Sunshine State

We decided to take a little family vacation to Florida for a long weekend in November. The plane ride down there was uneventful and all the boys were well behaved. They even got to sit in the cockpit at the end.

 

 

We spent a couple days with just us in the Ft Myers and Marco Island area. Enjoyed lots of swimming and playing on the beach. 

 

 

 

My parents joined us 1/2 way through so that was fun to spend time with them too!!  They watched Maverick so we could take the older boys on an airboat ride in the Everglades. 

 

 

  

Josh and I had a nice dinner out too!

 

It was a wonderful time away with the kids!

Cast Take #2

On Sunday evening when I returned from a work trip, I noticed that Mavericks foot had slipped back about 1/2" or so in his cast. 2 main concerns with that: foot position itself and no longer getting the stretch we wanted for the tendon; and pressure sores on his foot on the areas rubbing against the cast. Put a message out to the dr, they called back on Monday morning instructing us to go to UW clinic right away to evaluate it. They cut the cast off and were pleased with the progress so far (way better range of motion). Since the cast was off, they sent us across town to get fitted for a new AFO. Once that was done, we had to go back to the UW clinic to get a new cast put on until next week. Baby boy was a trooper throughout most of our day (~7.5 hours), considering poor nap and not very many bottles. Silver lining in all this is that hopefully his new AFO will be ready when his cast comes off and with the new cast, they were able to get stretched a little bit more.  

Bad news is that he doesn't fit into the Zipzac chair very well.