Friday, July 25, 2008

Don't let these pictures fool you!!



We had a very traumatic and tiring day at Children's Hospital. She looks so happy in these pics--but she wasn't. I think she just likes to get her picture taken and to pose. Anyway, yesterday Macy had her tonsillectomy/adnoidectomy surgery. They kept her overnight to make sure everything was good because of her size. Children's hospital is great, the people, the game rooms, and I'm glad we chose that hospital. But, last night was rough. After Greg left, things took a dive. It started out nice, macy slept for about an hour then I noticed she had an accident (which they said sometimes happens with the codeine, they sleep so hard). Then we had another accident! Then I accidently stepped on her IV line and pulled it right out of her arm--which means there was blood spurting everywhere (this was at 2:30 am), then she was complaining of stomach aches. So, to distract her we watched a movie at 3:00am and read a book about princesses. We then go into the bathroom, and Macy throws up all over. Puke everywhere. The poor nurse didn't know what to do with us last night. We finally snuggled in around 4:30 to sleep and was awakened at 5:15 for medicine and vitals (of course). After going back to sleep we were awakened at 7:00 for breakfast. So in all we had about 2-3 hours of sleep. The poor girl is exhausted. One of the child life specialists came in today and we had a little tea party (they wouldn't let us leave until Macy started drinking liquids and not throwing them up) with chocolate milk. it was cute. We finally got home around 1:00. wooh. So that's the story of macy's surgery.

Here is a picture of us reading a book before bed tonight. I guess it's on the top. I still don't know how to arrange pictures on this blog. oh well.



Wednesday, July 23, 2008

exhaustion

Pure exhaustion!!! Macy was happily playing on the computer, I went to the kitchen to do some dishes, I came back after 10 minutes and found her asleep using the computer as a pillow. First thing I did was grab my camera!

camping and our canoe trip




We took a canoe from taylors falls to Osceola this last weekend. It was pretty fun. Macy found a gigantic feather, but she didn't really enjoy riding along...."are we there yet" was all we could hear for about an hour. We then drove up to st. croix state park and camped the night there. Macy and Greg ended up with big bug bite welts all over their bodies. For some reason, the mosquitos really love their blood.