More Grandma time…

Carter is one lucky baby…he was with Grandma Turley yesterday and Grandma Lucy today. He’s loving all these extra arms around to hold him!

Grandma time

I’m so thankful that my mom came to help out with Carter’s surgery. It was great to have her here, not only to help out with our other kids, but to have her emotional support, since she knows what it feels like to send a child in for a hip operation. My mom talked about how one time after I had many surgeries that one day my left hip came out of place again. I couldn’t even imagine what that must have been like for her, so she understands how it feels to not have things go as planned.

Before she left I made pavlova, which may not look amazing, but trust me it is. Instead of individual ones, we made one huge one.

Such a fun treat.

Love you mom and thanks for coming!

goofy boy

I love all the faces this kid makes…

Dutch and cows

Laun took Dutch to work today.

He had fun running around with Clayton and Marlee.

At least it’s not yesterday

Yesterday was rough. Poor Carter had a surgery that didn’t even work, but still has to heal from it. In case you can’t tell from this face, life has been better.

We tried our best to make today better.

We had a picnic at the park.

Carter got to nap outside.

And played with his favorite toy. And wore his big brother Cooper’s outfit.

rough day

Poor Carter, he is having a hip surgery today to try and get his left hip in socket, which is currently dislocated. He can’t nurse for 4 hours before surgery:(

At TMC ready to go.

 

Cutest baby in a hospital gown award goes to Carter Mike Hall.  

If the surgery works he will be in a body cast for around 12 weeks. I had to get plenty of pictures of his cute legs and toes just in case we don’t see them for awhile.

I adore his pudgy little feet.

Carter loves when Laun holds him like this- superman.

It’s so hard as a parent to have your child go in for an operation.

Poor baby, the doctor got caught up late in another surgery, so it’s been like 6 hours since he’s nursed last instead of 4 hours! Breaks my heart. He was sad, so I tried to pacify him with his binky.

They eventually got him some sugar water for his binky to be dipped in and that helped to console him. I’m amazed at how well he’s done even though he’s hungry.

Waiting around…

We tried getting him to sleep as much as possible, so he wouldn’t know how hungry he was.

They finally came in to say he was ready for surgery (by this time he hadn’t eaten for 6 1/2 hours. They wrote PH (the doctors initials) on his leg they were going to operate on.

I had all this stuff because they have you stay overnight.

Laun had to leave to start his cow study today, so I was alone while waiting for Carter in surgery, but thankfully Laun was able to return fairly quickly.

Now for the bad news…Dr. Henderson was in there for almost an hour when he came out to tell me it didn’t work. He cut the tendon and everything, but because Carter’s hip is so far off, he couldn’t get the hip lined up well enough to cast him. Laun and I were pretty devastated that Carter went through a surgery for nothing. Now he has to heal and isn’t even casted. It sounds strange, but I was actually hoping to see my baby in a body cast because that would mean the surgery worked and that Carter was on the way to having his hip fixed. I was pretty worked up when I got home and by the time Carter finally settled down from being out of surgery, he nursed. My poor baby went 8 hours without eating today! And now has a tendon to heal with no fix-ugh! I’m trying to have faith that maybe it was meant to be. Maybe him being a little older for the next surgery will benefit him in the long run. I am just glad that even though his hip is still out and looks like it’s going to have more problems than I realized, that he is a healthy baby. I should just be grateful. Overall, pretty crummy day. Thankfully, my mom was in town and was able to stay with our other children while we were with Carter man.