Thomas come home from the hospital yesterday. He seems to be in good spirits as long as his cars don't fall off the little table that we set up for him next to the couch (or as he calls it the "little bed"). He also has realized that he can bend at the hip so he has been sitting up a little bit.
Isaiah seems to like not having to compete with Thomas so much for toys
Julian seems to be taking all of this in stride
Back in elementary school in class we once read a book titled A Month of Seven Days. The book takes its title from a feeling that the main character has that although the events of the book take place only the course of a mere seven days it felt like a month. I had a similar feeling as I was looking back at some pictures on our camera today. I said to myself "I took those pictures a week ago? I seems like a lot longer than that."
A week ago we had a newly born Julian.
And Thomas and Isaiah both liked to play with their new baby brother.
Then a wrinkle was added to things:
Yes, that is a picture of Thomas lying with his leg in traction. While he was running around the living room on Saturday afternoon, Thomas stepped on a pillow that had fallen off the couch, fell and somehow sustained a spiral fracture of his femur. Thomas will be in traction until Friday when he will get put into a cast for the next couple to several months.
The doctors and nurses say that he has been handling being in traction and not really being able to move better than most kids his age. I think part of this is that he is able to have the movie "Cars" on a near continual loop in his room. But he does have some cars that he can play with and a dry erase board that he can draw on as well, which he has seemed to like and Adria and I have been able to take turns at the hospital during all of his waking hours.
We had a memorable Martin Luther King Jr. Day as our third son was born before breakfast. Julian checked out at 7 lbs 12 oz and almost 21 inches long.
Thomas really likes Julian. Whenever they see each other Thomas points and says "new baby brother" and Thomas likes to hold Julian as well. I think that Isaiah is starting to warm up to the idea of having a little brother.
We had a fun Christmas. I think the highlight for Thomas was coming downstairs to the presents after breakfast and finding a tricycle waiting for him. He started saying "Bike! Bike!" and wouldn't open any other presents because he just wanted to push the tricycle around as it is a little too big for him to peddle. We eventually had to take a break from opening presents to let Thomas push the tricycle around in the garage. He seemed to like that.
Isaiah recently had his first birthday. Here are a bunch of pictures from his first year of life.
