Brothers

Oh man I love these boys.  They are becoming such good little buddies. 

Sure, they fight, and scream at each other and wrestle. A lot. But that's typical, right?

I adore them and their big blue eyes and infectious smiles.

 I love to hear them laughing together. 

I imagine that is probably one of the happiest sounds for a parent to hear.

Maxwell is learning to be such a good big brother. He really tries so hard to help Samuel.

They are both going in for surgery next week, as long as they can stay healthy.

They are terrible sleepers, snorers, mouth breathers, irregular breathers and constantly sick. 

It's been a rough three years for all of us. So, we finally took them to our pediatric ENT.

She saved Maxwell's life following his cleft lip surgery at seven weeks old. 

(He had subglottic stenosis and his airway was 70-80% occluded. Needless to say, we love and adore her).

Maxwell is having his tonsils and adenoids removed. She said his tonsils were so infected and his adenoids were so enlarged, it's no mystery why he has croup and respiratory infections so often.

 And Samuel is having his adenoids removed and laryngomalacia taken care of.

When she saw his airway during the scope, it was completely covered with floppy tissue.

She was amazed that he can eat and breath as well as he does.

We are anxious to have the surgeries behind us and to be on the road to recovery.

We hope that it will help solve their health problems.

There of course is a part of me that is expecting the absolute worst to happen. 

Call me a worried mother. It's kind of like I need to give myself a heads up just in case. 

Our boys are fighters though and all will be well.