I'm walking on sunshine waoooooo.......

Owen laughs at anything Jalen says!


Owen loves to go on walks, he loves to run, walk, climb and jump at any given chance. Soon after waking up each day he will ask for his shoes (usually his cowboy boots like today), find my shoes and head toward the door for a stroll. Today was a lovely day for a walk, sunny, light breeze and just a few clouds in the sky. He asked for his bike and ball and we headed out to find some grass because our complex management decided to tear up about 90% of all the grass:( Our sweet little neighbor Jalen joined us on our walk much to Owen's delight. Jalen is a stud, and so kind. Last Christmas he left a note on our door that would have made just about anyone cry. He wished us a Happy Christmas and that he reminded Santa to leave baby owen a toy. He and Owen played and laughed for almost 2 1/2 hours. It was very sweet and made my whole day. There is something about just being outside in the sunshine, it lightens your whole spirit and makes me think of all the wonderful blessings I have in my life. It was good day

Tubies

Owen is a champ. He had his surgery today and was nothing short of an angel for pretty much the whole day. We woke up super early gave him a quick bath and headed to the surgery center. Brett and I had explained the whole process to him many times but how much of a bilateral myringotomy with tympanostomy tubes does a 18 month old understand, all he needed to know was we would be there with him. We were with him during all the pre-op monitoring and he met his anesthesiologist Dr Brookshire and Dr Yu, his ENT, came him to talk with us as well. Dr Yu is such a good doctor, kind informative, thorough and who doesn't automatically like a Dr with a fanny pac on? When Owen was all set to go he hopped into the little red wagon waiting for him and they wheeled him off. His eyes got really big as he turned the corner and he couldn't see us waving anymore, we could hear him crying and I almost started crying but held it together. The whole procedure was super fast and Dr Yu came out to explain post op prescriptions and let us know how things went. Owen was still sleeping and as soon as he woke up we got to go back to see him. He was restless and cranky and needed some juice but after he got his juice we rocked in the rocking chair for a while untill he was released to go. All in all we had a good experience and are hopeful this coming winter will be kind to his little ears. Thank you to all for your love & concern, we truly appreciate it.

( He really liked his id bracelet and wanted to show me over and over, so I took a picture, and he loves his daddy's fireman helmet and told me CHEESSSE CHEEESSSE until I got the camera out, such a little ham, I love it!)