Family Week

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Hey Army,

Well, it has been quite the week.  When we were discharged the doctors told us that we should use this week off to do some family things. Caleb and I have always said we wanted to come to Seattle for vacation, we joked on the drive up to the ER how this was definitely not the way we wanted to have to come to Seattle. However, we will make the best of this week and enjoy every second we get with our family! They said that once treatment started that we couldn't be any further that about 45 minutes from the hospital at any given time.  And, not to mention that Atticus probably won't be feeling too well.  So, that is exactly what we did.  While staying at the SCCA house we were able to get some free tickets to a lot of the attractions here in Seattle, and we had SO MUCH FUN with Atticus this week. 

Sunday

Sunday we went downtown Seattle to Gas Works Park, it was a way cool park right on the water! We watched planes land right on the water in front of us! We saw cool boats and ships too! Atticus even got to chase some geese with dad too! We met up with Caleb's sister and family and were able to spend the day with them! Then we headed down to the space needle! Super cool sight to see! The kids had a blast playing at this awesome park there too! There is a giant maze and musical instrument pipes that Atticus loved playing with! It was the perfect day to spend as a family! We loved every minute of it!

Found a fun shirt with a big A for Atticus Army!!!

Thanks FAM for such a fun day.

By the time we got to the space needle  Atticus was so tired.  Poor kiddo, Mom, and Dad are running him all over.

Atticus loved playing the giant pipes.

Monday

So Monday, we had a few doctors appointments so we didn't do to much things.  As parents, we dread every time we have to walk through those hospital doors! We often wonder if it will ever get easier with time! I'm sure it's because we know all too well what goes on behind those doors! Atticus had a wound check, weight check, head measurement, and vitals checked. They talked to us about how he was acting, eating, talking, moving around etc. The Dr's are so impressed with his progress and recovery! Caleb and I are so excited and proud of our sweet boy's progress too! Everything looked good according to the Neuro Team on monday! HOOray! Monday Evening we went to the University Village shops! It's an outdoor mall near Seattle Children's Hospital. It has been so nice to just feel normal for a minute and do normal family things outside the Hospital world! We had an amazing day!

Thanks grandma for playing with me.

Tuesday

We took the kids to the Pacific Science Center! The kids were in Heaven! In fact, we spent just over 7 hours there! Grandma Cathy has been right there along with us! We are so grateful for all her help and time she spends with us! We have had amazing family support! The kids were able to see all kinds of experiments, a butterfly room, dinosaurs, reptiles, build machines, touch sea urchins, and many many more things.  We really had just a wonderful time there.  Grandma had such a fun time as well and she was just soo amazing with the kiddos.  She ended up buying us an annual membership which will be so fun for those times that we are stuck in the hospital that Grandma or Nana can just bring them there for the day. 

We all know how much Atticus loves balls, so this activity was bound to be a big hit for him.

Ryker LOVED doing all of these different electrical, and circuit building activities.  We may have an electrical engineer on our hands.

They had the coolest butterfly room.  There were hundreds of them just flying all over.  We even got to see one hatch.

We got a full grump face from Atticus with the pigeons.  He wasn't to sure about them at first.

This was Atticus's favorite activity.  It is just like one of the penny funnels that they usually have at the mall, but this one was with small ping pong like balls.  We easily spent 15 minutes here letting him throw them on it.  So much fun.

As you can see they were all very tired when we finished the 7 hour day at the science museum.  This was about 5 minutes after getting in the car.  We hadn't even pulled away from the curb yet.

Well that is it for now... The rest of the week to come.