july so far (olive's birthday, the 4th of july and jude's seizure)

i love my parents farm, it's so pretty

 picking strawberries early with henry

 kids in barn boots are so cute

 hanging out in downtown PA

 henry and grandpa

 a birthday zoom for uncle kyle's birthday

 helping grandma feed the animals was a highlight for henry

 saying goodbye to grandma and grandpa kelly

 matching long hair and bangs

 last visit with grandma and grandpa olson

 early birthday celebration for olive

 ferry ride to seattle

 slurpees

 it was debbie's birthday so she and eleanor baked cupcakes

 a late night visit with andre`a

 olive is TEN!

 opening presents

she loves her new tablet

 we all love monica's pug Franklin

 my parents came to celebrate, too

 hazel and halea love each other

 sisters

 birthday twins

 before driving home on the 4th we decided to wait in line to get into ikea for 45 minutes

it was worth it

 we got home late and after being away from home for 3 weeks 

noah went straight to his friends house

 sunday we set up our new ikea dining table and made a slide out of the boxes

 by the evening we were watching hamilton

and jude crawled up and fell asleep next to me

which didn't seem too crazy because we traveled the day before and stayed up late on the 4th

 but when he woke up he was having a seizure and had wet the couch

we didn't realize it was a seizure because it seemed like he was just tired and stuck between asleep and awake (probably not a thing now that i think about it)

he lost his bowels on me at home and we went to the car and he spit up on me

his eyes were open but they weren't registering us and he couldn't talk

we got to the ER and they gave him ativan

and  he kept seizing so they gave him another dose that made him sleep for the next 8 hours or so

 he had to be transferred via ambulance from meridian to boise to the children's hospital

 he stayed asleep but threw up as soon as we got to the hospital downtown

 we hadn't seen him normal and awake in so long we worried he wouldn't ever wake up

but he did at 3:30 am and was mad and confused (rightfully so)

and pulled one of his IV's out

 he wanted me to sleep in his hospital bed with him which worked out

so i could plug him back in every time he ripped anything off 

he woke up so mad he was in a diaper so luckily they found some undies for him

getting an eeg

 he got his blood tested, an MRI, an x ray, cat scan and eeg and nothing explained why he had such a long seizure (45 minutes to an hour) 

but he threw up the whole next day (my guess is from the anti seizure meds) and was so happy to go home

 sweet friends spoiled us with dinners for a few days which was really helpful

 unintentionally my last picture with long hair

 eleanor volunteered to do her own laundry and i decided it's time for all 4 big kids to start so we'll see how that goes

 it's been tricky to let jude do normal things but also worry about a secondary seizure 

(that is most likely to recur within the next six months)

so one of us tries to always be with him

 we rode bikes to the pool as a family

 cut my hair

 i decided the kids needed some extra attention

after their long time away and jude's seizure

so we had a girl date while the boys had their own date

we went to target

 i bought them matching robes and face mask

 we did makeovers

 ate treats and watched a movie

while the boys played mini golf, did bumper boats and watched a movie outside on the projector

 family game night

 and another trip to the pool

 jennie's family stayed a night with us and we all loved it

 someone ding dong ditched balloon animals for the kids

it was very sweet

 henry's drawing of the boys and girls

 i loved this

 henry and eleanor started speech and we waited outside for them

jude found a rollie pollie

 a family trip to the zoo

(can you tell we don't hate michael working from home?)

 dressed up for a date night

 our new table and chairs

and thinking about painting that white wall on the right a dark color and changing it up 

 target and cafe rio (eaten in the car) as a family

 we went to the hunts and saw their new gorgeous house

 their neighbor's have this pond/swimming pool and let us use it

 star gazing

 we stopped at shoshone falls on the way home

 it feels like the month of july has already been 3 years long but hopefully jude doesn't have another seizure and this will be a distant memory one day