Favorite Girl's Surgery

Favorite Girl had tubes put in this morning. We were scheduled to arrive in the Pediatrics department at 6:45am. (I am so thankful the hospital schedules the peds patients in the morning since they cannot have anything to eat or drink after midnight). Of course Favorite Girl has a cold right now so we have been up the past two nights fighting a very nasty cough. The poor girl was up at 2am absolutely miserable (wanting a bottle and needing cough syrup) and I couldn't give her anything. I finally broke down and gave her some Robitussin so we could get a few more hours of rest before her big day. I was afraid they would reschedule her because of the cold but the anesthesiologist told me that when kids this age need tubes they will likely continue to be sick until they get them. He said as long as her lungs sound okay they would move forward with the surgery. She sounded great so they came and took her from me at 8:20 and by 8:35 the ENT doc came in to tell me everything went great. I was back in recovery with her by 8:40! She is such a little trooper. She came out of the anesthetic without even a whimper! But boy was she ready for a bottle. She drank two bottles of sugar water before they would let her have milk. Since she kept the water down they let her eat some graham crackers and cheerios. We moved back to a room in Peds to be monitored for one hour. Of course she was a little show off. She kept wanting to walk out of her room to "talk" and wave at everyone. The nurses thought she was absolutely beautiful, they are just sure she should be in movies. I wonder if they tell everyone stuff like that or if I just have exceptionally beautiful babies :) I know what you're thinking! Perhaps I'm a tad bit partial. They are probably the smartest kids on the block too! It's probably because they have the greatest mom in the whole wide world, you know the one who is up for mother of the year, the one that LOST her children this week. And also (this week) taught her son to say, "my frickin damn shoes dad" It's been an awesome week! Anyway enough about me. I just wanted to let you know Favorite Girl made it through surgery and, as if you haven't already guess, I'm ready for a vacation!

Favorite Girl, a little groggy after surgery, ready to go home for a nap!

We stopped by the hospital pharmacy for some tylenol and ibuprofen on our way home.

God has carseats

Okay I have to preface this conversation with a little background. Whenever Favorite Boy asks to ride with someone we tell him he can't because they don't have a carseat for him. That usually is a good enough answer and so he hops in our car and away we go.

This was a cute breakfast conversation we had today.

Favorite Boy: Where was Favorite Girl when I was a baby?
Me: She wasn't born yet.
Favorite Boy: Well where was she?
Me: She wasn't here when you were a baby. You were our only baby.
Favorite Boy: But where was she? In your belly?

(I had no idea how to explain this to a three year old)
Me:Well she was still with God and He was deciding if she was going to be a baby later.
Favorite Boy: Oh and He has a carseat so be brought her here later?
Me: Yep :)

Volleyball/Baseball

We played volleyball tonight. Our babysitter was ill so we took the kids along. Favorite Boy thought it was great fun to cheer daddy on. As the volleyball game was coming to an end (we won by the way!!) the kids and I walked over to watch our church team play baseball. Favorite Boy of course latched right on to a family friend (he has this sixth sense for grandma types) and walked right up and asked for a bite of her grandson's hotdog!! As I was dying of embarrassment her grandson took a bite off one end while Favorite Boy took a bit off the other end.

MYSTERY LIQUID?

I have been walking around my house for the past couple of days finding these little puddles. They look kind of weird, sort of gross. I guess they are just gross because I can't figure out what in the world they are. It isn't water or juice dripped from a sippy cup, it's not milk from a bottle, dog slobber??? The puddles have these little bubbles in them? I haven't asked anyone in the family if they know what it is because I'm half thinking I'm going crazy. I find them in the weirdest places. And then tonight we walk into Favorite Boy's bedroom after his bath. He stops dead in his tracks in the middle of his room to pick up his step stool and says, "I better spit on this" !!!!???!!!! And he spits the biggest pool of spittle right smack dab in the middle of the step stool. I've never seen him do this? I've never heard of him doing this? I've never witnessed him watch someone else do this, and especially not INSIDE my house! So my reaction is, (imagine this very dramatic exasperated reaction because it was) "Favorite Boy why would you spit and why did you do it in the house? We don't do that!" And his logical three-year old response is, "um, because I wanted to" I still have no explanation of where he learned this nice little habit but all I could do was run out of his room as fast as I could (to giggle) because I know for 100% certainty that my mom wished this upon me!! I remember her bopping my brother upside his head on an hourly basis all summer for about ten years because he spit every where he went. I'm pretty sure his response to our mom was the exact same as Favorite Boys was to me.

Favorite Girl Ears

Just a quick update. Favorite Girl once again has ear infection and on top of that she had pink eye in both eyes. She was an absolute mess through the night on Friday. Daddy took her straight to Peds on Saturday morning. They put her on Cefaclor because I think she is immune to Omnicef after being on it every other week for most of the summer. Daddy told Dr. Jackson this is ridiculous and we need a referral to the ENT. She didn't even argue, just said okay. So we have our consultation on Friday at 3pm to see when she can be scheduled for tubes. I think this makes her tenth ear infection. They have been happening about every other week now that she is cutting soooo many teeth. The Pediatrician assures me you do not get ear infection from cutting teeth but then argues that tubes are not the end all cure all....I just can't win.

Drunken Siblings

And here is a picture of my brother, sister and I on Jodi's big day! My brother sent me this picture via email. He titled it drunken siblings....not I, never!

Favorite Girl turns one

Favorite Girl celebrated her first birthday May 19 but since Aunt Jodi picked that as her wedding date we ended up celebrating the weekend before. We had dinner with the whole family at our house. Uncle Tony even made it from Alaska! I know this is a little out of order but I wanted to be sure to post pictures of her big day!