A little piece of heaven

Nathan woke up with a fever and very upset so we took him in to the doctor and they found he has an ear infection.

We were thrilled!

They were trying to send us to the emergency for him to have a CT scan.

So we were happy as can be that it was just an ear infection. I don’t think the doctors regularly see parents that are thrilled when their child has an ear infection, flu, cold, RSV.

So we were spared having to go to the hospital, CT scans, and all that junk.

He’s on amoxycillin now and we expect him to feel better quickly.

Today we baby sat gorgeous Presley and went to the open house of a therapeutic equestrian center near our house:

Heads up therapy

We got all the info to enroll Nathan in the program. Also, Nathan and Presley got to see the horses and to touch a gorgeous show horse.

Nathan also sat really straight for a little while today..we didnt’t get that on camera, by the time we got the camera he’d already gotten tired.

At the end of the night Presley and Owen were pretty worn down.

Oops I woke him up with the camera.

Last night someone asked us, “What milestones has Nathan reached?”

I laughed. Ours is a different world. Milestones is not in our vocabulary. “We don’t keep track of those in this house,” I answered with a smile. Owen tried to respond. But nothing came to mind. Milestones is such a big world. You think of miles. You think of big things, long distances, huge accomplishments.

Things like sitting up, crawling, walking, self feeding, potty training. Amazing things like that.

But if we answer, Nathan hasn’t met any milestones, we wouldn’t be doing him justice. We wouldn’t do justice to how hard he tries, how hard he works for every little thing he achieves. We know he’s made progress. He’s doing so well. But he hasn’t met any milestones.

So for Nathan, we established a new concept.

Say hello to InchStones.

InchStones are the building blocks of milestones. They are those little tiny things that we can’t take for granted.

Inchstones are things like:

Nathan’s hasn’t been to the hospital in 3 months!

Nathan put his hand in his mouth by himself yesterday!

Nathan sat by himself for 15 seconds!

Nathan sat up straight for 1/2 of a second.

Nathan took another breath and lived another day.

So we’ve created this new category in Nathan’s blog. Here we will keep track of his InchStones. We will record tiny things he does, tiny things that mean the world to us.

Keep an eye out as one day soon I am sure we will even post a milestone or two 🙂