We have a date!!!

We will be heading down to San Antonio this Sunday to get Brendan checked into the hospital. He will be having a detailed Echocardiogram on Monday and then the actual heart surgery on Tuesday.

6 months already??

Isn't he funny! 6 months old and everything is a joke to him!!

5 Months Old!

It's hard to believe that Brendan is already 5 months old! The picture is from his very first Easter, which he was more than happy to sleep through! I was happy to get one picture with his eyes open.

Brendan continues to thrive in the Early Intervention program. He gets physical therapy twice a month and his therapist and service coordinator continue to be amazed by how well he is developing! He is already rolling over from his belly to his back on a regular basis and also rolls from his back to his belly at least once a day! He also seems just about ready to sit up all by himself!

He is such a wonderful, happy baby! He is my little snuggler who is so content to be held or to fall asleep in your arms. He smiles and laughs all the time, and you just can't help but to smile when he looks at you! Big sister Rory continues to be the best big sister. She takes very good care of her little brother! Brendan is constantly trying to find her everytime he hears her voice!

We are still waiting to get a date for Brendan's full heart repair surgery, which we are anticipating to be in mid-May. We'll keep you posted here!

He's Growing Like A Weed!!

As you can see, Brendan is getting huge! He weighs about 12 pounds and most of it is in his cheeks! At his last cardiologist appointment she was so thrilled with how he was progressing that we are able to go about 3 weeks until she has to see him again. That is a huge change from the weekly visits that we were making. The hope is that when we go to see her next week she'll take him off having to be fed every 4 hours which will mean I can get more than 2 hours of sleep at a time!

Rory is a wonderful big sister who loves Baby Brendan to death! She always asks to hold him or help feed him, and she can give a good play by play on a diaper change! Brendan loves looking at her and listening to her. He can hear her coming and he automatically starts smiling and laughing, such a wonderful thing to see!

Bryan has gone back to "work", if you know what I mean! He is doing well, busy as always, and getting into the groove of things!

Thanks for all of your love and prayers, you can see that they work wonders!

Home Again!

After 5 days in the hosptial, Brendan is home and doing well (fingers crossed!) We're now just having some good quality family time for a while before you know who goes you know where! We'll post more later!

San Antonio is nice, but seriously!

Well, let's be serious, things seemed a little too perfect with Brendan being home for the Holidays, and as luck would have it, it was a little too perfect! Brendan came down with what we thought was a little congestion, maybe a cold, on New Years Day. After a call to the cardiologist and trip to the Dr the next morning it was confirmed that poor Brendan has RSV. RSV, when anyone other than a baby gets it, is nothing more than a very bad cold. In babies, because of their small airways and sensitive lungs, it becomes more serious. In Brendan's case, because of his heart defect and his lung disease it much more serious. So Brendan and I are down here in San Antonio having him monitored by all of the wonderful dr's and nurses for a few days. Thankfully he had his RSV shot before we left San Antonio the first time, so the symptoms of RSV were'nt that bad. We are now just waiting to make sure that his lungs clear without any problems and that he begins to eat again. We are hopeful that we'll be home this weekend, and our family will be under one roof again!

On the Homefront

Life with Brendan at home is wonderful! Big sister Rory has been great about keeping us updated as to whether Brendan is "sleeping" or "woke up!". She has also been able to involve him in dress up and playing cooking...poor kid doesn't stand a chance with her! She also can't understand why he can't "get up and walk" or "do bubbles", but we think she'll give him about another week to figure those things out!

Brendan is feeding a lot better, but still not exactly where the doctors want him to be, so we have weekly trips to the doctor for weight checks, and at last weigh in yesterday he was 9lbs, 15ozs...sounded good to us!

We are looking forward to having our family under one roof for Christmas, and we hope that you all have a wonderful Christmas too! We can't thank you all enough for all of your prayers, phone calls, emails and postings on the blogs. I wish we had all the time in world to respond to each and every one of you, but please know that we are so thankful to you from the bottom of our hearts!