Happenings at our house.

My baby is 10 months old today. I can hardly believe it. 10 months ago she was brand spanking new and so little. I was tired but oh so happy, we had finally met this little girl who had caused so much trouble before she was even born. Apparently she decided to keep up the trend and we are still having trouble with her.

Where do I start? You all know about Isabelle’s “episodes: don’t you? Well here let me tell you a little about it. About three weeks ago I was sitting on the floor playing with Isabelle when all of a sudden she starts to scream as though someone was tearing off and arm or some other appendage. Then she got kind of stiff and her eyes kind of rolled back in her head and she turned blue. This want on for about a minute and then she lay on the floor with her eyes closed and was still blue. She was breathing fine but was blue around the lips. In my panicked state I called my good friend Bonnie and she told me to call the Health line. Now for those of you that don’t know what that is I will tell you. It is a number you call where you can talk to registered nurses and they ask you a whole bunch of questions and then tell you whether you should rush your little self in to the hospital or if you can wait until morning to go to see the Dr. Well they tell me that I should take her in right away, which by the way I was going to do anyhow considering my baby was blue.

So away we go to the hospital and see the DR. Now I am not an expert by any means but I do think that if you a medical PROFESSIONAL, and I use that term loosely, and you rely on people to feed your family then you should maybe be, oh I don’t know…….Friendly maybe? But that is just me perhaps I am asking too much. I mean what do I know right? I mean I didn’t go to medical school. Anyways the DR tells us that the health line tells everyone to go to the hospital and that Isabelle looked fine and we could have waited until the morning to bring her in. Oh I am sorry the next time my baby turns blue I will be sure and wait until a more convenient time for you. GRRR. Then he tells us that she probably got mad and threw a temper tantrum and that is why she turned blue. Um ok but for 5 minutes? Give me a break. I have seen many a temper tantrum but never one where the child turns blue for an extended period of time. So we left with everyone thinking that I was a hypochondriac mother who didn’t know what the hell I was talking about.

The next morning she did it again and then again that afternoon so I called the pediatrician. We went to see him and he tells me she is having seizures. It took all I had not to go back to the first Dr we saw and say “ha I told you there was something wrong”. It’s a good thing I am more mature than that. Anyhow, he wants to take her off of any and all medications and vitamins. He is thinking that maybe since she has been on so many drugs in the last few months maybe her little body has just had enough. We do this and it seems to help for a few days and then she starts with some strange eye things and some weird mouth thing. Not very technical description I know but that is the all I could come up with. I called the pediatrician back and he wants her in for an EEG, the soonest appointment they can get is for the 13th of June at 12:15pm. This sounds great right? Not really. There is a catch. She can’t have a morning nap! Now someone tell me how the hell I am supposed to accomplish that. An hour and a half drive into the city at her naptime and she can’t sleep? Umm sure no problem. Are there any other impossible feats you would like me to try whilst I am at it? Like catching a faerie in a bottle or taking a picture of a purple dragon or some sort of other impossible act? So if anyone has any ideas about how one would go about keeping an 11 month old awake in a car for over an hour and a half when she is supposed to be napping please let me know. If ever there was a time when I wanted my mommy instincts to be wrong this is definitely that time. You know what I am talking about all mothers have it. You just “know” when there is something wrong with one of your children.

Emily is still having trouble in school and has decided that she is going to exert her 16 year old mouth. As in having an attitude with me and giving me serious amounts of lip. I haven’t quite figured out how come Colin doesn’t get the same treatment though. She spent the day at the farm with her Daddy today so that I could have a break from her mouth and her attitude. I love her very much but I just don’t know what to so with her when she is like this.

At school she is just plain stubborn. She is fully capable of doing the work she just refuses to do it. What do you do with that? I mean if she was having trouble understanding something or didn’t know how to do it, I could practice with her and help her, but no amount of practicing is going to make her do the work. I just don’t know what to do with her. Colin’s mom and Grandma tell me that Colin was the exact same way in school. How lucky for me. However I have to say that I am a little relieved as I was sure that her stubbornness was my parents fault. I thought that when I was young and wonderful they had wished something like this on me but apparently it is her dad’s genetics. Yay I knew I was perfect.

On a happier note I am super duper happy and excited. First of all my parents are coming in June for a visit. Shhhhhh! It is a surprise for the kids. I am really looking forward to seeing them since it seems like it ahs been too long even though it was just at Christmas time. It still seems like forever to me though. I miss them every day and think about them all of the time. I wish they were closer and my kids could have the privilege of spending lots of time with them. My parents are truly special people who have the biggest hearts I have ever known. I have learned a lot from them over the years even if they don’t know about it. I strive all the time to be half the person that my parents are……Ok sappy moment over.

Happy occasion number 2 is that my bestest friend Bonnie told me about Dancing with the Stars and how it is coming to Saskatoon in July. She and Keith are going and now so are we. Colin is taking me for my birthday. I am soooo excited. You really have no idea how excited I am. It is great I tell you. So thank you, thank you Bonnie! And another thank, thank you to my hunny. Some people look their whole lives to find a friend like I have and a Hubby like mine. I am one lucky woman.

So that is the happenings at the Patterson household in a nutshell. If you made it this far in my book, thank you. I knew I had some loyal followers. Granted they are probably all my family but hey a follower is a follower right?