Monday, March 25, 2019
Sunday, March 24, 2019
SPRING BREAK
Saturday we also made a stop at Cal Ranch. We were looking at different breeds. They had these beautiful Sapphire Gem chicks and Ty almost had me convinced, but I did a lot of research the first time we bought chicks and I knew the Rhode Island Red did the best in cold climates. We looked up the Sapphire Gem and it specifically states that they do better in warmer climates. So we bought 2 RIRs and I broke down and got 1 Sapphire Gem. She is beautiful but I sure hope she survives our winters! We are hoping the RIRs sit next to her and keep her warm in the coop!!! haha!
Jay's birthday was the Saturday after Spring Break so we decided to give him is birthday present a week early. A new bike!!! We wanted him to be able to use it during the break since his old bike had gotten ran over a few weeks before. Hopefully he takes better care of this one!
We also had some visitor's this week! Ty's cousin from Arizona came up with her three kids! We had lots of fun playing while they were here!!! We always miss them so much when they leave! It's never long enough!!!
Friday, March 22, 2019
Tonsillectomy
Lily has always snored and tossed and turned at night. It wasn't until recently I began wondering about her tonsils. At her yearly check up in December I asked her doctor if her tonsils looked large or not. She said, "Well I'm on the fence. I'd say they cover about 60% of her airway." That seemed like a lot to me, but I didn't think to ask her how much was a normal amount. Ty and I discussed it and we went ahead and had them refer us to an ENT doctor. I had to have mine taken out as an adult and it was a nightmare so if she needed them out, I wanted to do it now rather than later.
First thing I asked the nurse at the ENT was what a normal amount of airway the tonsils usually cover... she said 0%! Haha. Then these things have got to go!!! Basically the doctor said large tonsils and snoring were not a reason to take them out, but that if she had sleep apnea at all then they needed to go. He said that sometimes in kids it wasn't just the usual pause in breathing but also restlessness and light sleep. With kids sleep apnea tests are hard to do, so he didn't want to have to spend the time or money on it. He said he trusted that if we showed up on surgery day then we had watched her a few times and were confident she was struggling at night. I had her sleep with me a few nights while Ty was out of town and she definitely struggled. I had Ty go watch her a few minutes before we went to bed a few nights and he agreed, so we showed up on surgery day March 12.
She was nervous but we managed to convince her to do it ...with promises of a week off school and all the ice cream and popsicles she wanted. Haha. Surgery went well and the ENT doctor said her tonsils were 'really really big' instead of the 'medium big' he had initially thought they were which just makes me think they needed to come out all the more. All the nurses in the recovery room were admiring her awesome blanket she brought that Grandma made for her when she got baptized. After being monitored for a bit and eating a crushed up popsicle, they let us go home.
Lily said she didn't want to go home. She thought we should go to the store so she could pick out a toy. HAHA. This girl knows how to milk it for all it's worth. We laughed because she had just had surgery but was sure she could manage walking around a store. Well believe it or not she got her wish. We had to stop at Sam's Club to get her prescriptions and - after throwing up in the throw up bag - she insisted she was fine and wanted to go inside. Haha. So I put her in a cart with her blanket (and a new throw up bag... thank goodness the nurse convinced me to grab a second one) and rolled her inside. She knew just what she wanted. Last time we were in Sam's she was begging for this little art kit and I told her it cost too much ... well she got one today. Haha.
Her recovery was so much easier than I had antisipated. She ate ice cream and popsicles the first day and was loving chicken noodle soup the second day. Day 3 and 4 she didn't hardly eat or drink anything. But Saturday she started getting an appetite again and was jumping ...carefully... on the new trampoline!
Monday, March 11, 2019
RANDOM PICTURES
We finally finished Crystal's Robot Unicorn and only because I had to do it for a project for a Continuing Education Credit. Haha. Also Lily has a doppelganger! Haha. Ty's cousin sent him a picture of a girl doing an interview with Captain Marvel asking him when Lily was in California. Lol. Pretty crazy!
Sunday, March 10, 2019
TY'S BIRTHDAY
The kids spent the whole day planning a surprise for Ty when he got home from work on his birthday. Haha. We bought some decorations and they made birthday hats for everyone. Haha. Crystal made Ty a special Super Dad shirt to wear and she bought him some awesome sunglasses! lol. He even wore his shirt (that I apparently didn't get a picture of) to dinner. His parents met us at Tom's to eat dinner with us and we came home and sang to him and had cake and ice cream! His parents got him some guitar lessons for his birthday! He's pretty excited about it! I got him a new grill so we can use that natural gas hook up out back this summer! Haha.
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