Home Today

Well, yesterday Samuel did have some difficulty breathing after surgery. They gave him a breathing treatment before we left the hospital and then we gave him his treatment before he went to bed last night. Poor little guy - lately he has been holding the mask himself, but last night he wanted nothing to do with it and he screamed the entire time. The screaming got so bad that we had to stop and start again 3 different times.
Anyway, Samuel had a good night and then this morning he was not breathing well again so we gave him a treatment and decided that David would go to work while Samuel and I would spend the day at home resting.

No Driving or Operating Heavy Machinery

Samuel is home and all is well. The discharge instructions include that we shouldn't allow Samuel to drive or operate heavy machinery. So, I guess we will have to find other things to fill our time :)
Seriously though, Samuel did very well in surgery. He was taken in just before 7:30 AM and we were leaving the hospital just before 9 AM. He was a little loopy coming off of the anesthesia and just jabbered and giggled. This afternoon we just relaxed and let him have a quiet day. Best news is that likely there will not be any other surgery until possibly after Samuel is around 3 years old! A whole year without a surgery - Yahoo!!!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween this year was lots of fun! We went to two 'trunk or treat' parties and Samuel had a great time. He loved carrying his bag because he really likes putting things in bags...however, he didn't know what to think of other people putting things in his bag!

He also had fun at the 'fishing pond'.
On Halloween we went to the Sea World Spooktacular and Samuel got his piture taken with the "Pumpkin Fish". We went late in the day because we were having record breaking heat so the only show we watched was "Shamu Rocks". Samuel loved it. I enjoyed the show, but even more then then show, I enjoyed listing to Samuel cheer and get so excited with the different tricks that were done.

We also went to the pumpkin patch again this year. We went right before going to Sea World - Next year we will have to remember to go earlier because going on Halloween the patch was pretty much closing down. Still got cute pictuers though!

Adventures with Visitors

So here are the pictures that you have all been waiting for: (warning: There are lots of pictures, I had a hard time narrowing them down!)
As you know, we moved. Samuel LOVES his room, and it's not even completely organized yet. It was the first room that we got started on because we wanted to make sure and have it mostly put together when Samuel got home from "school".

We went to Sea World with Connie's family while they were here and Kaylynn got picked to meet Seamore! Kaylynn is so adorable.

Samuel really liked feeling the ice in the wild Arctic exhibit.

The next weekend we went to Magic Kingdom. Samuel's favorite "attraction" was climbing about on the fence while waiting at Splash Mountain.

He also enjoyed riding with Auntie Connie and Richard on Pirates.

And splashing in Toontown.

It was cold (which means it dropped below 70!) so Samuel bundled up in this Halloween tiger costume.

It was a long day for the little tiger and he fell asleep in his car seat immediately...

Then Connie and family came over for dinner which was so much fun! All of the kids got to eat on beach blankets in the living room. Samuel had already eaten because he eats better when there isn't other excitement. Well, he still wanted to be with the cousins while they were eating so he got his chair and sat right at the end of the line!






Then this weekend we went to Busch Gardens with Bob! Here is a tiger from Busch Gardens....he's almost as cute as my Samuel tiger!

Samuel loved the carousel.

and the sky ride

Well, that wraps out our adventures of the last month or so. After finishing with Busch Gardens we did head over and close out Magic Kingdom. I meant to get a picture with Samuel and Bob. Samuel really loved Bob - he especially loved that Bob sat in the back seat next to him in the car.

It was so great to have parts of our families come visit us!

Busy Month

It has been such a busy month with moving and such. Sorry about not updating the blog! My sister and her family are here for a few more days - we are going with them tonight to see a show and I am hoping to get more pictures. It has been great to see them! However, I just can't believe how big they all are (not my sister, but the kids)! This little kids that I would play with while we were down at BYU are now teenagers! That just doesn't seem right. Has it been that long?!! Time keeps going faster and faster. I guess I just need to do better at keeping up!

September 11th

In honor of tomorrow I wanted to share this on my blog. I love the message of hope. Enjoy!

I had a great birthday this year.

I got up at 7:30 AM and David and Samuel were just getting home from grocery shopping. It was so nice to sleep in!

David then made us a nice bacon and egg breakfast!

That evening we went to the Kissimmee Steakhouse for dinner. We had never been there before and I wanted to try some place new for my birthday. I thought that it looked like a good place to try because they had some excellent specials on their website. The meals were delicious
David and Samuel enjoyed watching the chef cook on the open charcoal grill. We really enjoyed our dinner...but one hint for those wanting to go to this restaurant, if you look at the website and see specials, in order to get those specials you have to ask for that menu, otherwise they will give you the regular menu and you will end up paying about 3 times the amount. Luckily, I just happened to ask about the specials so they gave us the special menu. Perhaps this is also done so that locals get a different price than tourists?



After dinner we went and strolled around Magic Kingdom. We watched the parade and the fireworks. Samuel didn't really like waiting for the parade. But he did seem to like the parade itself.



(Side note: this week at daycare one of Samuel's teachers noted that Samuel doesn't have a lot of patience.....so waiting for anything is not Samuel's favorite activity)




You can see Samuel's puffy, red eyes because he just got done really yelling at the fact that we were waiting for the parade and we wouldn't just let him wander off where ever he wanted to go. Samuel is quite independent and pretty much has no fear of just going where he wants to go.

I really enjoyed my birthday. It was nice and relaxing. I got to spend some time with my two favorite people (David and Samuel) and I appreciate all of the thoughtful birthday wishes!

Now for your enjoyment I thought I would also include a video of Samuel dancing in David's shoes! I think that this was also part of my birthday gift because Samuel' came out of our room in order to put on his little performance!