the nutcracker ballet

Makena busting a move to the Christmas music...I guess she is feeling better.

our trip to see santa

Makena was not happy about sitting on Santa's lap, so somehow Ben and I ended up in the picture. My personal favorite part about this photo is the look on Emma's face...all of Makena's crying made her not so sure she wanted to be there. About 10 minutes after this picture was taken, we were eating lunch at uvillage when suddenly the look on Makena's face went blank. After repeatedly asking her if she was ok, we realized that she was completely unresponsive. At first we thought she was choking, but she didn't have a look of distress, just a blank stare. After a couple of minutes she started to turn blue and that is when we started to panic. Ben called 911, an ER nurse who was eating in the restaurant came over to look at her, and we realized she was having a seizure. By the time the EMTs got there she had started to move her hands and make some moaning noises. We took an ambulance to Children's Hospital where they found that she had a very high fever but no other symptoms. It turns out that she was having a febrile seizure, which is a seizure that is the body's defense mechanism to an extremely high fever. Only about 5% of children have these seizures, and of those 5%, about 35% have another one. The good news is that they grow out of them by the time they are seven. So other then completely freaking out her parents, we are thankful that she is just fine.