Hopefully the last time

Today we took Juliet to have tubes put back in her ears and to have her adenoids removed.  As you know a couple of weeks ago we took her into the ENT to have her ears cleaned out and he told us that she had fluid again and put her on medicine that would hopefully clear it up.  Well about 2 weeks later we ended up back in the doctors office and were told that the fluid was still there.  We called the ENT back and asked what we should do.  His answer, we should go ahead and put the ear tubes back in and take her adenoids out because apparently they aren't doing what they are supposed to be doing.  Then the nurse dropped on me that they had an opening Friday morning and we should go ahead and get this done.  So we scheduled the appointment.
We left the house around 5:50 this morning with all of our animals, and made it on time to the surgical center by 6:30.

We got checked in and went to the pre-op room where we met the nurse and the anesthesiologist that were going to be in the operating room with Dr. Duncan.  Then we watched MMCH and Dr. Duncan arrived.  He is such a wonderful man who is patient and calm with the kids and the parents, she gave him a high five so she remembers him.  Since she was the first one this morning, they came to get her around 7:40, she did not cry once when they took her from us, and around 8:20 I heard her screaming, she doesn't wake up from the anesthetic well.  Jon and I got to her and it was a challenge to get her settled down.  We finally realized that it was the IV that was making her so upset.  We asked the nurse what we had to do to get it taken out.  She said Juliet had to drink something and then she would take it out.  I explained this to Juliet and she was agreeable.  She took one sip of juice and looked at the nurse, held her arm out and said out?  She was negotiating the removal of the IV.  We told her she had to drink more and she did and the nasty bandage and IV came out.  It was a little better after that.  We were finally discharged around 8:50 and before we even hit 610 on the west side she was asleep.  She never let go of those glasses the whole ride home.  I would see her hand tighten on them every now and then.

We got home and it was cookies, cookies.  Well they told us nothing crunchy, spicy or fried and cookies fall into that category.  It was then a hunt for something she would eat.  I finally found fruit snacks and she ate 4 or 5 little snack bags of them, then she ate a pancake and 2 sticks of cheese and more snack bags of fruit snacks.  Then we went to CVS around 3 to get medicine and a Sonic coke.  When we got back she ate 2 snack bags of Oreos, which I had told her if she was fine at 3 we would try the cookies.  She held me to the cookie promise.

Mama and Papa came over to check on her and she ate chicken and cheese and who knows what else while Jon and I went to dinner by ourselves.  Which was nice since I am about to fall on my face from exhaustion.  We had Zio's which was yummy!
Other than being cranky and hating the ear drops and nose spray she is doing fine.  She played most of the afternoon and it was hard to keep her quiet when all she wanted to do was run around outside.  She was asleep by 8 tonight and that is a relief because I am headed that way myself after the Dr calls and checks in.  

We are so blessed with all the friends and family that kept us in their thoughts and prayers through this.  We are also very blessed to have a wonderful Dr. with a very flexible schedule, and the staff at the Surgery Center that are kind and seem to love their jobs.  (We have been there twice and it is always clean and the people are always nice.)  I am so lucky to have a wonderful husband that is right there beside me during this, those nights when she is fussy or sick, and all the doctors visits, then on top of it all a really rough 1st trimester with the new baby.  He has really shown what an awesome husband and father he is.  Juliet and I are so lucky to have him.
OK time for bed, he just called, just wanted to update everyone!
Have an awesome weekend,
Laura

In honor of our Nanny

We received the email below from my cousin Lynne who is running her first marathon.  We are so proud of her.  She is doing this in a memory of a very special woman in our lives and for a wonderful cause. 

 I am training to run my first marathon as a member of The Leukemia Lymphoma Society's Team In Training program. I will be running 26.2 miles in memory of my Grandmother, Wyona Mizell, who lost her battle with leukemia in 2007.As a participant in the Team In Training program,  I have pledged to raise $2,900 in support of blood cancer reasearch and patient assistance programs. I'm asking for your help in reaching and/or exceeding my goal. Please use the link below to donate online quickly and securely plus learn more about my progress. You will receive a confirmation of your donation by email and I will be notified as soon as you make your donation.  Remember, all donations are 100% tax deductible.  http://pages.teamintraining.org/txg/rnr11/loreschnig
Your donation helps accelerate finding a cure for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Nearly 958,000 Americans are battling these blood cancers. I am hoping that my participation in Team In Training will help bring them hope and support.  Thank you very much for your consideration. I greatly appreciate your
generosity and support.

Sincerely,   Lynne Oreschnigg

P.S. I would appreciate it if you would forward this email to as many people as you can to encourage them to donate as well. Thanks again.

Bunny Photo Shoot

Today we took Juliet to have her picture made with live bunnies.  It is one of those animals that she has never been afraid of.  I think because they are small and don't make any noise.  We took her to Studio 121 in the Woodlands Mall, they always do a really good job and the photographers work with us.  We have done sessions there in the past and they seem to be the only place around that has the real bunnies.  We got there for our session and while I filled out paperwork Mama, Daddy and Juliet looked at the bunnies in the cage and decided they wanted to use the brown bunny, of course the fast one!!  Haha we spent an entertaining 5 minutes chasing Maximus around the studio, all the the delight and belly laughs of one little girl!  We finally got the bunny in the basket and we were off!  She was tentative at first on what to do with a bunny that wanted to jump and move but it didn't take her long to like it.

Then we did the have her lay on her belly and give Eskimo kisses to the bunny, now if you don't think that turned out cute, just wait and see, once we got her laying down she was all into the bunny tickling her.  I think she even told us the bunny tickles. 

We lost her when we tried to put the bunny in her lap.  He wanted to move around and I think he may of scratched her a little because she started crying.  So back in the cage for the bunny, we had some precious pictures anyways and I didn't want to upset her more.  Tiffany was great with her and we even got an unexpected family picture out of it.

All in all it was a good picture day.  We had fun and got really good pictures!!

Hope you enjoy,
Laura


*All pictures are from the session today, the edited photos and CD will be here in a few weeks!

When did it get to be mid February?

Happy Valentine's everyone!

I should be asleep, for someone who isn't getting much sleep, I shouldn't be updating my blog, but alas... sleep eludes me. 
A little late on this update, but some things that have been happening over the last week.
We spent the "snow day" at home playing in the warm house.  She did not understand that even though the sun was out and it was pretty outside, it was still really cold and we couldn't go outside to play.  Try explaining that one to a 2 year old who loves being outside more than anything. 

She watched me put on mascara Saturday morning and now when she looks at my eyes she says "mommy paint eyes."  She still remembers too, she looks for it and says "paint eyes," guess I have to stop being lazy and paint my eyes more often. 
I made her a bow board for the many bows that we have.  I have already filled it up so either we need another one, or less bows.  Another board it is! 

We attended a Super Bowl party with our bible study class on Sunday, she was such the big girl and behaved very well.  We only stayed until half time because of bath and bed but it was fun to be able to go.  When we were leaving, of course after we were away from everyone, she was saying "bye, bye body," pretty cute!
After her ordeal with the dino, I got her a small Daisy Duck because she has been all about Daisy lately so it seemed like a good gift.  She was such a trooper and I was so proud of her for keeping her bandaid on with no complaints that she deserved something.
We went to her Valentine's party at school on Friday.  She is still opposed to icing on her cake so the teachers had to go get her one from the kitchen that didn't have icing.  Apparently just wiping it off isn't good enough, it can never touch her muffin! 

I am so ready for all these teeth to be in.  She ran a fever Thursday night that I hoped was just teething because I wanted her to get to go to her party, she missed her Christmas one because she was sick.  One more is in so we are almost there.

Well you know about everything else, so I guess I am going to try to sleep.  Good Night to all!

Big Girl Bed

Today was a huge day for Miss Juliet.  She took one more step in the direction from baby to big girl!  She moved from her crib to her full size bed!

I thought she was going to have issues when Jon started taking her crib apart, but she acted like nothing was wrong and it was the most natural thing in the world for her bed to be taken apart.  (No love lost for the crib)  She was so excited when the men brought in the new mattresses.  We had to stop her from climbing on them before they were even set on the bed.  She climbed right up and started running from the top to the foot of the bed.  Jon and I both got in and laid down next to her and explained that this is where she was going to sleep now.  She thought it was a fun game.  She will get in the bed at the top of the rail and out of the bed at the bottom. 
It was all fun and games until it was time to go to bed, then she got a little stressed and upset.  I waited it out about 5 minutes before I went in and laid down with her.  It only took about 45 minutes of squirming and crawling all over me for her to settle down and go to sleep.  I figure this will be the routine for a few weeks and then she will be back to sleeping on her own. 
When we get her new bedding in from North Carolina where Granma and Granddad found it today, we will post updated pictures!!  Make sure and check flickr for videos from tonight's fun!

But for now, Good Night, Sweet Dreams, I Love You Doodlebug, sleep tight!

One of those days

Today has been one of those days where nothing went right and it felt like it would never end.  We started out last night putting Juliet to sleep around 8, she was still up at 9 so I brought her in our room to see if she would settle down after a diaper change.  Well no such luck, she was still wiggle worming her way around our bed at 2 am.  I finally gave up and put her back in her bed to have my alarm go off around 6.  YUCK.  So off to work and school we go to have me receive the dreaded call at 10:45, "Mrs. Clements, this is (director) at Primrose, Juliet fell off a dinosaur and busted her chin.  There is a pretty deep cut that may require stitches."  Well, crap, the Dr.'s office closes at noon.  I head for the door making calls as I go telling my boss I will be back... hopefully.  I get to her and look at it closer and it seems less than they made it but off to the other side of Houston we go.  We get to the dr and he looks at it and cleans it , and deems it bandaid worthy, no stitches and we move on.  Thank you God for small miracles.  BTW, for those of you who know my child, she hates bandaids, they are evil in her mind, but she didn't fight him.  This was after she screamed when we walked in the door and about hyperventilated when I took off her shirt so the iodine didn't stain it.  She even gave him a hug and told him bye bye, a first for them.  So off we go back to work and school, which now she will not talk to me because she didn't want to go back to school.  She took a nap, played with her friends and forgot all about being mad at me and her bandaid.  I did manage to get another one on her tonight because it has hearts and says Kiss It, Make It Better. 

So there is another adventure in the life of Miss Juliet Claire, who as of now is asleep in her crib, so I am going to bed.  Who knows what time the tylenol and anbesol will quit on us!!  She did tell me Juliet hurt, so she understood what was going on.

2 in 2 days - teeth that is!

She has all her bottom teeth now!  Catching up!

Peanut at 12 weeks

Our little peanut at 12 weeks!