Birthday surprises

We have a few birthdays to celebrate during the month of December.  Allie is first on the 16th and then Josh on the 21st and of course Christmas when we celebrate the birth of Jesus.  This year we didn't have a party for Josh like we did last year.  Instead we planned to have pizza and cake for Allie and Josh at the Bigler's.  I ordered the cake from Costco and went to pick it up on Friday, December 12th.  It was while we were at Costco that Allie fell and got a concussion!  It was so scary and I honestly didn't think she had hit her head that hard.  So many people came to help and I thought it was just overwhelming Allie.  She actually fell asleep with her head on the handle bar of the cart.  So, we took her to see Chaz because I thought she wouldn't be so shy around him and we could really see how she was doing.  That is when she vomited.  So, a quick call to the dr who said she needed to the go the ER and off we went.  It actually went rather quickly since while we were in triage she vomited again upgrading her status to emergent rather than urgent.  She was given some medicine for the vomiting and had a ct scan.  The scan came out normal....what a blessing!  Allie was pretty much back to her normal self after that and we were able to continue on with the party.   We just had to watch her activity level.  I do believe that something was either knocked loose or knocked into place as a result of the concussion as she has suddenly become more talkative....almost to the point of talking back to her mom actually.  Some of her new phrases: "Mother!  We have a problem here!" and "Oh my gosh!  What happened to my dvd player?!?" (I had just turned off her Barbie movie).  She has also been calling me "mother"  a lot....I think that comes from a Barbie movie too.