The moment you've all been waiting for!

The ultrasound lady told me I'm going to have to put the cute dresses away, because we are definitely having another BOY! And yes...I'm a little disappointed. I really was hoping for a girl, but a house full of boys could be fun...right? ;o) Now I'm just keeping my fingers crossed for a sweet little boy who doesn't want to get into everything! is that even possible? *sigh* I guess I need to find some good books on raising boys. ;o)

A lot longer up-date

Well... Dallas has a test 'till late tonight so I am bored and I decided to document Hyrum's surgery happenings before I forget. Unfortunately, I still can't put pictures up, so that will come another day. SO! Monday we drove to SLC and for dinner we met a few friends at my favorite place....Chinese Gormet (buffet!) Hyrum was allowed to eat up 'till midnight, but really 8pm was the last he had anything to eat. We got up and went over to PCMC and checked-in at 7:15am. Hyrum loved the toys and didn't ask for food or water! I was amazed! He didn't go in for surgery until 10:00am. This is the child that tells me all day long with his pitiful voice, "i'm hungry". So, we get his little physical and head to the post-op waiting room, where hyrum found and became attached to a dinasaur toy. The surgery before us went over and they didn't know when they'd be out, so we weren't able to give him his sedative orally because that takes 20min to kick in. instead he was given the same medacine through his nose! 2 syringes full of that stuff. They said it stings and doesn't taste good, but it works in about 5 minutes. About 10min before our time for surgery, hyrum fell and we think he hit his head. Neither of us saw it, we just heard the thud and his crying. We weren't too concerned because this is a frequent at our house. BUT, the nurses freaked out and had us move to a diff area to check his vitals. One of the nurses said his forehead was getting a big goose egg, so i looked and i had to say, "no...he just has a protruding forehead. it always looks like that." ha! anyway, i guess it was a big deal 'cause they weren't going to do the surgery if he had any goose eggs. That's what they get for having a slippery floor and putting too big of socks on my child! ;o) Anyway, so soon after that the surgeon came out and talked to us and then they gave hyrum his sedative. He was pretty giggly and mellowed out really fast. We took him to the "see ya later" door and handed him over to the anesthesiologist (i hate that part). 2 hours later I went to the post-op area to be there when Hyrum was waking up. When I got to him he was sitting up and the nurse asked me to support him 'cause he refused to lay down. he wasn't crying...just staring into space. i finally got him to lay down and he fell asleep. The surgeon numbed the areas he worked on, so hyrum didn't feel any pain...didn't even get morphine this time! He didn't cry until that stuff wore off. We gave him tylenol with codeine once and from then on we rotated normal tylenol and IBU profin. I don't like the codeine stuff 'cause it plugs them up, makes them sleepy, and decreases their appetite. All reasons that would keep us in the hospital! So, he's been great with the normal stuff.His IV wasn't hooking up right once we got to his room, so the nurse asked if he would drink some water...well...he said yes and had 2 cups of water and 3 things of juice. The nurse asked me to slow him down because she didn't want him to throw up. Out came the IV...i love it when they do that. He actually ate really good too...applesauce, pudding, tomato soup, and yogurt. it was really nice to not have to worry about him not eating or drinking! By the end of the night he had licked most of the stitches loose in his lip. i asked the nurse if that was a problem and she said really there was nothing we could do to stop him. I'm pretty sure all the stitches are gone now..they were supposed to last 3 weeks. ;o( I decided that revisions really should wait until they are older and can understand..."don't lick your stitches!!" Hyrum actually slept good that night,despite the noise and lights! His room had a big glass door/wall that a curtain was pulled across, but let me tell you! it was hard to sleep through the noise of the nurses and the light in the hall. He woke up a few times, but the nurse took his vitals and i gave him his medacine (i requested this, because he takes it really easily from me) and he was out again. At his other surgeries we would have to hold him and rock him back to sleep...much more work then. The only problem was he decided that 4:30am was time to get up!!! By 5:30am he was skipping the halls and i thought, "it's time to go home!" I waited because i couldn't order breakfast for him 'till 7 and we were also waiting for Dallas to get there. He slept at the Ronald McDonald house because he was going to be driving and also going to classes Wed. I finally called him at a quarter to 8 because hyrum was laying in the hall playing with toys...apparently his room wasn't big enough. We got home, home at about 2 and i put the kids and myself down for a nap!! Things have been good since then. It's a bit stressful trying to keep him from putting things in his mouth, but we're making it work! And keeping Brayden from hitting hyrum or pushing him...those two are always fighting! i love it when they make eachother laugh...but they drive me crazy going back and forth with the pushing and hitting. ya know?!! BOYS!!! I REALLY WANT A GIRL ;o) *sigh*

quick up-date

Just a quick up-date! We are back home and everything seems to be really good. Hyrum did amazing! There were some definite pluses and minuses to him being older. I will post pictures and a video of him "loopy" from the sedative. He doesn't seem to be in any pain... i just keep rotating tylenol and IBU profin every 3 hours to be on the safe side. We're all just a little bit tired... Hyrum decided 4:30 this morning was THE time to wake up. ;o( oh well... i did get a nap in while the boys took their nap, so we're doing pretty good. It'll probably take me a while to put pics up 'cause I had to borrow Rose's camera since we can't find ours. But one of these days i'll write more details.

Surgery

Just thought I would give you all a heads-up about Hyrum's next surgery. Our next "planned" surgery wasn't until he's about 6 and that will be a bone graft for his gumline. BUT... I finally took him to the surgeon (was supposed to go back in aug) because his speech therapist has insisted that the teeny tiny hole in the roof of his mouth (fistula) is why he can't say a lot of his consonant sounds. What do I think??? I think he's just lazy with his lips. Anyway, the surgeon said we could take care of it whenever...now, summer, fall. I decided to go with the now because we will be having baby #3 in the summer. So, This Tuesday...the 17th we are scheduled for surgery at Primary Children's. So, if anyone wants to say hello, we will be there Monday afternoon and staying at the Ronald McDonald house (love that place). So what are they doing?? Closing the hole and then doing a little revision on his lip 'cause he's got a little extra skin that's bothered me for a while. And touch up his scar right under his nostril. It gets red sometimes...not all the time, but I figure when he's 16 he really won't like trying to cover that up!!! So... we're taking care of it now. It's supposed to be "no big deal" and we could leave that same day, but he scheduled us for an overnight since we don't live near by. HOWEVER...his last surgery he was only 1 and it was "major" plus he had a fever of 105, and we still had to follow him around with his IV pole because he was bored sitting in his crib! That was the day after surgery! So, we'll see how long we'll stay this time around. So, I really hate handing him over to the anesthesiologist, but they'll give him a sedative and Dallas will pull him around in the wagon, so at least he'll be asleep. I'm just not looking forward to arm restraints...he's not going to like that so much. But he's gonna need them 'cause right now he's ALWAYS got something in his mouth. So... that's next week's adventure!! Thankfully, Dallas' sister, Taralee is watching Brayden for us! ;o)
On another note... we will FINALLY find-out what kind of baby we are having! My appt. is March 5th. Keep your fingers crossed that it's a girl!!!

family photos

New Year's

Hmmm... let's just say... we're boring! Dallas had planned to work all night and I didn't even realize it was New Year's Eve until about 7:00pm!!! Dallas ended up coming home shortly after that. So, what did we do? I called home to hear about all the yummy food they were eating. ;o) And THEN what did I do???? I drove to the gas station and bought some chips and dip!! We watched...ok...can't even remember what we watched!! We both fell asleep at about 9:30. ha! We woke up at 11 because someone from home (hour later than us) was calling to say happy new year. And we went to bed. How lame is that?! Next year we'll do better!

Christmas

This year was an interesting Christmas. We decided to limit our purchases to the Target gift card we got from Dallas' sister. Let's just say... we won't be doing that again. ;o) After a few days of Dallas asking if he could open a present, I finally gave in and he got to open his movie "Prince Caspian" and I got to open 2 bags of Reeses mini Peanut Butter cups... YUM!! Dallas worked all the way up to Christmas Eve and then we went to Rupert to spend Christmas with Dallas' parents. We did open a few presents at home because we didn't want to put them in the car...a lego table for the boys, the mega blocks (my mom) for the table, and a tent (my family)for the boys. I set it up in their room and they had a lot of fun playing in it. Christmas Day we woke up around 7 when Hyrum woke up, ate some breakfast and then opened presents. Hyrum had fun playing santa and throwing the presents at everyone (for a while anyway). He loved his little animal set Dallas and I got him. It was fun to actually see him get excited about opening gifts. Brayden just ran around, but also liked opening presents when called him over. The rest of the day Dallas spent plowing the lane because we'd had a nasty, windy story the night before. He also got a little snowboarding on the ramp in. Sat. Spencer (Dallas' brother) took us snowmobiling and let me just say I am a WHIMP!!! I ended up just sitting in the snow until Spencer came and picked me up. ;o) That was after Dallas had dumped me off a couple of times and I thought I was going to cry because I was so scared!!! It was fun after I got on with Spencer though. Let's just say Spencer is a bit better with a snowmobile than Dallas. We'd planned to come home on Sunday, but the interstate was closed, so we headed home on Monday. Tuesday we finally went and got some family photos taken, so those will be up as soon as i get them! The boys did awesome, so it was a good experience. And that was our Christmas!