Tuesday 13th Jan. The kids enjoyed a full day of play with Logan and Brooke. Hezekiah loved having 'big brother' to play with. He did have a rather rough day though. He tripped and got a bad bump and cut on his head. Then later he got a nasty cut on his foot. I eventually managed to get his foot clean and then I put some antiseptic cream on with a plaster. He felt better having a sock over the plaster, and just needed some time to rest and feel better.
Wednesday 14th Jan. Dearest Asher was woken abruptly this morning by a seizure. She sat up looking at me as the shaking just took over. She stayed conscious with this one and I could see in her face that the shaking was scaring her. I am glad I was right there, able to talk to her, comfort and reassure her. Thankfully it only lasted a minute and her breathing was ok. I let her lie with Ruth while I got her morning meds. She didn't have a solid sleep afterwards and was rather grumpy through the morning. She also had a really loose stool during the morning (which often accompanies teething with my kids), and so I checked her mouth and yip - the molar on the other side is coming through. It's almost out though - so hopefully it won't bother her for too much longer. I think it added to her grumpy disposition for the day though.
It was fun to see it develop through the afternoon.
He did also get to make a really big tower. He specifically kept all the blue ones for the top. :-)
Asher is getting so good with these toys. She always stacks the circles first though. I had to smile the one day as she made sure that the red one was on the top of each stack.
Such a cutie.
Saturday 17th. Asher loves the balls too. I had fun watching her this morning. She spent ages with the balls, and kept throwing or kicking them from one side of the room to the other. I loved how they were all lined up. As soon as I got the camera out she came over and said her version of "cheese". :-)
That brings it up to 7 seizures in the first 17 days of the year. We have gotten a formula for a combination homoeopathic remedy from our friends (who are now in Dubai). They used it with good success for epilepsy in their practice in South Africa years ago, so we have gotten the formula to our homoeopathic pharmacy here in NZ and they are going to make it up as close as they can (12 of the 14 ingredients being the same - although in a different potency). We hope to get that next week and pray that God would graciously allow it to help reduce the frequency of these seizures.
Ruth handed out the loom band crosses at church in the evening and she said she could have made many more. The 20 she had went very quickly.
On Saturday morning they headed outside for some soccer (Asher enjoying the sand pit behind them). I just love this one of Hezekiah's face. You can just see how much fun he was having.
Our new neighbour, Anthony, had played with the others a few times in the week. When he saw them outside this morning, he came over to join in the fun.
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Asher joined in too.
The children had a great time playing through the afternoon too. We had to smile when we spotted Hezekiah - on top of the dog kennel. Hannah came in telling us that he was stuck up there. He however, was not at all worried. He was happily making a concoction of something in the watering can.
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