Van's 1st Surgery

We had a great evening with Van,he is pretty happy ( probably because he is on morphine). Grandma Jane and Sissy came for a visit. Then I got a break and My sister and I took Myla out for dinner. Our night went really well-only getting up every 4 hours. We are scheduled to leave the hospital around 3. We are so thankful to all our wonderful Dr.s, nurses and other staff. We are very grateful for all the love, prayers and support from all our friends and family. Now next Friday is the left foots turn!

After surgery we meet Van back in his room. Dr. Gordon said surgery went great! Van's foot was very tight and the surgery was definitely needed to correct the clubfeet. below is Van and Daddy sleeping after a long morning.

Van was in Surgery and post op for 3 hours, this is Lance and I's station in the family waiting room. Labtop, magazines, paper and coffee.

Van and his feet pre surgery! He was happy and chipper all morning!!

Funny sissy

Last evening before bead Myla was entertaining Van by running back-n-forth from the kitchen to the living room. As you can see Van was very amused. Ohh brother and Sissy!!!

Vacation

We hit the road Saturday morning for a extra long weekend in the cities. We started off stopping by St. Paul Children's museum. Upon getting there-Clifford had also just entered the building

We then explored the rest of the exhibits including the water world, the ant holes and the swamp. That museum is so much fun that we all, even Mom and Dad, had a great time.

I dropped my parents off at the airport for Vegas on Sunday morning and then we got ready for a party with our friends that live in the cities. We had such a fun time catching up, eating, drinking and playing with the kids. Thanks for all of you that made the trip to Robbinsdale to see us.

We got up Monday morning and headed to the Mall of America!! Our plan was to go tour the underwater world. While in the cities our cell phone pretty much died-so the first stop getting a new cell phone. This is always fun-a new gadget Lance and I can play with. The pics below are of Myla and Van patiently waiting while they activate the new phone.

We then headed to the aquarium. This place was awesome-we have a few pics but then the camera died. We saw sharks, yellow fish, blue fish, sting rays, an octopus, touched star fish and witnessed a 150 lb sea turtle poop.

We had a wonderful vacation. It is so much fun to do special activities like that with the kids and watch them experience new places, animals and surroundings.

our week

Not much going on here in d-town. Lots of home time this week and got some cute pics and video to share. The video is kinda long-but funny!!

Myla and Issac's dinner party

Last Friday evening we watched our friend Issac-while his Mom and Dad had a wake to attend. Both Myla and were very excited for Issac to eat dinner and play with us. We usually are done visitng with friends by late afternoon, so this was something new.

We had pancakes and sauage-both Myla and Issac really enjoyed them, put down 3-4 mini cakes themselves. After dinner I let them watch a little bit of Shrek. While Lance and were cleaning up we over heard the kids;

Myla" I love you Issac"

Issac "I love you Myla"

and then... smack they gave each other a big kiss on the lips.

It was too cute and melted my heart. We feel so lucky to have such good friends. I told Myla we can have another friend over for dinner soon.

Beach party Dance

Last evening was Myla's ECFE dance at school. We have been looking forward to it all week. We started out the day going to our ECFE class; which was having beach day. The kids were asked to were their favorite beach clothes and bring their favorite beach toy. Hence the inner tube and sunglasses.

After a nap and dinner Lance and I got both kids ready to party. It was a very nice time-Myla danced her butt off.