Ice cream cones, Slides, snowing in 70 degree weather, getting stitches out and Jonas gets lost

The last few days have been a little crazy and so I am so excited to be sitting here and to actually have the time to relax.

First off on Monday night for FHE we took Jonas to get an ice cream cone and you would have thought the kid had died and gone to heaven. He was so excited that he didn't want to eat it. He took a few licks and liked it so much and thought it was such a pretty color that he decided he would eat my cone instead so that he could look at his and not have to eat. Weird, yes I know, but I didn't mind because I really didn't need those extra calories anyway.
This is one little guy who is quite proud of his ice cream coneWednesday morning Jonas and I were flying out from Boise to Sacramento at 5:45 am. Not wanting to get up 2:00 am to get ready and make the two hour trip to the airport I decided to go up the night before and stay the night in a hotel and just make it a really fun night for the both of us. So we drove to Boise in the afternoon had an early dinner together at the Olive Garden which is one of Jonas' favorite places to eat, Scott doesn't like it so we took advantage of the fact that he wasn't there. At this point he was so excited that we were having a "special day" together that every 2 minutes he was thanking me and telling me how much he loved me. It was just the cutest thing.After dinner I found a really nice park a mile from our hotel and thought I would let Jonas run around for an hour to get out some energy. Now I know that it is the most exciting thing in the world to take your child to the park for the first time and watch them play and that most parents take tons of pictures of this "first" event in their lives, I know I did! Well here I am with my 3 year old son who has been to the park tons of times and I was taking pictures of him as if it were his first time to a park. Sometimes I really just feel bad for Jonas I have to be the most embarrassing mom! Well the reason I did is because Jonas was really delayed in walking because of his burns and as a result has always been a very timid child. He has never been the one to jump off the coach or a curb and would NEVER go down a slide. He has always just been so scared of movement without my help. Well that day he went down a slide all by himself and was so excited that we were there for almost two hours because we were both so excited over his new found courage. It was tons of fun and I think that going to parks will be so much more fun for him now.After the park we went back to the hotel to watch a movie and try to get some sleep for the next day. I was about to get the movie when Jonas proclaimed "look mom it's snowing, I better get my coat on because it's cold out now and we should play in the snow." Well what was really going on was that all the flowers were falling off of the cherry blossom trees and it really did look like it was snowing. So we went out and played in the flowers. There were three lilac bushes near by that were in full bloom and it smelled SOOOO good. So we sat outside in the flowers it was really the most relaxing and enjoyable time.Early the next morning we left for Sacramento. Jonas was getting his stitches out and I knew that he was really going to put up a fight. The Doctors came in drugged him up and had me hold him down as they took out the stitches on his leg. He fought so hard that it took me as well as three nursed to hold him down while the Doctor cut them out. they whole time he screamed on the top of his lungs.. "Don't hurt me.... I hate all of you... etc..." It wasn't like it was hurting him, he was just so afraid of being hurt that he was having panic attacks to the extreme. Seeing as how I am the only person Jonas' trusts at this point I thought it would be best for me to leave the room so I didn't have to be apart of the group that he felt was 'attacking' him. So I sat outside the door for 20 minutes listening as my son screamed as if he were in the worst pain of his life and yelling that he wanted his mommy back. I was already felling a tad bit emotional seeing as how that very day was the two year mark of the day that Jonas got burned, but to have to sit and listen to him scream in complete misery was more than I could handle so as I sat outside the door and I just cried like a baby as he screamed and screamed. I'm sure I looked like quite a mess. After they were done I went in and Jonas practically crashed into my arms he was so warn out from screaming. He truly is my little hero he has gone through more than I know I could handle.

After his appointment I took him to the cafeteria to get some lunch. We sat and he just kept on leaning over to hold my hand to make sure I wasn't leaving him. It was so sad. We finished our lunch and had an hour and a half until we had to catch a shuttle back to the airport so I thought I would take him to the play area. We walked pass the elevators and he pushed the buttons and I turned and told him that we didn't need to go on the elevator yet that we were going down the hall to play. I took two steps forward turned around to tell him to hurry up and he was gone. My heart stopped. I quickly scanned the area around me and found no trace of him. I immediately started to yell for him and three women came running to help me look. He was nowhere to be seen. I knew immediately that he got on the elevator in the two seconds I turned my back. There are 7 floors in the hospital so there was no telling which floor he could have gone to. One of the women got a hold of security and for almost 40 minutes we searched the hospital for him. Now I have had some pretty scary experiences with Jonas in my life, he came close to death many times when he was burned, but this was one of the worst feelings I have ever had. After about 30 minutes I could barely move I was just so scared that someone saw him wandering by himself and took him. Well after 40 minutes he wandered into a nurse's office who happened to be one of the nurses who was in on his surgery two weeks ago and recognized him right away picked him up and came looking for me. I don't know what he was doing that whole time but I'm sure he had tons of fun, On the other hand I was going through some of the worst 40 minutes of my life. The moment the nurse brought him to me I once again broke down crying like a baby. I tell you it was quite an emotional day for me.

So needless to say I am quite happy to home today just relaxing. This is a picture of Jonas this morning he thought he would make himself look beautiful by applying a second set of eyebrows with my mascara.