A Prayer Request & the Renaissance Festival

I feel weird put the words "prayer request" and "renaissance festival" in the same title . . . but I couldn't think of another title that would work.

We'll start with the prayer request . . . take a deep breath . . . everything is fine (we hope) . . . what I'm about to describe is probably nothing more than two special education teachers being over-cautious . .. but one can never know. So over the past two months, every once in a while, Martha will notice that all of a sudden, Campbell will roll her eyes up and back and hold them them for about 5 - 10 seconds and her eyelids would kind of twitch, then her eyes will return to normal. She doesn't stiffen up or shake or "snap out of it" like a typical person having a seizures (with our jobs, Martha and I have seen our fair share of seizures). We have always been able to find a "cause" (sun in her eyes, playing with her by lifting her up and down really fast, etc). Then a couple of weeks ago she saw her do this again for no reason so we called the doctor and scheduled the test. Well, the next night, I was joking with Martha's mom (Nana) about Martha having munchausen syndrome (only a joke). The next day, Campbell was at Nana's house with Macy, our 3 year old niece. Macy turns to Nana and says, "Nana, look what Campbell is doing!" then Macy rolls her eyes towards the back of her head. Okay, besides Martha, now a 3 year old has seen this too. It's time to take the "eye rolling" seriously. So Monday morning at 7am, Campbell is getting an EEG at Carolina's Medical Center in Charlotte. We'll post once we hear the results (within a day) . . . hence the prayer request . . . we'd really appreciate it!

On to something more exciting . . . so today we took Campbell, along with Martha's sister Emily and her kids (Ethan and Macy) to the Charlotte Renaissance Festival.

Here is me and Campbell at the entrance . . .

Here is Martha and Campbell . . . it was such a beautiful day here are my two beautiful girls!

Ethan decided that he wanted to partake in some Renaissance activities so here is a video of him taking down the evil towel attached to a bale of hay . . . or his attempt to . . .

Here is Ethan partaking in another "authentic" Renaissance activity . . .

Ethan scaling the tower to save the princess . . .

Campbell and I decided to have some wench push us in a swing. It was her first swing ride. About 1 minute after getting off the ride, Campbell threw-up all over me! =) What an enjoyable "first ride" for her!

Finally, on the way out, we wanted to get a group picture of all of us so we could remember all the fun that we had during this day. So we found another wench on the way out to take the group shot. Wow, I'm so glad that we have this "group picture" to remember Campbell's first Festival . . .