Home!

We are home. Whew! Everything went so, so perfectly. We were released from the hospital on Sunday afternoon and were able to get a flight this morning. Finley is doing great - her eyes are still swollen shut, although her left eye has opened ever so slightly a few times today. Riley was pretty confused, but excited to have us home. Almost as excited as we are to be home. Home, and counting my blessing.

Finley's new noggin

This photo was taken yesterday, before she started to swell. It will be a few weeks until we see her new shape in it's entirety, but she already looks different. Today she resembles John C. Reilly - a very, very swollen John C. Reilly. Her eyes are swollen completely shut, which doesn't make for a very happy baby. No transfusion overnight - she's been cleared to move out of the ICU, we are waiting for a bed on the main peds floor.

Update

Finley is out of surgery - she did great. She lost about 1/3 of her blood, but they were able to give her about 1/2 of that back using a blood recycler. She looks SO different (we'll post photos soon - we need to go to the car to get the USB cable first). She's started to swell quite a bit, her left eyelid is swollen over her eye already.....the swelling should peak at about 48 hrs. and lessen for the weeks to come. She looks SO different. She looks AWESOME.
The surgeon was pleased with what he was able to accomplish (in terms of how much he was able to advance the forehead) and said that everything went as expected. We hope to move out of ICU tomorrow and with any luck, we'll be out on Sunday.

Everything going well in Texas

Everything is going perfectly....we just finished our last pre-op appointment and everything went well. She did great with the sedation for the MRI and was quite patient with the dr.s. We have to be at the hospital tomorrow at 6 and will keep everyone posted.

Tiny Dancer

My Baby

I love this picture of Finley. Hard to believe that in eight days she won't look like this anymore.....keep her in your thoughts and prayers!!

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So much for keeping a blog....

I'll blame it on DIRT. We're on our way to having a LOVELY yard, but right now it's a muddy mess. The landscaping has kept us very busy this month. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. I don't feel too bad - it's the pictures, not my commentary, that you all are after anyhow.

During the month of May:

We planted some trees and bushes; moved A LOT of rock, put in a fence and even had a swing set installed for the kids:




Finley had her first birthday:



Riley had her last day of preschool:
(singing "baby jaws" below)


Both sets of grandparents came to visit:



We ran the Bolder Boulder and celebrated Finley's birthday on Memorial Day:



At some point, I found the time to make a turtle cake:

And Toby slept through it all.......