Hospital Day 9 Merry Christmas!

 Merry Christmas! Toe announced today that this may be his best Christmas EVER. Gotta love the hospital. We had one of our favorite nurses today, one of our favorite respiratory therapists, and one of our favorite doctors. Toe met some new people and played with friends and family. He even got to MEET Santa.

This was the best family photo we could get--- note my cute pajamas.

Unwrapping presents

 So apparently after Santa has delivered presents around the world, the next morning he delivers presents to children's hospitals. We knew he was coming. Toe was excited and wanted to tell Santa a joke from his new joke book.

Preparing jokes for Santa

 However, when Santa arrived, Toe was rendered speechless. Santa told Toe that he couldn't come in (because of contact precautions), but he wanted to wish Toe a Merry Christmas. The whole time Santa talked, Toe was silent. He gave a very quiet "Thank you" and "Merry Christmas" at the end. It was pretty wonderful.

I must say, Santa delivered more presents here than he does when we are at home, but he sure knew what Toe liked.

Meeting Santa

 I have to say, the coordinators (and especially the Child Life Specialist - the same one who sat with Toe during his PICC insertion on day 1) do an amazing job for Christmas. They coordinate Santa's visit and then made sure to deliver us some food from the hospital-wide brunch that we couldn't attend because of contact precautions. We ate brunch in our room and I must say, the company was pretty amazing.

Our doctor visit was pretty short today. Our doctor is putting Toe on iron - he's a little low - to see if that will help his leg aches. I think they are also sending a physical therapist tomorrow to help Toe with some stretches. We made sure to exercise him a bunch today.

A quick medical exam did not impede Lego play

 We spent a large portion of the day building:

Vanity drawer? NO! Lego Drawer.

 Then we had a succession of visits from wonderful friends. Toe played hot potato with one of our visitors, the respiratory therapist, one of the resident doctors, and his parents. We did hangman and Mad Libs. Uncle Awesome arrived just as our second set of friends arrived with their kids. We took the kids to the sky bridge and played with super balls. Then we walked to the tram entrance and walked out on the balcony. Such a view!!

Uncle Awesome on the veranda

Toe's set up for going out of his room: hat and mask

The view from here is pretty great

 After our friends left, Toe had his afternoon IV antibiotics and respiratory therapy and we had some relaxing time with Awesome before he left for home. The evening respiratory therapist brought origami and is making Toe a butterfly as we speak.

We had such a great time together as a family and with our friends and we SO appreciated all of the people who gave up time with their families to come take care of us today. We hope you had a wonderful day with loved ones and laughter.