Lots to do!

The next few weeks are going to be super busy! This week I'm finishing up getting everything together for Madison's first birthday party, we have Madison's one year pictures, and Jake & I are celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary.

Then the next week is Madison's big day! I can't believe how much time, money, and effort I have put into this party, but I am so excited!! I know she won't remember it, but I wanted it to be special for her. Something else that Jake & I are doing each year on her birthday is writing her a letter. On her 18th birthday, we'll give her all the letters we have written over the years. :)

Then on June 24th, Madison is having surgery. We still haven't found out the results from the blood work she had done a couple of weeks ago (testing for the central sleep apnea gene), but hopefully we will hear something this week. When we go bright & early on the 24th to Vanderbilt, she'll be having a brain MRI & airway evaluation first. Then as long as they don't see anything unexpected during the evaluation, they will take out her tonsils & adenoids. Last they will open up the right side of her nose where she has a really narrow nasal passage.

Her ENT told us to expect to stay in the hospital 1-2 weeks. But if she does really well after a few nights we may be able to go home. It all depends on how she's doing with her breathing & oxygen needs. They did tell us that she will more than likely have to stay in the ICU after surgery & she may have a breathing tube until they feel comfortable she will breathe ok on her own. We are praying that things will go smoothly for her. It's so scary knowing she's going to have surgery after what happened when she was put to sleep for her ear tubes. But they feel confident that she had such a hard time last time because she had RSV & we didn't know it.

Lots going on over the next couple of weeks!!