In Miami

Madi woke up this morning saying, "Gradulations Daniel! You're going for your heart surgery!" Despite a few sibling ups and downs, the kids were great travel companions today. On the drive to Miami, Daniel dropped his toy too far out of reach for any of us to retrieve. After a few moments, Madi handed him her toy and said, "Today is all about you, Daniel, MY little brother."

We arrived at the SpringHill Suites in Miami at around 4pm today. It was enough time to settle into our room and head down to the hotel restaurant for a quick bite at 5pm. It is 8pm now, and we happily report that the little ones have been asleep for about 20 minutes. It was a little tricky getting them down as they were excited and obviously a little out of sorts with their surroundings.

Our alarm is set for 5:30 and we will head to Holtz Children's Hospital at 6:30. Since Daniel is not allowed food or drink after midnight, we will all refrain from food or drink until he's admitted to the cath lab at 7am. The procedure is supposed to take 2 - 3 hours. If everything is what they predict, we should be home sometime tomorrow once the anesthesia wears off. We have faith that Daniel will be fine, but I must admit that we are all a little scared--not so much for the procedure as much as we are for him not knowing what is going on. We just don't want him to be scared. We will post as soon as we can with the findings.