September 25-26 - David's House

September 25-26 - David's House

What a busy day it's been. Levi and I drove to school and work from Auntie Martha's house this morning as Jay didn't get home from DC until crazy late. Rushed out of work to get home to unpack and repack quickly and get on the road by 5:00 (our goal time to leave for David's House). On our drive from preschool to home I always ask Levi who he wants to take with him to cuddle with. Usually he picks crayon, spidey bear, or whoever his newest guy is. Today he said "owl is cute!" so I said Ok, owl is good. Then asked who else he wanted to take, thinking he might pick someone who is a little bigger for cuddles. He hemmed and hawed for a minute (the cutest thing ever, and if you haven't actually heard him do it you should try to the next time you see him, its adorable!) and then said "Do I have a duck??" I said "yes" he asked "is my duck yellow?" I said "yes! do you want to bring your duck?" he said "where is my duck?" I said "either downstairs or in your toy box." he said "Ok, we should bring duck! QUACK!!! shhhh QUACK!!! shhhh QUAAACCCCKKKK!" and then giggled his pants off! In case you are confused there is a book called "Thumper and the Noisy Ducky" it's a favorite of Levi's and we read it fairly often because he thinks it is hilarious.

The drive up was smooth and easy. Stopped in Chichester for Slushies, Levi watched movies on the way up and Jay and I caught up on our weekends apart. Levi was very talkative for much of the drive as well, he always wants to be part of the adult conversations. We also heard a lot of QUACK shhh QUACK shhh from the back seat!

We got to David's House about 7:00 and got checked into the insect room. We have been in there before. It's a nice room with Levi getting his own cot right by the windows. During check in Levi was wondering around the room looking at the donated stuffed animals and saw that there was a Cranberry. We talked about that for a minute. Then he saw a Green Rainbow Brite Sprite stuffed animal. Of course he had no clue who it was, but Jay and I both did, and thought it was cool and he thought it was super cool cause it was all green! He asked Kim if he could have it (the answer is always yes, thats what the stuffed animals are there for is for kids to take!) and he was super excited. Him and Sprite ran up the stairs to Insect!

Jay had brought back presents from DC so Levi was very excited to open that. It was a set of all 4 Rescue Bots!! It made Levi's day!!

We headed downstairs for dinner which had been made by the Dartmouth Tennis team. It was pretty yummy! It was hard to get Levi to pay attention to dinner, all he wanted to do was play with Chase, Heatwave, Blades, and Bolder.

After he had eaten some we let him play. Jay and him had to figure out how to get Chase to transform and stand up! Took a minute, but they got it!!

After that the boys headed to the playroom to play while I took a few minutes to decompress from the drive and relax, ended up almost falling asleep upstairs. The boys played downstairs with toys and the slide, but don't worry the rescue bots were never far away!

If the boys hadn't come in when they did I would have been asleep. They come up to get bedtime meds! Wow, that evening went by quick. Once he had taken his bedtime meds we headed downstairs for a snack and drink. With Levi's MRI tomorrow he can't have anything to eat or drink after midnight, so we were trying to get him to eat and drink as much as he could now.

Then he picked out a few stories and we headed upstairs. He was very excited to see that someone had donated a whole stack of Elephant and Piggie books! So he picked two of those. We headed up to get him into comfy PJ's (he will just wear them over to the MRI tomorrow) and a pull up. Our rule is that if he is sleeping in someone else's bed he has to wear a pull up, not that he has had a night time accident in over 2 months, but still.. He was VERY unhappy about putting a pull up on! It took quite the struggle. I figure if we continue on this path of no night time accidents it wont be too long before pull ups are a complete thing of the past, which will be AMAZING!

We read our stories and tucked in Sprite, Owl, Duck, Monkey, Piglet, and Levi! It was only a matter of minutes before Levi was out cold. The weekend and drives had worn him out!!

Jay and I headed downstairs to talk for a few minutes and have some dessert and relax. Then we headed up to bed around 10:00 as it will be an early morning!

The alarm went off at 6:15!! Early morning!! We got Levi up and pottied, put on his button meds, and then we were off to the hospital. The house was very quiet when we headed out. We didn't get to see Jaye, but did sneak the envelope and key into her office.

Thanks again David's House. We will be back! We don't know when at this point, but we will be back!