Everett Playing at our Mary Kay year end BBQ
Everett just being cute as a button
This picture is awesome for 2 reasons.
1. Everett's outfit: it looks like Richard Simmons dressed him
2. He is so out of it, this is so odd for Everett
That's all
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Opps Sorry
I know I said I would post pictures, but I ran out of time to upload them while I was home.
I wanted to post though because I am so excited that.........
We are going to BC in 2 Months and 8 days. Woo Hoo!!!
We received an invite to a friends Wedding for October first. I mentioned to Ryan one day that I would really like to go home for the wedding and a little holiday. He completely understood and decided that no matter what we would get me home (isn't he the greatest hubby ever?)and then if we found a really good seat sale he would come too. We have been watching flights for a bit and decided that even if we fly out of Regina at $149 a ticket that maybe Ryan should come too as he needs a holiday as well.
Then today Ryan was on facebook and saw his friend mention something about seat sales out of Winnipeg. We are flying to BC for only $105 and home for only $85. We save over $200 and an extra hour and half drive each way not going to Regina. I am so so so pumped.
Not to be all whinny but I think Ryan and I have had a really hard year. Between Everett's troubles, Rawley's ADHD troubles and Ryan's accident at work we so deserve a break from life to just have fun, and we are going to do it.
Just knowing that we have this to look forward to makes me so happy. To have carefree time alone with Ryan to just have fun and enjoy each others company has me all excited.
Of course this trip would not be possible for us if it were not for Ryan's amazing parents. They have been incredible since the very first time I met them and continue to amaze me with their love and support through everything. They are keeping the boys while we have this holiday and I could not be more thankful.
Thank You Mom & Dad!
And thank you WestJet for your seat sale!
oh and Thank You Meredith and Dustin.....as we will be staying with you ;)
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Going....To .....Die...From.....The....Heat
Oh my word it has been so hot here, and not their usual dry heat I was told about. We have had 90-100% humidity for days and days. Last night when we went to bed at 11 it still felt like 43 degrees out and then this morning when i woke up at 6:30 with Everett it was already (or still) feels like 35 degrees. Every time you walk out the door you start to sweat. I feel gross. Everett is sleeping in the dinning room in front of the a/c. Ryan and I close our door about an hour before bed to trap the cool air from the A/C in there and Rawley has 2 fans blowing on him in his room. It doesn't really seem to bother Rawley though. I am like my Grandma though, I get cranky when it is too hot.
Ryan has been doing really well. His hand is healing up so nicely. Maybe tomorrow I will take some new pictures of it to post. He still has pain and there is very little movement in his fingers and thumb. he is supposed to be doing exercises every hour, but because they don't move and it hurts he does not do them as much as he should. I guess I should be harder on him and get him doing them though. His Physio Therapist does not really know how much movement to do right now. Because his tendon repair was minimal they should be able to move the thumb a lot, but because the skin graft has not heeled they should not move it much at all. So for now they are leaving it a week or so before they really beat him up.
I think Rawley is starting to get bored of summer break. Not that he would ever admit it. For the first few weeks he would get up and go outside, come eat lunch then go outside, even after dinner he would go outside and find friends to play with. This past week he has kind of hid in his room reading and playing. He doesn't have that same excitement about being able to go out and play anytime. He has enjoyed his time spent with Grandma & Grandpa at the camp ground, he takes his bike with him and usually can find someone to ride around with.
The first week of August Rawley is going to going to Mini University. It is a summer camp set up like a university. Rawley has 6 blocks in a day to fill up, 3 before lunch and 3 after. There were i think 6 categories to choose from like Science, Literature, PE, Computers, Drama... and I can't remember. Rawley is taking Golf, Archery, Computer Games, Flying Machines, Floor Hockey and I think Concoctions. He is really excited to go to that. I am excited to see him learning and having fun.
Everett is doing a little bit better with his sleep lately. We had slowly started him on some dairy, fruit and wheat's about 2 months ago. He seemed to be handling it all very well so we thought maybe he had grown out of some of his tummy issues. However, after a few weeks of really awful sleeps, screaming and crying at night, wanting to be help and lots of pulling up and kicking out his legs I wondered if his tummy was still sore. Last Thursday I decided to cut everything out of his diet again and see if it made a difference. It did. He only woke up once the first night, slept through the night the second night, then went back to getting up once a night. I almost feel spoiled right now. It is like night and day. I mean he still has a hard time getting to sleep, still cries and needs to be help when he wakes, but it last 20-30 minutes instead of hours and hours. I have only had to sleep with him once in the past 6 nights. That's progress!!!! Poor baby is not happy about his diet though. No more bananas, no more cherries, no more toast, no more ice cream. We did buy him some lactose free stuff and some gluten free stuff to try to make up for it though.
Everett also now has 5 teeth. He got his two top eye teeth first so he looked like he had fangs. After that he got one on the bottom, then his two middle top teeth came in. Also, Everett is walking. He can go about 20 or so steps, but still tumbles a few times here and there. He will not have me video tape him though. He will walk up a storm and then I try to catch him on video and he sits down.
Everett's favorite toys are the remote, our cell phones, the laptop, pens, scissors, nail clippers and any kind of long stick he can smash stuff with. He can climb onto the couch himself. Then from there he gets up on the coffee table, from then he tries to get on the computer desk, which is right by an opening from our living room upstairs to our kitchen downstairs. Since this is not exactly safe we had to get rid of our coffee table for now.
Rawley used to sit on the floor and play with toys for hours, Everett plays with them so a second then finds something to destroy. Still loves to smash the TV, loves to find small things to hid in Daddy's sub woofer. Loves to through anything down the stairs. He has a pretty good hand on him too.
That's what is up with us. I will be posting some pictures tonight or tomorrow.
Ryan has been doing really well. His hand is healing up so nicely. Maybe tomorrow I will take some new pictures of it to post. He still has pain and there is very little movement in his fingers and thumb. he is supposed to be doing exercises every hour, but because they don't move and it hurts he does not do them as much as he should. I guess I should be harder on him and get him doing them though. His Physio Therapist does not really know how much movement to do right now. Because his tendon repair was minimal they should be able to move the thumb a lot, but because the skin graft has not heeled they should not move it much at all. So for now they are leaving it a week or so before they really beat him up.
I think Rawley is starting to get bored of summer break. Not that he would ever admit it. For the first few weeks he would get up and go outside, come eat lunch then go outside, even after dinner he would go outside and find friends to play with. This past week he has kind of hid in his room reading and playing. He doesn't have that same excitement about being able to go out and play anytime. He has enjoyed his time spent with Grandma & Grandpa at the camp ground, he takes his bike with him and usually can find someone to ride around with.
The first week of August Rawley is going to going to Mini University. It is a summer camp set up like a university. Rawley has 6 blocks in a day to fill up, 3 before lunch and 3 after. There were i think 6 categories to choose from like Science, Literature, PE, Computers, Drama... and I can't remember. Rawley is taking Golf, Archery, Computer Games, Flying Machines, Floor Hockey and I think Concoctions. He is really excited to go to that. I am excited to see him learning and having fun.
Everett is doing a little bit better with his sleep lately. We had slowly started him on some dairy, fruit and wheat's about 2 months ago. He seemed to be handling it all very well so we thought maybe he had grown out of some of his tummy issues. However, after a few weeks of really awful sleeps, screaming and crying at night, wanting to be help and lots of pulling up and kicking out his legs I wondered if his tummy was still sore. Last Thursday I decided to cut everything out of his diet again and see if it made a difference. It did. He only woke up once the first night, slept through the night the second night, then went back to getting up once a night. I almost feel spoiled right now. It is like night and day. I mean he still has a hard time getting to sleep, still cries and needs to be help when he wakes, but it last 20-30 minutes instead of hours and hours. I have only had to sleep with him once in the past 6 nights. That's progress!!!! Poor baby is not happy about his diet though. No more bananas, no more cherries, no more toast, no more ice cream. We did buy him some lactose free stuff and some gluten free stuff to try to make up for it though.
Everett also now has 5 teeth. He got his two top eye teeth first so he looked like he had fangs. After that he got one on the bottom, then his two middle top teeth came in. Also, Everett is walking. He can go about 20 or so steps, but still tumbles a few times here and there. He will not have me video tape him though. He will walk up a storm and then I try to catch him on video and he sits down.
Everett's favorite toys are the remote, our cell phones, the laptop, pens, scissors, nail clippers and any kind of long stick he can smash stuff with. He can climb onto the couch himself. Then from there he gets up on the coffee table, from then he tries to get on the computer desk, which is right by an opening from our living room upstairs to our kitchen downstairs. Since this is not exactly safe we had to get rid of our coffee table for now.
Rawley used to sit on the floor and play with toys for hours, Everett plays with them so a second then finds something to destroy. Still loves to smash the TV, loves to find small things to hid in Daddy's sub woofer. Loves to through anything down the stairs. He has a pretty good hand on him too.
That's what is up with us. I will be posting some pictures tonight or tomorrow.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Updates
Ryan has been doing okay. He is feeling pain now and then but mostly just a lot of discomfort and weird sensations that he cannot really describe. We have has an assortment of different nurses visit us in the home. The first being the private nurses that we told we would not need anymore. I did his dressing Then we saw Ryan's Occupational Therapist and she did his dressing that day. We decided that i could do his dressings over the weekend, but by Sunday STEP (short term emergency program) was able to send a nurse. We liked her and she seemed to know what she was doing. She also listened to us and made sure Ryan was at ease. STEP then sent another nurse today who also seemed to be good. She was a little rough and wrapped things a little tight. By 9 pm Ryan had me re-wrap everything a little looser. We would be able to work with this nurse though just by asking her to wrap looser next time. The problem, we have now been switched over from STEP to actual home care. So, starting Friday we have to explain to yet another nurse how to wrap up his poor fingers. This has been a bit frustrating, but certainly not the end of the world.
Ryan goes back to Winnipeg tomorrow to have his stitches removed. Plastics will also look at his skin graft and make sure it is healing properly. I really hope having his stitched removed is not as painful for him as when they put them in.
Other news: Everett is still working on some teeth, he is cranky as stink. Driving me beserk. I love the little bugger, but he can really push button. and temper....holy moly man.
Rawley has been really good lately. He spends most of his days outside on his bike, even when he goes to the trailer with Grandma & Grandpa he finds friends there and rides his bike. He has a never nice tan.
It is hot and muggy here and then the second it is nice enough to go outside the bugs are out. We do try to get out for a few hours in the evening with Everett. I got him a little second hand pool and he has his water table he got for his birthday out in the yard and that keeps him pretty happy. Here are some pictures to prove it.
Ryan goes back to Winnipeg tomorrow to have his stitches removed. Plastics will also look at his skin graft and make sure it is healing properly. I really hope having his stitched removed is not as painful for him as when they put them in.
Other news: Everett is still working on some teeth, he is cranky as stink. Driving me beserk. I love the little bugger, but he can really push button. and temper....holy moly man.
Rawley has been really good lately. He spends most of his days outside on his bike, even when he goes to the trailer with Grandma & Grandpa he finds friends there and rides his bike. He has a never nice tan.
It is hot and muggy here and then the second it is nice enough to go outside the bugs are out. We do try to get out for a few hours in the evening with Everett. I got him a little second hand pool and he has his water table he got for his birthday out in the yard and that keeps him pretty happy. Here are some pictures to prove it.
