Hello Everyone,

As most of you know already, Madison had her surgery on February 12. We went into the hospital on the 11th so we can get her lab work done, xrays and everything else that she needed done before her surgery. She was in a good mood the entire time and didn't let the poking and prodding all over her body let her get her down. Both sets of grandparents arrived on Thursday, shortly after Maddie was admitted into the hospital. When it came time to get her IV put in, it was a hassle. They poked her several times all over her wrists and legs with no luck. Unfortunately, when she came back, which seemed like forever, she had an IV sticking out of her head. She wasn't in the happiest of moods after that, but she got better as the night went on.

Her surgery was supposed to be in early morning, but there was a baby who needed a more detailed surgery and took her place. Maddie's surgery was then set back to 2 p.m. When Madison went into surgery, she had gone about 15 hours of not eating or drinking, hardly slept, and still in a pretty good mood. She started to get a little fussy and the docs came in to give her a relaxing medicine to calm her before she went back. That was the funniest part of the entire experience. She went from a fussy baby with big wide blue eyes to her eyes half open and couldn't care less about anything.

Her surgery went great and she was recovering great! Within a day of having her surgery, she was sent on her way home to recover. We got home on Saturday and was a little sore. Sunday you wouldn't know that she ever had a major surgery. Monday she paid for all of the movement that she did on Sunday, but still did well. Each day, she got better and moved a little more.

We have had several appointments since her surgery. She does have a few side affects, but all common within babies.

Sunday was Valentines Day. We didn't do anything special because we all thought that Maddie would still be in the hospital at that point. Maddie had a cute little outfit, thanks to grandma and grandpa Kallal, and little VDay jammies, as well.

I took over 150 pictures from the time she got into the hospital until today ( 10 days later.) I took pictures of everything and made sure that I got several different shots. I plan on making a scrapbook of just this. That way, when she gets older and wants to know what happened, she will have a better understanding of what happened and how great she did.
This is Madison's first Valentines Day outfit. It was adorable. I absolutely loved it.
This is Madison eating her first piece of watermelon and strawberry. Every time she got a piece of strawberry, her face would pucker up. She really enjoyed it though. When she was finished with it, there were only seeds left.


This is Maddie with her grandpa on her first day home.
This is a picture of Madison as soon as we get home from the hospital. She wasn't liking getting in and out of her car seat, but she did well.
This is all of us leaving the hospital (minus Kayleen who jumped out of the picture)
This is minutes before Madison went back to the room.
This was taken on Thursday, the day before her surgery. She was having fun playing around.

Well, I think that this is good enough for now. I do want to say thank you to all of those who prayed for us. We are very thankful that Maddie had a successful surgery and doing great in her recovery.