Freeze or Burn, All Else is Only Icing 08/22/09
I swore I dashed off a quick post the other day, but I must not have.
Wednesday night we took off his arm casts and got to see his 10 fingers. They're still pretty swollen and scabby, but all the grafts took and things look good. His right hand is shaped almost as if he's gripping an imaginary golf ball in his hand whereas his left hand is a little flatter seeming. It's too early to tell how well they will work, but once we're done with dressing changes we'll be able to start trying to get him to grip more things. He's already holding his own bottle again and manipulating things up to his mouth with both hands which is great. He's still not wanting to stand up much and doing the 'air sit' when we pick him up and he's still holding out his legs as if he were sitting on a magic carpet. He's pretty strong because he can do that for a good while.
We drove up to Chattanooga yesterday. We followed my Mom up there on Friday on her way back home to WI and we stayed the night there. We went to Ruby Falls yesterday which I swear has just about as many billboards along I-24 and I-75 as Wall Drug does in all of South Dakota. It's this cool cave tour with a 140 foot tall underground waterfall. Unfortunately the waterfall is more than half a mile into the cave, and no strollers were allowed. We figured now's the time, because he's only going to get heavier, so we carried him for over an hour and 1.25 miles (we had to carry him back out of the cave after all.) There were plenty of narrow passages, drippy wet floors, and spots where even Rachel had to duck so it was interesting. We made it through, and Isaiah was great until we got into the gift shop at the end, but Rachel and I were the only ones that could hold him. We tried to let my Mom carry him for a bit, but he started getting fussy and we didn't want to risk a meltdown so we did the whole thing. I thought it was worth it to see his face at the waterfall, Rachel's still deciding if it was worth it or not, but either way we know we're not carrying him in any cave for that long of a time again. We hit the Chattanooga Choo Choo shops and museum today and said goodbye to my Mom there and drove back home. Fun but tiring, and I head back to work on Monday.
Oh and the title, its referring to the fact we now have a nice new fridge in the kitchen. I had to modify our cabinets a bit to get it to fit and vent properly, but its big, bright, we've got plenty of room for food, and don't have to worry about waking up to frozen milk and creamer and half thawed popsicles.
Wednesday night we took off his arm casts and got to see his 10 fingers. They're still pretty swollen and scabby, but all the grafts took and things look good. His right hand is shaped almost as if he's gripping an imaginary golf ball in his hand whereas his left hand is a little flatter seeming. It's too early to tell how well they will work, but once we're done with dressing changes we'll be able to start trying to get him to grip more things. He's already holding his own bottle again and manipulating things up to his mouth with both hands which is great. He's still not wanting to stand up much and doing the 'air sit' when we pick him up and he's still holding out his legs as if he were sitting on a magic carpet. He's pretty strong because he can do that for a good while.
We drove up to Chattanooga yesterday. We followed my Mom up there on Friday on her way back home to WI and we stayed the night there. We went to Ruby Falls yesterday which I swear has just about as many billboards along I-24 and I-75 as Wall Drug does in all of South Dakota. It's this cool cave tour with a 140 foot tall underground waterfall. Unfortunately the waterfall is more than half a mile into the cave, and no strollers were allowed. We figured now's the time, because he's only going to get heavier, so we carried him for over an hour and 1.25 miles (we had to carry him back out of the cave after all.) There were plenty of narrow passages, drippy wet floors, and spots where even Rachel had to duck so it was interesting. We made it through, and Isaiah was great until we got into the gift shop at the end, but Rachel and I were the only ones that could hold him. We tried to let my Mom carry him for a bit, but he started getting fussy and we didn't want to risk a meltdown so we did the whole thing. I thought it was worth it to see his face at the waterfall, Rachel's still deciding if it was worth it or not, but either way we know we're not carrying him in any cave for that long of a time again. We hit the Chattanooga Choo Choo shops and museum today and said goodbye to my Mom there and drove back home. Fun but tiring, and I head back to work on Monday.
Oh and the title, its referring to the fact we now have a nice new fridge in the kitchen. I had to modify our cabinets a bit to get it to fit and vent properly, but its big, bright, we've got plenty of room for food, and don't have to worry about waking up to frozen milk and creamer and half thawed popsicles.
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