pretty good day

Today was pretty good.  Gabriel wanted to be held most of the day and was quick to cry but over all he is back to himself.  He is back to giving Isabella LOTS and LOTS of kisses.  Such a good big brother!

morning

Gabriel slept well thought they night.  He woke up at his typical time and is for the most part himself.  Daddy and I got morning kisses!  He is not as active as he normally is but he is at least smiling again.  We put his antibiotic eye drops in.  I need to be a professional wrestler in order to get them in.  Here are a couple pictures of my sweet little man this morning. 

Glowworm was admitted to the hospital yesterday too.  They even gave him a name bracelet just like Gabriel's.

Gabriel working on his smiles this morning.

My camera has automatic redeye deletion.  It made his eyes black where they are red... crazy.

Here is my little man with redeye turned off.

Home

We got home at around 4:30pm.  Gabriel seems to be soothed only by elmo's singing.

Here are a few pictures-
These first two are of Gabriel once the meds FINALLY kicked in.  He looks so peaceful.  He was not feeling so peaceful before the meds kicked in.


Gabriel is still not opening his eyes very much but here is are a couple pictures of him with his eyes open a little bit.

in Recovery

When you have a child having out patient surgery at Devos Children's Hospital you get called back as soon as your child is starting to wake up, not once they are in recovery. 

Dr. Piipo came out after surgery and said that surgery went well.  And that Gabriel would be waking up shortly and we would be called back.

When we got called back we could hear children crying and one child being particularly fussy.  Sure enough little Gabriel and a nurse were in a wrestling match, he was giving her quite the fight.  Come to find out we are to try to stop him from scratching his eyes for 12 hours.  They had to give him an extra dose of meds to calm him down.  Poor little man gave quite a fight.  It took over 20 minutes for him to calm down and eventually fall asleep even after an extra dose of meds. 

We just got to the recovery room.  Gabriel isn't really opening his eyes at this point.  But from what we have seen they are very read at the inner corners.  He is crying blood and that is to be expected, i must say it kind of weirds me out. 

update with pics

Getting dressed

mom, mom, mom

Mom, i'm hungry

 Rubber Ducky, your the one...please keep my mind off food!

If you arent going to feed me, I will just eat my fingers...

Chilling with Daddy!

surgery

At the hospital.  They will be taking Gabriel back for surgery in 5-10 minutes.  I will post some pictures while he is in surgery.  Right now he is helping me type.  He is a tad grouchy because he is hungry.  Typically our mornings start around 5:30 and by 8 he has had two bottles in. 

Sundays

Here are some Gabriel smiles to start your week off on a good note.
 

surgery

Gabriel's eye surgery is officially scheduled for Thursday, April 29th at 8:50am. 

Gabriel and Isabella visited the pediatrician on Wednesday this week.  Gabriel is officially 20lbs.  Yes, at 20 months old my little man is only 20lbs.  Isabella on the other hand is just under 12lbs.  WOW, Gabriel weighed only 12lbs when he had his heart surgery at 6 months old.  Before long she will be the one beating up on him. 

Buckethead

Buckethead might be stepping down... we will have to wait and see...

Gabriel loves his sister!!!


Daddy loves his BoogaBoo and BellaBoo!!!

he did what?

he did what?  Look at these photo's and you can see what Gabriel did.



Check out his nose

Good job Gabriel

 Yup, he licks the sandpaper and now his has rubbed his nose raw... silly little man!

oh no

Gabriel decided to help his daddy lose weight!  He figured he would have fun at the same time.

Yes, those are Lucky Charms going down my air return.  But look at the pride on Gabriel's face... nobody could stay mad at him.

Gabriel started to hand me the cereal piece by piece while kicking it everywhere as I worked on cleaning it up.

Brotherly love

eye surgery

Eye surgery has been scheduled for Gabriel.  He will have eye surgery April 29th at Devos children's hospital (the  Butterworth section).  As I said before, this is not the normal place for our eye surgeon to do surgery.  We will not know what time surgery is until we know for sure if there is a room for the surgery to take place.  It will be in the morning on the 29th hopefully. 
I have mixed feelings on the surgery.  I know it is for the best but I hate to have Gabriel have another surgery even though I know this surgery will be much easier on all of us than open heart surgery.

Happy Easter

So, I am a day late (or two) and a dollar short.  I hope everyone had a happy Easter! Ours was great.
Greetings from Gabriel Rabbit

I see you

Isabella cheering State on

Look at mama's big girl

Gabriel trying to make Isabella quiet down



If all else fails give her a kiss

Easter egg hunt

Gabriel's first Easter egg hunt.




Mom got her hands on the camera again... HELP