on the road again

I swear the rain keeps dogging us this whole trip? Is it monsoon season or something? Anyways, we did start the drive home tonight, but we only made it about a quarter of the way to Shreveport. We were planning to stop here to visit the Hurds, whose son Aiden was born 2 weeks after Isaiah, and also has Apert Syndrome. We stopped off at a hotel to meet with them, and because of all the rain decided just to stay. Shawn, Aiden's dad, was nice enough to get us a free room and breakfast, so it was hard to pass up getting a bit more rest, especially since I really don't have work to get back to right now to rush home. The Hurd's are great and Aiden is so cute. he just had his first stage of hands done by Dr. Fearon a little while ago and was crawling all over the hotel lobby and standing up with the help of the nearby furniture. Isaiah seemed to like him too and it seems like he has a new friend! We've got some great pictures that we'll post when we get home.

Isaiah has been handling the trip decently. The first couple hours he was fine and just slept, but he was throwing a fit in the rain storm and we thought it would be good to take it easy the first day. It's only 7pm, but he's zonked out in the pack and play, but he did play for a good three hours while we visited in the lobby which wore him out pretty good. After all he had surgery only two days ago. Compared to the last time though, he's doing great. Already eating solids, smiling, and playing way more than the first go round.

We're going to shoot for Tuscaloosa or Birmingham tomorrow and be home monday during the day.