A Different Boat

The last couple days I have just been obsessed with how adorable Wes is. Maybe it's that we've been home for the last few days appointment free (well except a home PT appointment today). I've had the time to just sit and enjoy my sweet boy, play together, cuddle together. Today Wes sat in his Bumbo chair and played his piano like such a big boy. I'm amazed at how much he loves music. I know all babies like music but he loves it. It's one of the few things that always makes him happy. He looks so focused when he's playing the piano like it takes all of his concentration. I hope one day he can learn to play real songs and truly express himself through music.

"One day Winnie the Pooh went to visit his friend Rabbit. Rabbit, always the consummate host, offered Pooh some honey which Pooh gladly accepted. Pooh, true to form, ate rather too much honey and as he was leaving got stuck in Rabbit's door. Pooh was stuck half in and half out. He couldn't go back in and he couldn't get out. He was stuck so tight he couldn't even sigh. (That is what grief feels like for many people) While Pooh was stuck there he asked simply, 'Is there someone who can sit with me and read a story or offer a word of comfort to a bear wedged in great tightness?' The important thing about this story to remember is what Pooh was asking for... and what he was not asking for. He didn't ask anyone to pull him out of the hole or push him back into Rabbit's house. He didn't ask for a theological discussion about how it was God's will that he was in the hole or that God wouldn't have put him in the hole unless God knew he could h...

  Yesterday Wes went back to Children's to have his little trigger thumb operated on and a sedated hearing test done. He did wonderfully although he was quite a grump when he woke up. Colby and my parents both had to work but my friend Erin and her son Patrick came and hung out with me during the 2 hours of procedures (well until they got kicked out because it's flu season so no children are allowed as visitors). Wes now has a bandage on his hand for the next week or so and then we go back to the orthopedist to see how it looks. They said the hand surgery went very well. The hearing test also went well. The original newborn hearing test they did showed a mild hearing loss in the lower ranges and a moderate hearing loss in the higher ranges. Yesterday's test showed NO hearing loss in the low ranges and identical moderate hearing loss in the high ranges. This explains some of Wes' auditory meltdowns to loud low noises as they were being over amplified by his heari...