Our little trooper

Andrew was amazing today.  From the second he arrived at Children's, he has very cautious.  He wouldn't play with the toys in the playroom.  He wouldn't wave or smile at anyone, which is very unlike him.  And he insisted on being held all morning.  But he let them do everything they needed.  He sat still for vitals, helped with taking off his clothes and changing into the gown and sat on the operating room table like a big boy to go to sleep.  He cried for only about 5 or 10 seconds before falling fast asleep. 

When we saw him in recovery, he was sleeping peacefully and it took him a little while to wake up.

Once he was awake, he was not very happy.  His tummy obviously hurt and he had a TON of gas.  He insisted on Mommy holding him but would thrash out of my arms trying to get comfortable.  Two fentanyl (pain medicine) doses later, he was a little better and agreed to drinking some juice.  Once we proved that he could come off the oxygen, tolerate some liquids and have decent pain control, we were able to leave.  It took about 3 hours.  We did meet with Dr. Dabari during this time and he told us that everything looked fine with the scope.  We won't have any real answers though until the biopsy results come back next week.

Nana and Paige were at home waiting for him and he perked right up when he got there.  Of course he had a recovery present and enjoyed tearing the paper off to see what was inside!

Within no time, he was outside, running up and down the sidewalk with his new bubble lawn mower!

Although Andrew's procedure was fairly easy and uneventful, Paige added some excitement to our day.  She came home from daycare early two days ago with a fever and had been rather irritable. She was pulling on her ears and complaining to us about them constantly and we were convinced that was the culprit.  Nana took her to ENT this morning while we were with Andrew for another ear check and they actually looked okay - definitely better than last week.  BUT they did notice that her tonsils had quite a bit of pus on them and much to all of our surprise, her strep culture was positive! Poor baby had a real fever by the time she was home and has been spiking to 103 all evening despite constant tylenol and motrin. We're just hoping she'll feel better tomorrow.

Even with her sore throat and fever, she couldn't be left out from the mowing fun!

Of course, we found out about Paige when Andrew was already under anesthesia, so this made us nervous about his recovery.  We called our pediatrician on our way home and they wanted to see him this afternoon for a rapid strep.  Luckily, his was negative because we didn't want to put him on an antibiotic course with his irritated gut.  We'll keep a close eye on him though.

I think the kid's favorite part of this experience and Andrew's 36 hours of clears was their first popsicle experience.

Of course he insisted on wearing his hat:)

Paige LOVED the idea of it and holding it herself but she is still undecided about the actual taste:)

Thanks for all the calls, emails and texts today!  It means a lot to know that so many of you were thinking about us!