As we were walking to our car today at the hospital Parker yelled "HOORAY!" so I guess that means he was glad we were leaving. Everyone at Scottish Rite was wonderful but there is nothing better than being at home with our people! Parker was excited to see everyone when he got home and Kirby was very excited he was home...so she had to go outside while she learns a new more gentle kind of love for Parker for the next couple of weeks :-) The kids all had a great time playing together this evening, it was nice having our full house back together.
Andersen and Paige asked if they could see Parker's new leg so we let them see while we changed his bandages. Andersen and Paige were both a little unnerved with seeing the stitches and the new shape and Xander kept trying to touch it. I think it was the first time Parker realized what happened so Andersen and Paige went to bed and Parker and I sat on the floor and cried. I'm not sure if Parker was crying because we were changing his bandages but it seemed different to me and I think he finally realized his sweet wee foot was gone and he cried for several minutes. When I told him it was time to put the bandages back on he was better and gave me a nice long hug then went to play. When we went in to hug Paige good night Parker gave her a nice hug and a kiss and she started to cry because she was sad that his foot was gone. We talked about it some more and I think we all may have a few more good cries over the loss of our favorite wee foot but we also talked about all of the great things to come for Parker. So no time for new pictures today but I'll get some tomorrow and then we'll take another break from blog land until Parker's follow up appointment in two weeks. We are so thankful for all of the friends and family who have been such a blessing to us throughout the whole journey. We have had so many sincere offers of help and love and we continue to feel surrounded with love and we are grateful.
Thank you.
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