The Fraser Family: October 2011

October was Brynn's month! Brynn began crawling all over the place and even taught himself to go up the stairs. The first time he did this I was so excited! I could not believe that my little peanut that was told he might be wheelchair bound was actually climbing the stairs. However, I then started to panic, knowing I was going to have to watch him like a hawk so he wouldn't fall down the stairs! Brynn also began to walk while pushing a toy shopping cart. I would hold the cart steady as Brynn put all his weight onto the handle. Knowing he wanted to be independent, I decided to put a gallon of paint in the cart to hold it steady. WaLa! Brynn had become a walking machine! He also started talking. It was the first time that I could give him 2 choices and he would tell me what he wanted. We could also have a conversation with him! We just cannot believe the progress he has made. It is as if a switch clicked and he developed into a toddler boy over night. However, all the walking and crawling had to come to an immediate stop because Brynn had his 2nd hip surgery on October 5th.

After already being though one hip surgery, we thought we knew what to expect and were not worried about the procedure, just dreading the body cast. That Wednesday I took Brynn into the hospital expecting to have the surgery done, stay the night and then go home the following morning just like we did last time. I even told Simon to stay at school and not to worry about coming home for it. The surgery went well, and I met Brynn in his hospital room. Later that day Brynn started to chock and stopped breathing and turned purple. I called for help and the nurses helped suction him and that allowed him to breath normal again. He wasn't tolerating his feeds and I kept telling them the body cast was too tight. He then stopped breathing and turned purple again. The nurses called for back up and during the 3rd time Brynn turned purple, I told Simon to get home. As it turns out, Mother know best and the cast WAS TOO TIGHT! They cut the opening out around his stomach, which allowed Brynn to take deep breaths and also to tolerate his normal feeds. Because they cut away so much of the cast, they had to put a metal bar between his legs. The left it very difficult to hold and position him, but we made it work!

Mia went to school telling her and Brynn's teachers that Brynn has a boo boo and is wearing a cast. She always makes sure that Brynn is okay and has been wonderful to him. She brings him toys, and hugs and kisses him. She loves him so much! But she doesn't like the cast.. she keeps telling me that she wants me to take Brynn to the doctors so they can take off the cast so Brynn can play with her. Now can you get any sweeter then that?!

We did manage to go trick-or-treating. Simon surprised us and came home. He said he couldn't miss trick-or-treating with the twins. He is such a great daddy! Mia was Belle and Brynn was Woody! We pushed Brynn in the stroller and walked to probably 30 houses. The kids got a ton of candy and of course they (Mia) had to come home and eat a few pieces before bed. For the next week Mia kept saying "Lets go get our Princess dress on so we can go trick-or-treating!" It took awhile for her to understand that we can't go trick-or-treating everyday! But boy oh boy, that would be fun if we could go everyday!