Welcome to Jeremy World : Vacation 2012...

I realize I haven’t posted in almost a month, it’s been a crazy time but I’ll post about that later but now for our vacation.

We left our home on Wednesday, July 11 for vacation 2012. We arrived safety at our first destination of Osage Beach with my sister and 2 nieces. J was super excited to have a few traveling companions to entertain him and made the trip fun. We went swimming, and then hit the outlet mall.

Miranda @ breakfast

The Traveling Crew....

We got up the next morning to head to Columbia, home of Mizzou to see our Super-hero, Dr. Dan and all the amazing people at the University of Missouri Children’s Hospital. We ate at White Castle, because one of my brother in law love that place, then we made a stop at Buck’s Ice-Cream for some Tiger Stripe ice-cream, super yummy and to take a pint to Holly. We had a great visit, nothing has changed and we continue to monitor. I was so glad that J walked in the walker for Dr. Dan because so many times he won’t and the look on Dr. Dan’s face was priceless. I should have taken a picture. Dr. Dan was quite impressed with Jeremy’s progress and Mike who makes J’s back brace got there just in time to see J walk. Once again J amazes Dr. Dan with determination and progress. I was sad that I didn’t get to meet Dr. Kuhns, he assisted Dr. Dan with J’s surgery. I’ve not met him and he’s not seen J since surgery and I wanted him to see how well he was doing. We then went to visit the children’s hospital where J was the center of attention with Lauren, Corrine. We didn’t get to see Shelley, she wasn’t working and then Michelle the night nurse wasn’t working and she hasn’t seen J since he was discharged. Lauren took us up to the PICU, where J got to visit with Steph and Liz, Elizabeth wasn’t there. We went to check into the motel decided we were going to eat Mexican and found an awesome Mexican restaurant that night. J was getting very tired at that point and started to feel warm, we went back to the room to rest while the girls went swimming.

J stole Candy's surgery cap

Lora, Miranda and Jeanna
University of Missouri

J with TJ @ children's hospital

We got up the next morning and continued our descent into Kansas City for Lego Land, we got there had fun, played, J crawled all over the place, the girls and I sang, YMCA karaoke that was fun and no one threw anything at us. We then got to meet up with one of J’s FG brothers, Ean from Iowa. Jennifer and I have talked on email, text and facebook it was 4 hours to KC for them and 4 hours for us so it was a nice ½ way point with lots to do. It was nice to visit with Jenn and see Ean and Jeremy interact and ask questions. We then went to check into the motel, went to McDonald’s to get dinner, went swimming the pool was super cold but KC had gotten rain that day.

J w/ mom and Ean w/ Jenn

J's favorite

Us singing YMCA

Wizard of Oz- built out of Legos

Downtown KC built of legos

Thumps up he's coming out

KC Chiefs stadium

We then crashed, got up the next morning went to Sea Life Aquarium, went to Crown Center Plaza to the free dinosaur exhibit, then walked around and visited all he neat stores, ate lunch at 3 Little Pigs, was wonderful, awesome, BBQ. Then we had quit a exciting trip to see the KC Royal and the KC Chief stadium, my sister got a few pictures but really wanted one of the football helmet, we started to wonder did we dream we saw the football helmet because we drove many, different miles, up and down hills to get that picture and never found it. We decided on pizza for dinner, back to the motel to swim and Jeremy at that point was so beyond exhausted. We got up the next morning and made the 4 hour trip back to Oklahoma, my sister drove so it was nice that I got to sit and enjoy the trip. Jeremy was super glad to be home, we were both exhausted. I took the next day off to sleep in, catch laundry up and recover…..