April 14-15 - Fourth David's House Visit

April 14

Levi had a pretty good day at day care though Miss T told us he had a rough wake up from nap and had a hard time coping at snack time.  Levi was happy to get to play with D and S, who haven't been at day care much lately.

We picked him up from day care and headed right to David's house.  It was a long drive, as usual but the stop at Wendy's in the middle helped to break things up some.  Levi ate 1 chicken nugget and a few fries...just enough to earn his "special treat," a small chocolate frosty.

As you can see he thoroughly enjoyed it!

We checked into David's House with Z the volunteer again, he didn't remember us, but we talked to him for a few minutes. He is pre-med and always very curious on what people are here for.

This time we are in the Circus room! It's the first room we have been in that doesn't have two single beds in it. We are on the first floor again this time. It is definitely not my favorite floor as it has the play room on it, and the older kids are still playing Wii and it's loud.

After arriving at David's House we played and unwound for a while. As soon as we got to the playroom Levi immediately had to find the ice cream cones and hand them out according to flavor/color; Mommy gets the pink ones, Levi gets the white ones, and Daddy gets the chocolate ones.

Levi especially liked seeing the "guys" come out of the musical clock at 8:00.  Levi was very tired tonight so for the first time while being here we put the TV on and let him watch the beginning of Horton Hears a Who.

So Tired!!

"Sit on Plane Watch Elephant"!

After a dessert snack, a little more to drink, and one more trip down the slide, we started the bedtime process.  As of right now (9:30pm) we're doing the "sit in the hall while Levi fights sleep" routine.

Last slide trip of the night. 

Levi finally fell asleep around 9:45pm. Good Night All. Will update more tomorrow!

April 15
The morning started early as is the usual at David's House. Levi was awake, but not really sure how much he wanted to get up.

We started to get up and get ready. We took pictures in the room. Levi loved the stuffed elephants and wanted to hold them.

Once Jay and I were dressed we headed over to the hospital. Since Levi was going to have to change for surgery anyways, we left him in his PJ's.

After the surgery we headed back over to David's House for lunch. Levi had some Easy Mac and Jay and I had sandwiches from the left overs from the donated dinner the night before. They were yummy and we were all full after. Then Levi headed off to play for a few minutes while we cleaned up from lunch. Then it was time for a nap. That went about as great as ever. Took about 45 minutes for Levi to settle down and ended with Levi and me both falling asleep together, because the only way I could get him to settle down was to hold him, and at that point I just slept too.

After a very short nap, we headed to the play room to play for a few to see how Levi was doing. He had a good time playing. Jay and I discussed how Levi was doing and he was doing great, running around like a little crazy man. His incision looked fine (no additional bleeding) and we decided that it was ok to go home on Friday instead of staying over to Saturday. As we were loading up the car, the clock started ringing and Levi rushed to see it.

Levi watching the clock.

Pointing to the clock.

What the clock looks like on the hour. It plays a song and lights up and all the guys sing. 

What the clock looks like the rest of the time.

We loaded up the car, cleaned the room as best we could and checked out a night early, freeing the room up for someone else hopefully.

On the way home we stopped for dinner in Concord.

Levi being a little ham! I think he's feeling just fine!!