You've heard of wife swap...introducing sibling swap!

It seems almost every day there are firsts. Today Hannah practiced her first car transfer. Its amazing how things that we never even really think about needing to practice are a major deal when you have to learn to move all over again. Hannah was a little uneasy doing the transfer without Alex, I'm quite sure she is convinced that he could walk on water and she wasn't sure that she could do it without him there. She did great though!

Today Hannah decided that she was tired of spending her life in her bed and that it was time that I got a taste of how she felt. So... we swapped places. I put on her sticky socks that she uses to walk and with her brace cushions on my neck and her blanket tucked up to my chin she deemed me ready to fool the nurse.

Everyone is always telling us that we look like twins anyway so we figured we might as well have a good laugh.

Pressing the button that calls the nurse, she mumbled something about needing a stool softener and then hobbled on her walker to hide in the bathroom.

She stood there peeking through the door to see the nurses reaction and we all tried to keep a straight face. She was giggling so hard she almost couldn't stand and I was so scared I almost couldn't do it but we waited until that moment that the nurse came in. After doing a double take and looking a little confused she laughed at our little joke and helped Hannah back to bed.

Meanwhile, Esther, our camera man... er woman, stood by snapping pictures to document for future reference when we will laughingly tell the story of how we traded places in the hospital. Hannah wishes we could trade places for real when the nurses come to take blood in the middle of the night!

Really I was just tired of her getting all the attention!

Today was a fun day though as Father came and we took Hannah to the cafeteria for a real lunch and then we took her to the ICU and the trauma floors to visit her nurses and show off her new abilities to walk.