Go Heels!

Ok, sorry for all of you who are not UNC fans, but I just had to put that out there. Besides already being Tarheel fans, we've got even more reason to be since we've spent so much time there in the past 10 months for prenatal checkups and all of Ethan's care before, during, and after his 2 heart surgeries.

Tonight's the big "battle of the blue" game between UNC (light blue team) & Duke (the dark blue team) - for those not from NC/don't keep up with college basketball. Below is a picture of Ethan, all decked out, ready to watch the game with Mommy tonight!

Oh yeah, and`speaking of UNC, Ethan's got his first cardiologist appointment post-surgery tomorrow. The plan is to get his vitals (as usual) then do an echo (ultrasound of his heart) like we do about every other visit. Please pray things will look as good internally as he seems to be doing externally with healing. Usually UNC doesn't discharge their cardiac surgery patients until they have had an echo but since his oxygen sats were in the upper 80's, they decided not to do one just for the sake of doing one. That was encouraging news for us!

Also, our biggest request right now for Ethan is that we go back to UNC on Tuesday, 2/26 for another swallow study. We're really tired of thickening his bottles and we'd especially like to be able to start giving him juice. Also, when he was sick last week and the pediatrician had us give him Pedialyte, it made us nervous about him aspirating (swallowing it down his windpipe instead of down his throat - the whole reson we have to thicken his bottles in case you didn't know) the liquid.

Well that's about all for now. Sorry it's been a while since we posted pictures, we plan to get more up soon, now that we're all healthy again!