We had a great thanksgiving. We had a great lunch at my Aunt's house and a wonderful dinner at my in laws. We have so much to be thankful for and we just enjoyed being together. I am so thankful we were all well (I am always so excited when no one is sick over the Holidays!!) WK was on antibiotics for her ears but other than that they were both well. We did a little shopping while Josh's mom kept the kids and got most of our Christmas shopping done. We just have a couple of little things left to get! I am so thankful for this because we have had a change in plans and we will now have 2 surgery's before Christmas.
Thankfully they are both minor surgery's but still makes life a little hectic (and expensive!!) Originally we were planning on waiting until Jan to do WK's tubes and Josh's surgery. However enough is enough and I just can't have her not sleeping another month. She is miserable at night and tosses and turns and I have to believe it is because of her ears and that fluid that will not drain. So WK is having surgery this Thursday (like in 2 days!!!) I know how easy of a surgery it is but it still doesn't make it any easier seeing that sweet baby on a stretcher in a hospital gown. I am honestly worried more about her not eating after midnight. It is going to be awful. I think I am going to feed her some rice cereal around 9pm and wake her a few minutes before midnight and give her a bottle and pray that she doesn't scream too much. I think I am going to try to sleep in another room and let her sleep with Josh. She will try so hard to eat if I am beside her. She has become a mamma's girl in the past week. It is crazy because she used to love for Josh to hold her at night but the past week she just cries if he takes her at bedtime. We are really hoping that tubes will help her and that we can get her back to a good sleeping schedule. Sleep training 101 starts a couple of days after surgery. I know it will be rough for a few nights but we have to do it.
Josh is also having surgery. Well I wouldn't even call it surgery but he is having a procedure done (don't tell him I said this!!) This is probably TMI but I have to remember what Wade said about it, "daddy is having surgery on his pee pee- hahaha" We were planning on doing this in the Spring time but because we are already doing her surgery it is cheaper if we do the both before the first of the year. The only thing that stinks is that our deductible starts over in January so we will only be covered for one month. At this point we don't even care about the money we just want her to feel better-of course it would be nice if we had a lower deductible :) We are going today to meet with a fertility specialist who is doing Josh's procedure. I laughed when they told me that because we (thankfully) do not need to see a fertility specialist in fact we need just the opposite. I guess he specializes in preventing it too! Josh asked how I found this guy and I joked with him and told him that I bought a groupon for his surgery. I don't think he thought it was as funny as I did. Actually the practice was recommended to us by a couple of people. I think it is bittersweet as we get closer to really doing this. I know we are "done" having babies but making it permanent really makes it official. We are SO thankful for our two precious kids and even though I am sad we won't have a baby around any more I am excited to start a new phase in our life. Plus once my sister has kids I will probably have to help raise those!!!!! Just kidding Ashley. I am excited though that one day we will have more babies on our side of the family. So we will schedule Josh's surgery today and it will be done sometime in the next few weeks.
I have a bunch of pictures to post soon.
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