Wyatt James Koger, A Fighter from Birth: A day of reading

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

A day of reading

Aunt Danielle eating salad

Grandmom (Wyatt and Chloe's great-grandmom).

Aunt Danielle entertaining everyone

Wyatt loves reading books!

Today was a snow day and a rare day where I was completely alone with both kids all day long. So what did I do? I decided to take them both to story time at the library by myself! It took a while to pack things up, but both kids enjoyed it and it was nice to be out with BOTH kids and just me. It was hard, but worth it. We then surprised Daddy at work before going home for lunch. Later my family came over for dinner and Aunt Danielle read some more to them. Lately, Wyatt has been so interested in books. He hands you a book to read to him and helps turn the pages. He listens so intently as you read and will yell if you stop. Wyatt seems to be progressing by leaps and bounds. I have heard him say, our dog's name, Abby. He says uhoh!, and I think I hear him say, "I did it!" He is also wanting to move around more by scooting his behind on the floor. I think crawling may be around the corner!!

1 comment:

Lamb Family said...: Funny...Aaron's first sentence was "Kasey did it!!"; February 5, 2009 at 11:07 PM

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Hurdles that I faced and achieved!

After birth, I was placed on ECMO at Johns Hopkins Hospital for 13 days. On day 13, I had a surgery to repair my hernia and was removed from ECMO, but my organs would not fit in my abdomen. I had a silo for a week and then surgery to place the organs back in the abdomen. Then, part of my intestines re-herniated into my chest cavity two months later and I had another surgery to repair that. After my first surgery, I experienced an intraventricular hemorrhage in my brain and at four months old I received a VP shunt. After I was extubated, I learned that I have right vocal cord paralysis. Then I had g-tube surgery and after I finally got to go home after 5 longs months at Johns Hopkins and Mt. Washington Hospital! Only for a few weeks, though. In mid-April my intestines reherniated again and sent me into surgery. I came home, and had a long run before my THIRD reherniation in the beginning of September on Labor Day weekend in 2008. Then I was hospitalized for twice during the winter 2009 for two respiratory infections. Well, I almost lasted a year until my next surgery! Just this past June, in 2009, I had surgery to wrap my stomach around the esophagus, a nissen. This has helped with my reflux and my hiatal hernia. I will be 2 in October, I love scooting around but refuse to stand up and walk. I am a little miracle and thank God, my doctors, my nurses, family, and friends for my strength, my fight and a happy life.