Crazy week

This has been an interested week so far. We had a very busy weekend of baseball practices, high school graduations/pool parties and our niece's birthday party. On Sunday as we got home and were finishing up late baths and getting everyone in their pj's, Maeve some how managed to throw off her cast. YIKES! How it happened we still do not understand, but one minute it was on and the next it was lying on the floor. Her hand did not look good. Not that we would expect it to 2 days post surgery, but it was a bit scary for the boys. There is was ton of swelling and bruising along with the hundreds of stitches. So I called the ortho physician on call and took Maeve into the ED. Thankfully the ED was not very busy and we were only there about an hour and a half. She has a new cast now and unfortunately the emergency room does not offer the "colorful" choices of cast as they offer in the ortho clinic. So she has a very bland brown cast. Oh well. This cast seems fairly secure so hopefully it will stay on the next few weeks. I also hope her hand looks better the next time we see it...I'm sure it will. Other than that, Maeve is doing really well and the cast is not slowing her down one bit. We were just noticing how happy she seems lately. It will be interesting to see how she is in 6 months!

Currently we are a house hold of two kids...Cian and Fintan headed to the lake today with my parents. It is amazing how quiet it is around here without them. We are enjoying the break tonight, but I'm sure we will miss the noise by tomorrow. I know the boys are having a blast and we will see them on Friday. We went out to eat tonight as a special treat for Aidan since he had to stay home and go to school for the rest of the week. It was a nice dinner with four fewer hands around the table.

We are watching the finale of American Idol though I haven't seen a single episode all season. I used to watch it religiously, but obviously this has been a busy year so far. At least we are catching the last show so far it has been great.

Surgery success

Maeve had surgery today on her left hand. After much thought and discussion with her surgeon, we decided to hold off on the right hand, for now. She does not feel that the fingers on Maeve's right hand can be separated and we are not sure we are ready to give up on that thought just yet. Since the work she was going to do was mainly cosmetic on the right, we just decided to pause on that for a little while. The left hand was a priority anyway and it would probably be better to not have both hands in a cast for the next 3 weeks. We are now very thankful that we made that decision.

Maeve went into surgery ~0945 this morning and was in recovery at ~1245. We were able to see her again at ~2pm. The surgeon felt everything went as expected with no surprises. She was happy to see Maeve's pointer finger straighten out well once it was released from her thumb, so that is good news. Now Maeve has a cast from just above her elbow all the way down and completely covering her hand. This is mainly to keep the skin from being injured so the grafts can heal well. It looks now as if she had her hand amputated, so it is quite a sight! She is doing very well and very tired tonight.

Disney Wonder

Sorry for our lack of postings lately. We have been quite busy around here. We just returned from a wonderful week at Disney World. We spent 4 nights aboard the Disney Wonder cruise ship and 3 nights at Disney World with one magical day at Magic Kingdom. It was a great week and the pictures show all the fun.
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Cian and Fintan getting Goofy's autograph. The boys loved meeting all the characters. They were able to get autographs from Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto, Stitch, Chip and Dale and Captain Hook.
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Aidan and Cian in front of Cinderella's castle.
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Cian on the carousel.
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Susie and Finnie on "Its a Small World." This is a family favorite and we had to ride it numerous times.
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Maeve liked small world too!
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Aidan and Cian waiting on the Indianapolis 500. Aidan was tall enough to drive and push the pedals, so he was thrilled.
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Fintan wading in the waters of Castaway Cay Island.
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Susie and Maeve on the Castaway Cay tram.
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The Disney Wonder!!!
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All the kids and cousin Evan hanging out at Castaway Cay.
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The boys with their best friends!
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Maeve lounging in our stateroom.
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Susie and Maeve at the absolutely crazy Mickey pool on the ship. This place was madness.
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Cian and Fintan amongst the thousands of kids in the Mickey pool.

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