a few randoms

chemo

cody finished his first week of chemo on november 1. he handled the week well. the following week was rougher for him. an overall feeling of malaise kept him pretty low key. he developed some upper-respiratory symptoms that kicked his butt for several days. but i'm happy to say he's feeling better

  
surprise

friday afternoon we snuck out to the east coast to surprise cody's sister and family. all of cody's family made the trip. it was a super quick trip, but worth every mile. 

neurology

cody had a neuro appointment this week wednesday. this dr. simply works towards controlling his seizures. he did have a 3 week stretch without any seizures, which was the longest he's gone. but typically, cody has 1-2 seizures a week. seizure medications are basically trial and error, as everyone is different. but his neurologist is not happy with 1-2 seizures a week and wants to try a different medication. cody has started tegretol and will build up to an average dose. once he's at that, he will start weaning off one of the other seizure meds. 

boys

obviously, i'm a girl. and i grew up with only a sister.  we were neat. we were clean. we were gentle. we didn't blow holes in our jeans. i honestly can't believe how many pairs of pants we go through with boys. the knees are always thin. and a new hole is always just one slide away. 

clutter
i simply can not keep up with the clutter in our house. it doesn't matter how hard i try, i can't seem to get on top of it. it's maddening.  

chauffeur
driving (or lack of) is definitely something i took for granted. with cody's seizures, driving is still out of the question for him. i'll be honest, it's tough being the only driver in our household. in the past, when we were together, cody would always drive. i took that opportunity to do other things. mostly play on my phone, research anything and everything, and catch up on some much needed sleep. but now, every single thing that involves a vehicle, i am responsible for. and it's a big responsibility.

 

halloween 2015

this summer, while hitting up a rummage sale, i came across a dorothy and tin man costume from the wizard of oz. both were sizes that i knew two of my kids would fit into, and i couldn't resist.  now these days, i understand that there might not be many young ones out there that are familiar with the wizard of oz. paxton is one of them. but the twins, if you remember, went through a phase where they wanted to watch the movie over.and.over.and.over.again.  i knew they would be all about these costumes. kaden got to choose between being the lion or scarecrow. he was proud to wear his lion costume, along with his badge of courage.

my sister-in-law and her family decided to come home for the halloween weekend. it was perfect, my nephew would be the scarecrow. and the cutest scarecrow he was! this gang was off to see the wizard.

my niece, as much as we tried to get her to be a part of the "theme" was determined she was not wearing a costume this halloween. last minute, she decided to be a fairy :)

this little man rocked trick-or-treating. it was so much fun to be able to share this experience with him

we had quite the following. in years past, it has taken us f.o.r.e.v.e.r. to get costumes on and get out the door. this year, with it being on a saturday, we seemed to have plenty of time. we started off with an early dinner and were quickly out the door. i admit, it might have been just a leeeetle bit early. but with young kids, i was ok with it. the kids were finished and still weren't too far off of their schedules. and as you know, we like our schedules.

we have a busy/fun weekend planned, but i will be back with more of what we've been up to :)