Birthday Pictures

After his first time down shaving cream mountain.

Dragon head - with the cool dragon blanket his Grandma Dawn brought him.

Decade twins - 2 & 12 years old this year.

Kiss from Aunt Becki

Monkey head (thanks Aunt Sue) with Aunt Molly.

Having fun swinging with Aunt Katie.

Action shot: the kids were trying to run up shaving cream mountain - this was my best wipe out picture. Joshie Boy almost made it. Maybe next year when he's 13.

Dizzy going down shaving cream mountain with Mommy

Andrew's birthday party was a success with about 40 cans of shaving cream in all - the kids had a blast & now our baby is 2! Thanks to everyone who was able to make it out & Andrew said THANKS for all the cool new toys & outfits! I have a TON more pictures since Steve bought me an awesome digital SLR camera with his Christmas bonus - awesome husband that he is! I literally have 1,000 pictures in my December 2009 folder ; ) I'm going to try to get through more of them & get the good ones out.

This is how a 2 year old sleeps

A couple days before his eye surgery.

His healing eyes. Last night.

Sleeping on the morning of his 2nd birthday.

Last year we were so excited we started taking pictures of Andrew before he even woke up. It's much the same this year : ) Looking forward to his party later. We've got 30+ cans of shaving cream & cupcakes; what more could we possibly need? We'll put up lots of pictures.

2 days to TWO!

Just wanted to quickly update that Andrew seems to be feeling more like himself again. Had a couple cranky episodes today, but for the most part back to playing & getting into whatever he can find (rearranged my shirt drawer for me : ) Looking forward to his birthday & shaving cream mountain!

The Eyes Open!

Andrew just started opening his eyes late this morning. He has been having bursts of energy with lots of playing & goofing off, but is still has cranky periods too. He does NOT like the eye drops & I think he's a bit nauseous, but all-in-all feeling much better than last night. Too soon to tell, but his eyes look good to Steve & me. Sorry the video isn't great quality, Dizzy's a bit sensitive to the light so for now it'll have to do.

Recovering at Home

Got home around 3pm & Andrew is just settling down. Thank goodness because he's one big baby these days, a lot for me to carry around for 3.5 hours, but poor little guy was very uncomfortable & upset about the surgery. He has anxiety (understandably) about going to the doctors office when nothing painful is involved, so this was hard on him. He's a tough little man though & we are looking forward to a better day tomorrow - hopefully he'll open his eyes then. REALLY praying his eyes will be perfect so he doesn't have to go through this again! Thank you all for your concern & prayers for our precious boy!

Homeward bound

Headed home with Andrew. Understandably fussy.

Eye Surgery Done

Opthamologist & anesthesiologist just came to let us know surgery is done & went well. We're just waiting to be able to go see him in recovery; probably about 30-60 minutes. He's going to have a couple days of sore eyes & a few weeks more of red eyes. We should know the results of the surgery around 6 weeks from now: time for the muscles to heal & the brain to decide how it's going to process the recalibration. Thanks for all the prayers! We'll update with more info later.

Update

Sorry, we got a few different 'social networking' things going.... Dizzy went back to surgery at about 10a.m. The Dr. said it will be an hour or hour and a half. we are just drinking our coffee, waiting. Bess went to visit one of her friends whose son is in the Unit that Dizzy grew up in..... so its up to me to make this post count.

That's all I got........... Will update when we here something- anything. Thank you for the prayers.

Surgery in the AM

Well, tomorrow is the big day for Andrew's eye surgery. He is scheduled for 9am, which is good since he has to go without food. The procedure takes about an hour. Andrew has always done well with anesthesia in the past, so we are hoping for more of the same. We will post updates as we go & really appreciate all the prayers.

This boy is seriously this sweet all the time. Well, except when he's throwing a temper tantrum. But that's not very frequent & really more pathetic than angry.

Here he's helping Daddy piece together the corner inlay desk he's working on for his music room. I can't wait for him to finish it, probably over Christmas break. It is so beautiful!

Daddy & Dizzy catching up after work.

My sweet boys!

LOL!

So, after the 3rd person this week told me we needed a blog update I figured I better get on it. Sorry, no new videos yet, but I will try to get one today & post it later. Andrew's health is still awesome, which we praise God for! He does have his eye surgery coming up next Friday, the 18th, so prayers are appreciated for that. It should be about an hour procedure & we should go home that day. Of course, cardiac anesthesiology will be there to take good care of him. He should have red eyes (understandably) for a couple weeks, but we're hoping he's back to himself rather quickly with the occasional Tylenol to help. So we went ahead with his birthday evites:

http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/ZZYMICOORDBHBMHBPXBF/andrewstwo

Hopefully this link will take you there in case I don't have your email to send it directly.