D's Antics/Sayings

I keep meaning to write down some of the funny things that the kids say. Well D seems to always be quick on his toes in responding and he's been responding a lot with Christmas nearly here.

So we have the presents from Aunt Amy under the tree and she does a beautiful job in wrapping the kids gifts all in different cool wrapping paper. So the Spongebob present (D's) has a big rip/tear on on side but you can't see what the present is. So I call D down and ask if he opened up a gift. His response "I was just getting a jump start on the opening" and "there wasn't a good ripping spot".

The other morning, Brad stayed home with the kids while I went into work and I covered D back up with his blanket before I left. He rolled over and with his eyes still shut he says "I had the best dream". I tell him to go back to sleep and when as I was leaving he says "I dreamed it was Christmas". He is so sweet.

Speaking of Christmas, we'll be having our talk with the kids tomorrow night about the "Christmas J Ruined". In case you have forgotten, this involves the Christmas that I got a really nice, unexpected bonus check the week before Christmas. So we had bought J and baby D all kinds of great gifts and I believe we got all the spy toy stuff we could find (J was really into this - age 5), including the spy toy remote control, listening device, grabber, thing. It was cool. Well about 2a, a sweet, excited, little boys comes into our bedroom and says "Mommy, come see what Santa brought me". Half asleep, I'm thinking he went downstairs and saw everything well he started naming things that were wrapped and it clicked in my head. Brad and I went down the stairs to find every present unwrapped and paper all over the place (including most of D's gifts as well). Needless to say, I cried a lot, ok the entire time I spend re-wrapping gifts. The next morning, J proceeds to tell me "Can you give the gift there with the nerf gun and than the one with the spy pen, etc, etc, etc". I believe I cried the whole day. Well anyways, he was 5 and that was than, but we do NOT want a repeat with any of the other children, so we will be repeating this story again tomorrow night as well as next year on the same night. Oh, we had a great punishment for him too - but we'll talk about that later.

Snow!!!!

We have snow down here in NC. About 4-5" of snow and the kids are all outside having fun. It's already starting to melt as it's beautiful outside today. The sun is blinding, it's so bright. Brad took some pics about 1a this morning - he said it was really bright out than. Me, I was passed out upstairs fast asleep.

Well we're down to the last few days till Christmas. The kids are excited as they are out of school now. J's going over to a friend's house on Monday to play and D is ungrounded from video games so we know where he will be for the next couple days. I'm supposed to be giving Brad a Christmas list and I really don't know what I want. I guess I better start working on that list. And start making some hot chocolate for the kids.

Surgery Results

We are finally home - we actually were released early this morning, but we came home and slept. The surgery was successful in the terms that the hole is closed in AB's mouth. They did, however, have some complications. The tissue they had wanted to use was too scarred too use so they instead had to tissue from the front of the hole which left the bone exposed and additional pain for AB. They also had a difficult time with the stitching using the longer lasting stitches - these are to last for 4-6weeks instead of the ones that dissolve in 7-14days. She was able to do every other stitch with the longer dissolving stitches so we'll just have to wait and see how everything goes. The poor thing is doing ok - she spiked a temp at the hospital and they had a difficult time getting her heart rate to a normal rate but she finally came around. She's so hungry - she tried to eat last night and was in too much pain. We had some creamy chicken noodle soup and she's scarfed it down - so she's either feeling better or was too hungry to care. Either way, we're happy she's eating. She will be on a soft food diet for 2 weeks and the last time we knew that the hole had opened was on day 15. Please keep praying!!!!!

Surgery Again

Ok - we're here again. Yes, it's Alyssabelle's third and hopefully last surgery for her cleft palate. We have been cleared for surgery tomorrow and are expected at the hospital at 9:30a. She's in good spirits today but I'm dreading about 10a tomorrrow when she still can't have any food or drink.

They are not going to use the permanent stitches as I previously mentioned due to increased risk of infection. Instead they are going to use longer dissolving stitches. The ones from the last surgery last 7-14 days and the ones they are using tomorrow will last 4-6 weeks. She will still be able to feel them with her tongue so we'll have to watch to be sure she's not "feeling too much" with her tongue and none at all with her fingers. I also spoke to the doctor about her having difficulties urinating after the last surgery. They were bringing in the catheter when she finally went. The doc believes it was the medicines that caused her the problems - the nurses kept giving her pain meds and I believe she was just scared. They were trying to get a doctor back there to authorize more pain meds as they had given AB all they could when they let me back there. I was able to get her calmed down without any more meds but no way was she letting me go after that. Hopefully, this time will be a little better in that regards.

So I've gotta go pack up and I still have Xmas presents to ship. As long as it's not next day air, I think we'll be ok. Sorry if anyone receives presents late.