Ryan has an MRI

Standing on Dad; You can really see how big Ryan is getting: 24 pounds and 31 inches long!

Playing with a dump truck with such intensity
My pile of food: ham, crackers and string cheese. Yes, he ate it all!
In the bath, again!
The pool at our Church picnic
The pool at our house. (I prefer the pool at our fellow church members house!!!)

The water was a little chilly!

Today, Ryan had an MRI at CGCH. The neurologist we saw last month ordered an MRI to see how things were going. Since he left the NICU over a year ago, he hasn't had any tests or scans. This was just a follow-up test and we will find out the results next week. Not to worry, just follow-up and hopefully it will tell us everything we already know.
The day was exhausting. Ryan could not eat anything after 9:30am and his test wasn't until 1:00pm. We had to distract him and decided the zoo was our best bet. We went there and Ryan enjoyed tracking the monkeys! We then arrived at CGCH and everything went like clockwork. We were home by 3:00pm.
The time at the hospital was bittersweet. It was heart wrenching watching him have an IV put in his arm. He screamed, yet while he was screaming, he yelled MOM! The nurses are the ones to point this out. Tim and I looked at each other and nearly cried. He hasn't said MOM before! When the test was over, they had us come back in the room. We both got really emotional. He was hooked to the monitors again as well as having oxygen. It brought back so many memories of being in the NICU. We both had to hold back the tears. After waking from the sedation, he said it again, and it was very clear, MOM!!! ( he was also saying DADA), but he has never said an M sound. I guess it takes drugs and sedation for him to say MOM!
The nurses said he will probably sleep more of the day away. This was not the case. The little man was awake and thirsty, taking in almost 20 ounces of milk in 4 hours! He wouldn't stop drinking.
Like I said, we are all exhausted and I now have to find a way to take Ryan to school and go back to work tomorrow. All I want to do is hold him and play.
Attached are some photos of the week.
Keep positive thoughts for Ryan this week, as we wait for his test results.