We're home!

At the hospital Naomi was calm and stayed in bed. She only had 3 small seizures on Tuesday, the first day she had solid food on the diet. Then this morning when she woke up, or was woken up at 6 a.m for bloodwork, she didn't have any seizures at the hospital, even after a longish nap. Then we were discharged, and came home and she was excited up running around and I saw one about 12:09 then at 12:28 they started! She ended up seizing for about 15 minutes, poor thing. But the things that may have influenced that also are... she had a hard time falling asleep last night, she was asleep then they came in to check her vitals. Then she was woken up after only about 7 hours of sleep. So we'll see what a good night sleep at home does. She's up napping now.
I need to run to Walmart and get some special items for her to eat tonight and tomorrow. But we're thankful to be home!

Halloween 2007

This is from Halloween 2007. Yes they're store bought costumes. You can not deny my little duckling is awful cute! Anakin Skywalker is so authentic! Besides we needed to use at least one of the 3 light sabers in our house!This is a photo from last years Halloween. This is a friends son, he was 12 at the time and came up with the idea for the costume all by himself. Pretty creative kid! It's a Deep Sea diver if you can't tell. The big heavy boots.... not so conducive to trick or treating in a neighborhood where the houses are spread apart, better suited for an apartment or mall! HA!! He still made out good. He's a good kid. He didn't want candy, though people pushed it on him, instead he was trick or treating for UNICEF.

A lesson in optimism

I have a Great Aunt who lives nearby... if you know who I'm talking about you're at the edge of your seats waiting to see what she's said now!!! I was helping her pay some bills and one was from AARP, her membership was up for renewal. She'll be 83, I believe, this December. Anyhow, back to her mail.... When I told her AARP offered either one year or 3 year renewal she said "Lets think positive and go with the 3 year membership. But if I die, you write to them and get my money back!" I assured her I would and we'd bury her with her membership card clenched in her hand.
She's a hoot!

Eating like a Buckeye

Buckeye, in food ususally means a combination of chocolate and peanut butter. A local grocery store has Buckeye Cream Sticks in their bakery. In some place Cream Sticks are called Long Johns, but basically it's about 6 inches of rectangular dough (same dough they use to make doughnuts) fried then filled with cream. The Buckeye Cream Stick has peanut butter cream, chocolate icing and peanut butter chips on top. I've only ever ate one, they're supposed to be breakfast food but they are extra rich! Then there's the Buckeye, a peanut butter ball, partly dipped in chocolate just so some peanut butter peaks out the top and the candy resembles a real buckeye. But my favorite is Buckeye Pie. I've had it as is decribed below and I've also had it in a regular pie shell with peanut butter and powdered sugar mixed together until crumbly with no cream cheese and sprinkled over the baked shell then the chocolate pudding goes on top. So for those not from Ohio here's a recipe for......

BUCKEYE PIE
3/4 cup Peanut Butter
2 cups milk
1 large package of chocolate instant pudding
16 oz. cool whip
4 oz cream cheese, softened
1 cup powdered sugar
2 chocolate pie crust
Mix peanut butter and cream cheese together and then fold in 1/2 of the cool whip until well blended. Divide between the 2 pie crusts and spread out evenly.
Mix the milk and pudding mix for 2 minutes. Spread the pudding over the peanut butter mix then top with remaining Cool Whip.

Checking his list...

He's been a very good boy this year! We told Isaiah the country was having a rough time this year and he would have to scale down his Christmas list. Santa has to give extra to little boys who don't already have so much. As one of his friends said "Dude! I can't believe you have all this stuff".

I don't know if he took anything off the list or he just squished the list together, but here it is. Notice at the bottom right "specil camera" I'll show what that's for in another post, but the rest of the list is mainly Lego related. Bill went online earlier to check the prices of some of these. Some were $19.99, some in the $50 range but the Death Star it's $399.99!!!!!!!!!! No 9 year old, needs $400 worth of Legos! He had better get that thing entered into the Smithsonian or something! For some reason he wants 2 of some items. For example the "AT-TE Walker", oh sure only 2? How about 4? They're only $89.99 each! Why he wants 2 is beyond me. But I wouldn't doubt if one of his friends saw them also and Isaiah has offered to ask for 2 so when he comes over he'll have his own to play with. He is a very thoughtful boy and he won't be getting coal this year, but he won't be getting half this stuff either!

I don't exist

I was looking through the kids photo albums and apparently I abandoned them shortly after birth! There are very few photos of me and the kids simply because I'm the one who's holding the camera! Also since having the kids I tend to hide from the camera!

Here's a photo I found of my kids and me visiting Grandpa last year in the nursing home. He was 90 years old in this photo, with very little gray hair. He always said it was because he never let a woman cut his hair! At this point he'd been diagnosed with Alzheimer about 9 years or so.

Kool-Aid Playdough

Isaiah's preschool used to make this play dough and it's easy, smells good and is cheap. Of course Naomi can't play with any play dough until she learns not to stick everything in her mouth!

Kool-Aid Play dough
2-3 cups of flour
1/2 cup salt
3 Tablespoons oil
2 cups boiling water
2 envelopes of unsweetened Kool-Aid Drink Mix


Mix 2 cups of flour and dry ingredients together in a large bowl. Add water and oil. Stir until completely mixed, adding remaining flour until dough is no longer sticky. Store in an air tight container. Stays fresh for weeks.