Can's and Cant's

Wyatt can:

• Sit at all times in a puffy kid chair with a pillow behind him to prop him up, in several different rooms around the house.
• Play at a kid-size table with colors, cars, dinosaurs or any other toy-ish thing.
• Sit at a kid-size table and eat.
• Sit in a jogging stroller and wheel around the yard a bit.
• Get frustrated while watching other kids play in the yard while he sits in a jogging stroller.
• Sit on a riding musical car and scoot a couple centimeters at a time with his good leg.
• Fuss and get agitated. (I don't blame him)
• Slide (with a parent/Dee Dee by his side at ALL times) down the slide with one broken leg sticking up in the air. Haaaay ... freestyle!
• Take a delightful sponge bath after we comb the dreadlocks out of the back of his hair with lots of de-tangling spray.
• Slide off his puffy kid chair and drive cars on the under-side of the kid table.
• Use everything from his nipples up (including his arms), and from his right knee down.
• Roar like a monster, dinosaur, grizzly bear, or anything else he thinks roars.
• Flex and point the toes on his left (broken) foot.
• Say, "stop it" and "go away" like a champ.
• Will hug, kiss and nuzzle with you after he takes his 1.3 ml of goodness in the form of pain meds.
• Cut you with his toe blades (toe nails). We're going to have to tackle that soon, just haven't had the nerve yet.

Wyatt can't:

• Bend at the waste at all.
• Crawl.
• Walk, obviously.

So, see? He can still do lots of stuff even though he's in a body cast. I think it's still too soon, but, by the end of this, we're hoping he can do some cool tricks like hobble around like a peg-leg, or, Army crawl something fierce. Maybe we can attach a cape with orange flames to him, fashion a roller or caster of some kind to his good knee, paint some flames on his cheeks and teach him to speed around and put on a show to see if he can draw a crowd. That's actually just like him. We think he's going to be a funny one.

Anyway, he's had several fun visitors bearing presents and goodies to brighten his day. We've been eating very well and when our spirits get a little down-and-out, aka, frustrated/impatient, we try to remember that this is temporary. So, that's how Wyatt's doin'. It's well.