…to keep insanely busy, and…

to get sick

to have a leak in your shower UPSTAIRS

to have one child going on his first trip without you

to have the other child be admitted into the hospital for 1 or 2 nights

That’s what we’re doing tomorrow…taking Emma to Phoenix Children’s Hospital.  She will be in their epilepsy monitoring unit for 24-48 hours.  Being in that unit gets her constant EEG monitoring to watch her seizures.  Basically we want to know if the seizures have increased or decreased.  Or if they’re staying the same.  Her anxiety has been a little higher this time around.  I think it’s because she’s older and she gets that she’s going to be staying in the hospital.  Even though we’ve shown her pictures from her last EEG visit, she’s still pretty nervous.  I have new things for her to do, though, and visitors lined up.

This weekend we kept her busy while Mason went with Grandma to Napa, CA, for his Great Great Aunt Dottie’s 90th birthday!  What a treat for him!  Around here we’ve gone to the park a bunch to ride bikes and play soccer and swing on swings.  We’ve gotten hair cuts (“we” as in Mommy and Emma), went to see Tangled, which is A-Dorable!  We tried a new restaurant. We watched Frosty The Snowman.  We’ve done as much as we could do to keep her mind occupied.  I think it worked for the most part.

Anyway, before this gets too long winded, please keep Emma in your thoughts and prayers tomorrow as she gets checked into PCH.  This is very routine and “easy peasy lemon squeezy” (as she says), but she’s nervous.  And I hate coming home to an empty house at night.  Especially when one of my babies is in the hospital.

Emma getting her EEG in the spring of 2009

I promise to keep you posted!

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