Well, in case you haven't heard (from Tim's blog or via Facebook or Twitter), yesterday went about as well as it could have. They put River under, which was harder this time because he wouldn't just lie there and let them put the mask on, so he sat against me while we he struggled, and the anesthesiologist caught his head as he nodded off and I struggled not to sniffle as I teared up in the sterile room. But! They only had to do an exam, and the exam showed that the left eye looked "phenomenal" and that the right eye, while not great, is at about half the pressure it was last time (17 instead of 35, whatever that means) and does not, at this time, need surgery. If both had been awesome, we'd come back in three months for pretty much the same thing, but since that right eye is borderline, we come back in two months. But! No surgery yesterday! No bug, not even a pirate, but a full-sighted babycakes! Yay! What a relief!

This week's photos, including some at the hospital, are up over at Flickr.



And we have two YouTube videos, too. The first is a very short of one where we got River to say "Mama" which he says all the time but we wanted to catch on film. He hasn't eaten in over six hours, which is part of the reason he was saying it so much. I don't usually respond by saying, "Yay!" but we'd been trying to get him to say it for the camera for awhile.



The second is Tim roughhousing with River and making him giggle in delight, despite the fact that this is one *hungry* kid. River's always surprisingly good at the hospital.