Payton's Surgery

      Things have been pretty quiet around the Sims house. I believe my last post was Thanksgiving. Since then, the only thing that has happened is Chad and I finished this semester of school and Payton has had surgery. Chad did very well in all of his classes and only has two more semesters until he graduates! He is getting very excited. In the meantime, He is studying for his PCAT to get into Pharmacy school. I on the other hand, still have forever! But with raising a baby (and a husband lol) I think I'm doing just fine. Also, on the same day Chad takes his PCAT, I will be taking my pharmacy technicians test to become a registered pharmacy tech. I am hoping to get hired on at a local pharmacy in January to make some extra money. I really miss working at the pharmacy.
        On a different note, Payton had surgery last friday (Dec 14th). He had to be recircumcised and have one of his testicles dropped. I feel like he can never catch a break.. He has been in the hospital twice with pneumonia and once with a sinus block. And now after only getting out of the hospital about three weeks ago he had to go in for surgery. But believe it or not even after all of that, he is such a trooper. Luckily, this was just a day surgery. We went in around 6 am and they started the surgery at 9. It was the hardest thing to let the nurses take him from me with him screaming. The doctors were not really worried about the surgery itself but with Payton being born with Apnea they had to watch him being under anesthesia. Luckily everything went fine and he was rolled back to us about 11:30 and we were sent home. Day one was rough. He slept all day from the time he got out of surgery until 6 am the next morning. (Only waking up for 3-5 minute intervals of screaming bloody murder and falling back asleep) The anesthesia seemed to have a lasting effect on him. It wasn't until Saturday morning that it really seemed to be out of his body. From Saturday until today it has still been very rough. He has been very clingy and only wanted Mommy. Which can be a good thing or a bad thing.. You can tell the poor little guy is in so much pain. He has two scars and the one on his belly is a pretty good size. I would post a picture but he won't bring his legs out of the fetal position. Other than that he is doing great. I mean you can tell he's in pain but he will play and watch movies for most of the day.
        On a more positive note because of his scars and pain he hasn't really been able to crawl much so he has started walking!! YEAH!! It only took us 14 months but hey better late than never! About two days ago he learned how to use the push toys and yesterday he actually started walking from one place to another.. Chad and I are so excited. We feel like we have been working with him SO much lately.

Here are few pictures to document lil man's Surgery..

This is as soon as he got out.

This is Saturday morning. He pretty much ate all day considering

 he went over 24 hrs without food..

Sunday Sitting on my mom's lap watching Mickey

Mouse. As you can tell he has been very chill..

 And this is a picture Chad took today of him playing outside..

He is such a cutie!

        Like I said though nothing really new is going on here. Grandpa and Grandma Sims just left for Arkansas and Mom and Dad Sims leave Thursday for Ashleigh's so we will probably spent Christmas with my family. Can you believe Christmas is only 6 days away??!! Holy Cow! I feel like this year has just flown by.
        I probably won't post from now until Christmas so we hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!