Sunday, December 28, 2014

Merry Christmas

We have had a great Christmas and a great break so far.

Christmas we spent at home with my family. The kids were so excited about Santa. They put out milk and cookies for him on the balcony and also left him some nice drawings. Luckily Santa found his way and the kids woke up on Christmas morning and found a bunch of gifts under the tree. 









All afternoon and evening we spent with the family. Good food, another Santa visit, more food, the Christmas gift game and some more food. :)





 
On the 25th we celebrated Orphen's Christmas with the footy team. Everybody comes together and celebrates. We were hosting it at our place and I think we ended up being around 20-25 people. Everybody brings something for the big dinner and then we eat and have fun all night :)




The kids have been really good and bothe Christmas celebrations went really well. 

Merry Christmas to all family and friends!!













Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Tooth no 2

Tonight Damien lost his second tooth!!






Saturday, December 20, 2014

Warms my heart...

Alicia is spending the weekend at my parents and today they sent us this picture. Alicia is helping decorating the Christmas tree. It warms my heart<3


Friday, December 12, 2014

Lucia

It's Lucia tomorrow. Yesterday and today we been around to the kids schools to watch their performance and to celebrate with their friends. They are so cute! This year Damien took it very serious and had been practicing the songs for weeks :)


Thursday, December 11, 2014

ER visit

On Sunday we had to take Damien to the emergency room. He feel and hit his head on Alicia's wheelchair.. He got a cut on his head that bleed a lot. It wasn't so big, but it was pretty deep. They didn't have to give him stitches, they just glued it together. One of the nurses glove got stuck in the glue, so now he has a piece of purple glove on his head and we are not allowed to touch it... :)




Liam 3

So Liam turned 3 last week!! Alicia was in the hospital but Mormor was so nice and spent the night with Alicia so both mommy and daddy could celebrate Liam's big day. We picked the boys up from school and took them to Leo's lekland. We played and had fun and when we came home we had some cake and sang to him. He got a big toolbox that he loved!!

In January we will have our big combined birthday party with friends and family!












Monday, December 1, 2014

The journey has begun...

Today Alicia got admitted to the hospital in Lund to start her ketogenic diet. After around a year of seizures and numerous changes of medicines we felt that it was the right thing to try this out. We really hope that this treatment will work for Alicia and that it will reduce her seizures and best of all that they will stop..

Today they took some test on Alicia and she started the new meals. The first couple of days she will get all the meals as fluids and then we will learn how to prepare the food for her.

Since Alicia is not sick but we still need to visit the hospital a couple of times every day this first week we were lucky to be able to stay at the Ronald McDonald house a few minutes walk from the hospital. It's like a hotel were we have our own room with our own bathroom. There are a lot of common areas with couches, a kitchen were we can cook our own food, game room with a ping pong table and a pool table and one room filled with toys.
It feels like this week will be a lot easier to get through now when we can stay here!

Here is a short description from Wikipedia:

The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, adequate-proteinlow-carbohydrate diet that in medicine is used primarily to treat difficult-to-control (refractory)epilepsy in children. The diet forces the body to burn fats rather than carbohydrates. Normally, the carbohydrates contained in food are converted into glucose, which is then transported around the body and is particularly important in fuelling brain function. However, if there is very little carbohydrate in the diet, the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. The ketone bodies pass into the brain and replace glucose as an energy source. An elevated level of ketone bodies in the blood, a state known as ketosis, leads to a reduction in the frequency of epileptic seizures.

Daddy and Alicia started the day of with a nice nap :)

When we got back to the room this afternoon Alicia was in a good mood and played with her toys for a little bit.

A tired girl tucked in to bed. Sweet dreams princess!