Recuperating

The first few days after surgery, Matthew was on some pretty heavy duty pain medications. He slept quite a bit of the time which was probably good. But now, we can tell Matthew's feeling better. He is ready to be up and running around like usual. However, the surgeon wants him to be sedentary with minimal activity, really only walking. Yeah... try explaining that to a four year old!! The dressing greatly limits the clothes that Matthew can wear so it's not like we can take him places either. Poor kid.
He goes back for a recheck on Monday and the plan is that the urinary stent and dressing will be removed then. I'm not sure exactly what the follow up is after that.
We're sitting out on the deck right now trying to burn up a little bit of energy, yelling at the neighbor dogs (well, the kids are - not me, lol!), drawing with chalk, passing time. Mark is getting ready for the 19th Annual Fly -In at Cherry Grove Airpark near Wanamingo. For those of you who may not know, he has a small ultralight plane that he keeps there. Last summer, we were busy getting ready to bring Maia home and you know what we've been up to this summer... so he has not had any opportunity to fly for quite a while. But, it is a fun day. Small planes fly in, old cars and steam engines are on display, there's music, and good food. Mark spends a lot of time helping get the grounds ready for event and on the day of the fly-in, he is busy with helping park planes, direct traffic, whatever needs to be done. I usually spend the day there as well, but it's not going to happen this year. I may try to take the kids out for a little while and keep Matthew in the stroller. I'll have to see how he's doing in the morning. There's the potential for a lot of activity there and we're finding that he struggles a bit more with sensory overload than Maia does. The excitement just winds him up and it becomes difficult to get him calmed down.
But all-in-all, he's doing pretty well. We've got a few more appointments to get through. Tuesday, Matthew will see the ophthalmologist. The neurosurgeon appt has to be rescheduled since we totally spaced it off (it was 2 days after surgery and we forgot to cancel). We did decide to go ahead with pre-school a couple of half-days for Matthew. It will be good for him to be around kids who he will be in kindergarten with next year, help his English, teach him play, etc. Maia will begin pre-school through the Early Childhood Intervention program. She has come a long way in the time that she's been home, but she is not at the same level as her peers. So, she will benefit from some additional support and assistance.
That's where things are at. I've got a couple of posts running around in my head right now so stay tuned. I've been meaning to blog about "reluctant spouses" for a while now and just want to give my perspective on that for those of you who may be feeling strongly about adoption, but your spouse isn't on board.