Update 2? 3? :)

OK...I am sorry I didn't update yesterday ( I was exhausted and my back was hurting! How do these nurses do it day in and day out?)
Mateo is doing well. The first night and yesterday he really struggled with a bad headache, so we started giving him Tylenol on a schedule to "compliment" the Morphine drip. As yesterday went, he was complaining less and less and today nothing (about the bad headache--backache, bellyache, and iv-pain still but tolerable). He just keeps improving...during the day we have to roll him on his other side every 2 hours (every 4 during the night) And yesterday, it was a very upsetting and painful process, it would take him a few minutes to settle down. And today every time we turn him it is less painful and smoother for him. He is in better spirits today...and is doing well laying still. Soooo... tomorrow they will allow him to try to get up, we wonder how that will be for him. His incision look great (for an incision...) Here are some pictures that my mom has taken on her phone and later we can try to add ones off our camera...I have a really good one of a special dog that came to visit Mateo yesterday. So precious!

Noah is doing really well with Granny but he does miss us, so yesterday I went back to the hotel a little earlier to catch him before his bed time. We had special time before he slept. Daddy stays with Mateo in his room over night and then when I come early in the morning Daddy goes and gets some coffee and breakfast. Then Granny comes with Noah around lunch time. We spend time together (by this time Noah is ecstatic to see Daddy) as a family, and then Josh takes Noah back to the hotel to both take a long afternoon nap. Then Granny after helping me with Mateo, and goes back and meets Josh to switch care of Noah, and then Josh comes back to the hospital all scrubbed clean and somewhat rested :) And we start it again. Also (you will see in the pictures) Aunt Missy and Uncle John with Cousin Jackson come to visit for a couple of hours around lunch time too. We have been sharing a room this whole time and we have been in the spot closest to the door. It has been a little strange having lots of people and dr.s and nurses in and out for the people behind us but we kind of adjusted. But...now our roommates (a teenage boy)have been discharged this afternoon and we asked if we could move into their spot so we could have a little more privacy and a big beautiful window! And we did. So we are now settled and I am loving all the natural day light! I get here so early and leave after dark...so all I have seen in the last few days is florescent lighting...so this view is very cheerful! We are very thankful for the wonderful Doctors and Nurses here...we have had a few bumps, but overall we have been happy with the hospital here!
Here are some pictures...

Noah and Jackson hanging out...

This picture is out of order, but I can't for the life of me get it down further so read the description with the other picture of Mateo and Jackson please.

Noah eating breakfast ...blueberry pancakes!

Mateo and Mommy waiting for the shuttle to go to the hospital for the surgery.

Noah about to go for a stroller ride to the store...he is having a lot of fun walking up and down the halls with Granny pulling his lady bug toy he got for Christmas. You would think he owns the hotel by how proudly he walks.

Mateo just lights up when baby Jackson comes to visit...he is so sweet and precious to his newer cousin and loves holding, talking, and tickling him. (Jackson is almost 2 months old)

Mateo surrounded by a jungle of animals that keep arriving as gifts for him (the monkey came with us).

Granny sporting the "tickle monster" mits and the new book Mateo she and PaPaw gave Mateo as a gift. They both had fun reading it together.