I am so behind on my blogging...but I do not want to leave out the rest of our summer fun!  Here is the rest of our summer in pictures...

Elon did great through her heart procedure and has completely recovered!

Here is a recap....She was very nervous the day before and the morning of the procedure...she would not even talk (and if you know Elon...this does not happen - EVER).

She would not even look at me....


After we waited the several hours before they were to take her back (and A LOT of prayers being said for her), she started to relax and became very brave and even happy!  I have bragged on Child Life Specialist's before and once again....they are great.  When the Child Life Specialist came in and started to explain everything to Elon, and let Elon see & touch all the things the doctor would use...it really put her at ease!  Here she is giving her new giraffe some silly gas (it smelled like strawberries!).


But Elon's favorite part was riding in the elevator in her hospital bed...


I was so thankful that we were allowed to stay with her until she fell asleep.  By this time she was her normal self and when they put the heart rate monitor on the end of her finger with the red light, she held it up and said "ET phone home"....everyone in the room cracked up!

Then we wait...

We luckily did not have to wait alone.  I really enjoyed the company that came to help pass the time!  Cole's Aunt Mary, Uncle Ken, and Cousin Heather came to keep us company.  Then Grahm came and brought the rest of the kid's so they could see Elon when she woke up.



This made time fly by and before we knew it, it was over and Cole and I were allowed to go back while she was in recovery.

In this picture you can see the red light on the end of her finger -just like ET!


The anesthesia made for a very unhappy little girl.  She cried, and cried when she first woke up.  She had three area's that they went in to get to her heart.  A small one near her shoulder, and both sides in the groin area.  The side that they did most of the "work" she complained about a lot pain.  They gave her morphine and it eventually conked her out.  She needed to sleep off the anesthesia, so this was good.  Once she woke, she would get sick every time she would eat or drink anything.  First day, not fun...but she slept through most of it.

But by the next morning, we were getting some smiles and she was able to eat some and not get sick.  Her tummy would still hurt, but she was just needing to get used to eating again.


We went home the next morning and by the time we got home, Elon was doing cartwheels every where she went!  Can't slow this girl down :)

We are back to all smiles....

 pray for her and the surgeon.  She seems fine but she also has A LOT of questions.  As mom & dad, we are also doing fine...We have seen children go through much, much tougher things... having perspective can keep your anxiety level down a good bit :)