Painting

It is the night before Tye's surgery and it seems like it is a go at this point. If you haven't heard Tye came down with croup (5th time in a year) over the weekend. It was a pretty serious episode...we spent a few hours in the emergency room. We are becoming regulars there since Tye wants to get sick only on the weekends. At least Bob was home this time to help me make the decision to go. Tye was having a very hard time breathing so they took us back to a room with urgency and had the respiratory therapist present within 5 min. to administer an epi breathing treatment. It is very powerful and shrinks the swelling very quickly to help him to breathe. Also, Tye was given steroids. They had us hang out for 3 hours to make sure Tye did not react from the strong medicine in the breathing treatment. Since Saturday he has been slowly feeling better but is far from 100%. We made an appointment with the surgeon to answer last minute questions and take a look at him to see if he was well enough for surgery. Apparently, it is the decision of the anesthesiologist but his surgeon thought he would be okay. They may have to give him breathing treatments before and/or after the surgery to help with the swelling. The breathing tube could irritate the vocal cords where the swelling occurs. My mom got in with no problems today and was help from the get go. We have to be at the hospital at 8:45 tomorrow morning and the actual surgery is scheduled at 10:45. It will take about 2 hours before we will see him...1 hour for the surgery and the rest to prepare him and some time to recover. We will keep everyone updated on how everything is going. Thanks for all the happy thoughts!!!

Big Boy Bed

Bob and I were sound asleep two nights ago when I heard Tye talking. I started to get up to go check on him and he came walking in our bedroom. We thought their was no way that he could have gotten out of his crib, but he did. His room was just as we left it when we put him to bed. The following day Bob put him in the crib and sure enough he started to climb out by stretching his leg all the way up to the railing and pulling himself up. At nap time we had not figured out what to do with the crib so we let him sleep in it one more time. After his nap he was waiting behind the door for Bob. We came to the conclusion that it was not a one time thing so we better do something. We were able to find the directions to the crib and convert it to a toddler bed....not exactly what we want to worry about now with the surgery coming up.

Thanksgiving

Doesn't Bob always end up like this when there are kids around? Tye is down there under Gannon.

We spent Thanksgiving this year with our friends which are the other scouts in town and their families. All the guys took off their shirts leaving just their white t-shirts so they could do dishes. Channing (the little girl) disappeared upstairs to change into an outfit to match the guys. Then we had to take off Austin and Tye's shirts so they could match too. It made a cute picture!