Three More Years

9:30 – Cardinal Glennon.

Yali wailed when he saw the blood pressure cuff coming towards him.

“No! No!”

That’s another word he knows how to deliver very clearly now.

“We’re just going to hug your muscle because we love it,” the nurse told him.

That was good enough for Yali. He stopped crying. Until the echocardiogram. Fortunately, they let me hold him the whole time, and he realized that having an ultrasound on his abdomen wasn’t so bad after all. Especially when Mickey Mouse is playing on the television.

An hour later, the cardiologist delivered his results.

“Everything is still good for right now,” the doctor told me in a quiet, Indian accent. “He will not need to come back for three years.”

After 53 medical/therapy appointments in the past fourteen months for the squirmy young man, this was good news indeed.

Yali turned a little snarky around lunchtime. Sometimes he just likes being three. This continued into the afternoon when we joined Puck and Heidi in Hans’ classroom for homework.

It only took about half an hour for them to finally decide how to set up their homework station. Mostly involving bean bag chairs and not working.

“We should work together,” Puck advised. “It’ll go a lot faster if we don’t fly solo.”

“What if I want to fly solo?” Heidi suggested.

Puck didn’t have an answer. He was already going to town on the fruit snacks. Heidi quickly joined him and therefore did not fly solo. Although I think more fruit snacks landed on the carpet than in stomachs today.

Before we hit the road for home, Yali went squawking across the room about something or other.

“It’s going to be so fun knowing what he’s really thinking in there once he gets all those words together,” Hans said, as Yali growled at him with two bear claws.

One word he does have together is “no”, and he uses it liberally. Too liberally…

Puck’s Monthly What-do-You-Want-to-be-When-You-Grow-Up Status:

“A scientist! Who builds Legos into science games. No, a game programmer. No, a secret scientist who’s a game programmer! No! A game programmer that’s secretly a scientist and a Lego engineer!”