We are HOME

Tuesday didn't start out too promising for us to get discharged from Children's. We woke up at 6:30am (I only got around 4 hours of sleep total....ugh) and saw that Jonathan's eyes were still swollen shut. Bummer. His eyes needed to be open before the doctor would release him. We were so stir-crazy we had to be released on Tuesday.

At around 9am we noticed that Jonathan was tilting his head back and reaching out to touch things...yay! So, we kept him upright and slowly he was able to peek underneath those swollen eyelids. Jonathan was so overjoyed to be able to see! He was laughing and shrieking with glee, it was so adorable :..-)

After that, we got the clearance to leave. I've never seen Wes pack up so fast, lol!!
It was cute saying good-bye to all the nurses. They all looked so happy to be seeing Jonathan leave. We had some great nurses during our stay. The first night in the NICU we had a gal named Amy who I had some good conversations with throughout my first sleepless night It was a great way to relax & smile a bit and know that my baby was in good hands. When we were transfered to the surgery recovery area we had some great gals as well. RN Nicole was the best. She was a mom of a three year old and shared a lot of our thoughts on parenting. We got some great tips and advice from her. We also enjoyed meeting a student nurse named Geni who was from Somali. A mom of 3, this was Geni's last week of school before she became a Nurse. We had a great time talking about our children and she genuinely adored Jonathan. We wish her lots of success in life.

It is great to be home, John is so happy to play with his toys again. He seems even happier than before the operation, too. The surgeon told us that John's skull was starting to put pressure on his brain, maybe that was causing him some stress? I just can't get over how this little guy had major skull surgery a week ago and now he's back in business! Except for looking like he went a few rounds with Mike Tyson, Jonathan is back to his happy self. He really loves Wes more than ever. Wes held him just as much (if not more :-)) than I did during our hospital stay and they deepened their bond, awwww! Little Buddy now beams with delight every time he sees Wes. Makes my heart melt <3

The only hard time we are having is getting John to sleep the past couple of naps & nights. He is more clingy than usual, and hates sleeping in his crib. We rock him for an hour and just when we think he's asleep and are about to put him in his crib, he wakes up and screams bloody murder...sigh...its like back when he was a newborn and we had no idea how to make him go to sleep.
Any good tips from you fellow parents would be appreciated! I'm not liking this lack of sleep :-(

I'm going to go take some pics of Little Buddy today, and then when its Wes's turn to rock our little guy to sleep tonight, I'll post them :-)