No news is good news? and other daily happenings

Well, as usual I am getting to my posting a bit later than I intend, but at least I am trying to keep at it once or twice a month. So far all is well in the Wilkison household. Jacob is coming off yet another medicine and seems to be holding steady at the same amount of seizures per day. Josh is enjoying school still and has made lots of friends and even went to his first school friend birthday party (as you can see had a great time).
We still have not heard anything new from Seattle Children's Hospital, and I am thinking I either need to get over my feeling that I am bugging them and just give in and start calling every day to get things done myself, or just sit back and relax and take things as they come (that one I am not good at though, although my argument to myself would be that even with the seizures Jacob has, he is still doing remarkably well).

Jacob's new obsession is climbing into things. He for some reason loves laundry baskets especially, and I will often find him getting into a pile of clothes I am trying to fold, or clothes I have folded and left for Rick to put away. This has gotten him into a bit of trouble recently though. I was working on the computer the other day while he was playing in his room and suddenly I heard some crying. I went to investigate and found him. Apparently he decided that if the toys are comfortable in the toy bin in his closet, then he could be too (to his surprise). I had to dig him out. We will see if he does that again. So far we are back to staying with laundry baskets.

We had our first snow fall of the season, and Josh was so excited when he got up that he ran upstairs, got dressed all by himself (which he has know how to do for a long time, but since

Jacob has been born, every morning says in his most whiney voice "I can't do it all by myself, I don't know how"), and went out in the snow before he had even thought about breakfast. It melted off later that day, but the next morning started again and now seems to be here to stay at least for a little while. We got Jacob dressed for it too, but he did not seem quite as impressed.
We spent a nice Thanksgiving with my sister Shaun and her family, while my Mom and other sister Erin were in Italy spending some time exploring. Now we are just getting ready for the Christmas season and I can't believe it is already the end of November. Boy how time flies anymore.

Oh the fun!

I have so been enjoying the weather lately and still can't believe we have started November with days that are getting up into the 60's. Oh, but apparently that will all change next week :(

We had a good Halloween though, and the boys enjoyed going out trick or treating with friends. Jacob went as Nemo (Josh's old costume) and Josh went as an astronaut (which he had to put on and wear every day for 3 or 4 days until Halloween). Jacob was not quite sure of what he was supposed to be doing and had trouble figuring out why every time we went to someones door we did not go in. He also had no idea what they were giving him, but was happy when someone gave him the choice of grabbing his own candy (he was very good and only took one). Josh decided this year that he had to run to every house and felt he had to be the first one at every door, although he had to race with his friend Faith in order to do that. All in all they collected more candy than they need, or will probably eat, and had lots of fun.

So far we have not heard anything more from Seattle Children's Hospital, so I was beginning to feel like we were in "Limbo", so I called. They are going to be calling me back next week, but I think it must be a case of - they have been waiting for something, while we have been waiting for them, while our doctor waits for them, meanwhile I find out no one is doing anything because we are all waiting for the others. Who knows, I guess I will just have to keep bugging everybody until someone makes a decision about something. The good news is that Jacob is completely off another medication and is just down to 2 now, and has not had any increase in his seizures. (yaa!) In fact they may have even gotten a bit better. So he is doing pretty well, although he is giving us the definition of terrible twos already (something Josh never had so it is a bit new to us). I apologize to everyone out there that I said I don't know what your are talking about with the terrible twos, because I am finding out in a big way!