Hi there!  Wow - this week has been a whirlwind. Both boys have colds - which means lots of seizures, sleepless nights, snotty noses, screaming and such.  Casey wakes us up screaming for a couple of hours - and just when we finally get back to sleep - Cody wakes up with a hacking coughing spell or huge seizure!  Just when I was about to tear my hair out from even more sleep deprivation than we had prior to these colds --- I got the FANTASTIC NEWS!  We were approved for emergency overnight respite by the state!!!  What an answer to prayer - 8 hours a night for 2-3 months.  I had to find the providers, the state pays them.  They will stay overnight in Cody's room and attend to him so we can get some precious SLEEP!  It took a lot of doing, but we got it!  Our neurologist note helped a ton.  Whew.  It doesn't start until the week of the 18th, but it's a light at the end of a very dark tunnel!

Casey woke up at 4:30am today so I'm blurry eyed.  Cody followed promptly at 5am.  The day is soooooooooo long when you get up at that hour.  I had to laugh at myself - by 7am I had done a laundry list of things already - changed poopy diapers, fed both boys, read to both boys, put casey down for a nap, gave cody all his meds, sent out 4 emails to the school district, the list goes on and on.  I kept singing out loud:  "I am Mother, hear me roar!"  If you're old like me, you remember the Helen Reddy song, "I am woman hear me roar."  Yeah, I sang it to that tune but changed teh words.  I'm embarrassed to say I actually saw Helen Reddy in concert back in "the day."  Yikes.  That dates me!  That was back when Delta Dawn was a big hit. 

Don went to Oregon with Cody last weekend to visit his folks - and I got to spend some alone-time with Casey who is growing up SO fast!  Right now he's sitting next to me in a high chair holding a Zwieback cracker in 1 hand and a sippy cup full of water in the other!  He thinks he is SUCH a big boy!  His cheek is mostly healed up.  Another answer to prayer.  We got lots of cuddle time over the weekend - we worked on crawling - it was great.

That's our news for now - thanks for checking in!

with love, Shawna