Nathan's Month of September ....

.So ...  shortly after Nathan got home on the 5th of September after his surgery .... and he had some addition time to heal, he started school about 8 days after everyone else....

September 10th

On SEPTEMBER 11th ... Nathan had his second day of school, and then his first Boy Scout Meeting... 

 Notice he has both hearing aids in!!  Woot!  He's been wearing them all day now!!

 Trying out his new hat!

We got all of Nathan's uniform items and here he is in his shirt WHICH IS WAY TOO BIG...  

 Pictures of how big it is on him

Here is a lovely example of his righteous silly!

HA HA HA .........

Now - everyone in the house uses the potty except Nathan.  Nathan still wears a diaper, for many reasons.  One is that his boy part still needs more surgery ... One day I walked into the bathroom and i saw the baby seat on it - now the only one who uses this is Nathan because he falls in.  So .... does this mean....  he went on his own????

Questions that will never be answered!

He had his Pack Meeting where they shared their boats (Raingutter Regatta)  ....  I am putting this in here for those who do not follow the other blogs.

And here he was drawing with his brother (Noah) ... they were drawing Pokemon...

Here is Nathan and his younger (16 months) brother Kaedyn.....   Kaedyn is way taller and definitely heavier than Nathan.  Nathan has started to express that he isn't LITTLE he's BIG ...  Kaedyn and Nathan have a "twin like" relationship.  Nathan was still extremely dependent when Kaedyn was born, still on the bottle, still in diapers, not walking, not talking...  they hit a lot of milestones - or were working on them together....  they had their own language which caused Kaedyn to have speech issues because he would only talk what we called Nathanese ...  they are the best of friends.  These were taken today ...

Home Again Home Again, Jiggity Jig - September Surgery - Tonsillectomy & Ear Tubes (again) ... Day 3

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Had a hard time waking him up this morning. He is a very tired bug. But, 10am and he's finally awake-ish. Asked him if he wanted to go home, he said no. Reminded him that Cal, and Noah, and Bubba all missed him and really want him to come home.... then I asked if he wanted to go home, again - and he said yes. So YAY for that. He just has to eat and drink this morning and then we can go. We might be here until after lunch though. But I think we're going home today. His little bit of a fever broke and when the docs came in this morning they said how they were a bit worried about him yesterday but they are more confident this morning hes doing okay and can go home. YAY!

GOING HOME!!!  YAY!!!!!!!!!   It's OFFICIAL .........

Went to get gas ....... this was my reaction!  HA ...  we were trying to delay getting on the road during lunch rush hour...  and so we stopped at McDonalds to get something for lunch too....

When we finally hit the road, Nathan was like this for a little bit .. and then.......

 He was like this.  

Auntie Cara and the kids got him this monkey :)   He got it when we got home....

Lots of soft cold foods for the next few days.....

September Surgery - Tonsillectomy & Ear Tubes (again) ... Day 2

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I didn't sleep well .......  to the point where I was up at sunrise.......

This is what Nathan's left ear looked like.  This is the one they had to anchor in place with cartilage ...

He was ABSOLUTELY miserable this morning.

He completely missed out on breakfast, and slept until almost noon!

And of course the only thing he wants to do is be on the tablet.   You can see a bit of blood on his pillow from his ear bleeding last night.

He got a gift from Grandma Phyllis ....

An Elmo (Giggling) Ball...   we threw it around a bit - he'd throw it at us, we'd throw it back...

To hear Elmo in action...... check out this video!

Nathan definitely started to perk up by 2pm ...   He has a chocolate pudding face and a banana phone!

I made him get up and walk some (notice the gift shop slippers!  Cuz I forgot all slippers, shoes and even SOCKS at home) ...

We went to hang out in the playroom a bit ... which we didn't even discover was THERE until the day we LEFT after his cleft palate surgery.   He didn't feel like going when he got his surgery in August (ya know, catheter and all that he didn't want to move) ... so we made sure to check it out finally - with him - instead of just going down to get stuff for him to play with.

This is the play area .......

 The first picture you see is the room you walk into - the room is L shaped ...  the cupboards there have a bunch of craft stuff - they hold "classes" or designated craft times twice a day in there.  There are some things that you can take back to the room but a couple of the cupboards are in room use only type stuff.   The second pic is me standing at the back of the other half of the room looking towards the area of the first picture, you can see the lady in the blue shirt and the kid in the red shirt in both pictures.  There is a dad there playing pool.  What you can't see is to my right of the second picture are tons of shelves with movies and music and books...  and behind me is a "Teen Room" for the older kids with game systems and stuff.   Then the other four photos are parts of the outside play area.  They have a basketball court and supply balls and trikes and bikes, and scooters.

By the doors to go outside there is this really sweet fountain ....  (you can see the balls in the background)

There is even a resident cat, and I forget his name but there is a sign on the door.  I thought I took a picture of it but I guess I didn't...

Back to Nathan......... He had this face a lot....

He wasn't sure what to do .. but then he found the U shaped one and it was a chair!  LOL....  After awhile we asked him if he wanted to go see what was outside.....

He had fun ......

He had to stop for gas.....

BIG Chess ...... we didn't play, we pretended ....

But then things started to take a turn, and he got tired and crabby - so we took a walk with him to get our dinner and then back to his room...

He wasn't doing so well.  He wasn't drinking and he was having a hard time eating ...  things were catching up with him.  And when asked, he said he didn't want to go home :(