Poop!!!!

It felt like it was never going to happen.....

But today Mayleigh had quite a bit of gas and actually had some poop!!!! Why so excited, you ask??? This is what allows us to go home!!!! We are so excited and I cant wait to tell the Dr. tomorrow at 6:15 when he wakes us up for early morning rounds!!! 

So overall today was a good day. A good day because my boys are here and we are all together as a family. Hospital or no hospital...I am happy to be all together again after 7 days. 

I was so worried about how the boys, well mostly Brennan, would do seeing their baby sister with so many tubes, wires, and especially the NG tube coming out of her nose. But they did great! We prepped Brennan with how she looked and he did great! M gave such a big smile when they came in the room and she immediately started handing the boys toys and saying "thank you Kullen" when they would take them from her! :) 

 The boys are having no problem being here. They started off playing in the playroom on Mayleighs floor while we prepped the kids with pics of M. When they got to the room, the wii was already there waiting for them to play. We checked into the Ronald McDonald House after a visit with M and they got to each pick out one toy, one stuffed animal, and one blanket. Then the lady proceeded to throw match box cars, coloring books, and puzzles in our bag to take! They are loving this!! No complaints that they are stuck at the hospital with M. This seems more like christmas morning or Disneyland! ;)

This morning we checked out more areas of the RMH. The library is right next to our room. After breakfast we threw a load of laundry in and we checked out the arcade and play room. Let's put it this way...there is plenty to keep them busy here! On our walk across the street to the hospital I get a text from Jeff saying the bat mobile and batman are suppose to be out front of the hospital for kids to see. See what I mean...Disneyland! 

LOVE this HUGE teddy bear in the library at the RMH!! Would love this for our house!! ;)

Game room!!

Batman and the bat mobile!!

After getting M up to walk and play in the playroom, the boys and I had lunch and headed to a children's museum called COSI. We were really hoping to go to the zoo today but the weather was too rainy. Maybe tomorrow if we are still here. Or on our next week-long stay in October for surgery #2!  I cant even tell you how nice it was to get out of the hospital and do normal people things! It was so fun spending the afternoon with just the boys! We had a blast! We will definitely going back there in October. We even ran into M's doctor. Not Dr. Levitt, her surgeon but his assistant who assisted in her surgery. He is actually the one who comes daily (sometimes 2X when Dr. Levitt comes) to see her and check on her. He is wonderful and we got a chance to meet his sweet family. He said he had heard about Mayleigh's progress today and was so excited. (he was off today) Such caring doctors! We have been blessed with that for sure!! 

The playroom! So thankful for this room!

M was walking all around looking for toys today!

After we left the playroom, poor girl walked the opposite way back to her room and headed straight for the elevators. :( I know Mayleigh...we ALL want to go home!

This girl just kept playing. Even after getting back from an hour in the playroom, she went right to play with Kullen in the room!! So strong today!! 

playing at COSI

This area was only for kids 1st grade and up! B thought that was pretty cool! 

rock climbing!

and of course, the water table!! 

So all in all we had a good day and got some great news from the doctors. NG tube came out this morning. They took her off the pain button that could be pushed every 15 min. She is still on the same pain meds but thought she could be dropped to just meds every 2 hours. So we lost about 3 IV cords today!! We are down to just the one IV tube and the tube for her to pee. We can actually move her around a bit and she doesn't get so tangled!!! It's the little things! :)

I will leave you with the sweetest photo of the day.

 Adoption is pretty special. :)