Lyla Surgery Update

First of all, please let me apologize to anyone who has been anxiously checking the blog for an update on Lyla's surgery that was on Tuesday.  Things have been hectic and this is the first time I've had a chance to even sit down and think. 

Her surgery went really well.  Hopefully we don't have to go through this any more times.  I'm so thankful to have Children's Hospital so close by!  They are amazing there!  Everyone from the nurses to the doctors to the people who check you in, they all have a very special way of keeping the kids happy and not letting them get scared. Here is Lyla when we put her in her "special pjs" and showing off her "bracelet"!

We had to be there at 6:45 in the morning, then by the time she went back for surgery and then it took her quite a while to get woke back up from the anesthesia, it was about noon when we got home.  The three of us ended up taking a nap. 

When we got up we were thankful for the popsicles Grandma had sent!

Then we got a knock on our door with a special delivery for Lyla.  Her teachers at daycare sent her flowers and a stuffed monkey!  How sweet are they?  We couldn't ask for more!

She named her monkey B-I-N-G-O.  Not Bingo... B-I-N-G-O is his Nameo...   lol   :)

She is doing great!  So great in fact that I decided to go in to work tomorrow and she is going to go to daycare.  She is such a trooper.  I'm thankful that the problems she has had have all been things that can be treated.  Its hard on me as her mom to see anything wrong with my baby, no matter how minor.  But I always try to remind myself and put it in perspective that at least its not cancer or some other terrible disease or something that we wouldn't be able to fix.

On that note I'm heading to bed so I can get up to go to work tomorrow. 

And Em - I know I know, I didn't do a 5 Things Friday last week and this week isn't looking so promising either... But in my defense I barely even know what day it is anymore!!

5 Things Friday - 5 Emotional Things from this past week

First off I would like to start this post with saying that I have majorly sucked at blogging lately.  I feel like my life has been a bit helter skelter lately and I'm trying really hard to just plant my feet on the ground and breathe!  Everyone who knows me well knows that I don't deal with change or anything unexpected very well.  I like my routine, I like things to be boring, I don't like changes in my every day life.  And God help Gary because Lyla seems to be the same way.  So in honor of it being Friday, I will give a summary of what has been happening lately as a "5 Things" list.

1.  Daycare.
Oh daycare.  Daycare has been an extreme headache to me the last couple of weeks.  I never dreamed to be a stay at home mom and that hasn't changed, but its been hard lately to send Lyla to daycare every day.  They move rooms at daycare as they have a birthday.  So her birthday was on Sunday and the next day she moved to the Twos Room.  And she was sick that week.  And getting her molars in.  It was a bad week and not a fair way to get introduced to a new room, new kids, new teachers.  So I had hopes this week would be better.  Its not.  She doesn't like it at all.  And I honestly don't know that I like the way they do things in this room either.  They expect them to be very independent and she isn't at all, I mean, she's two.  So every morning she bawls her eyes out when I get out of the car and she begs me not to make her go.  Its a good time.... not.

So I'm not loving daycare this week anyways and Wednesday when we pick her up there are letters in every one's bags.  They are raising their rates in September.  Not $1 a day like they have in the past... $35 A WEEK.  Ugh... we can't afford it now, how will we afford it in September?

We have an appointment to check out a new daycare on Tuesday.  Its close to where we live now and I think it might be a good match for us.  I figure might as well move her while she is transitioning anyways.  It will only be worse if she gets all settled in to this new room and then I make her do it all over again.  Which with my luck is probably what will happen anyways... but what can you do?

2.  Lyla's Health.
As my mom keeps says "Lyla is making us earn that parent badge".  Nothing is ever easy.  We have had some concern about her right eye.  In the evenings when she is really tired it will sometimes roll around and not focus.  So we took her to a pediatric optomologist this week.  He did an exam and isn't overly concerned at the moment.  I need to get a patch and we are supposed to put it over her good eye for a couple hours a day to try to strengthen the bad eye.  And he said it looks like she will need glasses soon, but not yet.  Which is not any surprise with the terrible eyesight that Gary and I have!  We have to take her back in a few months to get checked out for that.

Also when she was sick last week part of it was an ear infection.  Her tube came out of one of her ears.  So she has her ENT appointment next month and I don't know what he is going to say.  We might have to get it put back in.  This will be the third time...

3.  I just found out that one of my dearest friends and her family may be moving far away.  I'm so excited for her and I know that she will be so happy if they do, but I'm sad for me. 

4.  Its Father's Day weekend.  I love my dad very much and I'm so thankful for all he has done for me and all he continues to do for me.  I'm so happy that Lyla gets to have Gary for a daddy.  He is wonderful to her, she is a very lucky little girl!  And my heart breaks for Gary because he doesn't have his dad here this weekend and I can't imagine what that feels like.  I can be supportive, but when it comes down to it, I (thankfully) don't know what it feels like to lose a parent and its not fair to pretend like I know exactly how he feels, because I don't.

5.  And to round off this list of emotional things - something with good emotions attached!
ASHLEY GOT ENGAGED!  :)  Jeremy went all out and its a great story!  I'm so so so happy for them!

So Many Things Going On!

Lots and lots of things have been happening the last few days!  Let me start with saying how proud we all are of "Uncle G" aka my sister's fiance Gerald.  He graduated from Waynesburg on Sunday and we went down to celebrate with him.  We couldn't go in to watch the actual graduation because it rained and they had to move it inside with limited seating, but we did get pictures with him in the cap and gown and went to dinner with him and his family afterwards.

In other news Lyla went in to have her tube in her right ear replaced yesterday.  Things didn't go exactly as planned but she seems to be feeling better already!  When they got in there they took out the right tube and saw that it was really swollen and infected so he cleaned it out and put a new tube in.  Then he checked her left ear which we all thought was fine.  Turns out that tube was also blocked and it was swollen and infected as well.  So he took that tube out and replaced it.  HOPEFULLY it all works this time and she can get to feeling 100%!  I just hate her being sick all the time.

But she never lets feeling bad slow her down!  They had a little play room that mom and I took her to while we were waiting to go in for surgery.  She had a blast!  Here she is running the sweeper... haha

And just for fun some other pictures from the last few days!