Aaron's Surgery

Aaron had his surgery yesterday and did amazing. We had to be at the hospital at 7:00am and they wheeled him back by 8:00. I was a nervous wreck, but managed to stay cool. He was done by 8:30 and the doctor told us that his tonsils were HUGE. Not only were they blocking his throat but they were embedded far into his tissues too. Poor thing. No wonder he couldn't breathe. I got to go into the recovery room to be with him (it's nice when you work at the hospital, people pull strings for you). He woke up pretty sad, but he recovered really well. He was even able to eat (more like inhaled it) a PB & J sandwich (ouch, that makes me hurt just thinking it.) The hospital has pet therapy so he even got a visit from a dog. He really enjoyed that. We were able to go home by 3:00pm. He hasn't slept really well (can"t imagine why) but, we'll get through it. Thanks for all the prayers!! He is a strong boy!

Off he goes.

Right after surgery.

A little help from 'Transformers' toys Barricade and Optimus Prime.

Pet therapy.

Finally going home.

Surgery for Aaron

Since Aaron had tubes put in his ears his tonsils have gotten bigger and bigger and his snoring has gotten louder and louder (I don't know if there's a correlation between tubes and tonsils, but I would like to think so.) Apparently they rate how big your tonsils are by numbers 1-4, 4 being the biggest. Now, kids tonsils peak at age 5. Aaron is 3 1/2 and his tonsils are already rated a 3+. I told the doctor all the symptoms that he has been having, like restless sleeping, coming into our room 2-3 times a night, snoring, overly tired during the day and also apnea thing too. I guess all those things are considered sleep apnea, especially the stopping breathing thing (obviously.) What I didn't know was that bed wetting was a symptom too. Aaron has only had like 3 accidents since he was potty trained so I didn't think he had that problem. Getting to my point........ The doc took one look in his month and said when can we do surgery. He is getting his tonsils and adenoids out May 23rd. I am really nervous about this I don't really know why. I know it's a really simple procedure, but I am just worried. So please keep him ( and me too) in your prayers.

Wheezy- the 8th Dwarf!!

Wyatt has been wheezing for 2 months now. Nothing seems to help. He has gone on 2 different routes of antibiotics, had 2 chest x-rays, and 2 swabs for RSV and the flu. We couldn't seem to find anything. So, on Monday the ENT doctor decided to scope his throat to take a look-see. We found out that he has Tracheomalacia. Which means he has a 'floppy airway.' When he breathes his trachea colapses. Really the only thing we can do is give it time and he will grow out of it in about a year to a year and a half. Until then, he Wheezy, the 8th dwarf.

(This is from Monday when he had his scope.)

Seizure Free

We had to take Wyatt up to Children's in Seattle for follow up appointments this week. He had and EEG and a Neurology appointment. We found out that he's not having and seizures and he has no brain injury as we suspected before. He just keeps blowing all tests out of the water. He is truly a miracle baby. Maybe even has some super powers ;).. If you've never seen an EEG, it's pretty crazy. There's like 30 wires they have to stick to your head with gummy stuff. Then all those wires can read brain function. It's amazing what can be done these days!!

Solid food boy

So I finally decided to try solid food with Wyatt a week ago and he was like 'why haven't you done this sooner mom?' "Can't you tell I'm starving to death on the bottle alone?' (yeah right!)

He loves his vegetables and fruits. Hope it will last.

And then Aaron got jealous of Wyatt's attention and had to climb in brother's chair. Needless to say he got attention, not the kind he was thinking, but he got it.

Hot Blooded

We found out yesterday that Wyatt is making his own blood now and is no longer anemic! His blood count was completely normal. This is a huge step for him since he has had 2 blood transfusions since birth. We were worried that he'd battle anemia for a long time. Way to go Wyatt!!!!

Aaron's Surgery

Aaron's surgery went really well. We showed up at the surgery center at 6:45am. He was pretty grumpy and didn't want to put on the gown. He wanted his Cars pajamas. Even though they gave him Versed, which is suppost to relax you, they had to wheel him off in his undies. The tube placement only took 10 minutes tops and we were home by 8am. It was amazing. He recovered very well and was playing on his playground by 9am. He is already starting to talk better. More people can understand him besides me. He is even napping for me again. YEAH!!! I should have pushed for this a long time ago.

Aaron's gettin' tubes!

Aaron had an appointment with an ENT doctor yesterday due his chronic ear infection since Thanksgiving. He decided since it hasn't cleared up with 3 sets of antibiotics that it probably won't clear up on its own. So, tubes it is. He goes in on Monday Feb. 25. I hope this helps his ears!! Poor punkin!

Wyatt Lewis Irving

As I said before, Wyatt is our miracle boy. He was born at 1:03pm October 24, 2007. Here's the story. I went into the hospital that day at about 12:20pm, because I wasn't feeling him move. I just though that I was being that nerotic pregnant mom. I didn't even tell my husband that I was going in. When I got hooked up to the monitors he had a heart rate in the 120's. Within 5-7 minutes of being watched his heart stopped. They rushed me to the OR and took him by C-section. I was still in the shirt I came in with and had no IV. They popped an IV in and just dropped me with anesthesia. It took the doctors 2minutes to get him out from the time I hit the OR room doors. It was amazing. Since he had no heart rate at birth he was considered stillborn. They were able to recessitate him. We found out later that he had bled back into me through the umbillical cord over 50% of his blood supply. The NICU doctor had just been to a conference about inducing hypothemia on trauma babies. He actually chilled Wyatt and shipped him to Children's in Seattle. He saved his life. Now, Wyatt is a normal 3 month old baby boy. He smiles and coos. It's the cutest sound in the world.

Aaron Jacob

Aaron keeps us going. He has so much energy and always keeps us smiling. He's 3 years old and going on 16. He was born October 13, 2004. Our boys are exactly 3 years and 11 days apart. Aaron always amazes me everyday with all the new things he does or says. He has been battling an ear infection since Thanksgiving. He goes Feburary 13 to a ENT MD and hopefully will get tubes in his ears.

Birth Announcement

I never got around to sending Wyatt's birth announcement out. Bad mom. So I thought I would post it to redeem some mom points.