The Little Patient

This morning Tyler got his tubes put in. It was an early start to our week since we had to be at the hospital at 6am. Tyler was a trooper and a great patient - everything went well! The surgery was really fast and all we had time to do was finish a cup of coffee before the doctor came out to tell us he was done. In the doctor's words "He did awesome! I had to remove a lot of goopy stuff from his ears and the nurse will give you a butt load of instructions" ha ha! The worst part was waiting of course (even though we only had to wait 20 minutes or so) and when he was coming out of the anesthesia he cried pretty bad for about 10 minutes, but then he got better. What was really cool is every person has their own nurse, so she sat in the room with us reassuring us that it's totally normal for them to cry like crazy while they're coming out of it - Nurse Kristen ROCKED! It also helped that both of our sisters warned us too because it was scary that he was inconsolable :(

The major crisis of the morning happened when we got in the car to go home and realized we didn't have his blankie with us...that's when the real panic set in! Dave ran back to the room since we knew we left it there and they couldn't find it, but they wouldn't let him back in the room to look. Thank goodness he was very persistent and kept saying he knew it was in there (I would have been asking to put the hospital on lockdown if I was the one who went in), and they finally found it wrapped up in the bed sheet in the linen basket. Phew...crisis averted!

Real men wear purple hospital gowns :)


We were hoping for the hospital gown, butt crack shot. This is the closest we could get.


Already back up and running!


Dave's parents and sister were here all weekend so Tyler did lots of playing and running around. We're pretty sure he had a few shots of espresso before he left daycare on Friday because he was wired all weekend. He's such a ham and he'll do anything to get a laugh out of you or to make himself laugh! We went to the pediatrician last week and she mentioned the albuterol we needed to give him leading up to the surgery could make him wired. Then, she followed that by saying "Since his baseline is wired, I think he'll be fine taking it at night". I love our doctors :)

Figuring out how much fun socks are on a slippery floor!


Everything is Elmo these days. This outfit make a definite statement!


Front row seat to watch Pop spin the sock monkey on the fan.


This is a BIG moment that we've been waiting for - learning how to go down the steps backwards without us telling him to do it!