And she likes to do things HER way...

Natalie put on Meagan's Hannah Montana sweatshirt...in her own way.

Field Trip

My National Junior Honor Society group took a field trip to the girls' school yesterday. It was fun for everyone. I have a whole new admiration for preschool teachers. It is hard work! Their behavior is good, but there are other problems...like needing to go to the potty, wiping noses, etc. My students were wonderful!
I found out today that the neurologist wants Natalie to have another short EEG test. I am not too thrilled about trying to get her to stay still. I figured we would have to do something more now that she has had her third seizure.

Natalie is doing better

Both Meagan and Natalie are still not totally well, but at least no one is having a seizure. We spent a nice portion of the day outside. The girls had a birthday party at a local park and it was lovely outside. It was probably around 75 and we had great time. Last night we went to the Austin version of Chinatown. The grocery store there is as big as a typical grocery store and the girls were very interested in what they had there. Natalie, I think, thought it was an aquarium because of the big tank of live fish. Meagan was thrilled that the newspapers were written in Chinese. She takes Chinese classes at school and was jumping up and down when the Chinese newspaper had a photo of her favorite person, Barack Obama.
I am taking my honor society students over to the girls' school on Tuesday. Our students are going to be doing an art project with the little kids. I think everyone will have fun.

Photos from Election night at Elizabeth and Brian's house

The girls with their friends Lexi and Jackson.

my poor baby

It has been a hard 24 hours for us. Natalie had her third febrile seizure last night. She had no fever at all at 4 PM and I ran to Walmart to pick up a few things. She did the same thing as before; the fixed stare into nothing. When the paramedic took her temp it was 103, so it had spiked very fast. We went to Dell Children's Hospital and she was better very quickly. Despite having had an BIG adult dose of Valium, she was walking around and singing. She even complied with the chest rays and urine collection, something that is always a gamble with a young three year old. Now that we know what is going on, though, we don't have to deal with the mess of the ICU and a hospital stay. She loves her purple gown and does not want to take it off this morning. You would never know that anything was wrong with her by the way she is acting, but we know that is normal for children. I am finding this all very difficult with worrying about her, my job, and Meagan. Luckily, her teacher just took her to their house last night and Meagan did well.

Happy, happy day

God Bless America.
With the one major exception of one certain vote in California election day was sweet.

It was a fun night!

The photo below is of our cutie little next door neighbor, Shaunak. He is almost 2 1/2 and is the most adorable little boy. If we leave our door open, he will just walk in. I have had a few little suprises from this- one day I was helping Natalie change her clothes in my closet (nowhere near the door) an all of a sudden I heard someone talking to themself in the bathroom. I looked over and there he was!

We had a great night last night. We were all very impressed by our friends Jay and Suzanne who take Halloween very seriously. Not only did they have a pinata and sound effects, but they also had a light projector for the garage door and strobe lights for the rest of the yard. The girls made us walk quite a while so that they could see Mr. Joe, my friend from work. He had stickers for them in additon to the candy! The photos above were from the very end of the night, sitting on Chris and Paula's driveway. Natalie was fighting to keep her eyes open.