Austin’s surgery

Last week was Austin’s orchidopexy surgery, big ol’ word huh?  He did great, bless his sweet heart.  Here is his playing before the surgery. 

Before they took him back the anesthesiologist gave Austin a “baby valium” so he wouldn’t be upset when I had to hand him over.   Here he is trying to smile.  Okay, admittedly so we were bad parents at this point because we got the giggles a few times at his expense.  We took videos of him in baby la-la land, he was smacking his lips and making slurred slow “Da-Daaa-Daaa’s.”  A few times he tried to clap his hands and totally missed.  A little laughter ended up to be good thing to ease our nerves a bit while waiting.

“Baby Valium” working for sure….

The surgery went great, one of the nurses actually called my cell phone from the operating room half way through the 90 minute surgery to let me know that things were going really well.  It was absolutely the best feeling to be able to hold him while he was waking up. 

I was amazed at how quickly he recovered.  I had to hold him back from moving around a ton, even the same evening as the surgery.  His pain medication did make him super sleepy though so I spent the majority of the week snuggling his sleepy self, which I absolutely cherished.

Praise God for a successful surgery and thank you everyone who was praying for us! 

Thank you too so much Karo, who came in town to spend the day with Ava.  They had a wonderful time.  Karo let Ava pick anywhere she wanted to go and do anything she wanted to do that day!  Ava chose the McDonald’s across the street where daddy takes her to play on daddy dates and she had an ice cream with mini M&M’s! She also wanted to snuggle and sing with Karo most of the day.  Out of all the places to chose from Karo’s lap was Ava’s first pick, I love it!  Here is a picture of Karo and Ava (a blast from the past, when Karo was here to take care of us right after Austin was born because Greg was in Vegas on a work trip)

The book of the week was Eric Carle’s Brown Bear and check out the quilt on the floor, it is a  Karo Creation with all the Brown Bear animals!

Ava Claire LOVES her Karo!