Father's Day!

(I have to cheat the system a bit in order to get posts up while in the hospital, and one of the things I am unable to do is put captions under my photos. The top photo I took just a few minutes ago as Elijah was giving Dan a Father's Day kiss. The second pic is from when we were still in the PICU. It's a different perspective of the Amazing Hair. I apologize for the diaper exposure in the third pic, but I wanted to show you all that Elijah has been practicing yoga! The last photo is a happy-faced, video-watching little star, who we love so very very much.)

Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband, who is also a wonderful daddy! Also, to both of our dads and to Dan's grandpa as well. And of course to the rest of the awesome fathers out there.

It's obviously not ideal to spend Father's Day in the hospital, but I can think of much worse things to endure (hopefully Dan feels the same way). Elijah and I have been trying to make it as special as is possible for him. We have a gift we'll be giving to him later, and I have been trying to get him to nap whenever possible.

I can easily say that we had the best night in the hospital last night that we have ever had. We bartered with the nurses/doctors and agreed upon only one middle-of-the-night vitals check (as opposed to the usual three or four) that none of us even woke up for. We didn't get another roommate, so we had the room all to ourselves. With Dan in his chair-sleeper on the north end of the room and me in mine on the south end and Elijah in between us, we all slept solidly until 6:00 this morning. We are hoping for more of the same tonight.

We have had a good morning. Elijah is hardly on any pain medication and doesn't appear to be hurting at all. He does this with heart surgeries, too. This kid endures pain well, or just doesn't experience much of it. We were able to pick him up for a bit and walk around the hall (avoiding the swine flu end) and gaze at the fishies and Elijah took a short nap on Mama's lap afterwards (ahhh, so nice to hold my boy).

The word on the street is that his catheter will come out in the morning and if he can urinate on his own after that, we will be sent home! Please pray with us for pee! This is awesome news. The doctor on the floor stopped by and said Elijah is doing amazingly well. He gave him an "A+!" The Voice said basically the same thing. We are so proud of our little man.

Thank you so much for checking in on us! We appreciate the love and prayers so very much. xo