Surgery Update

I'm starting to feel like Kellen has taken over my blog!!!! But I guess that's ok given the circumstances, he is the one that had his head cracked open- he'll be getting away with alot for awhile!

Anyways, things are going great here. Kellen is home and just about back to his old self again. There were a couple days where he was still pretty sick and wouldn't eat much but he's slowing eating more. Mom has to make sure that she gets that helmet on as soon as he wakes up cause him and I have been known to play around pretty rough. Whenever he falls down and starts crying I ask Mom "is he gonna have to go back to the doctor and surgery again?" I am really concerned about his head and try my best to play nicely so nothing happens to him.

This is the Saturday morning after surgery- he finally ate something but before long it all came right back up...poor kid.
He still spent some time laying on his blankets on the floor not feeling too great.

Kellen hanging out on MY couch, I can't wait until he is tough enough to play around on the couch with me again... we love wrestling on that couch!!

Konnor and I playing hide and go seek. When Brayden was here earlier this week we played and it took the entire household probably 25 minutes to find him. He was in a really good hiding spot (Mom kept telling us where she thought he was but no one ever looked there hard enough).

Mom was trying to take a nap Saturday morning, she didn't feel too good, but as you can see she didn't even get a chance to close her eyes before we all jumped on her.... We Love Our Mom!!!

Aunt Pretty, Konnor, and I playing around in the kitchen.

We love our Grandma!!

How funny is Konnor in this picture?!!! (don't you love his jammies??? Aunt Pretty always seems to forget his jammies but he loves borrowing mine, even though they are 3 sizes too big, Hey I think he looks great in my jammies!)

We are too funny!!

Kellen sure does love his Grandma, he knows that he's got the best seat in the house!!

Sunday

This has become one of Mom's favorite pictures!!

Monday... Kellen is looking so much better huh?!!!

He actually ate pretty well on Monday, which Mom was really happy about

It's a good thing he's got that helmet, cause he loves climbing up and down the stairs, he's such a little daredevil

Monday morning Kellen was finally able to take a bath and wash his hair, it was about time considering it had been a whole week since his last bath.... he was starting to become a stinky boy!!!

Kellen's head is looking really great, those Doctors did a great job fixing my brother.

Here he is today, Mom took him to the doctor this morning and they said that everything looked great! My brother is such a trooper, I'm not sure I would have been able to rebound as quickly as he did. I've got the toughest brother in the whole wide world, and I love him so much!!

Surgery Day 4

It's coming home day...YIPPEEEE!!! I couldn't wait for Kellen to come home, the house had been so quiet all week long.

Look at that smile!!! It's the first one we saw!

Kellen was walking around the hallways trying to get someone to open up this candy. He kept saying "want that" but no one would open it for him... which is a good thing cause that is MY candy!!!

They had to take out his drain before he could go home, he wasn't too excited about that!

Kellen's head when they took off the bandage. It's amazing how round the front of his head is already. (Mom forgot to upload the before and after pics at the same time, but she will)

Kellen didn't love them pulling the drain out, the nurse said that the drain is wrapped all the way around his head, there was probably close to 12inches of drain that they pulled out from under his scalp.

Mom and Kellen

Kellen got to play a little bit in the playroom before we left today.

Kellen was trying on his helmet

Kellen has a big noggin... must run in the family, so they had to go back and get him a bigger helmet. So while they were gone getting a new helmet Kellen was playing around in the bed

How's Kellen look in his new helmet? You better get used to it, he's gotta wear it for awhile, which is a good thing considering how rough we play. He's needed that helmet for a long time, I'm sure you could all agree!!

Kellen was DONE with the hospital, he pushed the wagon down the hall towards the elevators waving at all the nurses. They were all so sad to see Kellen leave!!

Kellen was FINALLY home!! He wasn't feeling so hot, he ate a little bit for dinner then went to bed.

Mom put Kellen to bed and went and check on him and he had taken off all the dressing on his head. He hadn't touched it at all til we got home, but we think that the helmet had been bugging him so when we took it off he started messing with the dressings and got it all the way off!!

I even tried on my helmet

Look at Kellen... he woke up not feeling so hot. They think that the iron made his tummy upset, he just sat on Mom's lap... throwing up every 20 minutes or so. It's been a long night, but he should be feeling better in the morning.

Kellen has been sleeping on the floor all evening. Doesn't he look so cute?!!!

It's been a long week but we are all glad that it's all over and we are on the flip side of it. Kellen has been such a trooper and has recovered so quick. Thank you so much for all the prayers and well wishes, they were all very much appreciated. We love you all

Surgery Day 3

Kellen spent another night in the hospital. I got to spend the night at Katie's house, Katie and I had so much fun playing together.

Mom woke up to find that Kellen had ripped out his IV, there was blood everywhere. Luckily they had just given him his last dose of antibiotics so they didn't have to put it back in.
Kellen was very active, walking all over the place entertaining everyone, the nurses loved him!!

The hospital had lots of fun toys for Kellen to play with.

Kellen spent most of the day walking up and down the hallways. The nurses all fell in love with him. Everytime he would walk out of the room you could hear all the nurses saying "HI KELLEN". He had them all wrapped around his finger, he was waving and blowing kisses to everyone. One came and told Mom that if we wanted to leave him there they would adopt him. She said that most of the guests are just coming out of surgery and not very active so it was a breath of fresh hair to have Kellen walking around loving on everyone. Everyone knows that Kellen is a lover!!

Kellen would stand at the window flirting with the nurses as they walked by

When one of the other little girls saw Kellen she said "Hey that's the boy that's been looking in my window!!!" On our walks Kellen would run up to all the little windows just to see what everyone else was up to.

Kellen eating like a big boy!!

Grandma Lynn holding Kellen, Grandma's just have a knack for putting babies to sleep

They were having puppy therapy, Kellen was in heaven. There were 6-7 dogs that all the kids were allowed to love on. Kellen had lots of fun!!!

Kellen and "Teddy"

Kellen got lots of balloons from everyone that loved him. He was having lots of fun playing with the Elmo balloon. Thanks to everyone that kept him in their prayers!!

One of the firsts smiles. His head looks so much more round already, it's amazing how fast we could see a difference

All in all Kellen had a great day, he really was acting like his old self again. Without the bandage on his head you never would have know that he had just had surgery!

Surgery Day 3