Rosie's Birthday Party

Rosie and her friends Emily were born one day apart.  So a joint birthday party was a natural!  This year we had it at the splashpad and everyone had a fabulous time - except for Rosie.  Poor girl had an ear infection and we didn't even know it. Not a good way to feel on your party day.

 

 

 

 

  

Grandma Dot held Rosie so I could take pictures during the singing of the birthday song and blowing out the candles.

 

 

 

 

Ro wouldn't even eat a cupcake, but Emily sure did.

  

 Charlie, Carter and James enjoyed the cupcakes AND the popsicles.

 

 

Post Party Pics - can you see the poor baby isn't 100%?

 All she needed was her mama for a smile!

 

 

  By the end of the party, after eating lots of sugar and playing hard, Emily wasn't a happy baby either.

 

Get Well Soon Charlie!

Charlie has the best friends! Lute and Warren are awesome.

Goodbye Tonsils

As I mentioned, Charlie just had to get those tonsils out. Here he is at the ENT the day before getting his hearing checked.

 

There had been fluid in his ears as well, and we considered having tubes put in while the tonsils and adenoids were removed.  But with some nasal spray, we were able to reduce the fluid and his hearing tests were normal.  So we decided against the second set of tubes and Charlie's ears have been fine.

The morning of his surgery  on July 9, he was NOT happy.  All Charlie wanted was milk and cheerios and we wouldn't let him have any!

So he wouldn't pose with my sign.  Thank goodness for Grandma Dot!

Rosie would pose, though!

Prior to surgery, Charlie hung out on the stairs in the outpatient center. . .

 

and modeled his hospital gown with Grandma Dot.

The surgery didn't take long - maybe 30-45 minutes.  But poor little buddy was NOT a happy boy when he came out of the anesthesia. He had this wailing cry of pain.  

The nurses gave him some more pain medicine and he fell back to sleep. The next time he woke up it was a little better.

Marc gave him a ninja turtle mask and nunchucks for being such a brave boy.

We could have left the hospital as early as 11am, if Charlie was drinking.  But he had a hard time.  He even turned down popsicles!  We finally got him to drink some fluids and have some popsicle and left around 2pm.  And for the next couple of days, he was uncomfortable but not in the same pain Marc and I were in when we had our tonsils out.  We are very grateful for that.  And no more snoring!

Charlie's Last Day at LP

I feel like this summer was not restful at all.  Being offered a new, great job meant leaving Athens and that has been so hard. he worst was knowing that our babies would have to leave the school and their friends that we love so much.  Charlie would have been leaving anyway, to go into PreK, but that doesn't make it any easier.

Then we decided to have Charlie's tonsils and adenoids removed.  He was snoring so loud, grinding his teeth and had some irregular breathing when he drifted off at night. So we decided to have them removed in Athens before we left.

That meant that Charlie had to leave LP even earlier, so we could have them removed and have time to recover and get rechecked.  So July 3 was his last day.  Ooof, I cried a lot that day.

   

 

 Of course, he ended up going back for two weeks when we didn't leave as soon as we expected and they had a space open temporarily in his class.  But that didn't make this day any easier for me.