Day 10

Hello Readers,

Well the visitors left a couple hours ago, and hopefully are having a quite trip home. It was so good to see the Lafferty’s and have new noises and distractions. With all the trucks and even the simplest Tupperware dish, Leo puts on a great show. Haha.

The visitors also brought on some trips out into the wild. Well, maybe not wild but out side of the living room. Saturday mid-day, we decided to head out to do some shopping. And surprisingly, it was Dad’s idea. We packed up the car and headed to the Mills in St. Charles. Dad even tried some things on and ended up buying a sweater vest. He’s so hip and cool. We borrowed a wheelchair from the mall, but it unfortunately didn’t have the piece to keep my leg up and straight. I ended up sitting on one of my crutches and rested my leg on the crutch. Don’t recommend anyone doing it for any long amount of time. Haha. It was great to get out of the house for the first time since the surgery. One of the best things was all of the little kids just staring at me. I think they were jealous that I had a reclining stroller. Haha.

Got back from that and was sadly pretty tired. Pretty hard to sit in a chair with wheels and shop apparently. We then watched KU slaughter Colorado and time for dinner. Kristin came over for dinner, so we decided to go to a movie after. Went out of the house for the first time and thought why not do it twice in one day. We went to Valentine’s Day, which ended up being a pretty good movie. Got there a little late and ended up having to sit in the front row though. Thank god there isn’t too much “action” in the movie or we would have gotten sick.

Sunday morning, woke up just before 5am. I’m definitely getting on Mom and Dad time, and not sure if I like it or not. Went to the bathroom by myself and ended up falling back to sleep, thank goodness. Got up and tagged along with Bob and Colleen for church. They left Leo behind with Mom and Dad, but didn’t know they were gaining a bigger kid to take care of. Haha.

Well, I have official weaned myself off of the painkillers. Those things definitely mess with mind and body. I’m now onto Extra Strength Tylenol and will save the remaining “good pills” for physical therapy.

All right, back to the Olympics and maybe some basketball. Hope everyone had a great weekend. Talk to you all later.