Explode block without losing attribute text

Hi,

I am using AutoCAD 2012 (Electrical).  I have a few blocks that I pasted in a drawing with text that is contained in attributes. 

I would like to explode these blocks so that I can make some changes to them, but when I do this, I lose the text that is contained in the attributes.  After exploding the blocks, I just see the attribute names rather than the text that they originally contained.

I hate to have to re-type all this info.  Can anyone tell me if there is an easy way around this.  If I could somehow choose to choose to convert the text originally contained in attributes to plain old static text, that would be perfect for me.

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Paul