Blue & Gold Banquet

We went to the Blue and Gold Banquet for Tyler tonight.  He received his Wolf and is all ready to advance to a Bear next month.  They had a nice spaghetti dinner provided and then each family brought a dessert.  We did have to wait a while to start everything because our ward was told it started at 6:00 and the other ward was told 6:30...so that was fun times keeping the kids good while we waited.

They finally started the program and then we all ate.  Their was lots of food and everyone had plenty to eat.  After dinner they gave out the awards from the past month.  Tyler got a belt loop and his Wolf.  He got to pin a pin on me, so that was super fun.  Tyler loves scouts so much and is so excited to go each week.  I am so proud of him for taking it seriously and doing everything he can to be an ideal scout.  We sure love this kid!

Snuggles

These kids love to snuggle.  Allie loves to climb up next to her siblings and snuggle right it.  Half the time they hate it, but the other half they love it.  It makes my heart so happy when they are all snuggling together so happily.  What could be better?

Allie Got Tubes in Her Ears!!!

Allie at the doctors office.

On Tuesday the medical assistant that we had been working with at the ENT office called me and said that another doctor in the office had a cancellation for this Thursday for surgery if we wanted it.  I said YES PLEASE.

Allie waiting to get changed into her gown.

She went on to say that I would have to bring her in that day to be seen by the other doctor and have things ready for Thursday.  So I took the only time they had available, 4:00, and got her seen.  I really didn't want to take all the kids to the appointment so my awesome neighbor, Uncle Max, came and sat with the kids while I went.  It was a huge help and made it a much easier appointment.
The doctor said she was good to go for tubes and he'd see us Thursday.  So Thursday morning at 6:15 am, Tony was at the IMC surgical center getting Allie all checked in for surgery.

Allie waiting for the sleepy drink.

They said at 7:00 am they would give her some sleepy medicine that she would drink and then the surgery was scheduled for 7:30.
They didn't come until 7:20 to give her the medicine so she was still very much awake when the nurse came to take her back for surgery.  Allie was not happy to leave Tony and cried a lot.  So much so that she threw up in the surgery room.  They did clean her up and then gave her the gas to make her go to sleep and completed the surgery.

Allie all sleepy after surgery.

The doctor said that she had a lot of puss and fluid in both ears and that it was very good that we did not wait another month.  He got the tubes in and finished the surgery in about 5 minutes.  Because she threw up they were concerned that she might have gotten some of the sleepy medicine in her lungs and wanted to keep her there longer to watch her.  They said if she was having respiratory problems she would have to be taken to Primary's and stay over night.
Luckily her oxygen levels quickly went up and she did really good.  Tony and her just hung out in their room until a little after noon.  Tony said she took a little nap and played a little.  She didn't like the oxygen monitor on her foot, but besides that was in good spirits.
She did really good yesterday.  Took a good nap and then slept good last night.  I am so glad that we were able to get her in sooner then expected and now she's on the road to recovery.  She will finish her current antibiotics and needs ear drops for a few days and then hopefully no more medicine for a very long time!

Allie and Her Ears

Poor Allie has had an ear infection off and on since the end of November.  The antibiotics take away the infection but then the fluid in her ears don't go away so that bring the infection back...fun huh.  In December we took her to see an ENT doctor and he wanted to watch her for a month before doing any sort of surgery.  So we waited a month with giving her yet another antibiotic, to keep the infection from coming back, and then saw the doctor again. Unfortunately the fluid is still there and she needs tubs in both ears.
We thought that they would have gotten us in last week for the procedure or at least it would have been scheduled, but we are having a hard time getting it all worked out.  I guess there is only one surgical center that he goes to that takes our insurance and he rarely goes there so we have to wait for them to have an opening there and I just found out he's going to be out of town for two weeks.  So frustrating.  Tony is going to call them on Monday and see if their is another doctor in the practice that could do the surgery sooner.  We don't want to have to wait another month or more because she already has another ear infection and has been super fussy with this one.  She also has a hard time hearing with all the fluid in her ears so she isn't speaking very well.  She has just started to really talk a lot more so we want to make sure she is getting a good foundation so that she wont need speech therapy when she's older.  I have always wondered if we had gotten Josh's tubs in earlier, if he wouldn't have so many speech problems.  Doesn't really matter now, all I can do is try my best to avoid problems for Allie.  And I'd like her to have a month that she doesn't have to take any medicine...ah the dreams of a mother.

Another Allie Ouchie

Allie was playing last night and fell and hit her lip.  She was bleeding pretty good.  We thought the blood was coming from her mouth, but then when it all stopped gushing we found the only wound was on her lip.  Then it started swelling...and swelling.  The poor thing.  She calmed down with a bath and then snuggled right in with Tony.

Megan didn't want to miss out on the snuggling action so she climb up and joined the fun.  We did give Allie some pain medicine right before bed and she slept pretty good last night.  She looks pretty good this morning.  It's so sad when the little ones get hurt, but luckily they bounce back quickly!

Snuggling With The Kids

Many nights we let the kids watch a show before bed.  We all watch it together and then have family prayers and then Tony and I put the kids to bed.  It is such a nice time of the day to be together as a family, snuggling with our babies!