Easter Photos-Round One

I am still having issues with my hard drive and was only able to upload about half of the photos from the Easter weekend fun and X's birthday so here is round one from Easter weekend- More will follow if I can get B to figure out what's going on.

Several years ago I felt guilty about all the eggs we colored and then threw away (since I am way to paranoid to let them eat them after they have been sitting for hours for an egg hunt- also, when the dye leaks through the shell- yuck) So I decided we would make permanent eggs. Each year the kids get 2 wooden eggs to paint with acrylic paint. Then I mark their initial and year on the bottom of the egg and add polyurethane for durability and we are ready to hunt eggs. They don't break and when you find one that got missed 3 weeks after Easter you dust it off and put it away- no need to worry about toxic fumes if it breaks (and they are flat on one end so you can hide them in some more interesting places since they will not roll if you stand them upright)

Decorating our Easter eggs.

Our community holds an egg hunt for all the kids, although truthfully it is more of an egg "gather" than hunt since the park is pretty much just an open field with some playground equipment. But the kids enjoy themselves and usually a bunny hops in to say "Hello"

"Seriously, you want me to bend over and pick it up?"

The kids hunt by age group and at the end there is a free for all to get any eggs that are left after each group is done gathering. The girls are plotting their strategy to get more eggs.

Little Miss I love the bunny now Mommy (unlike K who wouldn't go near the bunny)

Hopefully, more pictures will be coming soon....

Update coming soon

Hopefully tonight or tomorrow- I am having computer issues and until I can clear some disk space I can't easily upload the photos to my hard drive.  So please keep checking back- lots of fun stuff has been happening- you just can't tell from the blog

Home from the Hospital- AGAIN

Last night D woke up around 11:00 crying. One of her surgery sites had begun to bleed so by 11:20 we were at the ER. Luckily the ENT called ahead that we were on our way and we got right in- I never even sat down in the waiting room. By 12:30 they were wheeling her back to the OR to cauterize the spot. Of course, that got her admitted for the night so she and I spent last night t the hospital. As always, everyone was wonderful and they take good care of her there. And now we are back home and she is actually a little calmer than she was but still it is a struggle to get her to rest like she should be. Apparently it is common for bleeds to occur around day 5-10 post op but unusual for them to be this early- hopefully we won't have a repeat in a couple of days or back to the ER we will have to go again

This morning watching SpongeBob Squarepants (you can't be choosy in situations like this)

Eating the first of several popsicles

They have room service so we tried to eat some non-frozen flavored water type food

Seriously though- can we please go home now??

We are Home and She is Eating

Potato chips...

So far she has had 5 popsicles, a HUGE bowl of sherbet and a handful of potato chips. And while she is somewhat crabby so far she is doing far better than we expected. We are supposed to keep her quiet and resting (insert skeptical laugh here) and she can't go to school for a week (or swimming lessons for 2 weeks which she will not be happy about)

I didn't take any photos before the surgery since she was a tad grumpy- although I wish I had thought to bring the videocamera to film her on the way to the induction room after a dose of Versed. Here is a summary of her recovery....

Not doing so well post op- she woke up very distressed and her O2 levels dropped so she was moved to the part of the PACU for more intensive nursing until her O2 level was back to normal. It took about 45 minutes before we were able to be moved to the regular PACU unit

Of course you can't go home until you eat or drink and she wasn't waking up for juice or sprite. The nurse also brought her a slushy and when I asked if she wanted a snowcone (a favorite around our house) she woke right up and was ready to eat the slushy while watching cartoons on TV

And if a snow cone wasn't exciting enough- she got to have a glass of Sprite She was in such good spirits several nurses were surprised she had her tonsils out. On the way out of the PACU we walked back through the waiting room and she made sure to tell everyone "All done" and to wave goodbye

Sleep, Ice Cream, GO HOME

(and in case there is any doubt about keeping quiet B just had to get her off her bike)

Surgery Update 2

Awake and eating a purple slushy while watching Team Umizoomi on TV. So far so good

Surgery Update 1

We just talked to her ENT. She did great during surgery. She is in recovery but not yet awake so we haven't seen her yet.

Sleep, Ice Cream, Go Home

Is D's plan for her tonsil removal tomorrow. She doesn't totally understand what is going to happen although we have tried to prepare her some. Of course, X (who normally is my empathetic, sensitive, mostly kind child) told her she was going to die- which got her all upset even though she doesn't totally get death yet. However, we talked about what would really happen and once she got the idea of popsicles and ice cream she was better about it. Her mantra last night over and over was

"Sleep, Ice Cream, Go Home"

For those of you good thoughts or prayer people if you can think of her tomorrow morning. We went through this with A and although the surgery was easy, the recovery was not and this is the first of (as it turns out) three, not two surgeries for D this year.

We will try to keep the blog updated via email but we should be home and updated by tomorrow night at the latest