Been awhile...

Well it has sure been a while since an update, but I'm sure everyone was checking the caring bridge instead of this.

Brode is doing great after surgery, back to his normal, little boy self. Our week in Milwaukee was long, but good. The hospital was very nice so it wasn't completely awful sitting in the same room the whole time. We were each able to get time out of the hospital, and each had time alone with Brode.

Friday night Matt and I were given a break as my dad took us to the Brewer game and my mom sat with Brode at the hospital. The game was Matt's first Brewer game, and although we were at the very top and they lost it was still a good relief from the hospital!


I'm staying home with Brode this week, getting a few hours of work in when I can. We have lots of visitors and people that want to see him so I'm sure we'll be busy! Brode has gotten back on his schedule perfectly so hopefully we won't need to mess anything up.

Our Weekend

We stayed pretty busy this weekend and got a lot of fresh air. Saturday Brode had swimming lessons so Matt and I took him. He loves swimming, but unfortunetaly this saturday will be his last class for the summer because of surgery. We don't want to risk his incision getting infected from swimming!

The rest of the day we hung out at home. Alix came to Neenah from Minnesota and we visited and had lunch with her, then spent the rest of the day after nap time outside.

Sunday was pretty nice out so we played outside, then headed to the family reunion on the Rivet side. Brode got to meet a lot of people, and see people that haven't seen him since Christmas! They were shocked to see how big he was and how much of a little boy he has become.

This week we're sticking to a regular schedule and hopefully getting some things prepared for Milwaukee next week!

Brode's curiosity has been growing more and more lately, and today is grew a little too close to the dog dish. He has splashed in the water, but has never been near the food dish when it was full, except for this morning. A kernel happened to slip into his mouth and he got a good taste before grandma could fish it out. Unfortunetaly he doesn't know how to talk so he can't tell us how it truely tasted.

Neenah

Brode had a night to experience Neenah. Shattuck Park has music on Wednesday night so we packed up the baby and headed downtown because it was such a nice night! The hit thing for kids to do is play in the fountain, so of course we had to let Brode.

Update

Well we have been extremely busy so I've only have time for some short updates. The weekends have been packed with something since the beginning of June and work all week doesn't give us much free time. We had some concerns come up with Brode that we had to start going to a physical therapist and an eye doctor, on top of his usual doctor and Milwaukee appointments. There was an awful week that the poor little guy had a doctors appointment 4 days in a row!

Brode is starting to pull up on things now so it wont be long and he'll be daring to stand alone and before we know it... walking!

This 4th of July weekend was relaxing for the Rivets. We went up to the cottage and got some nice weather for the first time this week! Brode stayed overnight with my family, but I came home for the fireworks and to hang out with some girls! Brode had his first 2 boat rides at the cottage, but didn't like them very much because of his annoying life jacket.

Hopefully the next few weeks will calm down before our chaos starts again! Everyone have a great week!