Graz Day 3

Weight=9.55 kg

Swimming this morning was great. Warm and happy. Porter loved it too.

LOGO=speech therapy with Christina. Good session. August drank from his sippy cup and took juice through a syringe and Finger Feeder tip attached on end. Squirt into side of mouth.

Play Picnic=great. Split into two groups so siblings could join in again. We were in the quiet room with MDS. She said August is doing great, asked if he was always so calm and content. Nope!

He ate pom-bars and pudding and was his usual self. Tasted lost of things, dumped food out, crawled through it, not bothered that it was all over him. Ate a whole chocolate umbrella.

We stopped his second tube feeding, so now he is down to one dinner-time meal through his tube and his water+honey at night.

August was able to get in shower today after picnic, he was such a mess.

Got together with 2 other families this afternoon. Very nice people from Wales and London. Zhara’s (20 month old girl) family is staying right across the hall from us and Adam’s (3 year old boy) is staying in a hotel downtown. The kids sat on floor, fed each other and played. We will hopefully do more of this.

So far, so good. Porter has been sleeping a ton and I am tired too. Fifteen-minute, uphill walk to breakfast every morning, then walk to hospital, then back to our guesthouse. Exhausting. And it is hot, humid and sunny. Today we bought a week-long bus/tram pass and rode the #82 home, still a killer hill to walk up, but it is faster. My calf muscles are sore and tight. We should be in great shape by the time we get back to Portland, though with the amount of food we are eating, it’s not likely.

I will bring August to therapy (LOGO) at 8:15 tomorrow while Porter and Johnny explore the city and the armory–largest collection of armor and weapons in the world.