Surgeries

Both kiddos had ear tubes in and adenoids removed yesterday.  Aside from the obvious jitters for me, the worst part was not feeding them all morning! But they actually did way better than I thought they would.  So, at 11:45 we headed to the facility. I know Sofia was nervous, bless her little heart.  She kept asking me if she was going to throw up...her nerves were in full force.  Once we got into the office and Daddy met us, she was totally fine.  I had prepped her a bit before hand which i am so glad i did... i told her that we were going to a new doctors office and Dr. Duncan (her ENT Dr.) was going to fix her ears. I said that they were going to put a funny smelling mask on her face and that she would take a little nap and wake up and her ears would be all better.  That's about how it went, but Gabe went first and then Sofia right after him.  I was a little emotional sending them off with the anesthesiologist but had to keep it together because I did not want Sofia to pick up on any anxious energy on my part.  Each total procedure time was about thirty minutes.  Then , recovery/ wake up was about another 30 but they took a bit longer to get over the crabbiness anesthesia causes.  We were in and out of the outpatient facility in about three hours. Pretty simple all in all! I can't wait to see the difference it makes.

We had our own room which was nice ... Te kids enjoyed wrestling on the bed while we waited

Thank goodness for the iPad to keep little S from freaking out

Jumping....

Our room

Off went Gabe. So brave and totally unaffected.  I thought the wagon was genius! So they never felt like they were being pulled off of Mommy and Daddy by a stranger. Also helped the anesthesiologist was a super sweet young woman.

Brave girl went next!

Gabe waking up. Had never seen him so inconsolable for so long :( I can only imagine how weird they must feel when they wake up and don't like it at all! He wanted nothing to do with me, only Daddy.

Got some sweet cuddles from baby girl.she said some funny stuff on the way home, she was really irrational but it made me laugh!

We were home by 4, and the kids ate SO much. Each had a half of a pbj, a banana, crackers, veggie straws, and a hot dog.  Ha! Then still ate more an hour later! Poor kids were starving.  All in all, it was a very smooth day. Much less nerve wracking than I had anticipated.  I think since we did them both at the same time there wasn't time to worry much because we had to tend to one or the other the whole time.  I truly hope this makes the difference everyone swears it will.  I hear its life changing? since we've been at the dr on average twice a month this past year,I sure am excited for the changes it should bring!