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Here's some pictures of life.....

•Felicity wanted me to take a picture of her with my new phone

• Christian and Savannah working on puzzles at our newly FINISHED table

•James eating his lunch

•Jonathan watching himself on my phone

•Sweet baby James 

•Mom came and babysat so I could vote!

•waking James up from his nap

New Hobby Lobby

We went to the new hobby lobby in Gainesville the other night. It was so big and really cool to just walk around in....you seriously could spend all day there!

 

James one month old!

 It hard to believe that this little mans already a month old! Allot has already happened in his first month of life.... He's doing great though and has finally started to gain a little weight. 

   He got rudely awakened for his checkup, so he's trying to catch some winks while waiting for doctor Beth to come in! 

 

 

Justin's Birthday

Justin turned 29 yesterday!! So, thanks to my mom being willing to babysit the kids, James and I were able to take Justin out for a nice evening together. We ate at his favorite restaurant, the Outback Steak House.... It's the blooming onions!! 

    And then we went and played a game of bowling.... I seriously stunk in the beginning, but ended up beating the birthday boy in the end, sorry sugar :-) But in his defense, the game shut off towards the end and he lost a turn, so he would have really beat me! 

         James was a very good boy the whole time.... Love his "BuG EyEs"!! Whenever we bring him into a dark room he does that.

Felicity's Bday outing

August 2nd, felicity turned seven!! We were in the hospital with James so she came and spent the afternoon with Us.... But then last Saturday evening I took her out for her birthday, just one on one time!  We went to the Ivy House in Williston, and had a grand time! 

 

 

The Boys

Got some pictures of the boys in matching "crab" shirts... In the last picture of Jonathan and James, James was starting to smile :-)

Update on James

So on Thursday James had his surgery. It lasted over 2 hours and everything went great. We are thankful to The Lord for allowing the surgery to be a success and that there were no complications! 

Recovery has been a little challenging since his throat is still very sore from the respirator and surgery, which makes him very fussy while he eats or coughs. His heart results came back clear for the most part, he has a hole in between two chambers of his heart, and he has a larger than normal main vein leaving his heart, but nothing of major concern.

His only lingering issue is the fact he has problems swallowing his food without some going into his lungs. He had a swallow test done and after thickening his milk and laying him on his side to eat it has improved as quite a bit. We just have to be extra careful the next few weeks to keep him from getting pneumonia. If all goes as planned we should be discharged on Sunday (Lord willing!)

James and his favorite nurse Savannah at his swallow test.

 

Getting ready for surgery in pre-op

Surgical team coming to get our little man

Getting breathing treatment just after surgery

AND we officially took up coffee drinking thanks to no sleep...4 creamers and 4 sugars for every half cup...tastes great!

The kids came up to see James (and mommy and daddy). Jonathan was being...a brat!

 

Having his EKG done.