Update (well overdue!!!)

Where to start.......
Well Kerri had her sleep study done a little over a week ago. This girl never ceases to amaze me. I can not begin to explain how nervous I was. Kerri had several fits the week before anytime we even mentioned the appointment. So of course I figured there would be screaming and crying through the whole night of the test. There was a little crying when we got out of the van. But once we got into the hospital she was a perfect angel!!! I'm still not sure if she just shut down and ignored what was going on or what happened, but whatever it was, it worked! Her nurse for the night was named Charles. And he was incredible with her. He explained every single thing before he did anything. She even helped him! Every time he wold start to do something else my thought was "ok, here we go! this will be when she starts her fit.". But it never happened! From him making marks on her head, to the first wire he put on, all the way to him putting the breathing thing in her nose, she went along with it all. Now, I'm sure it helped that there was a princess movie on the tv distracting her. And it helped that PaPa and MaMa Jan were there for a while. After she was all hooked up (to everything imaginable) I had no idea how this tiny little person with wires and tubes coming from everywhere, was going to get to sleep. But she layed down and with in 5 minutes she was out like a light! Here are a couple pictures to give you an idea of what all she had on her......

She had (I think) 12 wires on her scalp, 8 wires on her face, 4 wires on her legs, 3 or 4 wires on her chest, a sticky thing (attached to a wire) under her nose, the breathing "tube thing" on her nose, and two belts around her chest/waist.
Charles came in SEVERAL times through out the night to put the nose tube back in place because he said she was all over the place. She never woke up during the night though. So the two issues that started the whole sleep study process (problems falling asleep and problems staying asleep) didn't even happen! Go figure, right? Any way, we haven't heard any results yet on it. I plan on calling the dr this week (if I can ever find the time!).
While we are talking about Kerri, she starts school tomorrow!!! YAY! She is super excited....I am super nervous! Of all my kids she has always been the one I knew I would have a hard time sending off to school. She has been through so much already and I've been with her from day one. Even for the few months she was in daycare at age 2, I was working at the daycare and 1/2 the time was her teacher. So we've never really been apart like this. Besides all her "issues" that have been discussed in previous posts, I also worry about her health. When Kerri was around 1 year old she started having frequent high fevers with no other symptoms. She seen several specialists with no results or diagnosis. Her fevers would get up to 106 for no reason (at least that's what the doctors say). She had a febrile siezure and later on had some "staring" siezures.  This lasted for a little over a year. Then February 22nd, 2010 she had her last fever. She has not had even the slightest fever for 1 year and 6 months now! So I really worry about her going to school and being around all those germs again. That was one of the most frustrating times of my life and I do not want to have to go through it all again. BUT on the good side, we have an awesome pediatrician now. So I know if it happened again we would get some answers this time.
Kerri is also starting ballet/tap classes next week. She's excited to be a ballerina. I'm sure I will have pictures to share soon.

The older two started back to school 2 weeks ago. Lilly had a rough start. She was having trouble making new friends since there weren't any of her old friends in her class. But by the 3rd day she was fine.

Lilly has a lot going on right now (which means I have a lot going on too). We have girl scout meetings starting back up. She is taking ballet classes. Plus she is doing cheerleading for the junior football league. She likes to stay busy. Unlike Connor who would just rather sit at home. Lilly is more like me. She likes to have something to do. But it's my job to make sure she isn't doing too much at once, and sometimes we bump heads with that. She wants to try everything. But right now she is at her limit. Her and the other girls have a birthday party coming up in October. Their party is usually a bit bigger than Connor's parties. Because we have them together since they are all born in October. Lilly has been wanting her own party but I gave her the options and I think she has chosen to have the parties together. I'm excited about this party. This year will be the biggest yet since we now have 3 girls.

Connor is doing so well in fourth grade. We haven't had any problems at all getting homework done. (that was a HUGE issue last year) He comes home, eats snack, & does homework and chores for the most part with no problems. He had no problem getting back into the routine of school.

Connor is taking it kind of easy this fall. Our town decided not to have the soccer league this year. He was pretty disappointed. He has decided he doesn't want to continue his drum lessons (as of right now). He said the teacher only taught him songs he didn't like and he just wants to write his own songs. He said he knows what he needs to know right now in order to write his songs so he doesn't need lessons. He has decided he is going to give boy scouts one last shot though. We've had problems in the past with finding him a good leader. But we know the assistant leader from the troop he is going to join so I think we will have better luck this time around. If not, then that's it.

Bella.....oh Miss Bella.....
I could watch this baby all day long. She is the funniest little baby ever. She has an obsession with her binky...or should I say binkies. She crawls around with one in her mouth and one in each hand. When she wants to play with something, she sits the binkies down next to her and when she finished she picks them bac up and goes on. It is the funniest thing.

She has learned to pull her self up on her feet. And just this week she has started walking along the couch (only if we use her binky to get her to walk of course). She got Parker's old walker and she is all over the place in that thing!

I think that pretty much covers it for now. Hopefully it won't be long until my next post. I was just itching to get on here and write but I never have time. So even though it's after 1am and I have to be up in 5 hours, it feels good to finally get a little update done! GOODNIGHT!