Brody's surgery/ Babies are 4 weeks old today!

Brody had surgery today. During the night he started showing signs that something was wrong. They had to put him on blood pressure medications and increase oxygen. They took some x rays and were worried about a spot in his intestine. The surgeon, Dr. Bloss reviewed the x rays and thought they should take a look to find out what was going on since the x ray was not giving a clear explanation. Turns out a part of his intestine was blocked. This is the reason he has not been able to poop or handle his feedings. They removed it as well as his appendix. Dr. Bloss told us that it had nothing to do with him being born early and even if he was born at 40 weeks he would have still had to have the surgery. For the next 8 weeks his intestine will need to heal so they have bypassed the intestine and have his poop going to the outside in a bag. Once it is healed (in 8 weeks) they will go back in and connect everything. They will also circumcise him at that time so hopefully that will be his last surgery and getting two things done at once. Tonight he is recovering from surgery. He is still very sleepy and has some common things happening. His blood pressure is low and his heart rate is high. They are not alarmed and were expecting this. He will be ok.Dr. Bloss is so wonderful. Not only is he so talented but he has a personality! He always says, "I'll care for him like he was mine" and he does! He did the PDA surgeries on all three and the surgery on Gracie for the central line.Little Miss Gracie is doing well. They were not able to get her off the vent today but that is fine. We don't want to rush her if she isn't ready. She is growing! The Orthopedic came last night. He said not to do anything while she is still in the hospital. The plan is for them to put a cast on her foot and change it out once a week. The cast should fix it. The hip, leg and spine issue will be worked out when she starts walking. Of course we will have ongoing appointments so the plan could change but right now it seems good. Gracie's newest thing is finger signs. She has been doing the hook em horns all day today. Ms. Alex her nurse just loved it with her being an Aggie and all :)Madilynn is doing well. No changes. She is eating, sleeping, pooping, peeing, eating, sleeping, pooping, peeing... GROWING!! Her newest thing is sucking on her fingers usually her middle and ring fingers at the same time...These little princesses and prince are so wonderful! I think I'm going to get Ricky a new i phone 4 that has a video recorder so I hope to figure out a way to post videos!!