We saw an ENT Doctor at the beginning of this month and he ordered a sleep study to be done on Isaac.  Isaac has narrow passages ways and can be quite the snorer.  His sleep study was scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 23.  Isaac and I got to Children’s Hospital in Aurora around 7:00pm that evening.  Of course he was sleeping since it is about a 45 minute drive from our home.  The nurse had me get him ready for the night and then she started the process of connecting all the wires to monitor him through the night.
Here is a picture the room and then of him eating and calm before the nurse started putting on the wires!  And then the nurse started with the wires on his head!  Not so happy!

Oh, he was really upset by the time the nurse was almost done that he had worn himself out.  Here he is all wrapped up and then at the end with everything taken off.

He did well considering how mad he was to begin with.  They turned the lights off at 9:00pm and he woke up around 1:30am and then again at 5:15am.  The study is done at 6:00am, so we were able to have the nurse start taking wires off around 5:40am.  There was no point to let him sleep for 20 minutes and then wake him back up.  We left the hospital room around 6:20am.

The nurse told me that Isaac was keeping her entertained that night.  He would pull off the nasal cannula and she would come in the room to fix it.  She would stand by his side to make sure that he wouldn’t pull it off again.  After a minute or so of watching him sleep she would leave the room and go back to her station.  Well, as soon as he heard the door close he would pull the cannula back out.  She even stood behind the curtain one of the times she came back in and he still waited for her to leave before pulling out the cannula.  She finally just put a blanket over his arms so he couldn’t pull them up to his face.  He then would shake his head trying to get the cannula off.

I did get a call from the Nurse Practitioner about two hours after the study ended to let me know that Isaac’s oxygen levels dropped significantly while he was sleeping.  So, he will need to go back on oxygen while he sleeps.  This is a bit of a bummer, because at his 2 month appointment his oxygen was at 99% so we were able to take him off.  It was such a relief not to have to worry about keeping the cannula in or transporting oxygen everywhere with us.

Emmett showing off his hat and showing some love to Isaac when we got back home!

The kids came to the hospital with my parents on Sunday, June 15th, to meet Isaac!  Zane had spent time with the kids Saturday evening, as Kyla had her 9th Birthday Party that day.  He told them about Isaac and his physical differences.  He also told them that the most important thing for them to do was to give Isaac extra love!  The kids definitely still remember that, because boy do they love their little brother.

I don’t have pictures of their first visit with Isaac, because they went in one at a time with Zane.  I did ask Kyla to write a paragraph on what she remembered about that first visit.

Here is what she wrote:
“The fist time I saw Isaac, he was in the NICU.  Dad said that some of his bones in his head were stuck together, I started to cry because I felt bad for him.  I thought he looked chubby and cute.  Dad showed me that his fingers and toes were stuck together.  The best part about that first visit was being able to touch him.
My next visit, Isaac was in a bassinet and I didn’t recognize him in a picture.  I thought he looked a little different then all of us because he had a big forehead.  After I held him he looked really cute.
When Isaac came home from the hospital and I got to hold him and feed him he started to look really cute.
It’s like I’ve known him for my whole life, but I’ve known him for almost 2 months.  I also help Mom at home with Isaac.
I will always love him.”

When Barrett saw him, he kept asking if his own hands looked like Isaac’s when he was born.  And then there is Emmett, he just enjoyed touching him and rubbing his head.

These pictures are from the kids visit on June 21, this was when they were able to hold Isaac for the first time.