A little piece of heaven

I read this blog post today and it completely captured what I felt about Belle.

It was really beautiful and I think relevant not just to SN kids but life in general.

All of life is fragile and uncertain

We finally set up the merry muscles bouncy thingymajigy for Nathan. Thanks uncle Brian for helping set this up!

It was a bit of trial and error to get this to work for Nathan. It has a nice tall back so he can lean back on it and still use it, but his head kept falling off to the side. So I found that black thing which is just one of those weight loss vest type of thingies that women wear and tied it around and that kept his torso centered and his head from falling over. Once we did that, Nathan started playing around with bouncing!

As you can see here, he totally gets the concept. It’s just hard for him to do the movement. But this was literally his first time trying it – he got better a little while into the trial.

I’m SUPER excited about this because I think it will teach Nathan new ways of moving/using his legs. Before he didn’t understand the concept of bending and stretching so it was hard for him to take continuous steps. I think doing this will help him learn how to do this as well as help him to build strength. Wohooo!

Here he is hanging out with his little cousin Daniel. I wonder if this is what it’s going to be like when Belle is here?!!

…was just another lazy Sunday. I stayed off my PC until now (wohoo!) slept in (thanks Owen!) and watched a lot of Heroes. Picked up toilet paper and a little heater for the igloo (otherwise known as my house) and made pancakes for dinner for Nathan (but Belle and I snuck out for Pad-see-ew at the local thai restaurant).