I am sure many people believe that they have the world's greatest Dad, however they've been deceived! We have the world's #1 dad!!
Babe you are so amazing with all three of our little rascals, and they adore you. Emmy has to give you goodbye hugs and kisses every morning or she is completely devastated! Brodyn is going to be 'mini-dan' he loves all the same hobbies you do and has your mellow temper and demeanor! The sweetest thing is watching you with Sophia. I love in the evenings when I am going about my routine, I'll check on Sophie, and find her snuggled next to you as you watch T.V. I love how you are not afraid of the infant stage and how you have this cute little connection with Sophie and how you love being with her. I love how you were so excited for another little girl when we found out what we were having.
I love how you can stay home from work almost whenever I need you, and how you help get teeth brushed, flossed, and swooshed at night. I love your spaghetti, when it is warm and ready when I get home from work. I am so grateful you are mine. I got lucky when I married you. What a blessing you have been in my life. I knew you had potential to be a good dad, but I didn't realize how truly amazing you would be at it! You are my dream come true, I love you!
Babe you are so amazing with all three of our little rascals, and they adore you. Emmy has to give you goodbye hugs and kisses every morning or she is completely devastated! Brodyn is going to be 'mini-dan' he loves all the same hobbies you do and has your mellow temper and demeanor! The sweetest thing is watching you with Sophia. I love in the evenings when I am going about my routine, I'll check on Sophie, and find her snuggled next to you as you watch T.V. I love how you are not afraid of the infant stage and how you have this cute little connection with Sophie and how you love being with her. I love how you were so excited for another little girl when we found out what we were having.I love how you can stay home from work almost whenever I need you, and how you help get teeth brushed, flossed, and swooshed at night. I love your spaghetti, when it is warm and ready when I get home from work. I am so grateful you are mine. I got lucky when I married you. What a blessing you have been in my life. I knew you had potential to be a good dad, but I didn't realize how truly amazing you would be at it! You are my dream come true, I love you!
May 16th, Thursday morning we woke up bright and early, to be at Primary Children's Hospital by 10:00 a.m. to check Brodyn in for eye surgery. It didn't feel like we had to wait long, because they moved us through so quickly. this was particularly nice, since our nerves were on edge.
The nurse was pretty good, she came back into the room after he was changed, she saw how upset he was and she said to him..."Let's see your shirt, is it a cool one?" "Let's put it back on over them and then the Dr. can take it off again when he needs to!" He liked that idea and settled down a little. Because he was so nervous Dan and I decided to let the nurses give him a sedative to relax him a little. It worked wonders! It also helps to erase a little of what was going on so Brody isn't left with any traumatic memories.
The surgery started about 11:00 a.m. and by noon the Dr. came out and said everything went as planned and we would soon be able to see him. Only one of us could go back first. He was taken to the first post-op room, where a nurse monitored him as he came out of anesthesia. Dan and I rocked off to see who would be able to be there when he woke up, we both wanted to go. I won of course but later thought maybe I should have let Dan be the one to go back. It was hard to see him come out of anesthesia, he wanted to rub his eyes and he couldn't, so I had to hold them down. It was hard to know that as soon as he woke up, he would be in a little pain even with pain medicine. He was crying and wiggling around trying to wake up, I kept whispering in his ear that it was okay and that I was there and kept kissing him on the cheek. Fighting that frog in my throat. I did well and held it together for my 'little man.' My eyes watered a little throughout the day, and I kept fighting that frog in my throat but I didn't cry!
The nurse brought back apple juice, root beer slushies and fruit punch slushies, they were a big hit with Brody. He had to fast from bed time the night before until after the surgery, which is a very long time for a little tummy.
The reason Brody has this oximeter on his big toe, is because he was so ornery after the surgery he would not let the nurse keep it on his thumb, so she tried putting it on his big toe, but he kept kicking it off. It was important for it to stay on so the nurse wrapped it, so it wouldn't come off. She had some Dinosaur wrap that Brody liked so he allowed her to put the oximeter back on.
After about 2 hrs we were able to go home, Brody got a ride in this sweet wheelchair!
Loving the root beer slushy! He did pretty well after surgery he threw-up in the car twice on the ride home. He said it was because Dad was driving crazy. We have drops that have to go in his eyes 3 x's a day, for a week which he does not like. I make faces after I drop the drops on his closed lids and ask him to tell me what face I am making, it takes awhile but curiosity wins out and he opens his eyes to see. 
Sophie surprised us Wednesday morning, my contractions were present all night. It seemed like they were coming every 40 min, 30 min and 20 min intervals, I didn't sleep well and toward the morning hours I was actually rolling out of bed and standing up until they passed and then would crawl back into bed and go to sleep. At 6:30 I finally just got up to get ready for work, at this point it seemed they were showing up every 10 min, but they weren't terribly uncomfortable or painful. I still didn't even consider I was going into labor, because this same thing happened with Emmy and they ended up stopping.
After Sophie was born the nurses were able to get us to sign papers and answer the questions they put in to the computer, like if your allergic to anything, what medications your taking etc. One nurse asked if I'd taken in medication, I said only prenatal pills but Dan said, "She took two extra strength Tylenol this morning." The nurse said, "Did she have a headache?" Dan said "No she took them for the contractions!" The nurses then all started laughing, because that is all the pain relief I got for that delivery!! Hey maybe it helped take the edge off!!
Sophie had some merconium in her bag of water and cried the second her head came out, the NICU nurse sucked out 10 cc's of green fluid out of her tummy! This made her so mad, she didn't stop crying until we were headed to our recovery room. I've never had such a mad little baby, but it was good the crying helped clear her lungs as well.
Big yawn! Sleepy girl!
Emmy, baby sis and Grandma Brenchley. Grandma was so awesome she came and brought Emmy and Brody some gifts (which I think really helps them in this new little transition of adding a new little one to the pack!) Then she vacuumed my house for me...which I didn't get to do before Sophie came!
Emmy loves Sophie, but I can tell she is just a little unsure of her new role and place. She likes to do things after I do them to or with Sophie. I gave Sophie a bath in our little infant plastic tub and after I got Sophie out, I hear I little body jump out of the the big tub and I turn around and there is my biggest baby curled up in this tiny little blue tub, she barely can fit, it was so cute and of course I had to take a picture! I am being extra careful with her, she has had a cold and ear infections so I've tried to keep her from touching Sophie's mouth and face, it's hard and there is that fine line of helping her still fill comfortable, and not left out.
My Big Baby!
