Tube in Ears...

Well I just put my beauty down for her nap after a very busy morning. We arrived at the doctor at 8:00am ready for some healing. They checked us in took Allies vitals and we waited. I knew this was going to be an easy quick surgery (which makes me think of the moms that have had children have to go through long awful surgeries), but nothing turns your stomach more than to watch a nurse take your daughter away. I sat and prayed for my sweet lady and for her doctor to have wisdom. About 30 minutes later the nurse came out and said she was ready. I walked back and another sweet nurse was rocking allie in one of their recliners. I took allie and watched her head flop around and her look around so confused. Almost like she was a newborn. Dr.French came out and said her surgery went great and that he was very happy we did the surgery cause when he checked her last week she had no ear infections but when she went into surgery today she had another double ear infection, one ear being much worse with lots of puss and blood. He said that the tubes will hopefully decrease the ear infections and should greatly help her hearing. Allies Bifid Uvula and deformed palate may cause more ear infections, but we are just praying these tubes fix that problem. The anesthesia was a little rough on her body. She ended up throwing up twice in the surgical center and three times in the car... rough morning. I walked away thinking... Man I have one tough daughter. I told Rob yesterday morning that I thought maybe Allie was getting an infection cause she was a little off, but then she played all day with the kids so it never crossed my mind again.. especially not a double one and one having blood in it! ugh! poor girl.
So hopefully the next update on this will say that all is well!
We had a fantastic Easter. Had about 12-14 adults and 7 kids over for brunch. Nothing like a home full of company, especially to celebrate our Savior. I will post photos ASAP.

Cooking with Dottie

So I had to go to the dentist this morning for a cleaning so my friend/neighbor watched Allie for me. Thankfully we live on base so all of us military wives swap kiddos when we have appointments! I came back from my appoinment and walked into my neigbors house to a mary poppins song playing and the two girlies in aprons and "cooking" away. It was so cute. Allie was busy stiring her "food" aka plastic balls in her bowl. Christine thankfully took a couple pictures. She had such a fun time over there.. nothing like a little change in routine :) We just went to the ENT on monday and found out allie needs tubes in her ears so away we will go on monday to get tubes. ugh. When Allie was born she had a Bifid Uvula (or a split uvula) which is that her uvula is split down the middle like a Y. This can cause some major ear infections and maybe also shows that her palate is deformed, but we are unsure of that as of now. Well since allie has had 3 ear infections in 11 weeks the ENT believed that she would have had infections every two weeks if we don't get the tubes. He said that Allie has gained a very high thresh hold to pain since she has had so many so I may not even know when she will get another, which could cause major hearing loss and issues. SO the tubes should greatly help that. Its only a 15 to 30 minute surgery and a really easy recovery so I am actually looking forward to Allie feeling much better. So pray for my little lady on monday that everything goes well. I'll keep you updated on if they find anything with her palate in the process. 

What should we cook??

"Now Dottie this is how you do it..."

My cute Chef :)

Busy stirring

Every good chef taste tests

packed up the baby toys...

Its a sad and exciting day to go through all of Allies toys and pack up all of the "baby" toys she has. Shes a big girl now. As much as I love her growing up and look forward to each stage of life its always sad to look back at little toys and clothes when she was so tiny. Maybe we need another baby in this house? :)

So my little lady is a little sponge. I don't realize how much she picks up each day its amazing. I don't even know half the time where she learns things. She has now learned almost every body part from finger to cheeks. She loves to color, babble on her fake phone, and clean up. She has officially become addicted to Airplanes. We have a couple static airplanes on our base so everytime we get in the car she does the sign for airplane and starts getting herself VERY excited. Its so funny. We then drive by them and she waves and says airplane in sign language. She is able to see an airplane in the sky from a crazy far distance. I guess its in her blood :)
Allie is officially weaned and goes to bed all by herself. We take a bath, read a couple books, pray, have a minute snuggle and I put her into bed. Allie then looks at me and waves, like see you later mom. So funny. Nothing like a little girl who loves her bed. There are things as a mom that you look back at and wish you did things differently but this is one of the successes for me. To make the weaning process painless, which it was, and have her go to bed all on her own and sleep 12 hours straight no matter what the time I put her to bed, which she does. Now if I could just figure out how to discipline a 15month old? Nothing more frustrating than Allie doing something I told her not to and then telling her no and then having her laugh. ugh. Every time I tell her No she just looks at me and laughs. I may have a little stinker on my hands. Too smart for her own good. Any advice?

We are so excited for Easter! I love Easter. I love to celebrate the resurrection of my precious Savior. I love the joy of Easter. I also love all the celebrations of Easter. I can't wait to put eggs all over the yard and let Allie find them and put them in her basket. She is all about collecting items and putting them in buckets. So fun.

Till next time...