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William started back at daycare last week and did very well. We are looking at resuming our normal routines over the next 2 weeks, perhaps faster than we originally thought as he did better than anticipated.

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MaryVic is more than willing to help brother build up his strength and endurance.

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With some more iphotos. These are a few highlights from Monday and Tuesday.

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I was trying to get MaryVic to lay down with me and close her eyes last night. She was pulling all the usual stalling tactics when all of the sudden she tears up and tells me, “I didn’t want to spend the night at Matthew and Connors. Why did you have to stay at the doctors?”

Ah sweetie, Mommy and Daddy had to stay because William hurt his leg and it took a long time for the doctor to fix it.

Why does he have to wear the cast? To help his leg get better. I wanted to snuggle you and missed you *sob*

Mommy and Daddy missed you too but we thought you would have fun with Matthew and Connor.

I wanted to sleep at home! We did too honey.

I was a little surprised at the declaration more than 2 weeks after the event. The only thing I can think is that she became worried because I told her that both brother and mommy have doctor appointments on Tuesday so she needed to go to school.

She was quiet sincerely upset about being parent-less that evening although we knew with our friends she’d have a good time and be okay. I remember Greg and I discussing one of us going back and home but she was asleep at our friends before or just after William got out of O.R.

She must have been more worried than we realized although I don’t know of anything else we could have done. Just broke my heart to hear her talk about this insecurity though.

She snuggled up with Daddy afterwards and fell fast asleep. We’ll just see how easily she goes to school today.

Not very easily. She cried, and tried her best NOT to get out of the car. Honestly, it’s the first time she’s actively turned away from me, and tried to stay in the car. Much hugging, and kissing in Daycare, but an awful lot of crying when Daddy was leaving.

She’s rather enjoying this Mommy time instead of going to school. Going to school is now disrupting her schedule, and it’s not something she’s happy about.

We got up and he got his Wubbzy fix while I changed his diaper. I got sister up to get her ready for school. She was clinging to me, “I don’t want to go to school!” Well, lets put on your clothes in case you change your mind. And so we got her loaded up, protesting all the way. She calmed down some once she had her blankie, a flower for Mrs. Nita and strawberry fruit chews. According to Greg she was fine until she saw me waving and then pouted all the rest of the way.

William and I had breakfast and then he sat in a baby vibrating chair while I showered. He was really good. We came downstairs and did tummy time. Played cars, ball and blocks until Daddy came home for lunch. We had lunch and loaded up for the follow-up trip to the doctor.

The doctor visit went quicker than we thought. We were in and out of x-rays and talking to the doctor in 15 minutes. Everything looks to be going well. The bone still is obviously broken in the x-ray but together and the doctor was very pleased with how it looked. He told us that the next visit would be the one that decided if the cast needed to be adjusted or a new one applied, etcetera. He did say if things stay the same, it is highly unlikely they will do anything to the cast.

Then he started talking more about after the cast comes off. Greg and I have slightly differing perspectives on the discussion but it doesn’t matter because we can ask more next week and however it long it takes William to recover, it will take that long. I had been thinking that he might be up and around in 2-3 weeks, walking again. I guess I also thought the healing process would alleviate any limp too. I was a little taken aback when the doctor said 6 weeks or longer to walk again, talking about rolling, crawling and pulling up. And yet again, when he said there would be a pronounced limp but it would alleviate over time with his normal growth rate to next to nothing.

I guess I was being overly optimistic about things and got a reality check. Greg thinks William could still walk again in 2-3 weeks and the limp will be gone in just a couple of baby growth spurts. Ah well, mothers worry…and this one will look for more on the web about it.

We took William to Home Depot afterwards and looked at ceiling fans with lights. William is in favor of replacing the bonus room fan with the earth light and fan with rockets. I’m afraid we’ll be going with something a bit duller

We went to daycare and picked up MaryVic who had a good time at school. Mrs. Kathy came out to see William. She reminded me that gymnastics is on Thursdays and dance on Mondays. MaryVic is only signed up for gymnastics but sometimes attends dance on Mondays to make up for missing a gymnastics class. She said they are making a huge card for William. The kids are putting their footprints on it so it was currently drying. Apparently a major production, toddlers with paint on their feet, and now that I think about it, a little ironic? Sweet thoughtfulness though. She said they pray for him at daycare at breakfast and lunch.

I got an email from Nashville Parent while waiting for Greg to get MaryVic. Seems I won the February drawing and we have two weeks to come pick up our dvds, Charlie Brown’s Valentine and a Bob the Builder dvd. I had to laugh when Greg joked I should have bought a lottery ticket. I think this may be one of the few drawings I’ve even won.

William fell asleep on the way home. We were home for just a little bit then loaded up again to go to Costco and then our favorite Tuesday night hangout, Chik-Fil-A. The kids had a blast. The balloon guy made William a super duper Mickey balloon hat that he loved and MaryVic got a dolphin. MaryVic played in the playground and danced and sang. She even dragged Daddy up there to dance with her. She really got into the music and all this time, letting her ice cream melt until it was tossed. William wiggled and danced along to the music too. We took tons of pictures with our iphones so we’ll have to see how they turned out.

You would think the kids would have been tired through and through but no… We finally got William down and I had to go snuggle MaryVic. Finally both of them were asleep for the moment if not the duration.

Dropped Mary off for Daycare this morning, as we have to take William to the Dr. for his followup this afternoon.

To say that she didn’t want to go might be understating the case a bit. Tears, crying, and general shyness. Everyone has been asking about her, everyone (teachers and kids) was thrilled to see her, she gets to go to Gymnastics and (probably) Dance. It’ll be great!

But it’s not staying home with Mom.

We are up and doing fine. Since the debacle of Wednesday night, William has gotten motrin during the day and the pain medicine at night. He has been able to sleep much better.

Poppa came up last night and both kids were thrilled to see him. William promptly let him know that he was ‘stuck’. He brought William two new toys and a little gift for Mary from friends in Arab. MaryVic ‘helped’ William open them. He is getting a bit possessive though and if he could hear her playing with the new baby boom box toy, he’d start fussing.

All is well, I was over my bug on Saturday. MaryVic is a little needy due to all the attention William has to have right now. Greg has been working on the light switches at the house and they are ‘automated’ to a degree. We can change them on and off from the computer. I have to say that the motion detector in the garage is pretty cool. It automatically turns the lights on when you walk in there.

What’s really funny about the new switches is that if the lights do go off, the first word out of the kids’ mouths is ‘Daddeee!” If he is around, William will start going ‘dark, dark, dark…’ until they are turned back on.

MaryVic has dance class then we’ll try taking William out to lunch and Costco for his first outing. We wanted to try going out to the library yesterday but it rained all day.

We’re trying to decide about MaryVic going to daycare while I’m home with William. I would just hate for her to come home with a bug and us get sick since flu season is still going on. We may try a day or two a week though and take a friends suggestion to take her straight to bath when she gets home.

FYI, there have never been any bon-bons in the house.

Quick update here.

Jeff finalized FMLA today. So, it appears that she’ll be home with William (and Mary for the majority of the time) for the 6 weeks. Spoke with HR, disability only works if I’m injured so just straight fmla. Worked for 3 hrs and visited with co-workers. Will be working some from home but care of William is primary so we’ll just have to see what I can do.

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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.

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