No News is Good News

Many have asked why we haven't updated the blog in a while, and I'm happy to say for the first time because our lives have been fairly uneventful! Since Mason came home from the hospital on Dec. 14th, we've basically been puttering along.

We had a fantastic Christmas amidst all the snow and were so excited to see Christmas through Mason's eyes. We were surprised at how engaged he was and how excited he was with opening his presents (and there were many!!). Thank you to everyone! I'm not sure whether Mason was more excited about eating the wrapping paper or the present itself, but everything had to be tasted first. It was quite funny.

Shortly after Christmas we did have a little glitch when Mommy mistook the balloon port on the feeding tube for a medication port and we (read that I) ended up deflating the balloon that holds the feeding tube in place. After a couple of days of leaking milk out of the hole, we did a little internet searching and Daddy came to the rescue. He figured out my error and we got it fixed right up. No harm, no foul. Lessons learned. And all those other cliche's.

New Year's brought...well, really nothing. I was in bed around 11 and Bill watched a movie until needing to give Mason his midnight medications -- our nightly routine around here. Are we old or what?? Maybe next year.....

This month we do have quite a few follow up appointments with the pediatrician, the GI doctor, the speech pathologist, the physical therapist, the surgeon, and perhaps the lung and heart doctors. Mason seems to be doing well and even has really good days that we haven't seen in a really long time. We are so thankful that the surgery went well and that he continues to be so happy.