Post-op day #18...home bound!!!

December 30th: We're going home today! The cardiologist is still tweaking her medication regimen a little bit, but we will see him so frequently in cardiology clinic, that he is comfortable sending us home and continuing to work on her dosing. Em's blood pressures were still low overnight, so they are taking her off of the Captopril and we will see how she's doing next Tuesday at our cardio appointment. I have lots to do today...packing up our home away from home, and making some last minute arrangements so everything is ready at our real home! Can't wait to add our evening update...this should be a wonderful day!

Evening update: What a busy, but perfect day! Emmy finally got her IV and pacing wires out and got disconnected from all of the monitors...thank goodness we're done with that! She has been through more in her first 3 weeks than most of us will endure in a whole lifetime, and she's tolerated it all so well. She is really a very happy baby...only cries over dirty diapers!

We got home around 3:30pm and Brinley was waiting anxiously. She is infatuated with her little sister, but I'm pretty sure she thinks Emmy is a very life-like baby doll. She wants to hold her, pick her up, swing her, pat her, kiss and hug her...and the list goes on. She doesn't like the feeding tube or oxygen in Emmy's nose and has tried to remove both multiple times. We all have a lot of adjusting to do, but we're looking forward to it:) Here are some fun pics from our day...

LOOK, no tubes, wires, or monitors...I'm free!!!

But only for a minute, Mommy was just getting ready
to put the feeding tube back in:(

Emmy in her car seat, ready to leave the hospital!

Getting up close and personal...Brinley was right 

in Emmy's face within 30 seconds of us walking in the door!

 Brin holding Emmy and giving her hugs:)

Emmy looks horrified...poor baby!

Brin will learn to be a wonderful big sister:)