Surgery is Over

I just wanted to say thank you so much for praying for Brody. His surgery went very well. It took about 1 hour and 15 minutes to perform the surgery. He was away from us for about 3 hours though. That was the longest 3 hours of my life. His doctors and nurses were wonderful. We only has a couple of scares with his blood pressure going up really high and he kept throwing up. He got over the bp issue pretty quickly, and the next day he started keeping food down. I have a very tough little boy. On Tuesday, we didn't know if we were going to be able to go home because he wasn't eating and when he ate would not keep it down. Well, about 1:30 he was laying on the bed and started to cry a little. My mom picked him up and bounced him to sleep. A little while after that his IV started to beep. The nurse came in and checked it, and she said that she was going to have to redo something. I told that he had kept two bottles down, so she called the doctor to see if Brody still needed the IV. She came back and not only did Brody not need the IV she had discharge orders. She came back in about an hour later to take out the IV. She looked at it and said, "I have never seen this before. He took out his own IV." We couldn't believe it. There wasn't even any blood. We wondered why he cried a little. Now we know. He just wanted to go home. Thank you again for your prayers.

Mommy and Brody hunkered down for the night. I am very relieved in this picture that his blood pressure is down.


This is pic is really funny because he is asleep, but keeping one eye on us. I guess he was making sure that we didn't let them do anything else to him.

The sweetest sound

The sweetest sound I have ever heard is my baby laughing. He laughed for the first time today. He has this giarffe toy that he simply loves. You put balls in it and the giarffe laughs. I didn't even catch that he was laughing at first, but then he chuckled. I mean he chuckled. It was so awesome. He also sat up for about 2 to 3 seconds. He is getting so strong. I just had to post this. I am going to try and capture it on video as soon as I can. I am going to try and figure out how to post videos on here. We will see how that one works out. :)

Two Month Check-Up

Today was Brody's two month check-up. He will be 10 weeks old tomorrow. I can not believe it. These last 10 weeks have flown by. I didn't realize just how much fun I was going to have. He does something new every day. I wanted to write some things down that he is doing, so that I don't forget them.
He is holding his head up pretty much all the time now. He does not like tummy time, so he lifts his head up pretty quickly so that I will roll him to his back. He is cooing and smiling all the time. He wakes up smiling. He loves to look at himself in the mirror. I bathe him in his tub at the kitchen sink, and he loves to look at his reflection in the window. This may not be a good thing as he gets older.:) He loves loves loves his bath time. I leave him in the bath as long as I can. He is purposefully reaching out for objects. He is almost about to laugh. Sometimes, the only way to calm him down is with the vacuum or hair dryer. He is not fussy much, but when he is this helps to calm him if he is not hungry or needs to be changed. It doesn't take a long time to calm either. He is sleeping through the night from about 9:30 to 6:30 which is amazing. He loves to ride in the car, and he loves his giraffe toy. I know that there is much more that he is doing, but I can't think of them right now.
He had a great two month check-up. Dr. Smith said that he is doing great. She also said that in her 20 years of being a peditrician, she has never had a patient with a patent urachus. I told her that we just like to be special. :) She kept laughing at Brody during the exam because he just kept looking up at her and smiling. He is a little flirt. He weighed 12lbs 12ozs (75th%); is 23 3/6" long (75th%); and his head circum. is 41 1/2cm (75th-90th%). She said that he is going to be tall.
When the nurse gave him his first shot, he looked over at me a furrowed his eyebrows. If he could talk, I think he would have said, "What are you letting this woman do to me?" He then had a delayed whimper. Second shot, he didn't cry at all, but the third shot he screamed. But, he only cried for a few seconds, and then he was over it. He has done really well tonight.
I hope that all of you have a great week.

Ethan Update

Please pray for Ben and Becky Powell. Ethan passed away at 11:37am. Please pray God's comfort on this sweet family, and for a cure to be found.

Ethan Powell

Please pray for Ethan. He really needs our prayers now more than ever. They almost lost him a couple of times today. Please check his website for more information. www.ethanpowell.com
By His Grace,
Sarah

Surgery date set

Hello all. The surgery date has been set for April 21st. They will keep in overnight just to make sure that he does ok with the anethesia. Thank you again for your prayers.

We finally got to meet Hudson Green. His daddy Kelly and Bryan went to FHU together. We were able to go over to Kelly and Karie's today and see them. Hudson was born two weeks after Brody.

This is a picture of cousin Baker holding Brody for the first time. He is so sweet with him. Kenady brought Brody some very cute flip flops for the summer.