A Little Daddy Time is all it Takes

The other day, Andy was having a trying afternoon and he wanted MOMMY!!  But I was working on something I was unable to stop right away and couldn't help him, so Daddy went in and scooped him up and just held him.  Pretty soon, Andy calmed down and Dan started goofing around with him.

A little Daddy cuddle time

"Mommy's taking pictures. Make a funny face for Mommy"
 

Dan told him to see if he could touch his nose (with his tongue)
so Andy touched it!

A Photo Op

I like to notice when things in life make patterns, or are similar to something else (like when the digital clock says your birthdate...) so I had to get a picture when our car did this....

Follow up on Sarah's Arm

We had a 6 month check on the arm Sarah broke in June. The doctor said that her bones look like they were never broken.

Comparing the x-ray from August to now

Checking Sarah's range of motion

Close up of x-rays.  Current on the left and August on the right.
Doctor is pointing at the point on the bone where it broke.

Snow People!

We finally got some "Snowman Snow" so we got to make some snowmen finally.

Big icicle

Happy Valentine's Day

I always have big plans to get my blog posts up right on the day of the event, or at least the day after.  But life seems to happen and I don't get it up.  So, here are the pictures from Valentine's Day. 

I went to Andy's class for his party in the morning and then in the afternoon, went to the other kids' school.  Only Sarah's teacher had said what time they were having their party, so when I got there, Emily and William were basically done with their parties and Emily's class was in art!

In the evening, Dan & I went to a Valentine's Day Banquet sponsored by our church.  It was one of Dan's normal days to work, so I figured I'd be alone like normal, but he surprised me by taking the day off! 

 

 

Andy's class listening to their teacher

and he noticed me!

The 5th graders brought the class little presents

He had to glue on little pieces of paper

Sorting the candy hearts by color into a bar graph

Putting his things in his cubbie

Bean bag toss

Yay!  I did it!

Twirling

 

 

Andy helped by passing out the napkins

Yum!

Big Kids' School:

Sarah with her best friend

Getting food

Playing games

Will's teacher was doing a "Photo Booth" when I got there.

Looking at the pictures from the Photo Booth

Emily was getting ready to go home

When she noticed me standing by her desk

William Gets Tubes

In November, the school conducted hearing tests and William failed it.  They retested him in December and he failed again.  So they wanted us to give a page of the results to his doctor and see what he thought we should do.  He found that William had fluid build up in his ears and referred us to an ENT.  The ENT scheduled him for surgery to get tubes put in this morning. 

We had to be there at 7:15 am and our first major snow storm hit during the day/night before!  William didn't act nervous or worried before the surgery until we got to the hospital.  William is not a big fan of doctors in the first place and having to be at the hospital raised the anxiety level.  William wanted me to sit on his bed with him and held onto my arm in a death grip for much of the time that anyone else was there.  The nurse had to hide behind the curtain when we weighed him as he wouldn't even get on the scale with her there.  These are normal reactions for William at his well child check ups.  When the ENT came in I mentioned how it was probably going to be difficult to separate him from me to take him to surgery and hinted at getting something to relax him.  The doctor told me to "Suppress any trepidation as he will pick up on it".  I assured the doctor that it was all on Will's part that the anxiety was coming from.  The "sleepy medicine doctor" came in to talk to us and we were relieved to find that they wouldn't be giving Will an IV.   After being with Will for about 5 minutes, the anesthesiologist asked if I wanted him to give William something to help him relax.  The nurse had me give the medicine to Will and even then, he wasn't too thrilled with taking it.  It made a BIG differnce!  He was still a little apprehensive about being wheeled away for surgery, but he didn't cry, cling, or fuss!   When the anesthesiologist checked in after the surgery, he said Will did great and did everything they asked him to and that "the medicine might have had a little to do with that".  Will's right ear had some blood in/on it (as did his right hand) and he has been complaining about it hurting, but otherwise it went well.

And because I am me....PICTURES....(I always take pictures of everything!)

This picture shows a little bit of the anxiety Will was feeling

This is how he came back from surgery!

Checking out the face the nurse put on his cup

Will got to ride in a wheelchair ☺