We are home

Annaliese had her tubes placed yesterday and lets just say we have not noticed a difference. So much for hopeful thinking. The doctor said she didnt have an infection when they placed the tubes but had some fluid in there. He said that she would be ornery for a few days while she adjusted to the new "normal" noise level. Apparently she is hearing everything at a whole new level today and she does not like it very much.

The surgery went well. She was given versaid (because of her recent hospital stay, she was not happy about anyone in uniform, who can blame her) and she is funny just like the rest of my kids. She usually is a pretty quiet girl (like her dad) unless she is mad at someone or crying. On the versaid she didnt stop babbling to everyone. She was so talkative it was funny. I dont have a video of her as I could hold her limp body up and take a video (Bryan stayed home to get the boys off to school and watch Owyn). The doctors said that they way they feel on this drug is how they feel while drunk...I am glad we dont drink but at least I know what to expect if they ever experiment with it. Trystan is a funny drunk, Owyn a "I love you man" kinda drunk, and Annaliese is a talkative drunk. From what I see I am only lacking an angry drunk, so I suppose that is what Taylor will be like. Kinda funny to think about. It gives you a whole view of your children. After the surgery they gave Annaliese some morfin ( I still dont know why they did this) but she didnt wake up angry like the boys do. It took her almost 2 hours to wake up from anethesia. She also didnt throw up like Owyn does. Thank goodness. All in all it was a pretty good procedure.

Annaliese is getting her tubes on

Monday morning at 07:15 and I am so GLAD!!! This girl has struggled with ear infections since early Dec 08 and has had if I counted right at least 8 since then. And most of those were treated with antibotics (thankgoodness we have good pharmacy benefits), we can not wait to not have to deal with the antibotics or even the doctor for that matter. Once she has tubes we dont have to run to the doctor for infections anymore. They will give us ear drops when we leave the hospital and if she has drainage we treat it at home. YEAH!!! No more weekly doctor appts. I will let you all know how the surgery goes. She will only be under general for about 5 minutes, so hopefully she recovers quickly from that. I have to say this is the first time I have ever been excited to have one of my child in surgery.

Our kiddos are sick yet again, UGH...

can't it just leave our house for good. This year seems to have been a pretty bad one in the way of sickness. Our kids have had a just about everything that has gone around. We have had kids in and out of the doctors probably at least twice a month. I like my dr. but not that much.LOL She has come to know when Owyn was having his eye surgery, when Annaliese is due to have tubes, and lets not mention that the nurse has stopped asking me the all to familiar questions and just puts in what he knows is wrong. I hate seeing them suffer and not able to do anything about it.

We had Annaliese in the hospital Thrusday for dehydration from rotovirus (which sucks if you havent had it). I am glad I had stocked up on diapers and wipes when I came across a good sale because we are going thru a pack every couple days. I have made it a mission for this coming week to lysol my entire house. Maybe just maybe this will be the last of the sickness we shall see. I hope that your households have had a better year than we have had.

Girls will be girls

Having three boys we never had a clue what a little girl would bring to our house. Lately Annaliese has been becoming a little "girlie girl." We took her shopping and gave her a few books to look at but she wanted the pink fairy book, one that we didnt even think to pick up. She threw a fit until we handed her that book and then had to wait until she went to bed to get it back from her. Bryan took her shopping while I had the boys hair cut, and won't you know it when she walked back in with tons of necklaces around her neck. Bryan claims she asked for them. Yeah right, can you say wrapped around her finger. And just last week Bryan gave her a highlighter with little page markers in it. Well she thought that the page markers were "prettys" for her hair. She decorated her head with every last one of them.

We are back....

We got home from SLC on Friday and wanted to post some pictures of Owyn's surgery for you all to see. I am not sure how many of you have seen a child on versaid (sp) but it makes them very loopy. It relaxes them so they don't care what is going on around them. I thought you might enjoy this little clip of Owyn right before surgery....

His surgery only took just over an hour and we were on our way home within an hour of that. Owyn was pretty out of it. I took this picture on our way home.....this picture is not pretty...I have nicknamed this one the "morgue" picture..

To make the picture worse, that the night before in the hotel, Owyn fell out of the bed and hit the nightstand. He got a bloody nose, scratched under his nose, and had a rug burn on his forehead. He looked bad going to in and came out even worse.LOL But just a few hours later you would never know he had surgery if you didn't look at him. He was running around and playing like nothing ever happened.

He is still getting better, he actually never was more swollen than in this picture. He has some black eyes but otherwise he looks pretty good. We have to put drops in his eyes around 12-14 times a day and medicine on his incision line 2 times a day. We will not know how his eyes will look for at about 6 months. He will have swelling and puffiness for a while because of all the stitches (he has 40-50 in there). It went very well considering and am thankful for all the prayers on his behalf.