Horton hears a who and I do too!!

Since everyone seems to be over the flu finally we have been having play dates again...This Tuesday Jenn and the kids came over, Ann and her kids....Jenn brought pasta salad and this absolutely wonderful chocolate peanut butter triffle dessert. Yum, Yum am I glad play dates are back on...

Jaeda came to my house today with these beautiful purple things...and that's exactly what she called them.....


I luv this pic....my own mickey blue eyes...

Josie with the beautiful purple things...and loving them...

This was the first time in a while that I had the whole crew here...Josie, Landonn, Jaeda, Tomy and Gage...nothing like a good viewing of Oliver and company....

Don and I (and when I say "I", I mean mostly Don) finished out the back room during the winter and we now have this great picture window that looks across the lawn and down to the river...it seems that kids are always looking out the window whenever we get together....I would love to hear what is going through their minds when they do...

Landonn and Hale are probably wishing that they were outside...

Miss Sophie loves this hat and she looks oh so stunning in it...Sophie is our cousin..

Here is Kellan with one of his greatest grins...He is so animated...Always a trip to watch...

Here are Gage and Tomy...they are almost exactly one month apart and they play real well right now....

I found Landonn in here this morning....No matter how big they get they still love all their toys...
Well, 'til next itme...hopefully Autni Marla, Bo, Brody and Blade will make it next time....

The mop

So right around my birthday, my hubby and I got in a huge, and I mean huge, marriage altering fight over, are you ready for this, my mop.

Now I know what you are thinking...." really Myah, your mop?!"

Yep, my mop.

Let me help you understand the importance of my mop. It is like the brush to a painter, a hammer to a carpenter, a picnic for an ant....it is vital for survival. I am somewhat compulsive about mopping because of the age of my children, the amount of home renovations going on around here and also because I care for other people's children...I think that the routine cleaning of my floors are vital.
(of xcourse these are all vain attempts ast rationalizing my flood of emotions and subsequent over reaction)

So, here is somewhat of how our dialogue went...

Wifey(me): "Ummm, hubby. Did you use my mop to clean up the lead pipe mess?

Hubby(don): "no."

Wifey: "Do you think that I am stupid?"

Hubby(looking at me puzzled): "No."

Wifey(feeling patronized): "Ok, than can you explain the small yet numerous flecks of rust in my mop?"(now I am feeling like I have "caught" him and an apology and admission are quickly to follow)

Hubby(not looking interested): "no."

Wifey: "Well, they look an awful lot like the small yet numerous flecks of rust that were on 3 washcloths that I had to throw away and the small yet numerous flecks of rust that has stained my original porcelain sink!!!"

Hubby: "OK"

At this point my voice had gotten very loud, tears had begun and the stained mop got very dramatically thrown out on the trash pile and I proceeded to very angrily wash my floor on my hands and knees. And of course once the voice volume went up my hubby shut down and my hubby and I did not really speak until after valentine's day. How could he not inderstand?!?!?!?!?

Well, today the mop got the final say and quite a big lesson was learned by me. Because of the fight, my mop handle, which I had forgotten to take off before the dramatic flight into the trash pile, was bent and as I was passing the last few swipes across my kitchen floor, the bent part snapped and the mop handle "bit" my finger and caused quite a wound. I still may go see if stitches are necessary.
So what did I learn? Don't fight over a mop because it may just come back to bite you in the.......finger:)

Update: Marriage fine, hubby not in trash pile and we now each have our own mops :) Please excuse all the spelling and typing errors, the above picture can explain why.

The Tabbutt's are Alive

Hello to everyone out there....It sure has been a while....I love that my sister now has internet and even better yet she has high speed....Ohhhh we get way to spoiled these days...Here are some updated pics of our little family....all is going well....keeping warm through the winter and trying not to get too bad of a case of cabin fever.....



This is a picture of Josie over at Aunti Twy's house....as you can see in the background there is a birdfeeder and Josie just couldn't seem to understand why the birdy's would fly away every time she screamed....

Josie luvs her hats....

Landonn is now all about dressing himself....I luv watching his independence grow...

Hope to keep up better.....Luv to all......my

Some Answers at Last

So the appointment went really well with the neurologist last Monday. My children do not have epilepsy but they have involuntary breath holding spells. The doc had seen about 200-300 cases of this over the last 20 years and they will grow out of this. There is a chemical that everybody's brain produces that triggers us to breath before we pass out and Landonn and Josie do not produce enough of it to breath before they pass out. They do experience seizures and the doc says that the best thing to do is just let them be kids and unfortunately we just have to be aware of what to do when they do pass out.

Yeahhhhhhhhh, finally some answers. I took a couple days and processed all this info and have come to the conclusion that I am satisfied. The Lord has given me peace about that appointment.

Thank you all for your prayers.

Luv to all......my

Our Willow Tree

Tomorrow I have an appointment in Portland with the neurologist as a follow-up to the 24 hour EEG we did with Josie 3 weeks ago....Her seizures have been coming more freguently and seem to be more severe....her tremoring is stronger and it takes a bit longer for her to get her breath....and the preverbial straw that broke the camel's back was a week ago Thursday when Landonn had the very same episode...so, here my pediatrition is saying these have been just breath holding spells and Josie will grow out of them so why on earth is Landonn having one at the age of 3 which seems to me that he is growing into them......Jenn went right to the internet and printed out lots of info on epilepsy and seizures....I am getting to a bit of a desperate point because nobody (and by "nobody" I am referring to medical professionals) seems to understand or believe what I am trying to describe....we (Jenn and I) have done quite a bit of reading and there is one seizure disorder that describes from start to finish what Josie has been experiencing....I feel as though none of the doctors that I have spoken to give me any credit....they don't understand the firsthand knowledge that I have when it comes to strokes/seizures....I hope that tomorrow I can be clear and concise because as of Nov 4th it will have been a year and I am ready to see the light at the end of the tunnel....I know God will give me the strength for whatever is the problem, I just need to know exactly the problem is....

I am given strength every day when I am looking at my children and their development is right on schedule, they are both very smart and coordinated....they articulate and eat well....I just don't know what causes these weird seizures....

For those of you who know me really well you all know how much I love the sort of weather that is windy with a little bit of rain, and I mean a strong, gusty wind that takes your breath away at times and the air is heavy and almost cold, not warm but not really cold either...we were having that sort of weather last Saturday....Josie had a really bad seizure in the tub that night and it scared the bejeebers out of me....once I got everyone safely to bed, I went and sat out on our back porch and just stewed over the past year.....I cried a little and was just silent and still a very long time....we have the most beautiful willow tree in our yard and Josie' s swing hangs from one of it's branches and it was amazing to me to see that no matter how strong a gust of wind would be, that swing just swung gently and smoothly, never out of control....I found that willow tree very symbolic of what we do as parents....life goes on all around us and we let the winds of life push us around and take our breath away at times but through it all, we try to not let our kids see the tumult and just let them swing safely, untouched for as long as possible....that willow tree took care of the wind and let that swing stay safe, we had a few branches in our yard the next morning but all we had to do was wipe out a little bit of water out of the seat of the swing and Josie had a great time swinging...I pray that as this storm rages on around my little family, that God will give me the wisdom and guidance to make decisions that will allow my kids to have many more years of happy safe swinging....

Ok, so that was a little deep and I apologize for the wandering thought process but it feels great to let it out....this time is here for a purpose and I hope that we soon find out reasons...

Pray for the right words for me tomorrow, I don't want to get emotional or irrational but so help me if one more doc says "well, let's just give it some time" someone may get the call to come with cash.....hehehehehehe....

Luv to all...

Oh yeah....we have temporarily disconnected our house phone and internet so my updates will be sporadic....

Luv my

Payson Park

We are very fortunate to have this great little park nearby called Payson Park...it has a great playset area, it's right beside a small river and it has a really cool bridge....The kids love it and until the bugs are too bad we are enjoying time there....

Jenn and Josie headed down the slide

Pensive Kell....

Looks like Kell's got a secret!!!!

Hale was pretty mellow that day....it seemed like his ride on the swing was going to put him to sleep!!!!

Josie and Kellan thinking the wood chips were the greatest thing.....

Landonn climbing high!!!!
I think little boys could throw rocks in the water all day!!!!


"til next time.....

Update On Josie

So two Thursdays ago Josie had another EEG. That was fun....try getting 27 electrode leads onto a very active 10 month old's head, and then the kicker, keeping them on for 30-40 minutes of reading....not my idea of fun but necessary nonetheless.....I got the results and everything looks normal....even though the very next Monday she passed out twice...they would like her to sleep and be still during the test and she was not by any means quiet so they may send us to Portland for a 24-48 hour period to do further monitoring...

I will say.....she is either getting used to them or they are getting less severe because the two times she passed out on Monday there was no stiffening or seizure like activity....she simply passed out and then Boom, she was right back, no lapse in breathing or anything....then on Thursday, the child was very uncomfortable with a bad cold and fluid behind her ears and she screamed for about 30 minutes and didn't pass out once....

She's a mystery to say the least and we hopefully are out of the worst of it...Thank you all for your concern and prayers......