Three days later..

This is Austin. He finally got the courage to walk all the way to the game room!! I think this is the first big step to getting back to normal. I don't think he can use the game controller with his hurt hand yet, but if anything will motivate him to try to use his fingers, XBox is it.

Now when Austin needs to go pee, I help him up but make him hold his cast himself. I stand beside him in case he loses balance, but he makes the trek with little assistance. He hates that I won't help him, but he needs the tough love to get him feeling able and less fearful. He'll scream at me and say, "you're HURTING me!!" and I'll say, "Austin, you hurt YOURSELF making a bad decision. I'm trying to help you". He's sometimes belligerent and ungrateful, but I know it's bc he feels like crap and doesn't like to need help.

As you can see, there's more smiling and he even laughed when I was sponge bathing him last night. He woke up at 1am- apparently having a bad dream- crying and saying, "no! stop! I said that hurts..". We gave him his meds and he went back to sleep until about 9am.

Last night AJ hit his head REALLY hard on the corner of a wall. It was actually bad enough that I almost took him to the ER. He cried for about an hour.. Today the coconut has gone down considerably, but there's still a cut (that didn't actually bleed). We still did his 4yr pix today and AJ really worked the camera... that kid is a freaking HOOT.

Nate's good. That's all for now.