sweet babygirl had her tubes put in bright and early on friday morning. we had to wait for a while before anything happened, but once they took her in, it was a breeze.
after waiting in the main waiting room, then in the pre-op room, then in the surgical hallway, we finally got to meet with the anesthesiologist and ENT. the sweet surgical nurses gave Lexi a beanie baby fish, which she loooooooved. when it was finally time for the procedure to begin, a nurse came out into the hallway and got Lexi from us. Lexi gladly went to the nurse, telling her "hi" over and over. we expected her to be a bit uneasy about all the new faces, but as the nurse took her through the doors to head to the operating room, our baby girl said "HI!" to every person she passed. it was quite adorable. just nine minutes after the nurse had taken little babe from us, our ENT came into the hallway, where scott and i were still waiting, to tell us that the surgery had gone just fine. he suctioned quite a bit of fluid out of her middle ear and got the tubes in without a problem. he also said that she was doing well with the anesthesia, which was good to hear.
we then went into the main waiting room and waited for Lexi to wake up (in recovery 1) so that we could go be with her in recovery 2. it was only about 10 minutes until they paged us and we got to go upstairs to the recovery area. we waited in there for about 3 minutes and then we heard a pathetic little cry moving closer to us. sure enough, it was our girl, quite unhappy to say the least. a male nurse (murse? ha) brought her to us and her face lit up, "mama! daddy!". she was able to drink for the first time in about 13 hours so she was really happy about that. we then snuggled for the next half hour or so and then we were released. after a good meal and a long nap, she was back to normal- like nothing had even happened. she now acts like she feels better than she has in a lonnng time.
all comfy in her PJs, waiting for her name to be called to go into surgery
in her little hospital gown, playing with daddy's hat
after surgery. she chugged that whole cup of juice in about a minute and a half. she wouldn't let go of the cup or her new fish (which she calls "fiff" or "shish").
grumpy girl
she wouldn't let me move out of the chair i was in after i took this picture. she wanted me in sight at all times.
all is well now. hopefully she won't get any more ear infections!
in other news, our girl is finally walking!!!! it only took her 14 1/2 months, but she finally got it. she's just taking a few steps so far, but in no time at all, i know she will be able to walk across a room with no problems. she THINKS she can walk that far. she really does try, but she ends up falling after about the fifth or sixth step.
Lincoln is doing great. nothing new i can think of- but great nonetheless. he is such a great big brother. he spent the night with Nana so that she could take him to school the morning of Lexi's surgery. when he finally got to see her that evening, he was SO happy to see her (and vice versa!). the first thing he said to her was, "Lexi, you wanna play with me? we can share my blocks!". he then proceeded to build several things just for her because he knows how much she loves to take them apart. so sweet.
our world is busy, but a little boring these days. i'm scraping things together for blog entries, so bear with me :)
Daddy and Lexi at the pumpkin patch
Lexi was sooo thrilled about having her picture taken... ok, not really.
my pumpkins
Popeye and me :)
We had a hard time getting a good pic of all 3 of us.
Lincoln looked long and hard before picking out this pumpkin. He named it Abraham.
He wasn't very excited about cleaning out the"pumpkin guts" and even convinced me to let him wear some of my kitchen gloves to get the job done.
Lincoln's pumpkin, complete with Batman symbol, and Lexi's, with a kitty (her favorite).
Lincoln was pretty proud of our pumpkins.
our masterpieces all lit up
