Connor asked Buddy to go up onto his bed one night and Buddy immediately accepted the invite. The next night, Logan did the same and Buddy did not refuse either. Now Buddy often visits the boys, and he usually stays only several minutes on their beds. They all look very happy together.
When I asked the boys to learn how to draw their names in 3D, these were their great work.
Connor has been complaining of stomachache on and off for some time. On 7/2 evening after they had gone to bed, Connor started reporting more tummy pain and something in his throat. He even mentioned about having some trouble breathing with the throat issue. The symptoms lingered around for over an hour. It seemed to change in intensity back and forth; finally Connor fell asleep. I had decided that his symptoms was GERD, and started him on Pepcid as of 7/3 and had him change some of the bad habit he had,i.e.laying down after eating breakfast or lunch. That evening by bedtime, Connor was bothered quite a bit with the symptoms again, tummy ache, something in his throat and also complained of “can’t breathe”. Because of that, I called the Advice nurse that night at 9pm. After talking with the Advice Nurse for quite awhile, Connor also answered some of her questions. She consulted an ED doc and suggested for us to take Connor in to ED due to the complaints of trouble breathing. The reasons we called the Advice Nurse was to assure what we were doing for Connor, and I truly believed that it was very bad GERD symptoms Connor was experiencing and that he did get through it the night before. So we declined taking Connor in; the ED doctor came on the line later to make sure we understood the danger if Connor truly could not breathe. Fortunately after some of struggle, Connor felt asleep and woke up better the next morning.
For the next few days Connor continued to have tummy ache and the lump in his throat, but not as severe as the first 2 nights. I put him on omeprazole as I could not find more Pepcid at the store. We had a video visit with a doctor in mid week; she felt that we were on the right track taking care of Connor. She suggested to continue the medication for another week and stop to see what happens next. Today is the first day without the medicine; hope Connor will not have more issue.
This was our annual camping weekend, but due to the pandemic and the recent surge, our friends and us finally decided to call it off. We had initially planned to go to the Kao’s backyard to hangout on this holiday, but because Connor was having bad tummy ache the night before, we unfortunately had to call this off too. for this holiday, we spent some time in our backyard instead. We had a quick lunch out there, and in the evening after our long walk, we spent time around a campfire. We enjoyed grilling marshmallow to have some S’more; Logan had quite a few and still wanted more. We then watched the fire, playing with the long sticks, telling scary stories, we ended up staying in the yard for 2 hours. Buddy did well hanging and laying down with us too. This pit that we used was actually bought 15 years ago, and for the first time we made a good use of it.
Even though Buddy had a good routine every evening to go into his crate and did not seem to mind to sleep there, Stuart and I decided that it might be time to let him be free at night. A few nights ago we led him to his crate but without closing the gate before we proceeded going upstairs; a few minutes later, Buddy discovered that the gate was open and later he moved onto sleeping outside our closed door the rest of the night. The next few nights, Buddy had already learned and just followed us up to upstairs. The past 2 nights, we left our bedroom door opened just in case for Connor (more on that), Buddy proceeded to come inside our room and just laid next to our bed to sleep. At least he had learned not to bother us until we are awake the next morning.
It was time again; both boys’ hair were long and messy. Thus last weekend we did their hair again. The boys did not mind as they knew they could play on their phone while cutting. The sessions were long this time; I spent at least one hour on each boy, one on each day. Stuart also helped with the razor part for Logan. I kept Connor’s hair long as requested by Connor, but Stuart thought that I should have cut it shorter. Logan’s looks alright now, much shorter and cleaner.
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