Laylee's surgery...

our eventful day started at four thirty a.m. i had prepared everything we needed to bring the night before so we didn't have anything else to worry about that morning. tina and i were the first ones up.. making coffee and doing our best to hold things together emotionally. we let tyler and laylee sleep in as long as we could before finally waking them up at five. here are a few pictures of the family before we left the house..

laylee looks confused as to why we were all up so dang early..

the three stooges...

momma, daddy and laylee bug..

 we all crammed into the car to make the short fifteen minte drive to memorial hospital. unfortunately we left the exact address at home and arrived late due to idiots at the hospital sending us all over town. they were still more than happy to squeeze her in to get the procedure done. the staff was amazing and very accomadating. they did everything in their power to make all of us as comfortable as possible. her surgery preparation was very quick and completely painless as they don't place i.v.'s before the patients are sedated. here are just a few pictures of all of us loving up on laylee before she was moved into the o.r.

nana and laylee boo bug.

laylee in her cutie patootie patient gown..

momma, daddy and a very confused baby laylee.

before we knew it, they were ready for laylee to come back and start the surgery. every one was very emotional as daddy ty took her in his arms and walked her back to the o.r. to comfort her while she went to sleep. tyler wasn't gone longer than ten minutes before he walked back into the surgical prep area to let us know she was sleeping peacefully and didn't fuss at all going under. the procedure itself only lasted about an hour. we waited in the family gathering area on pins and needles hoping to hear from some one to let us know how things had gone. an hour passed by and dr. grabb (laylee's pediatric nuero surgion) finally came out and gave us the news we had all been waiting to hear. the procedure had gone perfectly and there were no complications at all. she was quickly moved to recovery where she was placed on oxygen and watched closely for any post surgical issues. we were anxious to get back to recovery and see our precious baby laylee. she was very drowsy and still covered head to toe in iodine from the surgery. she has three insicion sites. one at the top of her skull, on on the back right hand side of her skull and a small insicion into her abdomen. they were all looking good and healthy when we went back into recovery. here are some pictures of laylee boo in recovery.

the very first picture of laylee after surgery.

laylee on oxygen.. tyler didn't leave her side.

concerned mommy giving baby laylee oxygen.

a very groggy lil laylee bug.

mommies first chance to hold laylee. it was difficult with all the wires she was attached to.. but SO worth the effort . 

laylee is such a daddies girl. she was so calm in his arms. she is blessed to have such an amazing daddy

being comforted by her daddy.

once laylee was stable she was moved to a private room up in pediatric intensive care. when she started coming to.. we could tell she was hurting. we hounded the nurses to stay on top of her pain managment and check her vitals regularly. she was very needy and so we took shifts between the three of us making sure she had all the love and attention in the world. tina left the hospital around ten p.m. to get some rest and left ty and i on baby duty. we took turns taking care of laylee and running down to the caffeteria for coffee refils. here are a couple of pictures of laylee in the P.I.C.U. 

sleeping angel face.

daddy ty, rocking his lil angel back to sleep.

daddies got mad rocking skills.. this chica is outsky. lol

after a long night and a stressful morning... laylee was seen by the attending physician and discharged. her recovery has been going much better than the dr could have predicted. she is home now and resting very peacefully. if any one has any questions please feel free to text us and we will try and respond asap. we may not be able to answer phone calls because of our ever growing schedule of responsibilities but we will try to get details out to every one via, email, facebook and text...