This is Real Life...

I've been feeling a bit tired lately with this latest pregnancy and sometimes the reality of having a baby, a VERY active 2 year old and a new little life growing is overwhelming... I've been wishing I was a better mother... that i took the boys to the park more often, read more stories, played more hockey with Isaac... but the revelation that I have come to... (for myself) is that NO ONE will love these kids more than I will, and I don't believe that no matter how great a daycare, babysitter, nanny they will never do a better job raising my kids for that very reason... So today... I believe that ANY sacrifice is worth it to be here at home with my boys... Some days however.... Anyways this is real life... and some days we don't get dressed until noon... some days I let Isaac dress himself and this is what he comes up with... But i do get lots of opportunities for cuddles ... and kisses... and these we try to NEVER miss...

Good News Week

Just wanted to share with ALL of you... (joking) our "good news week"... Thursday was spent at the Children's for Jace's heart check up... The news was nothing short of amazing... Firstly our regular cardiologist is off on "Maternity" leave.  SO we had another cardiologist that had never seen Jace before... She could tell just by looking at his ECHO who his surgeon was... (the best)... Anyways the news is as follows: His right ventrical has grown and is now a normal size for a baby his age... (it was smaller when he was born), the muscle mass that had built up in his RV (due to the blood having been pushed through at such a high pressure - pre surgery) is gone... YEAH!!! a huge hurdle and one that determined greatly whether he would need open heart surgery and a shunt put in.  And thirdly the pressure gradiant between the two rV and lung (i think) was 70% when he had his surgery done is now 13%, according to the cardiologist as close to normal as they can get... He still has his ASD hole but that is giving him no problems.. So in her opinion he will need no further surgery and followup is scheduled for 1 year from now... 

Also he had surgery on Friday to take a look at his scar tissue in his airway... there was only a tiny amount there and surgeon believes that was there from before so he is cleared for that area as well... 

SO we are pleased to announce we have a "normal" and healthy 7 month old...