Happy New Year!

Hope everyone had a merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Avery had a great Christmas with both sides of our families. Avery received a number of generous gifts, and she's enjoyed all of them. Thank you.
She's especially proud  of her pink guitar.



Avery playing a song on her guitar

 Avery absolutely loves music, her singing and playing musical instruments has certainly struck a note as the house has been filled with her singing and playing songs. A future musician?

New Years Eve was spent with the Franklin side of the my family at Renae and Bob's. Always a great seeing everyone and spending time with all of the family. Avery was having a ball playing with the other cousins. She also couldn't stop looking out the window, watching the dogs.

Later that night, it was clear Avery was coming down with something. As she was sleeping, she was "shivering", I quickly grabbed the thermometer, and checked her temp, Normal, waited a minute, checked it again, normal. Seeing her "shiver" quickly made us think of last February, when she was doing this same thing in the middle of the night, same "normal" temp, but minutes later turned into a generalized tonic clonic seizure, calling for 2 Diastat's, and a ambulance ride to the Hastings ER. Which they then transferred her up to Regions ER for the rest of the night. Needless to say, when we saw her shivering, we were immediately on edge! In efforts to prevent it evolving into a seizure, we gave her some Advil to help prevent a fever, and oral Valium to help prevent a seizure. It worked! She slept the rest of the night, and we felt like we dodged a big one there.

That same night we happened to be getting a few snowflakes for once this winter, enough that I went out snowplowing in the morning. But when I got home later in the morning, Debbie said Avery was lethargic all morning, and not herself. She was way "off", something was up. I took her into the clinic, only to find out it was closed being new years day, So, we headed over to the ER. Once we got in the ER to get checked out, she was already running a temp. Dr. evaluation proved she had a bad Ear Infection, as well as a chest infection! Dr. gave her antibiotics to cover both to avoid an X-ray. A dose of Tylenol, and we we headed home.

Avery seemed to be responding well to the antibiotics all week, as she was getting better each day. She still had a bit of a cough, but seemed to be getting in the clear, or so we thought. Today, Avery got home from school, and we were told she was "off" all morning in school, poor balance, and frequent eye closing head nod seizure activity. Debbie got her into the clinic, and this time they did an evaluation and X-Ray. Good news- Ear infection is gone, Bad news- She has Pneumonia in her right lung, Here we go again...

On a positive note, our friends Brian and Amanda Meyers welcomed a beautiful baby girl into their family last week. Baby Klaire is home now, spending time with her big brothers, Kael and Kyler. Congratulations to them!