Aliyah!

Happy 4th Birthday to our very sweet Aliyah! All Aliyah wanted for her birthday was pink! Well that was easy, almost every girl toy out there is pink. So for her birthday she got a pink barbie car, pink barbie clothes and another barbie. She got a pink cake with pink suckers that are stars and princess crowns.
This morning when I was doing her hair I asked her what she wanted for her birthday and she said, "I want pink and I want my hair to be long." Poor kid, well she will at least get one of the two that she wanted, but I can't help her out with long hair just like that.
Aliyah you are such a sweet hearted child and we are so happy that you are in our family. We love you so very much!!! Happy Birthday Baby!!!!

Nathan's Surgery

Nathan had his 3rd surgery for his ear. We hope this will be his final one and the doctor feels really good that this will be his final one but only time and healing will tell.
We found out the day before that with being at Primaries and the fact that he is 9 years old puts him into the older category and because of that his surgery is scheduled at 2pm. That is such a life time for him because he is supposed to go without food from midnight until who knows when he will feel like eating and for Nathan, he does not miss a meal for anything. He is such my breakfast person so it was pure torture for him.
As we got to the hospital he was getting more and more nervous. He asks if we could go ahead and tell them we changed our minds and that we didn't need the surgery. Poor kid, I felt so bad for him. Once he was back talking to some of the nurses he found out that there might be some ways that while he stayed in the hospital that there possibly could be some things he could do to pass some of his scouts off and that made him really happy. Leave it to Nate to want to pass scouts off during his hospital stay!
After the surgery for some reason this one was a little harder for him to wake up. He got out of surgery around 5pm and would open his eyes for about 30 seconds at the most. It took until a little after 10pm for him to completely wake up and ask for food. Only to find out he wasn't able to hold anything down for almost until lunch time the next day.
We had a scare when the doctor came in and told us we might have to stay one more night and you could see Nathan get a little more down hill and then about 2 hours later the doctor came in and said Nathan could go home and Nathan got such a huge smile on his face and so then we went home!
Once we got home Nathan kept getting better and better. It's amazing at how being home can make you feel SO much better.
He had a tube coming out of his head right next to his ear that helps drain any fluid, we have to change the bottom of the tube every 4 hours and then he had a tube going into his rib cage that is there only for medicine. This tube is attached to a baseball size ball that is full of medicine and it puts medicine automatically into his ribs because they had to cut into his ribs to get out the cartilage for his ear. This ball of medicine he carries around his neck in a bag. I have pictures but most of the pictures are on my phone and I can't find my cord that goes from my phone to my computer so hopefully I will be able to find it and post some pictures of all 3 surgeries.

Nathan

Nathan got his braces today!!! I know being 9 sounds kinda early to be putting braces on your child but instead of straightening his teeth they are only there to fix his bite. He was really scared going there today, he kept asking me questions like: will it hurt, will they put me to sleep, will I ever get to close my mouth again with all that metal, etc. Boy does he look super cute in them!