It's been a while :)

I haven't posted in forever!! I've had a lot going on - most of all my hard drive crashed and I had to get a new one :( But everything has been going pretty well with the kiddos. Joey is just chugging right along! He is progressing SO well and amazing us every day. It seems like since his shunt revision he has just made MAJOR leaps in his development. He is holding his head up amazingly well, almost sitting up on his own, and talking like crazy! He's such a happy guy. I feel so blessed to have him!

Emmy is FINALLY working on getting potty trained. She resisted and resisted and finally one day something just clicked and she started going on the potty. She still has accidents of course and wears a pull-up for naps and bedtime and when we go out somewhere but wears panties when we are at home. I'm SO happy! She is such a stubborn girl just like her mommy :)

We are also getting prepared for the holidays. I can't wait for Christmas this year - it's going to be so much fun for Emmy!! I can't wait to take her to the mall to see Santa and get her picture made. I also can't wait to see Joey with the lights on the tree. He absolutely LOVES anything that has lights on it so I know he is going to love the tree.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!!! :)

All is well :)

Just wanted to update quickly to let you all know everything is awesome! Joey is doing so well - its like nothing ever happened. We also had Emmys birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese. She had a BLAST. She wasn't scared of the mouse at all. In fact, she loved him! She followed him around and kept asking for hugs. LOL!

I have tons of stuff to do in the next few days to get ready for our trip. We are heading down to SC to visit my parents! We will trick or treat down there, so I will post tons of pics when I get back! :) Emmy is going to be Minnie Mouse and Joey is going to be a skunk since I always call him little stinker ;)

Have a Happy Halloween everyone!

Happy Birthday!!!

To my sweet little girl Emmy!!!!!! She turns the big 3 today :)

Time goes by way too fast - seems like just yesterday I was holding her all swaddled up. Awww!

Happy Baby :)

Yep, he's back to his old self. What a relief!

Home!

Yay! I'm SO glad to have him home. He's still a little out of it, and not quite himself. Also a little swollen from all those fluids he got. But he's home! His incision looks bad, but they used that glue to close it up instead of sutures. I'm just so glad its all over. Man what an ordeal!

Done :)

The surgery went well! Turns out the cathater/tube that goes from the shunt to the ventricles was clogged! Stupid doctors, they need to learn how to listen better to the parents - I mean who knows their kid better than the mom!!!! I told them and told them that it was his shunt and they swore that it wasn't because his CT looked good. So he is snoozing now - he's eaten a little and kept it down! Yay!!! The neurosurgeon said if he has a good night that he can go home tomorrow. YAY!!! I want him home sooo bad. I'm staying at the hospital tonight with him - thank goodness for wireless internet! :)

Surgery scheduled

for around 11 this morning. My husband stayed all night with him so I could come home and sleep and stay with Emmy - OMG I was so tired. He said Joey just slept - he's so lethargic. Poor guy! I'll post again after the surgery to let you guys know how it went. Keep him in your prayers!