March 6-7 - David's House

March 6-7 - David's House

The drive to David's House was a pretty typical drive. Nothing overly exciting. We stopped in Chichester for slushies! Levi was excited about that as their machine has green! We don't stop every time, but sometimes it's a nice treat and a nice part of the way stop.

We got to David's House and headed in to check in. We found out that we were in the insect room. A brand new room for us, so that was fun. They had a cot all set up for Levi. He was pretty excited about that. It had baseball sheets and a piglet pillow case! He was pretty excited to go play so getting him to take a picture wasn't easy, but here he is sorta looking!

 We headed downstairs to find dinner. Their was a meatball casserole thing, some mashed potatoes, and corn. Levi ate very well! And then he was ready to run around. We found "his" planes and he was off to zooming around with them. He was a bit of a crazy man. He knows that he has to stay on the main floor while Mommy and Daddy are still eating. Which he did, but he was definitely running like crazy!

Running so fast that the picture is blurry!

Once Mommy and Daddy were done eating we headed downstairs to play. There were two other kids playing downstairs. Levi had a blast having others to play with. Ironically all three of the kids had on orange shirts! It was crazy! Levi and the little boy got a little crazy and hyper together and were running around "shopping" in other words running the shopping cart and the baby stroller into each other. I don't have any pictures of them playing as I try not to post pictures of other children on the blog without the parents permission.

It was time for Levi to settle down a little and he wanted to play with me so we spent a lot of time with magnet blocks! He loves these things! He built a huge tower all by himself. The concentration on his face while he is building is crazy!

Getting frustrated with Daddy who was adding triangles to his tower when he only wanted squares!

Building it super tall!

After he was done building we spent quite awhile sorting and stacking and making rainbows. He had a lot of fun making the piles.

Then it was hyper time again. The little girl went to bed so it was just Levi and the little boy again and they had a blast on the slide. The two dads were building towers at the bottom of the slide and the boys were taking turns knocking them over. Eventually they were team knocking them over with Levi sliding down the slide and the other little boy knocking them over at the bottom, this caused some hide collisions, but it was all giggles all around!

After the other boy went to bed Levi spent some time playing on his own and we spent some time cleaning up the playroom. Levi enjoyed the alone time some.

 It was getting close to bedtime so we headed up the stairs for stories. There have recently been all kinds of good board books donated in memory of a young girl so we picked out six and read them. Daddy ready 2 and Mommy read 4.

 Then we headed up the stairs for bedtime. Things were going ok. Not great, but ok, when we heard Levi start jumping in the room. Jay went in to settle him down while I was sitting on the floor in the hallway, a common thing for us to do. It got quiet in the room and I assumed that Jay had gotten him to sleep. More and more time went on and Jay wasn't coming out. I was starting to get a little concerned as Jay had taken the key in with him. 30 minutes later Jay comes out of the room rubbing his eyes! Yup thats right, he had fallen asleep with Levi! Thankfully he woke up or else it would have been a rough night for me.

Jay and I headed downstairs for a few minutes of adult time. This is generally when we eat dessert as well but the kitchen was very lacking in dessert. And what little dessert there was (girl scout cookies) disappeared in the hour or so that we were reading stories and putting Levi to bed. Jay was very angry about this! After a few minutes of adult time I headed upstairs to bed.

Levi slept through the night!!! The whole night!!!! It was a restless sleep and he moved around a ton, whacked his head a few times on the window sill, and slept sideways in his bed using the windowsill as a pillow (I moved him when I saw him that way), but he never called for me! This is a first in over six weeks!! He was up at 6:12am and climbing in my bed, but i'll take that any day!

After cuddling with me for a few minutes he asked if I had brought my iPad as he knows that there are episodes of Paw Patrol on it. I had, so I got him settled in his bed with my iPad while I took a few minutes to wake up.

Then Levi and I headed down for breakfast. Breakfast for Levi at David's House is hit or miss. Some days he eats and drinks a ton, other days I think the chipmunks outside ate more then he did. Today was definitely the later. I could barely get him to eat anything. I just kept giving him options to try to get him to eat. And as far as drinking anything forget it. He barely took half a sip of milk.

After breakfast we all finished getting ready. Levi and Jay spent a few minutes in the playroom while I cleaned up the room. We headed out. Levi saw his friend from the night before in the living room and they hugged goodbye, it was so sweet! I love how quickly kids can make friends. There is no judgement, just a "hey, you are my age/height, let's play!"

Then we were off to the hospital. Thanks again for everything David's House, we will see you in three weeks!