Surgery

Last Wednesday Rance had strabismus surgery on his eyes. The surgery center where he had the surgery was phenomenal with him, so the actual surgery went perfectly. Because Rance's eyes are so little they had a hard time keeping them open wide enough during the surgery which caused more swelling and bruising than normal. For most of the day on Wednesday his eyes were swollen shut. Top that off with being a very sick little boy from the anesthesia and Wednesday was a rough day. I was so thankful that my mom was able to be here to help with Cavin so I could just focus on Rance.

When we first got home from Ukraine Cavin was fighting a cold and ear infection and was not used to sleeping in his crib so we decided not to make him "cry it out" while he was sick. So the first couple of nights we were home Cavin slept with us because he was sick. So Rance remembered this and informed us, actually told his Grandma, that he would be sleeping with his mom and dad because he was sick.

I of course couldn't say no, and it really was easier having him in bed with us than having to get to his room in time to help him while being sick. We didn't plan on, however, Cavin crying half of the night and also eventually ending up in bed with us. I think little sleep was had by mom and dad although the boys seemed good to go!

Thursday we saw drastic improvement. Once we got his eyes open Rance was starving and ready to eat. I was thrilled to see him acting like himself and finally eating and drinking and keeping it all down! From then on, he has been fine and healing perfectly. His eyes are still a little bruised and they could be red on the parts where the doctor did the surgery for up to a month, but his eyes are fixed and are working together, and we are so thankful for a successful surgery!!

Rance has really begun to understand and even speak a lot of English. Most days I hear more English than I do Ukrainian, which is really fun for us! "What is this, _____?" is a question we hear a lot! Some of them have been really hard to answer, like, "what is this because?" How do you explain what because is with the few words he understands? After two attempts he hasn't asked again, so maybe he got it, or maybe he just gave up!

Very rarely do we have issues of sharing toys, mostly the boys play really well together. Yesterday was a day I will treasure forever. The boys played together all day. They ran in circles and around the house playing peek a boo and laughing whenever they found each other. Then they played on the couch, rolling from the top of it to the floor, which really isn't allowed on the couches upstairs but it was so cute I couldn't tell them to stop! 

Cavin is still trouble, more ornery than ever, and busy keeping up with big brother. Right now it is most entertaining to watch Cavin try to jump and do like Rance does. He still hasn't quite figured out how to jump off the ground, and its pretty cute to watch!

Cavin mostly keeps busy with his training. He got a basketball hoop for Christmas and he spends most of his days shooting hoops or working on his dribbling. You can't help but laugh in shock at how good he actually is! When he's not busy with basketball training he tends to play with one of the other hundreds of balls in our home, and if we're lucky, he might venture out of the ball zone to play with some blocks or cars!!

Here is one of my favorite pictures of the boys we got done a while back. It melts my heart!