As the Shuttle Endeavor slowly made its way through our city streets this weekend, just miles away, we had some breaking news of our own. This boy is becoming downright determined to walk! Granted, it has to be on his terms when we practice. But when he wants to, he goes for it. He has horrible…
Stevie has been up to some new things that we are pretty excited about. #1 – Walking. Not independently. He will take some big clumsy steps while we hold his arms. He has been using his walker daily – even if just for 5 minutes – to build those muscles and just get him on…
It’s been a busy week for mister Stephen. He started swim class, which he hates. So naturally, I signed him up for 4 more classes. He chipped a tooth. Hit his noggin on the corner of a chair and I didn’t even notice the tooth until like 8 hours later. He’ll lose that one anyway,…
If you know me at ALL, you know I’m a Dave Matthews Band superfan. We’ll just leave it at that, so I don’t expose the maximum capacity of my nerdiness right now. For their most recent music video to the beautiful song “Mercy”, they reached out to all the fans to submit content. They asked…
Last week, as you may know, sucked. The therapies and the orthotics and just some of the day to day… feeling ridiculously overwhelmed. I had several people tell me I needed to give myself a break. I needed to take time for myself away from Stevie. I needed to remember to do things for myself…
I’m really wishing I was one of those people who couldn’t possibly eat when they were stressed out. But I’m the exact opposite. Give me salties or sweets, I’ll put it away like it was my job. Totally beside the point. On to Stevie… After Vision Therapy this morning, and a really rough Physical Therapy…
Whenever I drive to Southern Utah, I have to take into account the LA —-> Vegas traffic. (Or vice versa.) Oh, it is the worst. What normally takes 6 hours can take 9. If at all possible, I avoid driving there on a Friday and driving home on a Sunday. It WILL take forever. Unfortunately,…
One day last week, I felt brave. I felt really brave. Brave enough to try taking Stevie to the beach. All by myself. I completely expected it to be a huge failure. In my head, it went a little something like this: We drive for 2 hours, haul all our stuff a mile to get…
More kids. Do we want more kids? It’s the natural next step. You date. You get married. You have a baby. Then you have more babies. If you had asked me a week ago, I’d have said “Hell-to-the-no. Not gonna happen.” If you asked me today, I’d say “I’ll take 10 of these delicious squishy-faced…
As most of you know, we have started Infant Stimulation, Vision and Physical therapies. Still waiting on Occupational and Speech. The processes are long. It’s a good exercise in patience. Yesterday was a particularly tough one. We had VT at 8:30 and PT at 11. Stevie was having none of it. Not interested, crying the…