Trouble....

Spring - YAHOOO!!!

Spring is here - 71 degrees today and beautiful!

The Call

Today was the day I got "The Call".

This morning after the kids went to school, I met a friend for coffee, went to Target to buy Ava a bathing suit, picked up Ava from school, was almost back home and then.... "the call" came. The thought of getting this call has been on my mind for seven or so years. Really ever since Drew started school and spent time away from me, out of my direct care. I could see from the caller ID that the call was coming from Andrew's school. That part wasn't so unusual. It was what was coming.... The call from Cindy, our school's secretary went like this... "Mrs. Ablondi? This is Cindy from Rock Creek. Andrew's had a severe seizure and they've called 911. I don't know much more about it, because the nurses and staff are down with him in his classroom right now, and they've asked me to call you to get here right away." I asked for any information while driving back to Andrew' s school (the same area I had just left). Cindy said the nurse would have to call me back. So, immediately I called Dave. He left work right at that moment. The nurse called me back very quickly to say Andrew was stable and they had to give him his emergency seizure medicine because his seizure lasted for more than 5 minutes (7 minutes to be exact). Upon administering this medicine, the protocol is to call 911 to transport the patient to the hospital. If I could get there before the ambulance took him I could take him home. So, Ava, Jenna and I arrived at school to find the ambulance, and emergency vehicles with lights flashing. Andrew was already inside the ambulance. Three paramedics were checking his vitals and taking notes. Andrew's vitals were all fine. Over these past ten years, along with becoming a mom, I've also become a nurse. I asked what Andrew's vitals were, what were his respirations, what exactly did the seizure look like, did he turn blue, and so on. He looked okay, a little sedated, but okay. I asked to take him home. At this point I was asked to sign a "Refusal of Care" notice. Refusal of care, was I doing the right thing? I would have to take that risk. We all came home and spent the afternoon together taking it easy. Andrew appears okay, but I am once again reminded how fragile Andrew is, and that Dave and I can never, ever let our guards down when it comes to caring for Andrew.

WHO'S WHO??

That's Drew, Amelia, Ava, Me, Jenna and Dave. Pictures all taken around 10 -11 months..

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Daddy's Home from Georgia! This morning there are happy faces all around....

You would think that there's a college football game on today.... wouldn't you???

Art and Dance

Amelia has been taking an art class after school. Today was the last day of this session. She loves it so much that we have signed her up for more. This group of classes focused on transportation. Amelia learned how to draw a skiier, train, hot air balloons and so on. As you can see by the photos, transportation isn't the only common theme....there is also another common theme.....dragons... (hot air balloons with dragons in them, a skiier almost eaten by dragons, etc...)You see what I mean. :)

Ava's dance class finished up another session this past Monday. She danced in her recital and did great. Ava wants to continue with her dance lessons. Her next class will begin in a few weeks. She's quite the dancer.

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Eleven months old today..... The photo above is for daddy...who is missing her today... Jenna was snoozin' at her cousin's house earlier today.

At eleven months Jenna is walking, but still crawls a lot. She takes a lot of falls, but gets right back up again and keeps on moving. Over the weekend, Dave watched Jenna walk down the hall, stop and turn around and come back. Pretty cool! Jenna is happiest being where the action and people are. She loves her toy cutlery. She still loves her Bjorn carrier and gets excited for it with very big eyes and legs kicking. She says, "mama, dada' baba, nana and who-dat!!!" When I am gone Jenna will move around the house, saying "mama, mama, mama ". Jenna has two teeth on the bottom (one tooth and then a space and then another tooth). She's fascinated with everyone's drink and food. If you have a cup. She wants it. If the other kids are drinking something, she will knock them over just to get that drink from them! Jenna's nights are the same. We did have that one perfect night, but usually nights are different. (usually different) hmmm :) Jenna likes her food....quiche and pizza (a good thing in this house), hamburger, banana and a lot of table foods, so that's good.

Jenna is growing up so fast.