Zeke

Both boys are still sleeping! I guess we finally wore them out. When we came back to the hotel last night, Steve took them swimming and then we ordered pizza and watched America's Funniest Home Videos. They were both asleep within minutes of laying down. . Yesterday Zeke did well with all the testing once Steve took Anthony to another room. The therapists took a lot of measurements concerning how the muscles in his legs and feet are working. He had to do a lot of stretching and pushing but the therapist made it into a game so he had fun. Children's hospitals are great! . Then he had to do a quite of bit of walking down a blue sidewalk in the room. They took lots of video of his feet and legs as he would walk and run. . After that, they put the little metal button things. Check out the pictures. For some reason the blog wouldn't let me add comments with the pictures I posted yesterday. It takes a while to get the "buttons" all in place and takes lots of precise measuring. Zeke thought it was great because they let him pick out what color tape he wanted. He picked purple and pink with hearts. He also convinced them to wrap some around his head! . They use the "little buttons" to take pictures of how Zeke is walking. In the bigger room, there are 12 high speed cameras positioned all around the room. As Zeke walks down the walkway, each camera takes something like 1400 pictures a second. The computer translates where the "buttons" show up on the computer to create a visual image of Zeke walking and running. It's also how they make the high tech video games. When they were done with that portion, they gave us a DVD that included both his previous test two years ago and the current one. It's pretty cool to watch. . They last part of the testing had to do with how much effort/oxygen it took Zeke to walk. They hooked him up with a mask and a computer. First he had to sit and relax for 10 minutes while they monitored his resting rate. That was his favorite part because they let him watch a movie. He wasn't very happy when the ten minutes were over and they made him walk the halls for six minutes to monitor the rate of his exertion. . The therapist doing the testing thought he was so cute with all his stuff on that she asked if she could take a picture of him and keep it on her desk just so she could smile when she looked at it every day! Of course we let her! He did look pretty amazing with the pink wrap around his head and a purple one around the bottom of his face. Like some kind of weird pirate! . The whole process took about 2 1/2 hours to complete. We'll discuss the results with the doctor later this morning.