May 8-9 - David's House

May 8-9 - David's House

It's time to head to David's House again! Due to me having class on Tuesday night and some changes with Jay's work it made sense for us to drive to Concord separately and join together. So I picked up Levi from school. I had a few surprises in the car for him. He was super excited by his green yummy, "mommy" chips, and Berenstein Bears in his "DVD movie player"! It was a nice quiet drive to Concord.

 Once we got to Concord we met up with Jay at the park-n-ride and left his car there. Levi asked to switch movies to Care Bears at that point. The rest of the ride was pretty uneventful. We got to David's House and got checked into the Pig room! Levi was pretty happy about that room, because that room puts us next to the car bathroom which is his favorite! David's House was completely full! So was great to get a room!

The first thing Levi asks to do is get a drink from the blue water jug. I think he likes that it is at his height and that he gets to use a big boy cup!

 He was also super excited to see that the ice cream quilt was back! It's now back to his ice cream room!!

 Jay and I decided to try a new thing and split up for the trip. Levi and Jay went down to the playroom in the evening while I stayed up in the room and took some time for me. Around 8:15 I headed down to the kitchen to find them for purple meds and snack. Levi wanted an apple, but they didn't have any, so he settled for apple sauce. He did amazing with his spoon. Silverware is so hit or miss for him that seeing him do such a great job with it was amazing.

 After snack he asked me to come down and play with him so we headed downstairs. We played dinosaurs and slide and made a picture with the stamps.

 Then he asked to go to bed saying that he was tired. Sometimes his purple meds work a little too well and he wants bed sooner then we are ready for bed. We picked a few stories from the shelf and took them up to our room. The house was full of a lot of young adults and the TV in the main living room (where the books are and we often will read bed time stories) was on with Family Guy, definitely not an appropriate show for Levi. They did offer to change it for us, but I didn't want to make them change since there was like 8 of them and only one Levi so we headed upstairs. It was nice that they offered at least. I read the first story and then handed the second one to Jay to read, but Levi wanted none of that, Mommy needed to read both stories, so we compromised and read the second story together. Jay read all the left hand pages and I read the right hand pages with Levi on my lap. It seemed to make him happy and included Jay.

Then Levi climbed in his bed. He wanted the soft blankie off of the chair, so we let him have it. He looked super cute all curled up.

 Then we headed out to the hallway for the wait until he falls asleep. Tonight it took about 20 minutes (not common anymore) but there was someone who went into the car bathroom not 2 minutes after we left the room and showered, Levi doesn't like the noise of the shower running in the bathroom so I am sure that is what kept him awake. After the shower was over and I went back in to settle him again, it was only about 3 minutes before he was out cold. For the first night of travel ever he didn't want Piglet and Monkey, in fact he wouldn't even let them come out of the bag, told them they had to stay in that he was only sleeping with Cranberry tonight.

 After Levi was asleep Jay and I went downstairs for some unwinding and adult time. We ended up all the way downstairs in order to get a little peace and quiet and comfy chairs, as the living room was still full and the tables in the kitchen were full as well! Wasn't long before I called it a night as I knew Levi would be up early.

Levi woke up at 5:30! Such a lovely time to wake up. I got him situated on his bed with his tablet (Thank you Easter Bunny what an amazing present!!) and was able to snooze for another 45 minutes or so. Then I laid in his bed for another 20 minutes or so and helped him play some games before I figured it was time enough that we could go downstairs.

We headed to the playroom to play. Levi had made some friends in the playroom the night before (two boys about his age) and kept asking me why they weren't in the playroom, and why they were still sleeping. But finally him and I got into a good play rhythm.

After about 30 minutes of play Levi was ready for breakfast so up we went to eat. The selection was quite slim for breakfast so Levi ended up settling for Jelly on bread (he doesn't like toast) and he ate 3/4 of an entire Jelly sandwich, plus milk and gummy's and cereal and a container of fruit. I think he was hungry this morning.

After breakfast we were very sticky from all the Jelly so we quietly headed upstairs and snuck in to get dressed. Jay was still sleeping! Then we were back downstairs to play. Levi's appointment is a little later this morning then usual (a small mix up with the appointment scheduling again so we ended up with an 11:00 appointment), we wont wait until 11:00 but will wait a little later then normal before heading over. The nurses tell us that we can come over whenever we want on the day of his appointment as they know that we stay at David's House and they know that Receptionist S doesn't like us that much and doesn't like to take into account that we stay overnight.

Levi had a blast playing downstairs. We played slide, kitchen, magnet block, dobbers, animals, doll house, and read stories. We had a great time.

 Around 8:45 I heard someone coming down the stairs and in walks Jaye, she was so excited that she hadn't missed Levi! Apparently she had been in the kitchen and saw Jay eating breakfast, she was shocked to see him and said that she thought for sure she would miss us, when Jay told her that we were in the playroom she immediately stopped what she was doing and high tailed it downstairs. Levi was so excited to see her and wanted to show her the ice cream quilt was back. So he took her by the hand and dragged her back up the stairs to show her. It was super cute! Then he found out that she had brought Apples and she went up about 20 notches in his book (and believe me she is already pretty high up!)

 It wasn't long after Levi finished second breakfast that we headed over to the hospital. Cranberry picked a new stuffy friend from the main room and Levi lugged them both out. Meet Fluffy Cat! (who by the way is super heavy! no idea what that thing is made out of, but it's not all fluff!)

 Levi climbed into his car seat and then saw that there were things in the trunk and he wanted to check them all out!! Took us a minute to get him settled down!

Then we were off to the hospital! Thanks again as always David's House! We truly love you all and are so grateful for our home away from home! See you in 3 weeks!