I guess William heard me bragging on him about getting out of chair because on Wednesday, he wouldn’t do it! After providing encouragement, “C’mon, You can do it!”, he told me he needed help. “Help! Stuck Momma!” Now why does that have a familiar ring to it???
He still continues to improve despite the hesitancy on Wednesday.
Wednesday overall was an interesting day. William was a little fussy but calmed down during an outing to the grocery story. We tried Publix which has the carts with the kid seats up where you push the buggy. You can see and talk to your kids. A plus and a minus as it means your four-year old can see the stuffed penguin with the baby on the counter. I don’t have one of those. No you don’t. I want it. That’s nice, today we are buying food. But… you got brother something! Brother had a .99 package of SpongeBob mac and cheese mix. I kind of doubted the penguin was on sale for 99 cents but I admit to not looking. NO! I did some sort of distraction tap dance and the issue was avoided. She did point it out again at checkout without fussing.
We came home and unloaded. I was needed at the library that afternoon so I called Greg. While he was seeing if he could come home, I put William in a warm bath which he really loved. I tried to get him down for nap but he was clingy, not going to sleep enough for me to get away. Greg came in and said he could work from home for a bit so I was able to get ready to go to the library. I put a show on for the kids and made lunches before leaving.
I was gone 3 hours and came back to the kids playing around the kitchen table while Greg worked. I was out longer than expected but they seemed okay. Greg told me that William had been kind of fussy. I took them for a walk to give Greg a break although he did come out and join us. MaryVic was hungry after a block or so and we headed back.
William started to melt down while he and MaryVic ate and I started cooking dinner. I don’t know what triggered it or if it was a culmination of the day with him being fussy and suddenly maxing out. He cried non-stop and wouldn’t really eat. He wanted to be held by momma. There was a slight break during the wild rabbit chase but I couldn’t put him down. I tried to get him to take a little nap even though it was late but again he didn’t want me to leave him. I finally got him to watch a show with sister while Greg and I ate dinner. He was just miserable.
After dinner, I put him in another warm bath. I gave him some pain medicine afterwards. I don’t know if it was the pain medicine or just the day but he had night terror symptoms twice before falling asleep for the evening. He went down between 8 and 8:30. I thought good, he was just exhausted, no real nap. Then he woke up at 9:30 and 10:30 thrashing around and screaming. He’d cry for Momma but not seem to recognize me while I talked to him. I sat up reading and watching him until 12:30 making sure he didn’t have another episode.
Thankfully Thursday was a better day for him. He crawled around most of the morning. He played ball with me while I cleaned up in the kitchen. We ran a few errands which included stopping at and joining the County Parks and Recreation Center in Franklin. It was suggested to me by co-workers as the indoor pool might be good for William’s legs and fun. We had 4 other stops total which included a hunt for MaryVic a swimsuit and trekking the Big K-Mart for swimmies and water wings. We have some from last summer but who knows where they were stored in the fall?
William fell asleep on the way home so he got a good nap in. After lunch and nap / quiet time, the whole family trekked to the Rec Center indoor pool. MaryVic got her water wings and was in the pool and halfway across it between the time I got the last one on her and started working on William’s water wings. Greg worked from the bleachers for a while before getting in.
William would not wear his water wings at first. He didn’t want to get in and refused to let go of me. He did like sitting on the side and before long was kicking up a storm in the water. I alternated between letting him do that and then pulling him in and floating him around. He eventually did put on his water wings and got to liking the water some.
After an hour in the water, we headed home. Greg ordered a pizza and cheese sticks for dinner. The funny thing is he ordered it via his laptop as we were leaving the Rec Center. There was just enough time for me to run a warm bath for the kids and get them in, when the pizza arrived. MaryVic cleaned up and was out to eat with Daddy. William stayed in the tub for 30 minutes playing.
We had a nice dinner and played the Wii afterwards before bedtime. No bedtime issues last night, just the storms that came through early Friday morning.
There were 4 times that William pushed himself up to lean on a counter, table or the bathtub edge using his left leg. He would push some with the right foot. The first time was when taking my id picture at the rec center. I looked down and he was up, with his nose on the counter looking at me. He had to do it twice in the tub and the Wii golf game was so interesting that he got up and leaned on the coffee table to watch.
I did stretch his legs out after the bath and compare the lengths. The bone at the inside of the left ankle kind of fits under the one on the inside of is right ankle. It isn’t really much or noticeable as he crawls around. I’ve had a few people tell me about other adults who had similar accidents so I know he’ll be alright. It was just a little sad to see. If I can get him to be still long enough, I’ll post a picture one day. Maybe it won’t take that many growth spurts to even out though!
I think the rec center membership is good at all the county facilities so the plan is to take the kids to the Brentwood facility which has a larger indoor pool with a connected ‘shallow water lap / teaching pool.’ The only concern is MaryVic taking off in the big pool. She knows no fear as long as she had water wings on.
And now it’s waffle time!