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!"