The Bebej Blog: Kyler -- Week 49 (10/20/12-10/26/12)

Kyler is starting to be a very curious and busy little guy. We continue to get into cupboards, unroll toilet paper, steal magazines, tamper with the diaper sprayer, play with the curtains, and chase the dog. But we love how happy and fun he is. Ryan ended up coming home on an earlier flight on Sunday, so we were really excited to pick him up before lunch. Daddy brought home a stuffed woolly mammoth for Kyler--I mean, what was he supposed to get from a paleontology conference, right? Kyler thought it was pretty fun and giggled when Daddy gave it to him. He has also started to throw things into the tub. Most of the time there is no water in the tub, but we still must try to keep the electronic toys away from the bathroom.

The big event this week was Kyler's circumcision surgery on Wednesday. He was a real trooper and had a great time exploring the hospital while we waited to go into the pre-op area. The nurses there were all wonderful, bringing out some bubbles to make getting his vital signs easier. One thing that Kyler really liked was the red light on his pulse-ox machine. They gave him some medicine before the surgery to start to relax him, but he promptly spit most of that out. It wasn't because he doesn't take medicine though--it was because the medicine was grape-flavored. When they took him to the OR, the anesthesiologist let me go back with him and hold him while they gave him the gas and kiss him before I had to go to the waiting room. We loved Kyler's surgeon and knew that he was in very capable hands, but we were still wrecks in the waiting room.

When we finally got to go back and see him, he was already crying for Mommy and feeling hungry--after all, he hadn't eaten since about 5am. After a full bottle and some snuggling, he took a nice long nap in my arms before we headed back home. The rest of the day was really rough, as Kyler's pain medicine wore off and he refused to take the Tylenol with codeine. Grandma came by with a fun tractor, which Kyler has loved, and Grandpa came by later when Kyler was at his worst, screaming and crying incessantly. It was a long night of constant cuddling and medicine, but by morning, he seemed to be a little more himself. Unfortunately, we came down with a cold in the next couple of days, so we kept his little busy body snuggled in our arms on the couch for much of the rest of the week.