See what happens when Uncle Mikey gets bored?

I'm on a roll now! 2 days in a row. :) My Brother Mikey is in town and when he gets bored he tries to 'create' projects. Sometimes its handy like the time he built a shed, or organized the Garage, (Or made super fancy Derby trophies ;P) and other times its just a bit scary. But thats for another post. Today Stevie was home sick from school. I left to run an errand and came back to Stevie saying "Hey Mom! wanna see the movie we made?" Thank Heaven for the miracle healing I guess.

Catch up!

As promised I am catching up on my Blog. I guess I'll start with our Big News about Katie Jo. Katie Jo starting walking a little over a month ago! a little unsteady at first but now she does great with it and is trying to pick up speed sometimes as well. Katie has been having Seizures since she was about 8 months old. Not the drop on the floor, eyes rolling back kind, more like a weird head bob with her arms strecthed out in front of her kind. They got worse and worse and pretty soon she was having them 8 to 10 a day. the weird thing was, we could actually set them off as well. if you tapped her head or she bumped it, sh'de do it. My Doc sent us to a ped neurologist who ran lots of test like EEG's and an MRI and found that yes, they were seizures but not the really horrible ones, that can leave a permanent trail on the brain. She is now on meds and after playing with the doses a bit she has been basically, seizure free for 7 weeks. Pretty amazing. :) Which is why walking is so cool. She has been able to get around for a while now, with a funny little scoot, but the walking is all new. and she has even started to really babble alot lately, its very exciting. No real words yet, but when you go from just grunts to real babble? life is sweet. She is in speech therapy and we are learning baby sign language as another form of communicating. I am so thankful for Doctors and for Medicine and for the blessings that they both bring to our family. My only problem now is keeping her in the shopping cart!

Pinewood Derby Time again!

So many things have been happening lately, and I promise to bring you all up to date, but lets start with the Derby from today~ I am the cub committee chair in our church and this year I was much better prepared for what was to come with the Derby. the boys had a really good time and lots of fun. After we had the 'offical' race, the boys gathered for awards and treat. Stevie's Car looked like a shark! so he won the "Most Fiercest Looking". It was great fun. Uncle Mikey helped me to make the Trophies. So Cool.