On Thursday we headed back to UW American Family Children’s Hospital for one more appointment for Tate and Eliza.

I am happy to say that now ALL of the littles check-ups are DONE!

Until March, that is.

Thankfully we did not have too early of a start on Thursday, and the sun was shining bright!

On the way into Madison, we made a stop and did a little shopping.

It got their wiggles out!

This appointment was with urology, and it was at the east clinic instead of the main hospital.

Here is a reminder to myself – do not agree to go to the east clinic anymore – ahem!

It added another 40 minutes to the drive, and it was through the middle of the busy city!

But we made it.

I snapped this photo right as Tate and Eliza sat down to play, and then our names were called a second later.

Here I go again – telling you all how great a team of people we have to help our littles!

The urologist spent a lot of time telling us how Eliza’s upcoming surgery will impact the other medical difficulties that Eliza has.

It is hard to hear words like “medically fragile” and “complex” when a doctor is talking about your child – but I have to say that I am SO grateful that the littles’ doctors do the best they can to teach us all that we should know.

The urologist also gave us her cell phone number so we could reach her if we need her during Eliza’s surgery at Shriners.

We are so blessed!!

Both Tate and Eliza were deemed stable by this doctor too – and that is one of our favorite words!

We ate our lunch out of our cooler in the van and then started the drive back home.

This was the scene in the back seat about two minutes later!

It was a beautiful drive with all of the trees turning colors and the sun shining so bright.

We are grateful to have these check-ups behind us!

Now we are just waiting on the call from Shriners to let us know when Eliza’s surgery will be.

It is taking up a lot of my brain space, so I guess I am hopeful surgery will be soon so we can just get this hard thing behind us!

Until then, I am purposing lots of long baths (with bubbles and toys!) for Eliza, as well as lots of time on her scooter and bike on the driveway.

I also have about a gazillion questions for the poor person who does call us from Shriners….but they did tell me to write them down so I would remember to ask them!

If you all would be willing to pray for our sweet girl and her Mama and Daddy – we would be ever so grateful!