We have finally gotten around to putting up photos of Atticus’ 3rd Birthday weekend. There are pictures of his birthday dinner at Red Robin and his party at the Wacky Bear Factory.
We also have some photos of his day at the Etowah County Fair.
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Trampoline Time from Justin Thurman on Vimeo
Atticus visited his grandparents in Manchester, TN this weekend. While there he enjoyed his cousins trampoline. His Uncle Randy took some great photos and I mixed them in with one of the greatest jam bands of all time. This one had a little trouble when the video was encoded, so please forgive me. I hope you enjoy
We had a lot of photos of Atticus the week after his surgery playing in the pool. So, I decided to make a little presention with the pictures accompanied by a song sung by the least talented of The Beatles
Update: You should all be able to see it now
Update2: Moved it to vimeo
Pool Time from Justin Thurman on Vimeo.
Atticus had the tubes in his ears replaced today and his adenoids removed. It was as pleasant of a day as it probably could have been.
He was so well behaved before the surgery, even though he couldn’t eat or drink all morning. They were so nice at Children’s Hospital as well. The only complaint that we could have had was that the TV in our room didn’t work.
The surgery only took about 30 minutes to complete. He was probably out of the room a total of an hour. He came back to the room still asleep and was the sweetest little boy when he awakened.
The combination of nausea from the anasthesia and riding home in the car led to a little problem on the ride home. Some of Atticus’ pear juice came back out.
When we got home, he was ready for some lunch. Then he was ready to play, despite the fact that everyone else was ready to nap after a real early morning.
Hopefully this is out last hospital visit for some time.
So today Atticus had his very first day of school where he went ALL DAY. I was so nervous. I worried the night before and I worried about him all day while he was there. To top things off he had a rough night last, woke up at 1:30 coughing and decided it was a great excuse to party until 4:45… Mom and Dad were not amused. But, given all of this he had a FANTASTIC day at school!!!
He was in great spirits all day and you could tell that he really enjoyed being there (they have an observation booth where I can watch). We are so very proud of him. He has the best team of teachers and therapists working with him. We are so blessed and thankful for the entire group of Team Atticus including those at school, his doctors, his therapists his family and many friends. We really do love you all.
A quick funny I forgot to share the other day:
“It snowed Huggies Wipes at my house…”
One evening Atticus was in rare form and did not want to go to bed. He was very hyper and super tired but just couldn’t calm down. We tried to get him to go to sleep and finally decided to let him wind down in his room while we listened on the monitor. At one point we heard some crinkling and I remembered that there was an extra diaper laying on the floor. We figured he had found it and was slinging it around… After about 20 minutes he got quiet and we figured he was asleep. A little more chattering during the next 20 minutes and he was actually did go to sleep.
I tried to open the door to check on him and his face was right in front of the door. As I reached an arm in (laying in the hall, trying to reach him without hitting him in the face with the door), I saw a couple of wipes under the door. I thought… ahhh he found the almost empty bag of wipes on the floor too… Well, I finally got the door open enough to poke my head in and survey his position and continue to move him out of the doorway. When I poked my head in I didn’t even notice how he was laying. All I could see was beautiful layer of freshly fallen wipes that were ALL over his bedroom floor. Apparently the almost empty bag of wipes was in MY Room and the new bag of economy size “refill” wipes was in his room. It was the funniest thing in the world. And, he was sound asleep on top of them all. That was the sweetest part. I only regret that I forgot to take a picture!!
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Atticus is feeling much better today. He has had a rough week. He came down with a stomach virus on Monday that kept him up most of the night getting sick. He lacked energy all week after that. Well, apparently his immune system was on the ropes and he wound up with an ear and throat infection (new tubes in ears soon). So, we had to wake him up twice last night to give him breathing treatments. He seems to feel good right now. He even helped sing Happy Birthday to my dad this morning. Looks like we will celebrate the day at home with a low key day and cookout tonight. We do have some sparklers for Atticus to play with. I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday. |
Atticus is back for his first day of school since the surgery today. I still can’t believe how quickly he has recovered.
In celebration, I have prepared a little video with a site called Animoto. This was really easy to do. I think I’ll keep making these very week or so. Make sure to have your volume up to get the full effect.Atticus was in and out of his appointment with the cardiologist in record time today.
He received a clean bill of health. They took an X-ray, performed an EKG reading and took a look with the echocardiogram. They even removed his stitches from the chest tube. Everything looked fine. Atticus will go back in two months and then will just need to be checked out every two years after that.
He still has to keep his activity level down for one more week. So, no swimming or going to the park right now.
My parents are down, so they helped RaDonna with the little guys this morning. It is nice to know that she has help on days like today when I can’t get out of the office. They will also provide extra eyes while at Whole Foods today.
Also, thanks to Kenny for putting up the Team Atticus cafepress store. Kenny gave Atticus a shirt last year that he made from on the site. We will be ordering a bigger size soon. Also my parents want shirts. You know you want a shirt to0, so click on that think at the left and get to ordering.
