A Lovely Day Away...Then It's Back To Reality!

Yesterday was such a lovely day. It was so refreshing for Adam & I to be able to leave with Logan for the entire day. Free from anxiety, worries & the hospital. We arrived at the hospital at 6:30am to sign Logan's day pass & get out of here. As usual Logan was all smiles, although I feel as though he was even more excited today because he got out of his pink hospital gown and into the real world again, outside of the hospital. We then proceeded to head to Smithville to pick up big brother Malachi & big sister Olivia. The kids were all so excited to see eachother again that it melted my heart. Mali & Liv hovered over Logan's carseat saying "hi, baby...we missed you Logan!"...and smothering him in kisses & hugs. They are so good with his feeding tube too! Livvy honestly hardly notices the thing, she's too busy to stick around long enough to notice it and Malachi just always repeats to himself, "Don't touch the tube Malachi"..." as he sits there with a huge smile on his face and Logan's tiny hand gripped around his finger. Sigh....I love my kids.

They did so great coming down the aisle, and sitting in church. Logan, who was sitting with Adam the whole time, didn't even make a peep! After the ceremony & family pictures were done, I had to stay to finish pictures with the wedding party. Adam packed up all 3 kids (that were miserable by this point) and took them to uncle Jay & aunt Lisa's house - who were watching Malachi & Olivia for the evening so that we could enjoy some fun at the reception. Then comes the fun part - while at the reception Logan nicely exploded for Adam, up the back and all, I truly believe he deserves to be called super dad of the year, he changed it all by himself without even complaining once to me! He just told me to go enjoy myself and not worry about Logan the whole night, as he had promised to take care of Logan for the evening. Wow. Um. Thank-you!!! Logan's contagious smile was shown to many last night, as lots of family & friend enjoyed getting to take a peek at him. He was a stinker though, because around 10pm, he decided it was time to lose the feeding tube again. While auntie Hannah was holding him he flashed her a huge smile & before she could stop him he yanked it right out! Ooooh Logan, what are we going to do with you? Thankfully it was right at the end of the night. I still believe that he was in cahoots with his daddy, how convenient that he pulled the ng tube out right before it was time for Adam to start helping with clean up! ;) Back to the hospital we went to get a new feeding tube back in and settle Logan in his bed for the night.

We had such a great time at the wedding! So many laughs, emotions & tears (of joy!)...hey, growing up with 4 girls in the family causes for alot of tears & emotions! Mike & Hannah, we hope you enjoyed every minute of your special day as much as we did, if not more! Thank-you so much for allowing me to share in your special day at your side. I feel so blessed, that even though we are going down this road of hardship in our lives right now, that we are still able to enjoy to blessings that God grants to us as well. Rejoicing with you, and praying that the Lord blesses you both in your marriage, and grants you many years of happiness together in service for Him.

Today we are back at the hospital. It's been a quiet day. Unfortunately when I asked the nurse this morning when Logan would be going for his MRI she said that she was never given any order for him to go for one today. Arrrggg...why does this not shock me? So when will he be going for one, I asked the doctor. Oh possibly Monday or Tuesday, we'll get back to you. I asked them kindly to STOP telling me he is going for tests/procedures on certain days and then it never happens. The doctor on call this weekend called to get him on the list for one early next week. I guess he has now delivered the requisition, and we are waiting for Logan to be assessed by the anaesthesiologist. Once that is finished they will give us a time slot for him to go for the MRI, put an i.v. in and make him fast again. I guess there are alot of steps to it, but still...

Other then that we are still waiting for him to go for more bloodwork next week on the endocrine & pituitary glands, and we have increased his feeds a little bit. On a plus side he took 25ml from the bottle at a couple of feeds today and he took the bottle great! Our O.T. says he drinks beautifully and definitely has not lost that sucking motion, yay! Now we slowly have to work up how much we give him from the bottle at each feed and see how much he can tolerate. We will keep you all updated if anything changes!

Not much changes from Friday's post, so I thought I'd throw in some pictures from the wedding yesterday for you. ENJOY! :)

 

It's tiring work being this cute! Logan looking all spiffy in his outfit :)

 

SISTERS ♥

 

Gotta have one with my little sis, the gorgeous bride!

 

One with my hubby ♥

 

The new Mr. & Mrs. Joosse!

 

Sadly I have no pictures on my camera of the other kids

as it was so busy during the day with them around,

 but we do have this one of us with Logan at the reception.

If anyone has some pictures of my other kids,

please feel free to email them to me! :)

 

Logan is 3 months old, and one handsome little boy!

 

Aunt Hannah & Uncle Mike with Logan.

 

The "original" 5 siblings with dad & mom.

(Missing Ryan, Adam, Mike and Dave)

 

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

(Thanks to aunt Jess for this great shot!)

 

Mike & Hannah's wedding text and one of my favorite texts too:

 

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.

- Jeremiah 29:11-13