Friday, January 16, 2009

Brrr....

Wow - it has been so cold here. We headed to Shriner's as 4am this morning for Jackson's surgery. We took some photo's of the temperature gauge at the bank by our house. -24 degrees. On our way back into town this afternoon, it was a balmy -4. You have lived in the Midwest too long when -4 feel warm. It is supposed to be in the 20's/30's this weekend - I might need to get out the kiddie pool - just kidding.

I can't say enough awesome things about Shriner's. We are so blessed to be part of their program. Jax got his ear tubes put in today and they were so wonderful with him. He is such a trooper and tolerated the surgery so well. He was back to his cheery little self after sleeping off the anesthesia for about an hour. It sounded like he gave them a run for their money in the recovery room though. He is not fond of being woke up, much less by strangers - even the nicest ones. I think he seemed shocked by just how loud his sister really is this afternoon. We love her to no end, but she has no volume control. (Does anyone else have a super loud 3 or 4 year old - do they learn to manage their volume?)

Here are some pictures from our day:

3 comments:

whtmtnmom said...

Way to go Jax! So glad that's all done. And thanks for your cold weather- we get it a day or two later so -32 this a.m.! Love the new blog design too.

Laura L. said...

Glad to hear his surgery went well. I hope he will be a well boy now. :)
Hasn't the cold weather been terrible? I'm so glad it's going to warm up around here for a while. What a relief.

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear that everything went well and Jackson is doing just fine!! More prayers answered!! He just gets cuter and cuter with every picture you post!
I don't remember about the 3 or 4 year old but I DO have a 2 year old Granddaughter that has one volune level...they just want to make sure that everyone can hear them!! haha