Monday was a pretty full day. We’ve talked to a pretty large number of people, including the Daycare. I’ll put that discussion in a separate post later after we’ve had time to digest everything.

Spent a large part of the morning doing some research, everything from childcare licensing requirements to SPICA care and feeding. Grandma came up. I’m surprised she was able to hold out this long. She brought a blowup chair that we thought would be good for the configuration of his cast, but it just wasn’t stable with him in it. However, it was Pink with Princesses on it. Plus it has a color changing LED inside. So it’s not like someone in our family isn’t going to grab it immediately. I was surprised she didn’t try to pull it out from under him to begin with. She hadn’t seen the Princesses at this point, so that’s probably why.

We setup the appointments for William’s followup visit. 3 weeks of Vanderbilt on Tuesday. We can only hope that all is going well. The first one is next week. I’m sure there will be chastising of our care. It’s not that I feel like we are doing a bad job, it’s just I’m sure that there is SOMETHING that we could do better.

You do something better when all he wants to do is get OUT of that thing (pushing down on the cast and crying “Stuck, STUCK”. If it wasn’t so sad, it’d be pretty darn funny.)

Took William out for a walk… That was a hit. He seemed to really enjoy getting out of the house.

Yes, that’s a wagon designed by committee. It’s not pretty, and we’ll need to work on the support and stabilization aspect. I think some good gas shocks , five point harness and maybe some train horns are in order.

But he was pointing at runners, Ducks, and anything else he could see. It was 20 minutes because Mary had to go to the Dr., but he definitely enjoyed it. We’ll be doing this again. I had to stop with Mary and take her in the van, but Jeff and Grandma took him up for a bit longer.

Mary is doing ok, but ever since last week, she’s been coughing up a storm at night, and randomly coughing during the day. When we took William to the Pediatrician, He told us to bring her in Saturday and they’d get her a prescription to help out. Of course, 20 minutes after that conversation we saw the fracture, and that pretty much sealed the end of our Weekend. But since Mary was still coughing, Jeff made her an appointment, and I executed to that appointment.

We got to the clinic, and it was packed. Mary enjoyed playing around in the waiting room, looking at the fish and tapping on the glass. The lady sitting next to us was quite taken with her, and we struck up a conversation. I mentioned that it wasn’t this packed on Friday, and explained about William. Shortly before we went in the back, she had passed through and had came back with two sealed Dvd’s from an children’s artist – a friend of hers. “I know he’ll be in the cast for quite a while, and hopefully this will help entertain him some.” I was extremely touched by this. It was completely unexpected, and a very gracious act.

Mary was a bit shy with the doctor, but warmed up. We got a prescription to take care of her cough, and it does seem to have helped quite a bit… I haven’t heard her cough tonight. She fell asleep going to Target to get the script filled, so my shoulder got another workout today carrying her around.

We did not have a good night getting everyone down tonight. Mary was goofing off at the foot of the bed, fell off and bumped her toe. Looks up at me (Did he see me do that? yes? AAAAAHHA !!! ) “You did that yourself, and I’ve been telling you not to. Come here settle down.” AAAAAAAHHHHH! Grandma! I’m hurt too, pay attention to me now! – She seemed to say. Of course, William has not been cooperating with anything tonight. He was pretty fussy during the washcloth bath, so I went and got his lortab. We’ve tried to get him to go to sleep a few times now, and every time we think we have it, he’s woken up crying, screaming and being VERY upset.

I finally was able to move him into his crib, but it took me and Jeff. I moved him, Jeff managed to calm him when he woke up after the move. He’s woken a few times now. He didn’t get a significant nap today, and may be overtired. We’ll definitely try to get that tomorrow. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to be a good night.

And now, they are talking storms tonight. I think Jeff’s Blood pressure medication is going to have to be renewed if this keeps up. It’s a tight squeeze in that bathroom with 4 of us… Now let’s consider William’s cast, AND Grandma.

Positive thoughts. Tomorrow is another day, and a day closer to the cast coming off.

Thankfully the storms went south of us. I don’t know what happened. I came back downstairs to clean the floor and set up again for the next day and William was asleep. Next thing I know he’s screaming bloody murder, none of the 3 adults can calm him. He finally started screeching ‘BED!’ and I laid down with him and he fell asleep. We finally got him in his crib. I went running the first time he woke up, laid my hand on his little face and he closed his eyes, went back to sleep. Now when I tried to move my hand, he wrapped his arms around my arm and pinned it. After the first few times of this, Grandmomma took over soothing him down and we made it through the night. Greg and I were about ready to head back to the ER with him.