These past few weeks have been pretty uneventful in the “land of James” which is why I haven’t posted a normal “life of James” post since mid-March. I’ve been contemplating moving to a monthly posting schedule instead of bimonthly if things stay quiet. Now that we’re getting into spring, my weekends will be a bit busier with yard work, so posting monthly would be a bit easier on me. Of course, you can always keep up to date with James on Facebook.

Annual VEEG

The last week of March was Spring Break and James spent a little bit of time at the beach.

If you haven’t figured it out, it wasn’t exactly the beach. James had his annual VEEG, and in the pediatric rooms at the hospital that don’t have a good view, they put coverings on the windows that are more pleasant to look at. Unfortunately, we were only able to spend one night at the beach before they kicked us out. It was just an overnight VEEG. Grover the therapy dog stopped by while he was there.

I love his spiky hair after they took all the EEG leads off his head:

Easter

We did Easter a bit differently this year. Normally we split up Easter weekend between my side of the family and Stacy’s. Due to our schedules, we were unable to get together with my family over Easter weekend, so we saw Stacy’s family on Easter Sunday and went to my mom’s yesterday.

Stacy’s family has an interesting tradition that I hadn’t heard about until Stacy and I started dating and I attended my first Easter dinner with them. It’s called egg tapping, and it wasn’t until I was writing this post that I realized that it’s an actual thing that is done in other parts of the world. The object of the game is pretty simple. Each person gets a hard-boiled egg and taps the pointy side of the egg of the person sitting next to them with their own egg. The person whose egg doesn’t crack wins the round. Because the egg has two points (or a top and a bottom), each person gets at least two rounds. The last person to have an uncracked top or bottom is the winner.

Here are some pictures of James and I doing the egg tapping. Sorry buddy, but daddy won both rounds.

At my mom’s house yesterday, the kids had an Easter egg hunt. It was a little rough getting James’ wheelchair through the grass, but we managed. It was a good workout. I wonder what my mom’s neighbors were thinking when the kids were hunting for Easter eggs a week after Easter.

I guess it wasn’t just my family who celebrated Easter a little late this year. The Easter Bunny paid a visit to James’ classroom on Friday, five days after Eater. She must have gotten lost.

Award for Flexibility

When I got home from work on Monday, Stacy told me that James received an award for flexibility. I looked at her funny and asked her something like “how did James earn an award for being flexible? Because of his muscle tone, he is not very flexible at all.” She said, “no, silly. Read what it says.”

It says “James Fulkerson has been nominated for showing the FLEXIBILITY key of excellence by always being a trooper when there are schedule changes!” Well, that makes more sense!