Picture catch-up

I just emptied my phone and memory card and uploaded anything cute. :)

These are only somewhat in order, because blogger is somewhat difficult to upload photos and videos to. This video is of Nate showing off his wheelchair skills after only a day of practice!

And then back up to about August, maybe? This was at a playgroup. Nate standing tall! But you see his left foot turning out.

Georgia showing off her new pink cowgirl boots.

One night Blake made a bed in the living room floor for us all to pile on to watch TV.

The kids kept saying things like, "The whole family, in the floor!"

Here's a little video of the giggle-fest in action.

 

The quality of this photo is awful, but this is just to show that after weeks in the house, we got Nate and Clive all dressed up in last year's Captain Hook costume to go to a Pirates and Princesses birthday party.

For one of our recent playgroups, we visited another Spina Bifida family's little farm. They have a horse, Sugar.

Georgia looooooved to look at Sugar.

But only from a distance. If he started to come close, she would climb up me like a monkey.

My best friend had twin boys. :) I got to be there the day they were born. I'm a proud "auntie"!

When we found out we would be traveling with Nate on Halloween, we decided to go trick or treating at the zoo the night before instead. Cousin Cade came too, and I think we all had a great time.

Georgia was Cinderella. You should have seen us trying to wrestle her into this costume. Apparently, it's itchy.

Nate decided to wear his doctor costume after all. He had been against the idea for weeks and just wanted to be a train.

This makes me smile every time. :) Right before this, Buzz Lightyear had said to a little girl dressed as Rapunzel: "Rapunzel! Let down your haaaaiiiirrrr!" and Nate just giggled and giggled. A couple days later he was still giggling about that.

Trick or treating from the wagon.

Not wanting to stay in the wagon ...

Cade was a Clone Trooper, I think?

I apologize if some of these turn out sideways.

This was totally staged but sweet.

Okay, now pics from our trip. This was our first time flying with Nate, so we had to figure a few things out. Instead of dragging his big car seat with us, my mom got him a big kid booster seat for the trip.

On the plane, he asked for apple juice, which I thought was funny because he never drinks apple juice and in fact will never drink anything but milk, water, and the occasional capri sun, but I guess he thought this special occasion deserved a special beverage.

He and Seal the Sea Lion enjoyed the window seat.

I love this picture. This was outside the hotel on Tuesday while we were waiting for our shuttle to take us to the Children's Hospital.

Here are the little buddies who came to visit us a couple nights ago.

And my buddies, Angela and KT.

And lastly, some somewhat pitiful pictures of Nate since the surgery. Here you can see that his face was puffy from laying face-down in surgery. And that tube on top of his head is the external drain that will be there through next week. I did get them to rig the tape up so it's not taped to his forehead.

And before long I will have pictures of him sitting up, walking, and running again. He just needs a little time.