Sunday, September 16

Date night!

Thanks to visiting grandparents, I was able to go in on Saturday and spend the night with John. Once he was done with his therapy sessions for the day, he got cleaned up, put on khakis, and showed off his ability to stand for 60 seconds:


"OK -- I've posed for you, now where's my chair?"

and we headed out for dinner at D4 (a wonderful Irish pub). We stuffed ourselves on fish and chips:

We'll have two orders of fish 'n chips, please -- hold the coleslaw!

and enjoyed the chance to talk outside of a hospital.



at D4

Then back to RIC for the Irish-Mich. St. game, an almost too-good-to-believe way to cap off our evening.

Today, John had PT at 8:00 am -- totally worth postponing breakfast for, since Mike started teaching him how to lower himself to the floor, how to get up off of the floor, and then worked him on the stairs.

Nana and Grandpaw brought Nora at lunchtime. After feasting on a batch of John's chili, we took him to the museum of contemporary art (2 blocks from RIC). The appeal of riding in Daddy's chair has not yet worn off (nor is she any lighter!) for Nora:

He and Nora really enjoyed the skyscraper exhibit, which included an interactive part (note Nora's reflection in the top right quadrant, just to the right of the red circle):

 

Our dessert of the day was (appropriately enough) cookies shaped like the Eiffel Tower (baked before we knew we would see this exhibit). We headed out mid-afternoon, and I have a sneaky suspicion that John then napped!