Happy Independence Day!!!

The Birthday Girl

My favorite birthday picture...

Happy Birthday YouYou!!!

Dear YouYou,

Today we celebrated your 3rd birthday! It was such a special day because it was your first birthday with us. You had 27 family members there to celebrate with you! We ate, swam, opened presents, made snowcones, blew bubbles, and broke a pinata. I think your favorite part was when we sang Happy Birthday to you...you sang right along with us and then blew out your candles like a pro.

I love you my sweet girl...and I'm so happy that God allowed us to be a family.

Your mommy

*Pictures to come later when I can find the cord to upload them to my computer :)

Better than expected!!!!!!

She's done and we're back in the regular room now! Are you sitting down? Maybe you should actually get down on your knees and praise the Lord with us...the Dr.'s said things look even better than they expected!!!! THE PRESSURES IN HER LUNGS ARE NORMAL AND THE RESIDUAL VSD'S ARE NOT SIGNIFICANT (they blood flow of the VSD's are only 1.3 and normal is 1.0...her's were probably a 3.0 before surgery)! PRAISE THE LORD!!! I'm going to go feed my baby and I'll update more later...

It's been about an hour...

They came for her at 9:30 and we walked beside her as the nurse wheeled her on the bed (she wanted to go for a "ride"). She started to cry once we stopped at the door that we could no longer go through...we told her we would see her in a few minutes and through her tears she kept saying "Nuh uh", which is what she often says now when she doesn't want to do something. I just hope they put her to sleep quickly so she didn't have to cry for long. We got some breakfast and we are back in the room now just waiting for the phone call that everything is over.

We've arrived

It's only 6:45 am but it feels like it should be lunch time (we've been up since 3). We arrived here on time, we've been admitted and we're now in our room (502) waiting. YouYou slept the whole way here but she woke up while we were being admitted and the first thing she wanted to do was eat. She pointed to the plate of brownies I brought for the nurses and said "Ma wan dat", which means "Me want that". Then she found the refrigerator in our room and pointed to the ice crystals and then pointed to her mouth, which meant she wanted to eat the ice. Let's just hope they take her back soon because I'm not sure how long she'll stay happy without food or drink. I think the floor here is familiar to her, she seems to know her way around (Neesie is taking her for a walk now). I'll update again once they take her back.

Heart cath tomorrow

Tomorrow morning we'll be leaving our house around 4:00 am to drive to UAB for YouYou's heart cath. We'll be taking the laptop with us and will update this blog during the day. If everything goes smoothly we will be coming home late tomorrow night, but we have to be prepared to spend the night just in case. Thank you in advance for your prayers.