Tyler Jonathn Bylund! and Lenexa, KS here we come!

Welcome to the world, Jonathan Tyler Bylund! May 1st. 2011

To say the least he had a rough start coming into the world a month early. In the beginning it was just a lot of grunting and they though maybe he didn't get all the fluid out of his lungs because his delivery was so quick. Unfortunately, with time they found that he had a collapsed lung. He was given 100% oxygen in hopes of helping the lung. We had family fast and the lung began to improve, but chest x-rays showed some pneumonia that would require at least 7 days of antibiotics.
He made it home after a 9 day hospital stay.We were all so grateful to see him home and healthy.




Mom offered to watch Jackson and Drew while Adam and I drove to Kansas to try and find a place to live. She said she was fine with it because the only obligation she had was to Angela when the baby came, but that wasn't for another 3 or 4 weeks so we would be just fine. Little did we know... Tyler made his entrance early and mom had all 3 of Angela's girls and our 2 boys. We were blessed to find a place quickly and head home a day after Tyler's birth.
We did a lot of looking and it was challenging deciding what area was best for us and the boys. Adam will have to commute at least a 1/2 hour one way to school, but we felt good about the house, landlord, and area otherwise. We are anxious to see why the Lord wants us here, because we sure do feel like we are supposed to be here.

Drew's Surgery, Round 2

We knew fairly quickly, about a month, that the first surgery hadn't completely worked. His right eye started gooing up again with a cold that he had and seemed to be draining poorly. There was a slight improvement although it was obvious it hadn't been fixed. We talked with the Doctor at a followup and decided that the left was looking alright, but the right one needed probing again. They would do the exact same procedure where they stick the needle down and try to open it up.
Again, since he had to fast, he was given an earl appointment since he is so small. He was a champ again. Adam was able to be there when we admitted him but after we left Drew in the pre-op Adam had to head to clinic.
All went as planned and coming out of the anesthesia was fairly similar to the last time. The nurses were quick to help when I asked and we managed to get home without a hitch.









They had to break his little nose bones again. Love his heart. His bloody nose seemed a bit worse but all in all, things went as planned.

**It has now been almost 6 months. For the most part his eyes seem to be just fine. There are times when it seems a bit gooey, but more often that not, they are just fine.

Drew's Surgery

What a day! What a great day! I feel so grateful and so blessed. I've known for several months that Drew would more than likely need to have bilateral eye probing (open up his tear ducts). Surprisingly I was not stressed or overly worried, perhaps because I had known it was coming for so long.
I woke Drew up at 5:10am. Just enough time to get a new diaper on a priesthood father's blessing and get him in the car. Adam gave a sweet and comforting blessing. I am so grateful for that power.

We arrived at the hospital at 5:45 and checked in around 6, got called back to pre-op at 6:30.


We stayed in pre-op for an hour. It started to get a little long. We were all starting to get tired, and I was feeling bad for Drew that he couldn't eat or drink. He was such an all star! Adam and I took turns holding and entertaining him. I tried to get onle last picture of Drew's sweet eyes all watery and gunky. This is as good as I could get.
He was an allstar when it came to getting his vitals and oxygen checked. Such a sweet kid. I also thought he made the tie in the back pajamas look pretty cute.




When the anesthesiologist came to talk with us she asked how she thought Drew would do with the separation. I told her I thought he would struggle for a couple minutes and then wind down. She left and a couple minutes later she came back witht his sweet car! We put Drew in and let him drive around and get comfortable then switched "drivers" and off to the OR he went. Seriously, I thought it was such a smart idea. The cutest thing was Drew had Mickey in the car with him, he took Mickey's hand and had Mickey try to honk the horn.
He went to sleep with out a problem and the surgery took 45 minutes. They had to break small bones on both sides of his nose in order to opne up the ducts. Dr Napier told me that was a possibility if the bones were protruding at all blocking the ducts. He came out of the anesthesia fine but was extremely out of sorts. We arrived back in post op just after he had woken up and was being held by a nurse. He reached for me quickly be continued to thrash, scream and throw whatever we tried to soothe him with. We stayed in post op for a good 1/2 hour trying to help him settle down, get some juice and relax. He hated the IV and the oxygen sensor seemed to bug and irritate him. When he finally calmed enough to take a drink he inhaled 2/3's of the juice in mulitple gulps without coming up for air and then starting crying and screaming again. He otherwise looked great. His eyes didn't look swollen or even really irritated, just a little blood around his nostrils.
We eventually made it down to the recovery room where we changed him and he began to seem a little more oriented and stable. We got to the car and give him his favorite food- Ritz crackers, and life was good.
By the time we got home he was eating Lucky Charms and acting like it was just another day! So amazing!

I put him to bed after his snack and he slept from 10am until around 4pm. He was just exhausted. I was nervous for when he woke up, but I should have known he would be great. He woke with a fairly bloody nose but he didn't seem to notice or even really care. I feared his nose would be tender, but he didn't bat an eyelash to indicate he was in discomfort.

Grateful for all the prayers of friends and family. It sure made a difference for him and me! I didn't even cry-- just got watery eyes a couple of times:)