Father's Day

The week after Mother's Day, Clay's Mom went into the hospital with blood poisoning.  Well after 3 weeks at SGMC, being released and then readmitted 2 days later, she was transferred to Emory on the 14th where she is awaiting heart valve transplant surgery for the 2nd time.  Poor Clay had his hands full down here with me and my mystery illness so we were not able to make it up there until that weekend.  In fact we hadn't even planned to go then, Clay was going to go up by himself the following week, but Clay had gotten a call from his Dad that made it pretty apparent that we needed to go then and bring Gavin with us.  Praise the Lord that she made a huge turn for the better that Friday night and was in great spirits when we showed up with the our little monster on Saturday morning.  I have to say that Gavin did SO much better with the traveling than I expected and was pretty much a joy to be around in the hospital which was such a blessing to all involved. This is the only picture I got of him the first day.  He was passed out before I even got out of the hospital parking garage!  All that playing and entertaining wore him out!

We got back up early Sunday morning and made our way back to Emory to see everyone for awhile before we headed home.

Clay's Mom is at the University part of the Hospital which is really nice for many reasons but the one that is relevant to Gavin's well being on this trip is the really nice outdoor areas.  There isn't any traffic so we can just let him run around and play and get rid of some of that energy that he has been trying to release all morning while he is sitting on various laps and with Clay's Mom on the bed.

I got a couple of really cute pictures of Gavin and Clay on his 2nd Father's Day.

Gavin attempting to pick up the granola bar he just dropped on the ground.

And running from Clay because he doesn't want to give it up.

Gavin and his Aunt Susan, they had a great time entertaining each other.

Gavin showing off his new tongue tricks

Gavin and his Nanny-Ma.  She was singing to him and he just loved it, it was so sweet!!

Gavin and his Pa-pa.  They have a lot of fun together also and I know Gavin really lifted the spirits of everyone there.  I was so proud of him and his good behavior.  I was worried all the machines and funny hospital sounds and smells would freak him out, but he adjusted quite well and pretty quickly.

Poor little exhausted boy, passed out with Gerry, his giraffe.