Birthday!

It's been a while since my last update.  I decided to start posting again about the kids.  Here is a pic from a little over a month ago at Madison & Logan's first Birthday party.

Logan has fully recovered from his surgery and was give the green light to mix and migle with other kids and go out in public.  The doctors are very happy with how his heart is doing and feel that Logan will probably be able to play sports and do anything he wants.

They are crawling all over the place and pulling themselves up to a standing position.  Jen and I hope that you are all doing well.  I'll put some more pics up and update more often.

Just working on my stock portfolio

Happy New Year everyone!  I have some fantastic Christmas pics I will be posting in the next couple of days of the twins.

We wish all of you a prosperous, healthy and happy 2010. 

Here is a cute pic of Logan working on his and Madison's stock portfolios.

Rockin Christmas Eve at Bayside Church

Well Christmas is finally here!  Wow, it came fast.  Feels like just the other day we were feeding bottles to our newborn twins in the NICU. 

The twins are 7 months old now and doing great!  Logan has been doing very well and catching up to Madison every day.  Madison is quite the little angel and princess.  Logan is definately all boy.  He loves blowing raspberries at every chance.

Jen and I were able to go to Church service this evening while my parents watched the twins for us.  It was an ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC service at Bayside here in Granite Bay.  Lincoln Brewster put on quite a show of music and Pastor Ray gave a wonderful message of hope.  It was phenomenal.  If you are in this area and reading this, you have got to check out Bayside!  They are open on weekends...even Sundays!  :-)

A funny moment during the service hit Jen and I at the same time.  Pastor Ray asked the congregation "How many of you are parents?"  Jen and I both paused a moment and looked at each other.  Then it hit us both at the same time.  We are!  It took us a moment. 

Jen and I want to wish all of you a Merry Christmas!  Thank you all for the love and support you have given to our family these past few months.  Having Madison and Logan or should I say "the Logasaurus" in our lives has really blessed our family and made us realize how special all of our friends and family really are.  I hope you all take a moment to think about your family and friends and reflect on your lives too.  Let your light shine bright!

Merry Christmas from our family to yours...and may God bless you.

-Scott, Jen, Madison & Logan

How do I look in this hat?

Getting ready for Santa to come?  Madison definately is but Logan is a little unhappy he has to wait so long until Christmas!

We put our tree up last weekend while the twins looked on.  They definately enjoyed watching us as we hung ornaments and decorated the house.  They love to look at the lights on the tree at night.

It's hard to believe that they are already 6 months old and that this year is almost over!  Where did it go?  Logan has been catching up to Madison in weight but he still has a little ways to go to catch her in height.  Madison is still having some issues with spitting up.  We have tilted her mattress somewhat and that seems to be helping her sleep better. 

We hope you all have a wonderful holiday season.  We wish we could spend more time visiting with friends and family but we will have to make up for it next year.  Thanks for all your support!  We love you all!

Happy Thanksgiving

Jen and I enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving this year with our two little ones!  We are so blessed and thankful that Madison and Logan are in our lives.

Sometimes we get so busy and tired that we forget how truly wonderful it is to have them both in our lives.  Logan is doing very well and you would never know he had surgery about 5 weeks ago.  Madison is still such a cute little angel.

We hope all of you had a wonderful turkey day as well.

Having fun & playing

Here is a cute pic of Madison and Logan playing on their play mat yesterday.  As usual, Madison loves to be the goof.  They are really starting to enjoy each other and play together now.  It's fun to watch!  Logan is rapidly gaining on his sister in size, weight and development now.

This weekend we decided that we were going to work on dropping thier 3:30-4:00am-ish feeding.  Needless to say, they were not thrilled with this idea and we have definately heard about it from them.  We decided that to just tough it out for a couple nights and push forward.  Logan did well with it on Friday night and Madison did good with it last night.  Hopefully tonight they will both do well with it.  Maybe by next weekend they will have totally adjusted their sleep/eat schedule.

Uncle Garth teaches Logan to use the remote!

Uncle Garth is in town and staying with us for a few days.  He is definately enjoying Madison and Logan.  Logan is definately on a growth spurt right now and catching up to Madison very quickly.

Jen took Logan to get his RSV shot yesterday and they gave us strict orders not to take Logan out of the house until May!  May?  Holy Schlamoly!  Yep, that's correct.  Excpet for Doctor appts and places where the will have very little public exposure.  We can't take the kids to any public places where they could catch anything.  No malls, no pictures with Santa, no family get togethers for Thanksgiving or Christmas.  Logan is really at risk if he catches anything at all.  It's disappointing that their first year of life will be so confined, but a small sacrafice to keep him safe and healthy.

We can have a few (adult) visitors at times as long as they are feeling well and haven't been around anyone that is sick.  It's sad that we can't have other kids over for a while.  Madison absolutly adores other little children.  Hope everyone is doing great!  Send a prayer our direction now and then. 

Logan Update: Cardiologist Appt for check up today.

Hey everyone!  Hope you are all doing well and still following Logan's blog from time to time.

Madison and Logan have been doing great.  It's taken a few days but we are getting them both back onto a routine...although the time change didn't help things.

Logan had his first follow up appt. today with his Cardiologist and seems to be doing very  well.  His wound is healing nicely and his EKG came back good.  The Dr. told us about a few things to keep an eye out for...but hopefully we have no issues in the coming weeks.  Logan does have a little leak in his valve, but we knew that might be the case and it shouldn't be anything to worry about.  He will get a full Echo in about a month and we will really be able to see how his heart is doing and healing.

Jen and I are doing well.  We are finally getting caught up and back into our routines as well.  We just need just keep everyone healthy and get ready for the holidays. 

Happy Halloween! It's a JUNGLE out there

Had a fun day at home today for Halloween!

Because Logan really can't be around any other kids yet we had to stay home and pass on the Halloween parties and Trick-or-Treating.  We still had a great time getting them dressed up in their Monkey and Giraffe costumes.  Madison is always a goof and Logan has been getting better and better each day.  Thought you might enjoy seeing a few pics of them from today.

All of us....Recovering

Thought I would drop another pic of his favorite TShirt...

We got home on Monday night and have been trying to catch up on life after being gone for a week.

Logan is doing pretty well.  He has definately been having some issues of non-stop crying spells for a bit.  Not sure if it's pain or if it's just his system getting used to food and flushing out things.  Overall he seems to be good though.  He gets the stitches taken out on Friday of this week from where the drain tubes were in his abdomen.  Thought about cutting them out myself...but opted to let the pro's do it instead.

Madison is happy to be back home.  She has been a little under the weather and we think she has allergies.  Kind of hard to believe that a small child would have allergies...but something is definately going on with her and everything we looked up points to allergies.  She gave us a rough time last night up every 30 minutes (Yawn).

Jen is hanging in there the best that she can.  She is the ultimate mother and partner!  She takes care of the twins every day & night...helps me with work constantly and somehow keeps our household in order.  I have no idea how she does it all.  I do think it's totally getting to her and she really needs a break.  Wish I had the answers, but we just keep taking it one day at a time and know that as long as we have each other and our family, all will be ok.

I have been stressed out to the max.  There is some huge pressure lifted now that we made it through Logan's surgery.  I did wake up this morning and could feel that every muscle (and I use that term loosly) in my body was tense.  I think that with everything we have going on right now, it has really taken a toll.  Hopefully the next few days will prove productive and by the weekend I can start to unwind a bit.  I still don't think I have completely processed that Logan's heart is fixed and that he will be ok.  I catch myself thinking about what a strong little boy Logan is and how he went through that like a champ. 

We want to thank everyone for following along and offering support in the many different ways that you all have!  It's wonderful to have so many good friends!  We are going to keep up this blog with updates on how Logan is recovering and some insight on how we are coping as a family.  We were reading another blog about someone's child that had TOF surgery last night and they had a question about how to deal with when your child asks about his/her scar.  We saw all kinds of responses where other kids dealt with it in many different ways.  A whole new thing we hadn't even thought about.  We are just glad he is ok...and we can deal with the other stuff.  Sorry for the ramble.  Will update more between now and over the weekend.

WE ARE ALL HOME AGAIN!

Hi everyone!  We are home!  They released us earlier today.  Will update some more in a bit after we get settled.

Just glad to be home.  As Dorothy would say "There's no place like home!"

Sunday Evening Update

Not a whole lot to report this evening.  Jen and I went and got some dinner while Logan was taking a nap and got a bath.  One of his favorite Nurses is watching him tonight and she does such an awesome job.  What a relief!

Things still look good for us to go home tomorrow, but I'm sure I will get the final word tomorrow morning when the Dr's are doing their rounds.  Glad the weekend is over.  Never thought I would say that.  Interesting how your perspective can change your outlook.

Right now Logan is sleeping and all his heart rate and O2 look great.  Hope you all have a wonderful evening.  Say a little prayer that Logan has a great night and gets to come home tomorrow!

Logan gets his way!

Logan finally got his way and now has both hands to chew on.  His last IV was taken out about 30 minutes ago.  Not by choice of the Dr's.  Just happend that the nurse didn't bother to check to see if it was still good and started pumping some Morphine into it.  His hand started swelling up and the Mophine mixture started running down his arm.  Not the first time that this happend today!  Another indicator other than the clear liquid running down his arm was the ear piercing scream coming out of Logan's lungs.  I better not get started.  Can you get a Nursing Credential from a Cracker Jack box?  Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good ones here too.  Most of them are fantastic!

In any case, Logan is much happier now that the IV that was casing him pain all day is finally out and he can once again suck on that hand.  Jen is going stir crazy and starting to do little dances around this place.  I think it helps keep her sane.  Hmm...not sure she ever was to begin with though!  :-)

Logan really looks good.  Heart rate has been good all day.  I'm fairly certain we are heading home tomorrow.  What an adventure this has been so far.  It just tears up my stomach every time I think about what this little guy had to endure over the last week.  He is truly a tough little Logasaurus!  I'm so proud of him.  We both miss Madison somthing fierce!  Hopefully we can all be back together and in our own beds tomorrow!

Possibly coming home tomorrow!!!!

Logan had a really good night last night.  He started to get back on more of his normal schedule with eating and sleeping.  His heart rate dropped back to a normal level all night and he was doing really good this morning.

The Dr's just came by and had to replace some of his bandaging over his wound.  Logan was not happy about that one bit.  But he is finally calm again.

They also told us that they want to keep us here one more day just to be safe especially with his weird airway.  They are really impressed with his progress and would normally send him home today....but in his case it looks like tomorrow!  It's not 100% yet.  But I would bet on it!  Wow, I can't believe we are finally going to go home.

Being in here is really starting to wear on both Jen and I.  Some nurses are terriffic and some shouldn't have a job here at all.  We are managing though and have been really demanding the things we want for him.  Jen is really doing awesome with Logan.  More later...that's all for now.

What a trooper!

Logan had another Echo Cardiogram last night.  He did exceptionally well with letting the Dr. poke at him with the wand.  Then again the Dr. was great with him too.

The Echo looked great and there didn't seem to be any concern about his heart.  His EKG they did earlier as well came back normal.

Jen ended up staying with Logan next to his bed and sent me back to RMH to get some sleep.

Dear Lord...What Now?

So hello everyone.  Logan is less than enthused today.  He did get those lines out today but hes been a crank all day long.  His heart rate has been rather high all afternoon.  So high that I had to call the nurses in to check it out.  I finally convinced them that they needed to call one of the Doctors, and they finally did.

He wasn't eating too well earlier today and he was also constipated.  We fixed the constipation and finally got him to eat some.  Hopefully that was the cause of his distress today.  They opted to run and EKG to check out why his heart was beating so fast today.  One of the Attending Dr's also stopped by and mentioned that he would be watching things and he would run an Echo later tonight if he felt that Logan's heart rate hadn't improved.  They just came in and are going to run the Echo right now.  Gotta run...more later after the results.

Happy Guy! Chest Tubes, Heart Wires and Arterial Line are OUT!

It's been an eventful night and morning for Logan.  They moved Logan last night about 10PM out of ICU into the transition unit.  Basically 1 Nurse to 3 patients.  I'm not exactly thrilled with the care in this unit...but I'm glad he is well enough to be out of ICU.  HUGE difference in the level of care in this unit but understandable.  Pretty much they check on him only when he is fussing or something is wrong.  I could be a little biased though.

Just a few minutes ago they removed his chest tubes and wires!  YEAH!!!!  He should be a lot more comfortable now.  It sure looked painful to have all that stuff comming out of you.

Might get to come home tomorow or Monday.  Will find out more later and keep everyone posted.

Happy & have all my friends around me!

Logan made a good friend of one of the Nurses who catered to his every want and need!  Logan told him that he would like to sit up and have all his furry friends around him while he watched TV.  And Eric made it so!

Does this picture not just make you smile?

Pretty much most of the same this afternoon with Logan napping, hanging out with his toys and watching the same Baby Einstein DVD for about the 100th time.  Somehow he just never gets bored of it.  I guess Morphine makes it seem different each time.  :-)

We heard definate rumors of them taking out some of the lines and tubes tomorrow.  That should make Logan much more comfortable and happy.  It would be nice to see him not need so much pain medication.  Logan hopes everyone has a wonderful Friday evening.

The Logasaurus finds his thumb!

Regardless of how much tape and stuff they have wrapped around his hand, Logan still manages to wiggle his thumb out of it and suck on it.  Of course he has to have his little dinosaur stuffed animal next to him most of the time!

Logan has had a pretty restful day.  He's become quite the attraction around here and has been putting out lots of smiles to the whole team in the ICU.  He's been increasing his volume of formula intake today but still not up to normal. 

On another note, I will (hopefully) do a post shortly about another little girl here in the ICU that really needs your prayers and thoughts.  I don't want to post too much without talking to her father first.  She's only a month old and has been here since birth.  Being here, you realize how precious life really is and what's really important. 

I hear Logan making some more dinosaur groans because he's hungry and a little uncomfortable from some pain.  I think they are going to give him a Tylenol suppository.  Fun!

Happy Friday Everyone!

Logan is a Happy guy this morning.  He had a great night with eating, sleeping and a little crying...but they said he did great!

Right now he just ate about 2oz of forumula and is kicking back watching a Baby Einstein DVD.  The are telling us that they may move him to a different room today.  Tommorrow they are planning on removing his Arterial line and a couple of his chest tubes.

Logan definately has some of the nurses wrapped around his finger.  I think 3 of them want him to be thier boyfriend. 

Thanks for everyone's continued support.  It seems like we have been here forever.  It's kind of a blurrr and I can't believe it's already Friday.  My office is doing fantastic without me.  Hope you keep checking back and keep saying prayers for him.  We aren't home yet, but he is definately making progress.  More later.