Fun Stuff

It's not all doom & gloom hospital stuff, and I try to keep Avery busy & having fun, even if it isn't necessarily with me. On Sunday afternoon Sean & Sarah invited Avery over for awhile to jump on their super-fun trampoline. On Monday Avery got to play for the afternoon at Kate's house, and was particularly interested in zooming along the sidewalk as fast as she could on Kate's bike (which makes me long for a flat sidewalk neighborhood, oh well)After the afternoon at Kate's, Avery & I went to the hospital to see Jordan for awhile, and slipped out to he nearby Alameda pub for dinner on the sidewalk in the fresh, spring air. As you can see, Avery is still very much into hopping & jumping, even a couple of weeks past the MDA Hop-A-Thon they did at school in April. Avery also likes to "hop" up into bed with Jordan for some snuggles, and for some nursing attention, too.

On Wednesday, Avery came to the hospital with me for awhile, where we planned to spend a couple of hours doing the Child Life Ladybug Garden project. There were 7 ladybug projects to do, but unfortunately, they each took no more than 4 minutes, so we were outta there in just about 30 minutes.

A little while later we picked up Ariana & Aidan, and their mommy Heather, for a trip to see the dinosaurs at OMSI. Ariana & Avery are so alike in so many ways it's eerie. They're definitely both tomboys, and we could hardly drag them away from worm collecting in Ariana's yard to go to OMSI. Once there they were both fascinated by the dinosaurs (skeletons & robots), digging for bones in the bone pits, playing in the ecosystem stream, and of course, checking out all the creepy crawly things, too.
Aidan thought the girls were pretty funny, he was very entertained watching them. He was being a ham for the camera, too.
The girls put on a mongoose puppet show for us, too, although it really mostly involved waving the animals around.
Finally, the creepy, crawly things (okay, they have a whole room of them. The girls couldn't be dragged out, finally the museum closed around us and we had to leave).
Of course on Tuesday and Thursday after an afternoon of gardening with nana Noma, there were swimming lessons. (Unfortunately I didn't get video of her swimming on her tummy, which she can actually do by herself for a little bit)


And on Fridays it's gymnastics time at the end of the day (she's in the middle distance, in the pink & purple leotard).

After a work out like that for 45 minutes, Avery was pretty excited to go to Sweet Tomatoes, her favorite restaurant (a giant salad bar) with Devon for dinner tonight.

With all of this it doesn't seem like it should suck to be the "healthy" kid, but it's still not fun, either, to have mom & dad's attention spread so thin for 9 days.