Cath date and funnies

It's totally strange how this always works out, but Elijah's big dates (surgeries, big appointments, etc.) always seem to fall on dates that have other significance. Again, this is happening. His heart cath will be on November 26th, which is the day before Thanksgiving, which means we will probably be in the hospital on Thanksgiving for a bit. I guess the day before Thanksgiving isn't technically a significant day, but close enough. Hopefully we will be out of the hospital in time to eat some yummy food. Dan will cry big huge tears if he can't eat a heap of stuffing as tall as our house.

The plan for Nov 26th is that Elijah will have a flow scan done on his lungs in the morning, followed by a heart cath at 11:30. Please say prayers about this. Putting big dates like this on the calendar makes me anxious.

I owe pics! I don't have any right now, so I'll get some this weekend. Right now I have a few funny things to share about our silly boy.

Yesterday while we were chatting with Dr. G, a kid in the room next to us was groaning/moaning pretty loudly. We could all hear it but no one acknowledged it. All of a sudden Elijah started imitating him and groaning back. Dr. G asked him if he was copying his friend from next door. We all giggled.

Elijah has been trying really hard to say words. When I change his diaper every morning, he plays with the buckles that are on the straps on his changing table. His word for "buckle" is "gung-gung" and he repeats it over and over. He finds buckles fascinating for some reason. Buckles, wheels and doors.

I have been trying to teach him the meanings of "stop" and "go," so I will push one of his little cars around on the floor as I say, "Gooooooooooo....Stop!" Well, the other day he was lying on the floor pushing a crayon around like it was a car (he pushes everything around like it's a car) and he was saying, "Daaaaaaaaaaa....Da!" I think that is his version of Goooooo, stop!

I think I mentioned before his love for a song we hear on PBS a lot about shapes. Whenever I sing it, he does these jerky movements with his arms to "draw" out the shapes in the air like they do on tv. Now, any time he sees a circle, triangle or a square, he starts doing his little jerky arm dance without any prompting from the song. I have to get this on video soon. It is just the funniest thing. Have you ever seen Elaine dancing on Seinfeld?

Elijah and I have a pretty low-key weekend planned. I'm praying for fewer tantrums than we experienced last weekend. He and I both woke up sick this morning (again for him) so hopefully we can get rid of the gunk with some tlc. Dan will be working all weekend. We will miss him.