All home

James and Jimmy flew in last night. It is SO GOOD to have them back. I missed them so much. Jimmy is just taking it easy. He still walks with quite a limp, and his face is still really bruised, but he's getting better every day (today he told me "Mom, I'm all better", but I can still tell he's on the road to recovery).

My heart feels so tender to see Jimmy with all these "owies". With the other surgeries, the recovery has for the most part been on the inside of the mouth. This bone graft surgery is not only on the inside, but so apparent on the outside too. It just looks like this time it hurts so much more. In fact, yesterday when I picked them up from the airport, I couldn't help but wonder what all the other people on the plane/airport thought when they saw Jimmy- he looks like a little abused kid with all those bruises and his limp!

I wish so bad I could take the pain away from little Jimmy, make his limp go away and make him all better. He's such a tough, brave little kid. Sometimes almost too tough (I wish he'd just sit and cuddle with me more).

Here are some pics of the kids (Jimmy took the last one of Alice all by himself). I think the incision site on the hip bone is probably the hardest for me as his mom to look at. It just looks like it hurts so bad- I don't like thinking about them actually taking bone from that tiny little hip.

 

Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers. We are so relieved to have this surgery done with. A little apprehensive knowing that we'll have to go through the bone graft again with little Johnny in a couple years, but at least this next time we'll know completely what to expect.