The night after the night...

First let me apologize to those of you who were awaiting phone calls today and did not receive any, its been a harder day than I was prepared for. It is so hard to see my sweet baby who was playing just fine yesterday morning to be feeling so icky today. I know that surgery was the best thing, and that we are on the way to getting better, but somehow it all caught up with me today. My son has CANCER and its going to be a long road. He has been so miserable today, had a slight fever, and cannot understand why he feels the way he does. Poor little man. He is almost all the way off of oxygen, and only has his IV, epidural, and the naso gastric (pulls junk out of tummy since intestines are still sleeping) in. He has had a little harder time coming off of the oxygen, so they are trying different therapies with him on that. He was blowing bubbles earlier, and doing great, but about 3 minutes of that and he was exhausted! Bree was also frustrated because she wanted to be able to do the bubbles, and pop them, etc. Hopefully a little more sleep tonight will help her and her attitude tomorrow. (She gets to go to the zoo with cousins, so that should help a lot).
Tomorrow, I'm hoping, will be a better day for visitors, call to make sure we're around, and feel free to visit (but not obligated!)

Thank you all so much for prayers, support, food for those who brought it, and moving our stuff from one house to the other for those who have! What a blessing to be able to not have to do that once we bring little man home.

Specific prayers tonight are:
that the swelling would go down in Kayden's face and arms (the nurses do not seem too worried, but he is propped up to try to get that to go down).
That Kayden would in fact be a bit better tomorrow like the nurses and doctors expect.
That we would all just feel God's arms of peace surrounding us tonight, and that we would all sleep well, and tomorrow would draw a little more from the strength and peace of God.

A little encouragement my mom shared with me that I would like to pass along (if I've never told you this, or you don't know my mom, she is an amazing godly woman, and I hope to be like her one day!):
Deut. 31:6,8
"Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them [the enemy], for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you....The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." It is easy to be afraid when we see our enemy, but cannot see God fighting for us and going before us. That is why we are being encouraged here to be courageous because God is before us and fighting for us now.