Surgery

We found out two weeks ago that Andrew has a hydrocele hernia and it needed to be repaired. The cause of it was most likely a tube that didn't seal before he was born. We went to Children's Hospital of Minneapolis today (the best kids hospital in the state). It was an outpatient surgery. It lasted about 25 minutes and Andrew did amazing. Here's a picture of our little patient. He had to go under General Anesthesia which was harder on Mom and Dad than it was on Andrew. He is back at home this evening and watching "Cars". The doctors and nurses at Children's were great and made the whole process very easy on all of us. Here are some pictures from the past few days. We got about a foot of snow in MN while we were in Green Bay for Christmas. It was a nice surprise to come home to. Thankfully we have a neighbor that shoveled for us, so we didn't have to deal with it when we got home.

Andrew loves the snow. Dad spent last Saturday pulling him around in the sled.
And Andrew spent some time pulling the sled around too (of course he doesn't call it a sled, he calls it a boat - we're not sure why).

He's just like his Dad, he doesn't get cold easily. They were outside for quite a while that day. Mom is such a whimp, she doesn't last more than a minute outside.

Here's a quick picture we took last week. It would have made a great Christmas card, but we didn't have enough time to get it developed, so you'll just have to enjoy it via the website. We were hoping to get New Years Cards out to everyone, but with the surgery this week, that doesn't look like it's going to happen. You all know we wish you a Happy New Year!

Have a great start to 2010!!!