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.