Devine

We had a big day on Saturday.

All 5 of the cousins came and spent the night. When Wolfgang woke up on Saturday morning, he was beside himself with happiness to discover all the kids there.

We left San Antonio at about 9 and drove to Devine to go to the pumpkin farm. But first we went into town for the parade.

Wolfgang had no idea what was going on, and even before the parade started he was just thrilled to be there. Fists wiggling. Legs kicking. Squeals. He didn't know why we were sitting on the curb eating breakfast tacos and he didn't care.

He was stunned when something finally happened.

It was one of THESE kinds of parades.......

Anyway, then we went to the farm. The kids loved it!

There were mazes and fishing and a hayride and animals and pumpkins and Christmas Trees.

And then there was the playground. By this point I was barely hobbling along.

We both made use of the cane.

Look at that stomach! Ack!

Today was not a good day.

As stressful as it was for us, it was infinitely worse for the Gooster.

He had an MRI done. We had to be there at 7:30 for a 9 o'clock appointment. That meant we sat around and twiddled our thumbs for an hour and a half. He hadn't eaten since the day before, but he was a happy happy boy.

...Until they tried to stick him with the IV needle. They couldn't get the vein in his arm and had to do it in his foot. He screamed for Grammy and Papa. It nearly broke my heart.

They took him back at about 9:30 and we didn't hear from them again until nearly 11:30.

Then we got to go meet him in the recovery room.

Lets just say the waking up part was the hardest.

When he finally (after an hour or so) regained consciousness, he screamed and thrashed and lost his foot IV and blood went everywhere. We had to leave the hospital with a screaming, naked Wolf wrapped in a blanket.

:( Poor Goo.

We'll have an appointment with the neurologist soon to see what we find and what happens next.

Halloween

The Wolf had a fun weekend, mainly because it was Grammy's birthday and he reaped the benefits.

Yesterday we grilled and then had chocolate cake. Dave and Sue had gone to a Spurs game the night before and Wolfgang wore his "go go go" shirt most of the day (including to church)

Afterwards, the Wolf donned a Houston Oilers uniform Sue found for him at a garage sale. We were just going to take pictures.....

....of the winking footballer....

....but then Randy took him outside and it dawned on us that people were giving out candy. So we stuffed him in his stroller and walked up and down the street gathering loot.

It was so cute that I could hardly stand it.

Zoo!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Or as Wolfgang would say, "Thloo!"

While I was drinking nasty stuff and having my blood sucked out at the lab, Grammy and Randy took Wolfgang to the Thloo.

It was so, so, so exciting!!

This is my favorite time.

Wolfgang is so interested in everything and absolutely awestruck by the simplest things.

"Vish!!!"

Elephants!

And the best part, Butterflies!

Arg! He melts my heart on a daily basis. How can a human being be so sweet and wonderful?

We have an MRI scheduled for him on Friday so pray that goes ok. And my diabetes test came back 100% normal. Yee-haw.

Now I can eat candy in peace. :)

This week

The good thing is that Wolfgang pretty much has a good attitude no matter what is going on.

He is feeling better. Sweet little spaz.

But his doctor feels like we need to see a neurologist about Wolfgang's balance issues. I've scheduled an MRI and a few more things before we see the specialist. He wants to be able to look at all the results and see whats going on in the Guggy-Gooster-Brain.

I'm more worried about the tests than the results. Wolfgang is such a smarty that I'm not too worried about that end of things. He can count to five, spell "We" and "Go" and he can identify and say every letter of the alphabet. And his fine motor skills are pretty darn good.

So now we just need to get to the bottom of the drunken sailor movements.

Tomorrow I am going in for a second glucose test. 3 hours. Drink nasty stuff, take blood. My doctor called a couple of days ago and said that my latest round of blood-test showed that I am anemic and possibly.......gestationally....diabetic.

You know what I mean.

Long Time No Blog

I sit down at my computer and its always really really late. My stack of projects to do after 8pm is teetering.

Things are going good. Wolfgang has been pumpkin carving with Randy on a regular basis. He's pretty much learned the ins and outs.

He loves it.

From beginning to end.

We got him his own and gave him a marker.

Before the face application.....

After the face application.

He is also really digging his room these days.

He just wants to sit and play.

He is sick sick sick today though.

We took him to the doc because he has a 102 fever. He has some kind of throat infection. Poor little pitiful baby. He's done a lot of clinging and laying around.

Quick Note

We haven't done much with Wolfgang's room since we've been here because things have been so temporary. But Wolfgang loves his room. So we finally took down the pack-n-play and set up his big boy bed. Haven't finished the room or his bedding, but I thought I'd post a couple of pictures of him in his new corner.

I let him go nuts with some stickers (temporary!)

He loves his bed!