Early Christmas Gift

So I got one of my Christmas Gifts early this year.... A happy healthy boy, minus tonsils and adenoids : )
Oh Tuesday lasted forever (imagine me saying it like this for - ev -er) and I don't think my heart has ever gone up and down so many times in such a short period of time... We arrived at 10:30am got checked in and all the fun stuff you get to do at the begining and waited for the nurse to come in...

Here is Jack waiting so patiently.... does he look like he's biting his nails - he so gets that from me ; )

Finally she came in and gave us some last minute instructions and off we were to the pre-op waiting room....

This is Jack blowing everyone a goodbye kiss

Once there we were informed that they were running 1hr behind, which turned into 1hr 30min behind... now mind you that our little man could not eat any food past 6am that morning so by 12:30pm he was getting a little frustrated... finally group after group of nurses, doctors and everyone else came and gave us instructions and it was time.... I had to hand my little man over, it was really hard and the look he gave us as he was walking down into surgery was Mom, Dad what are you doing??? (1st heart drop)... At that point I was starving, usually I tell Elle its the baby that needs to eat but today it was 100% me and the baby was just lucky to be along for the ride... well they told us that the surgery would take 40-45min so we busted it down to the cafateria where I loaded my plate with things from everywhere, when we finally sat down to eat i felt like I was eating so fast that half way through the whole thing I was like oh no.... Im going to have to throw up... looking back it was not really a great decision to try to make up for 2 meals in like 15min... so I ran back up to the waiting room and in about less than 5min our doctor walks in... Steve hadn't come up yet but after the doc sat down and assured me that everything went great and the Jack did so well, Steve came in and we were off to the PICU waiting area... Jack was going to have to stay in ICU for the night due to his hyper pulmonary tension, they wanted to make sure he would be ok with everything that happened and any medication that was given... so we were told that once they got Jack settled that we would be called back... after 45min I was freaking out.. what in the world was going on, I went and called the desk and they were like oh yea come on back... I ran and got Steve and we were both just relieved to see our little man that we didn't have enough in us to get as mad as I wanted to... so we go down the hall turn the corner and I see the sweetest little boy sitting up not too happy with 2 nurses that are trying to make him smile... we run in and I just had to grab him... > Heart went crazy< Oh the magic in a mothers hug, I was loving being part of that experience.... Steve and I just passed him back and forth.... He loved it, I really think he got some sort of anxiety over us giving him away earlier that he really needed some security... So it was the best Christmas present and my heart just swelled even more knowing that we had so many friends and family out there with us on their minds.... your prayers and thoughts were felt so many times that day, and they were sooo appreciated...