Grandma Patty Visit – Week of July 17th

Mom’s visit was really fast. Unfortunately it was a million degrees while she was here and that put a damper on everything we could do. We spent some good time napping (me and Simon) and plenty of time eating, and LOTS of time sweating. At the end of the visit I sadly started my breakout into hives so most of Thursday was spent trying to figure out how to get rid of them. Unfortunately the doctors we saw didn’t help as much as I would have liked. Alan brought me to the regular doctor on Friday and he not so helpfully diagnosed me with hives and gave me a couple things we could try but essentially told me that in 40% of cases a cause is never determined. The hive story will be continued in the Cindy/Ken visit post.

Sadly again, we didn't get many pictures. I learned when I was going back that I need to be way better about taking pictures with Simon and visitors!

Picture of the Day: 7/21/11

Deep thoughts at 5am

Picture of the Day: 7/20/11

Enjoying a wrap for lunch at Suvan's with Mom

Picture of the Day: 7/19/11

Sheik Simon

Grandpa Bart and Grandma Kiki Visit – week of July 10th

Dad and Kiki came to help out during week four of my recovery. It was a quick and relaxing visit with much time spent napping and the rest spent eating or feeding Simon. Simon and I still weren’t into too much of a groove so were slow about getting moving, but by the end of the week I was feeling much better and able to go out and walk around without much issue. We did get lots of pictures! Including one of Alan, Simon and me. I've included them after the jump.

My personal goal for the week was to get advice from Kiki on materials and some help on how to do an art project I wanted to do with Simon’s foot prints. We did our first foot prints at the end of the week and plan to do them every month for the first year. I’ll send post updates on month two so you can get a better ‘picture’ of them.

Picture of the Day: 7/15/11

So ready for lunch

Picture of the Day: 7/14/11

Napping in the car after a long day