We had Thanksgiving with Jon’s family this year and it was a wonderful, relaxed day with tons of delicious food and great company. Jeremy was pretty shy at first but eventually warmed up and had fun playing with Jon’s cousins, who helped him build some super impressive block towers, and Jon’s aunt, who had fun racing around on the floor with Jeremy! After we got home at the end of the night, I shared a slice of pumpkin pie with him, which he enjoyed a lot (as you can see at about 3:07 in the video below – sorry it’s so dark!)
Jeremy is almost 18 months old now, and chattering up a storm in his own unique toddler language. He has been especially verbal in the last few days, and seems a lot more interested in trying to say real words. This weekend my parents were visiting us and my mom and I were sharing an apple with Jeremy at snacktime. I was trying to get him to show her how he uses his sign language to sign “apple” but instead of signing it, he said APPLE! We were very impressed and he kept saying it several times, very clearly.
I think all our excitement is backfiring now, though. Jeremy seemed to notice we were very excited about him saying that word, and now he’s been calling EVERYTHING “apple” (although his pronunciation has degraded a little bit and now it sounds more like “ab-boh”. Jeremy wants to read a book? He brings it to you and says “ab-boh.”) Jeremy pets the kitty? “Ab-boh!” Jeremy likes playing with his truck? “Ab-boh!” Part of me wishes he would move past the whole apple thing and say some other words, but it’s cute and once in a while he’s actually referring to an apple, so he does get it right sometimes!
Jon just called and said that the doctor is now saying he won’t be discharged until tomorrow morning – not this afternoon as we had been told before. Bummer. He’s getting a little bored, and the pain medicine makes it hard for him to browse the web or read anything on his laptop since he’s so tired and groggy. At least it won’t be much longer.
He used a walker for a bit this morning, and this afternoon he got some practice on the crutches. He said it was a little hard at first, but then he got the hang of it pretty quickly. It’s amazing that he can be up and moving about again, when just yesterday morning he was in such excruciating pain! The resiliency of the human body is an amazing thing.
Jon’s broken hip – I don’t know if we’ll get an X-Ray picture of it now that he has screws installed, but here’s how it looked before the surgery:
OUCH!
He’s in his hospital room, doing as well as can be expected, feeling pretty OK considering the circumstances. A little practice on crutches tomorrow and then he can come home
Surgery is done, went pretty well. Three screws were put in his hip. I should be able to see him in his room soon. They say he can still go home tomorrow. He’s going to be on crutches for 6 to 12 weeks. I guess I get to keep taking out the garbage and cleaning the litterbox (usually Jon’s chores) for a bit longer!
Jon got home last night at 8pm. It was great to see him! Jeremy was a little shy and quiet but visibly happy to see Dada again. I went to bed before Jon since I had work in the morning and he wanted to do some unpacking, plus he was over-caffeinated from the drive home. When he finally came to bed he had trouble sleeping soundly, and at 2am he started sleepwalking, looking for a bathroom. He was pretty disoriented being in his own room for the first time in almost 2 weeks, and seemed a little lost. I had to tell him to NOT go in Jeremy’s room, and when I told him the bathroom was behind him, he walked right past it and fell down the stairs! He landed square on his hip and was in a lot of pain. I called the nurse hotline and they told me to call 911 for an ambulance. The paramedics came and took him to the hospital in the town just north of us, and I stayed home with the still-sleeping baby. I slept a little and called the hospital at 6am. Jon was still in emergency, and told me that he had badly broken his hip and would be sent to the U of M for surgery to have pins put in.
I took Jeremy to daycare and met with Jon at the U, and he was taken in to surgery at 11:30. They said it should be a couple hours, so I’m still in the family surgery waiting room right now. If things go smoothly, he should be discharged tomorrow afternoon with crutches. I will try to update here when I get more info. And when Jon is u
able, he said he’d try to post a little about his trip to Burning Man last week.
Jon was at Burning Man all last week, and sent home this “postcard” which didn’t arrive until yesterday.
Here is the “front” of the postcard. It’s a chunk of cardboard from a Mountain Dew case, with duct tape for the address labels. Way to improvise, Jon!
The Burning Man logo on the postmark – cool!
It’s hard to see, bu the started writing the message in black ink, ran out, used red ink for a sentence, ran out again, and then switched to pencil, LOL!
The message says:
Amber: I hope all is well at home. I have tried calling a few times and though there was cell service before, it could never complete a call. And now there is jus tno service at all. Everything is great here. It is only Wednesday, but I have had 2 flat tires. Glad I have spares! My neighbors are awesome, and there is NO "keep you awake" party anywhere near so far. Give Jeremy hugs & kisses for me. My plan is to leave late on Monday. I will call when I get to i80. Love, Jon
He’s still on the road home today, but should be back by about 8:00pm tonight. Thank goodness! Jeremy and I miss him a lot!
I can’t believe I forgot to post this! Last month, Jeremy and I went to visit my parents while Jon was in Wisconsin for a car show (Dubs in the Valley – he won First Prize (Mark IV Jetta) for the wagon!) My mom had found this Wonder Horse for Jeremy, and he wasn’t sure about it at first, but once he figured out how to rock, he could have stayed on it all day long. Very cute! Gotta love the tiny little cowboy hat
Our daycare just sent a bunch of pictures home with us yesterday, and most of them are pretty bad, as usual. (Deer-in-the-headlights, blank-faced gaping-mouthed baby, slightly out of focus). But this one, ohhhh this one! I just about died! The face he’s making! That shirt! His oh-so-casual position in the swing! Too perfect!
And for a little comparison, here’s Jeremy sitting in that same swing LAST summer – good grief, look how he has grown!
Oh, and here’s an unrelated picture of Jeremy eating sand at daycare. This is how we end up with gritty poops in the diaper. Lovely.
After we got home at the end of the night, I shared a slice of pumpkin pie with him, which he enjoyed a lot (as you can see at about 3:07 in the video below – sorry it’s so dark!)
