Question of the day.....

Can I please take this head bandage off ?

Jansen and I are both ready for this bandage to come off tomorrow. We will head to Atlanta after school and see Dr. Jones for Post-op. We are praying for a successful skin graft. We are also excited to meet a very special family while at the doctor. Thanks to facebook and blogs, we will meet The Burrow family. Greyson will be there for pre-op for surgery #3, which will take place on Wednesday. These two boys have been WILD this weekend. The cold weather and Chris being out of town has kept us in the house all weekend. Have a great Sunday afternoon and I will update tomorrow after the appointment.

Revision surgery update...

Today's surgery was great...He went back at 9:27 and we got the call from Dr. Jones at 11:40. We were on our way home by 12:30. Jansen did great and is in NO pain. Thanks for all the prayers.

1st time seeing him in recovery
Nurses taking the IV out. :)

Ready to go home...

He slept for a few minutes on the way home and then we stopped.....

at this yummy place for lunch. He ate a few bites.

I love seeing him smiling so soon after surgery.

and now....

Jansen is 100% back to his old self. I went to get a much needed haircut and highlight, and I come home to 2 wild little boys. They were dressed and ready to go to the batting cages when I came home. Now, I am enjoying a quite house.

We will all return to school tomorrow, bandage and all. He will wear the bandage at least until post-op on Monday. I am so ready for Monday to look at the ear. The wait is going to kill me this time around.

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update....

We just got the call..Surgery went well and it's over. We are headed up to see our little guy now.

He's off to surgery....

He went back to surgery about 9:30. We should hear from Dr. Jones soon.

My new best friend is......

ATLANTA..

As most of you know I hate driving in the Atlanta traffic. Since Jansen's 1st surgery 3 weeks ago, I have been to Atlanta 6 times including today. Jansen and I had to make another trip to Dr. Jones, because he started breaking out in a rash Saturday and today it just seemed to get worse. The rash is from head to toe, and we have no idea why. It has nothing to do with his ear, but Dr. Jones needed to look him over to make sure we were okay with surgery tomorrow. Surgery will go ahead like planned tomorrow.

Arrival 7:15

Surgery 9:15

I talked to Dr. Jones today about what all they will be doing tomorrow. They will be cutting a little place above his ear (where the sore is) and pushing the skin over to fill in where the cartilage is splitting. Then they will do a skin graft in his groin area to fill in where they cut behind his ear. The surgery will be about 2 hrs. long . Jansen will be wearing the head netting for at least the next 6 days. We are praying for a successful skin graft and quick recovery time.

We will have post-op on Monday, December 13.

(ear at 3 weeks post surgery 1)

We are loving the new ear. We are so impressed on how well it looks after only 3 weeks.

All these surgeries don't seem to bother this little guy.

Please continue to keep us in your prayers.

Chick-fil-a Open House

We enjoyed visiting The Chick-fil-a Corporate Office Open House today. The office is always so pretty at Christmas time.

Christmas Tradition

Ever since my sister and I were little we have always gone downtown to eat breakfast with Santa and then headed over to the Riches to ride the Pink Pig... Once Kaylee and Jordan were born we decided to continue this tradition with them. So we were off to the Ritz Carlton for breakfast with Santa then over to Lenox Mall to ride The Pink Pig...

The boys enjoying hot chocolate
Kaylee and Jordan making a craft

Me and Paige


Kaylee and Jansen

Jordan, Kaylee, Jansen, and Jackson

Me and my boys

The silly crew waiting to see Santa

my boys with Santa

the boys watching The Scottish Rite Children's Parade

Paige and Jackson

The crew

Kaylee, Jansen, and Jordan

Kaylee and Jordan riding the Pink Pig

After a long morning we decided to visit Trader Joes to do a little shopping..

I am so tried from our busy day, but we had a lot of fun. We missed Chris today, but knew he was getting everything ready for The Chick-fil-a open house tomorrow.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!