An update on Blake

So we figured out why Blake's been passing out. It turns out that he isn't just passing out he is having a seizure. After way too long dealing with doctors and tests we found out that he has epilepsy. Right now we are in the process of trying to get him on the right medication and the right dosage. He is taking medicine that stops the seizures from causing him to pass out but he is still feeling some side effects so we are working on it. One of the big downfalls of this is that he isn't able to drive for at least six months. That means that I have to drive him to work everyday and pick him up at the freeway every night. He has someone at work drive him to our offramp after work so that is some help. I hope that we are able to get everything worked out so that he can be able to drive after six months. The good news is that we now know what we are dealing with and what needs to happen to live with it.

Sea World Fun

Another thing that we did during my week off was go to Sea World. Isabella loves goingt there and we have passes so she gets the chance to go pretty often. Her favorite animals to see are the penguins, Shamu, and polar bear. She actually made us walk through the penguin area twice so that she could see them again. If she could I think she would live at Sea World but sadly that isn't an option. We had a coupld of wardrobe malfunctions there as well. First when we got there the heel of my shoe poked through and was killing me so I had to get new shoes. Then when we were pushing Isabella in her stroller she dragged her foot through the mud when she didn't have shoes on and her socks got filthy so she got new socks. It seemed like we spent half our time there searching for clothes. Isabella did really well though given the fact that she had no nap and we were there from 12 till 7. She did cry when we had to leave and I felt bad because she was having fun but it was getting late.

Guess who likes cotton candy?

Feeding the ducks and seeing some monsters

Finally getting around to posting pictures from last week. On Tuesday we took Isabella to the duck pond and then to see her first movie in a theater. She loved going to see the ducks but the movie took a little longer to get use to. When we first got there she wanted to leave and I kept telling her to give it a few more minutes. She sat on my lap the whole time and would occasionally tell me that it was time to go. Eventually she got into the movie and started to enjoy it. When there was about 5 minutes left she then got up and sat in her chair, which I had to help hold down because she is so small.

These are the adorable baby ducks that Isabella was overfeeding. Their poor mama had to keep protecting them from the other ducks trying to steal the bread Isabella was feeding them.

She is so cute in this picture.

This is the movie that we took her to and they had a big poster of it in the lobby. Had to take a picture in front of it. She actually was so excited to take a picture in front of it and had me take a lot.

Then she made daddy take a picture with her in front of it.

Closer to three than two

How in the world have two and half years passed by? Somedays feel so long but they are adding up to quickly. She has seemed to change a ton in the last couple of weeks. Some of these changes are a lot of fun. Like she is able to do art with me now and I am able to use all of my vast preschool teacher knowledge to do arts and crafts time with her. We are also able to have conversations together that actually make some sense. She is becomming so funny and creative and its amazing watching her come up with things and understand things that we have no idea where they come from.

Then theres the other side. She is going through some sort of sleep regression and is now having difficulty with naps and waking up between 2 and 4 in the morning. Its not a lot of fun to be doing the middle of the night thing again. Hopefully it is a short period because I am tired. Her tantrums, though luckily don't happen often, are getting more intense. She threw a good one over the weekend and I was torn between wanting to laugh because part of what she was doing was funny and lock in her a closet till she stopped. I did neither (well to be honest I did laugh a little bit but not at her) and it eventually ended. The funniest part of the whole thing is when she told me "you not allowed to tell me no mama". Umm... last time a checked thats a right of a mama so too bad kid.

This week I am off so we are taking her to the movies tomorrow which will be a lot of fun and we shall see how she does. Then on Wednesday its Sea World which will be a good picture taking day for me. She loves it there so I am excited.

Here are some cute April pictures I've taken so far:

We were building up block towers and knocking them down.

Crawling through the awesome tunnel at my work. I'm going to have to get her one of these someday. She loves it and it burns energy.

My little artist. She was very excited about using paint.

Playdough fun!

So far March has been the best month of 2009. Nothing amazing happen but no disasters so its winning. I am mostly done with Isabella room and will take pictures of it because it is turning out really cute. This will be her room (and Kilee's) when they spend the night here so I am taking the time to decorate it even though we wont be here that long. It also the first time shes really had a room all of her own so I want to make it fun for her. My list of stuff to do doesn't seem to be shrinking because every time I take something off I add another but at least things are getting done. I get April 7-10 off so I hope to get a lot done and do some fun things will Isabella.

Isabella is becoming more and more hilarious each day. She has such a huge vocabulary and is constantly saying new words. One that she has started saying is cool. This one bothers me because it makes her sound so old when she says it.

We have been spending most of our time playing with playdough lately. She is a big fan of it and at least shes not running around. She has been sick so much lately that I dont want her running around a lot and coughing. She's pretty cute when shes playing with it too.

I took this picture to show how long her hair is getting.

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Her beautiful ring from Grammie.

Bathtime with Isabella

These last few weeks have been exhausting but we are officially moved. Not unpacked and settled but our stuff is here. Hopefully I will be able to get on here and post some more blogs now that things will be a little less stressful.

In this video she is taking a bath and lining up her Dora, Boots and Swiper bath toys along the edge. She then scares them with her roar and has to apologize to each one of them. She did this over and over again so I don't think that she was very sorry. She then realizes that shes sitting on her duck so she says sorry to the duck as well. Hey at least she is getting the concept of being empathetic even if they are plastic cartoon characters.

Baking with Isabella

Bella and I baked a cake. There wasn't a reason other than maybe chocolate helps stress. Well to be honest I baked the cake while she played with playdough but she did help me frost it and put sprinkles on it. She was much better at eating the sprinkles and frosting than anything else but it was fun.