2 weeks home and celebrating

It's February break for the public schools, which means no work for Peter and some quality family time for the 3 of us! James is doing great, and has been very busy. A few days after post-op discharge, we saw his pediatrician and dosed him up with a slew of vaccines. The following week, a home nurse service came by to check on him. Then Early Intervention, recommended by his docs as a given for any child with a severe heart defect, kicked in and set up a few meetings to get him enrolled and evaluated. Finally, we met back with his cardiologist for a 2-week followup.

Results? He looks WONDERFUL. Almost 14 pounds... probably not even going to qualify for Early Intervention because he is sitting and rolling and practically standing already all on his own... possibly soon to be off the feeding tube too. He has finally figured out he can eat on his own, and is managing to take a solid 80% of his meals by mouth, if not more (achieved courtesy of a fair amount of time and effort on our end, of course).

A few pics of our adorable guy... healing so well, cuddling his teddy from Aunt Cookie, enjoying his toys and books and everything about being home, & graduating to solid foods :)