I am slowly getting my hopes up that this means things are getting better, for good. At least, with regard to the laryngomalacia. Knock on wood, I haven't noticed any major cyanotic episodes in a while.. just a few seconds of cyanosis here and there.
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to spend some one-on-one time with my mini man. We had a wonderful afternoon. I picked him up from school, and we went on a nature walk collecting leaves for a project. I told Ryan to pick up the really cool leaves. At first, this meant every. single. leaf that he saw, but then when he realized his basket (behind him in the picture) was filling up way too fast, he became more discerning and began to notice only the leaves that had unique characteristics.
The leaves that made the cut
Next, Ryan looked at the leaves and we talked about their unique attributes, then separated them by those characteristics. He sorted them by color first, then leaf shape, leaf size.... that was fun! He found a huge leaf that we agreed to carry because it was too big for the basket, but because it was "so so so so cool, MOM!!" it could come home with us:
"This is a reawwy reawwy big weaf!!"
I found these awesome unfinished frames at Michael's for $4.99, plus I had a 40% off coupon, so they were $3! They're held together by wire links, and they have a piece of black wire at the top of one frame for hanging the series vertically. We chose some fall colors from our paint collection, and Ryan got busy decorating them.
He decided to layer the colors... the bottom frame is shades of yellow and orange. The middle frame is red and white, and the top frame is two shades of green mixed together.
While our frames dried, we had a dinner date at Cici's Pizza.
Macaroni and cheese pizza! Ryan's two favorite foods put together... he was very excited. Actually, it was pretty good! How wouldn't it be?? Bread, pasta, and cheese in one bite!!!
After dinner, we strolled through the toy store, and Ryan decided he absolutely HAS to have a Power Wheels F-150. I reminded him that he has a "motorcycle" (a Batman Power Wheels quad-bike looking thing) and he replied, "Yes, but it's not a yellow truck." True, very true...
I'm definitely going to be saving up some Amazon points, I think!
Later tonight, we will glue our leaves to the backing and frame them. I can't wait to see how the finished product turns out! It was so awesome spending some one-on-one time together, although once we got back to the house, Ryan was very concerned that Reagan wasn't there and he demanded that I "bring her back!" I assured him that G-ma and G-pop would be bringing her home soon.
Ryan's Batmobile. It's definitely getting a little small for him.
No comments:
Post a Comment