Pictures

Waiting for the operation...isn't she so cute in her hospital gown.

Mommy, I really like the carrots you are feeding me. This was taken on Saturday, shortly before we left to come home.

I like hanging out with my Mommy!

This was taken this morning, she's doing great and we continue to thank God for a successful surgery!

She's showing me her hand in this picture. Thanks for continuing to pray for her! She's still sore, but is tolerating the pain well and we continue to pray for no infections as she heals over the next couple of weeks.

18 Months

Today is Mia's half birthday! And it's been great being home. For her half birthday, we sang her half the birthday song. This is a tradition on the Sturm side of the family, they usually also get half a cake too, we didn't get as far as half a cake, maybe next year...I guess you could say we did half a job of it!

This morning we got up and went to church to hear Nana sing in the choir. It was real nice and Mia did real well with it.

Since we've been home, she hasn't been so constipated and continues to do real well. We will post some pictures in a bit.

Hoping you are having a Happy Easter!

Coming Home

Hi all, we got discharged this afternoon and are now on our way home. Pray for safe travel and a comfortable ride for Mia. Pray that her wound would continue to heal and there would be no infection. It should be completely healed in about 3 weeks. God is Great!

And I know this is a few hours early, but He is Risen indeed!

Mia is doing really well, the doctors looked at her this morning and are pleased with how everything looks. No infections, thank you God! She hasn't had any pain medicine since last night, she's been in real good spirits. There is talk of sending us home today, the only concern is that she is slightly constipated, so pray that things would start flowing, we've tried yogurt and she just got some prune juice, we are waiting for some medicine to help, but I'm praying things will get going on their own. Pray for wisdom regarding the best time to come home, we know home is better, but we want to be sure she's ready.

Mia has been doing really well today, she's drank about 7-8 ounces of milk and just ate 2 ounces of carrots, that's pretty good for her! We've given her some more pain meds, but overall she seems to be doing really great. She's been kicking her legs and grabbing her feet and this afternoon she even sat up for a few minutes. Pray that we'd be able to discern the appropriate amount of pain meds for her and that she would continue to heal quickly. So far the incision area has remained infection free and that's what we want.