Safe and Sound

Well we made it back to Cincinnati safe and sound. The trip was very uneventful and we are very grateful for that! Robbie is doing well. Riding in the car this trip was a little more difficult than last trip back in December only because he is becoming more mobile. Being strapped in a car seat for 5 hours at a time isn't exactly his idea of fun. We did stop a few times and let Robbie "walk" around so he could stretch his legs. We stopped just outside of St. Louis on Friday and stayed there and then finished the drive yesterday. We couldn't get into the Ronald McDonald house so we have hotel room at an Extended Stay hotel. It isn't luxury but for the small amount of time we will be spending there it will work perfectly.

We are officially checked into the hospital. We learned that when we checked into the hospital last time we really had nothing to do the day before surgery, so got a little smarter this time and accidentally showed up a little late. Needless to say we probably could have came a little later and still been ok. Suprisingly when we checked in we were put in the exact same room we had last time! We are located right next to the nurses to the nurses station which in so many ways its nice, but at night it can be a little loud. Hopefully we will have a quiet nurses this time and we won't have to worry about them being too loud!

Today they will be doing irragations in Robbies stoma. They squirt saline into his stoma and it makes him empty out. The first one went well, as we do a few more of these I am sure he will get to be a little more irratable. This beats having to do a bowl prep, which we hear isn't very pleasant.

One of the nurses from Child life just came in a put some toys on Robbies crib...he is so excited he can't decide which toy to play with. He just keeps walking back and forth from soother to soother. We are hoping he will manage to get some sleep tonight with all of these toys in his crib.

We thought we would add a few pictures 2 new ones in the room and 2 old flashback pictures from right after we brough him home from the hospital. What a sweet boy and I just can't believe that he is SO big now!

We will keep you updated tomorrow with things as surgery progresses. We aren't sure what time we are going in, but we are assuming in the morning sometime. Please keep Robbie in your prayers tonight!