday morning. Aaron stayed home to get the other kids up and ready for school while I took Josh down to his appointment at Primary Children's Hospital bright and early at 8am. We were pleasantly surprised as we were walking inside the hospital to find IHOP making and giving out a free pancake breakfast to anyone and everyone to celebrate national pancake day a day early. Josh was so excited. He loaded up his plate with two pancakes he would have taken more, but they limited you to just two. He doused them in strawberry syrup and was in heaven. After the appointment he wanted to get another plateful, but they had already cleaned up so he was a little disappointed. During the appointment Josh is doing great. His gross motor control is getting better, too which was nice to hear. When the PA was wrapping up our visit she asked Josh if he had any questions about anything that was going on. Josh, ever the opportunist, asked, "Ya, what do I get for coming down to see you today?" Not the exact question the PA was expecting, but she rolled with the punches and ended up giving Josh a word search book for all his 'troubles'. I was little embarrassed, but what can you do? Anyway, we don't have another appointment until 6 months barring no problems/seizures before then. Hopefully this time we can actually make it to the full 6 months before he needs to be seen again. In talking with a friend she had mentioned something about a nighttime camera to monitor stuff. Aaron looked more into it and found this nice night vision camera. It normally is used as a security camera, but it really works well for our needs. It only records when it senses movement and it does have night vision capability so we can keep an eye on him all night. It starts recording after sensing movement then it records the movement and 20 seconds after the movement stops. That way we can really see if he is having seizures or not at night. We just hook it up to the computer and watch the video snippets the next day to see if there were any problems or seizures throughout the night. It is a blessing since everyone is able to sleep in their own beds which makes for a better night's sleep. However, when we first set up the camera the boys loved messing with it. Here's a small sample of what happened the first few minutes it was set up:
The next night we couldn't get the stupid thing to record so Aaron went downstairs to look at what was wrong to find that someone had put a sticker over the camera lens. DOH!! Luckily, the newness has worn off and the boys have pretty much left the camera alone since then.
In finding new things to try out for Daniel's strict allergen free diet I came across this little number:
I am always willing to try something new and it fit in perfectly for our family dinner of macaroni and cheese the other night. However, Daniel's dairy, egg and nut free version as you can see from the box was mac and chReese. After I made it Aaron informed me that he was NOT even going to try it because it smelled and looked disgusting. I had to agree it did look and smell gross, but someone had to try it along with Daniel so I was the guinea pig. Daniel tried it and didn't like it so when I bit into it and almost gagged I didn't feel too bad for not ever wanting to make it again. It was worth a try, but that's as far as it will get for us--BLECH!!
One thing I did forget to write about was something that happened the first week after moving in to our new house. That first day we had told Josh and Daniel that they shouldn't ride the bus home anymore because we are no longer on a bus route. We told them over and over again that first morning that we would be there to pick them up from school. So when I went to pick up Daniel from kindergarten, he was no where to be found. I parked the car and went in to talk to his teacher to find that he was, in fact, on the bus. I drove over to our old house hoping to catch him, but the bus never showed up. That's when I called the transportation office and started in to the explanation when the dispatcher stopped me and just asked me if my son's name was Daniel. I said yes and she told me the bus would have to make it's rounds and then it would drop him back off at the school. In further discussion I guess once the bus made it to Daniel's regular stop he realized that he shouldn't have ridden the bus at all and burst into tears. He tried to explain what happened to the bus driver, but it was a substitute bus driver and she didn't quite know what to do. Luckily, Aunt Jill stayed at his usual bus stop while I drove over to the school to wait for him. After making all the stops the bus driver made one last loop around the old bus stop and that's when Aunt Jill was able to grab a very upset Daniel and bring him home. When we all got home I asked Daniel what had happened and he just burst into tears. Luckily we got him home in one piece and everyone (including his teacher, the bus driver and dispatch) was now aware that Daniel was not supposed to ride the bus anymore. It was a pretty traumatic experience for the poor kid!! Thank goodness for cell phones and that we were all able to stay in contact the whole time to track him down!
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