Preschool has Ended

Today was Riley's last day of pre-school.  I'm not going to deny that I'm a little choked up about it.  Such a big mile stone for him to be able to finish and move to the big school for Kindergarten this fall.  I am so proud of all the accomplishments he has made over the last few years.  School has been so good for him and he loves it.  He loves riding the bus and playing with his friends.  You can just see the joy and self confidence it has brought him.  Looking back at these pictures from his very FIRST day to his very LAST he has grown up so much.  Love you buddy!

Easter

Easter was full of colored eggs and lots and lots of candy.  Saturday afternoon Riley and I colored eggs before we headed down to a BBQ egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpa Ogden's house

I found the most eggs bwhahaha



Sunday morning the Easter bunny made a visit and left lots of fun treats and a handsome new outfit. This was the first Sunday that we have been to church together as a family since December.  Riley enjoyed getting back to Primary with all his friends.

seriously these two couldn't be more alike

After church we headed over to Grandma Jenny and Papa's house for a yummy dinner and more egg hunts.  Each year we take a big group picture.  It's fun to see all the kiddos grow up. It seems every year there is at least one new addition. This year Alexa and Clayton (maybe next year Clayton can join us)

This is Riley and baby Alexa.  He LOVES this baby girl. It's adorable to see him look so concerned when she cries and he tries to comfort her by patting her arm or hand.

Happy Easter...I can't believe how big  Riley is getting. He's almost as tall as me!

Surgery #5!



gearing up in pre-op

 Riley has been wearing glasses since he was two to try to correct his out turning left eye.  More scientific terms his Exotropia.  We've been seeing the eye Dr. every six months since then and then last May he cleared him for a year checkup but we didn't make it that long.  Back in December I started to notice that his eye was turning outward again and then it gradually became worse and worse to the point that it was turn out most of the time even with his glasses on.  We got into the Dr. in February and he told us it was time to surgically correct the eye before he started to lose vision.  He assured us it was a very simple procedure but the downside is that it's only 70% effective and if you have any underlying neurologic defect i.e. a neuromuscular disease then it drops the percentage to 50-60% and if it doesn't work then there are other procedures we can consider.  Well we decided to book the surgery.  As luck would have it Riley decides to get sick (reference previous post) a couple weeks before the surgery.  Thankfully he made a speedy recovery because I had already scheduled the time off work and his eye was so bad that I didn't want him to have to wait any longer.  The surgery went well but instead of one eye he had to correct both eyes.  He explained that if the good eye has compensated for the bad one for so long then the good eye muscles start to get too tight and cause problems so he had to fix the muscles in both eyes.  After he came and spoke with us when he was finished we sat and waited forever to go back to recovery.  Finally after another half hour Marc went back.  The Anesthesiologist said that he wouldn't wake up so he had to keep the breathing tube in longer until he woke up and then he woke up screaming so they gave him some Fentanyl to calm him down.  Well it worked a little too well and we waited another 2 hours in the PACU for him to wake up enough to take him home. 

Serioulsy the saddest picture.  I thought for sure he would end up with black eyes. What a trooper!

We are now three weeks out and will see the Dr. next week for a post op. We're crossing our fingers that the surgery will be effective and he won't need any more interventions other than glasses.