SATURDAY

sorry i didn't update yesterday, i got the flu/cold again for the second time in one month. what's up with that (i even got a flu shot)?

today my mom, the kids, and i went to the "ghetto" mall i call it. emily saw this carousel and started going nuts because she wanted to go on it so bad. i made grandma go on it with them because they make me sick. they loved it!
my dad will not smile for the camera because he says he can't remember how to smile, or what his smile is supposed to look like. he got to walk across the street to a little strip mall today. he is getting so depressed, so i think that getting out of the hospital, and getting some fresh air must do him good.

he looks so normal without his neck brace on. they let him leave it off for a little bit here and there. he is just so darn skinny. we need to fatten him up. he does so well walking with the cane. you really can't even tell that he needs it. next week we get to go on a "family" outing of some kind. probably just to go and eat lunch or something. he says the hospital food is terrible. he can't figure out how they manage to make everything so dry, and taste exactly the same. i think tomorrow we are going to take him dinner. i wish that there was some way to cheer him up. i can imagine how depressed he must be! i think anyone would feel the same way going through all he's gone through.