Rango and busy week ahead

Everyone enjoyed Rango! Colin wavered between Rango and HOP but finally decided on Rango. I'm glad he did. Dada even went with us today and I really think that he liked it--not sure if he would have enjoyed hop as much.

We all slept in. Of course, I was the first one up as usual. Julie came at 10:00 and helped us get everyone ready. Gene gave Colin a shower...right into his chair and out the door we went! We made it to the theater and our seats while the last trailer was playing. There were only a handful of families in the theater beside us. Casey was so cooperative! He only had two short "yells" but nothing outrageous. He laughed and giggled a lot. I think he liked having his Dada there. Colin was his usual happy self, laughing and talking to the movie and getting excited and expressing his feelings of being worried, or jubilant, according to whatever was going on in the plot. He's so cute!

Played a couple of games afterward, but nothing too thrilling. We used my swag card to buy the tickets and concessions so next time we'll have a free ticket! We spend enough at this theater so it's nice to get something back.

What a pretty day out! It always seems like we choose the pretty days to go to the movies, oh well! It was sunny but breezy and spring fresh.

We stopped at Main Street to see Grandma and Grandpa O. They came out to the van to visit and I went up and got Julia and Roxy, AKA PigDog. She was so excited to see me! She even chose me over Gene!!

Settled the boys in the living room. Kid's Choice Awards on. Colin protested, at first, but then got into them.

We have a busy week this week. Of course, tomorrow is the BIG 10 for Colin! We'll have our normal family celebration in the evening with cake and presents. Tuesday after school we have the nutritionist coming. Wednesday after school our RT, Paul, is bringing over the Trilogy and showing a couple of the nurses some of the basics. Thursday is THE day we go to the PICU for the day for Colin to try out the Trilogy. I'm not too thrilled about being admitted for the day but there's mostly likely no reason we will have to stay overnight. It will be good to have Dr. Heath (Intensivist), Dr. Lahiri (pulm), our RT, Rich from Respironics and some of the RTs we know from the hospital around. No one (well, except Rich!) has used this unit so it's important to me to have other people know it in case we have issues or need something...Colin will not be happy but we will keep him distracted with movies. He's getting so much better about new situations that I know he will do fine.

Oh, and I will be calling the PICU tomorrow to see how the RSV is. A couple of weeks ago it was very quiet and I hope that's still the case. I was hoping to bring Colin to school this week to celebrate his birthday and visit the book fair but so many of the kids in his class, and the kids at the elementary school in general, have been sick with various illnesses.

Friday will be just a normal day, whew!

Saturday is the big fundraiser for the 8th grade Boston trip. There is going to be a fire truck pull, carnival, food, tag sale, music, etc. Should be fun.