Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Been a LONG time since I posted!

Hello to all!
I know it has been a really long time since I posted, but what can I say...I have 3 kids, a husband, a dog, a fish, a house that is dirty 90% of the time, and a million other things going on.
Well, I can't really go into great detail about everything that has happened since the last post, because that would take me a week to type, but I'll hit the high lights. As per usual, things have been really busy for the Bunting clan. Kaytlyn is in 4th grade and is a super smarty pants.  She is a straight A student and she participated in UIL this year and placed 2nd in Creative Writing and 2nd in Number Sense (math). She should be starting softball any day (that is, as long as her arm is healed!) She broke her wrist about a month ago playing kickball in the driveway with Gage.  She didn't have to have it casted, but it's been in a brace since then and we go back tomorrow to have it re-xray'd to make sure it's healed (or at least healing). She is very ready to get it off! Gage is in 1st grade and is also doing very well.  He is also a straight A student.  He just started baseball practice this past week.  This is his first year to play, so I was a little worried about how he would do, but he is picking it up great!
Cooper is 4 now and still stays at home with me.  We do "Mommy school" each day and he is learning his numbers, letters, letter sounds, and simple addition. We've had some craziness the past few days with Cooper.  Over a year ago, he had a couple of seizures.  We took him to a neurologist and had 2 EEG's done, an MRI, and a catscan and never got an answer as to what was going on.  He hadn't had another one until this past Saturday night where he had one in the kitchen while I was cooking dinner.  It was pretty bad and he stopped breathing for a minute, but he finally stopped and slept it off for about 30 minutes.  Then he had another one early Monday morning in his bed.  We called his doctor and took him in to have another EEG.  We saw the neurologist today and he said there were some abnormalities with the EEG (his words were "markers" in his brain activity that would trigger the onset of seizures), so he put him on twice daily anti-seizure medication. If they seizures continue, we'll have to up his dose, but hopefully it will stop them.  If he can go 6 months seizure free the doctor will consider taking him off the meds. It is the scariest thing to watch your child go through something like that and feel so totally helpless.  I'm just glad we got some sort of answer and now we can do something about it.
That is about it for now. I will try harder to update more often (I have a new computer that is MUCH faster than my old one!). We are looking forward to spring break next week and I'll try to post pictures when we get back. Hope everyone enjoys their spring break!

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