The Beal/Cannon Family: Tonsil Town

The big event this week was Gabby's tonsillectomy. I've been worried about it for awhile. She's been so mature and brave about the whole thing. On Wednesday night we dropped off Corbin and Piper at Anna's house. When we left and she didn't get to stay she only cried for like 5 seconds. We went to the library and picked out some movies for post surgery recovery and ate some late night Oreos before sending her to bed. We rose early and dropped off Ryan at a friend's house and headed to the hospital. We checked in and waited together in the waiting room. Gabby colored pictures until they were finally ready to send us back. By that point she was asking if we could go home.

We went to a room where the nurse took her vitals and we briefly met with the doctors. She was getting pretty nervous by this point and so was I. They gave her some medicine to make her kind of out of it so that it would be easier for her to part with us. When the time came the nurse picked her up and I gave her a hug and a kiss and off she went. She didn't even protest. She's been so cooperative about everything which has been great.

After about 30 minutes the doctor came and said he was done and all was well. About 30 minutes after that they let us go back and be with her. She looked so cute all tiny in her hospital bed. The nurses said she was a perfect little patient. She was super out of it in the hospital. She wasn't acting strange but she was really zoned out and tired. We hung out for about and hour and then we headed home.

My visiting teacher picked up Corbin and Piper in Eagle so Corbin could go to his last swim lesson. I met them there. Piper saw me and said, "mom, you're back!" Corbin did great with his swim lessons this year. He moved on to the next level. He's a natural athlete. He's very coordinated, unlike me. It's been fun to watch his lessons.

Gabby has been handling her recovery really well. She's had the hardest time today but she already seems to be over her low point which wasn't bad. She's pretty much eating normal foods. I'm not going to let her eat something crazy like tortilla chips but she's handling foods well. I'm not looking forward to when the scabs fall off which I hear is the worst. I'm also not looking forward to trying to keep her inactive for 14 days. I don't think we are going to be able to wait that long. She was asking to ride her bike yesterday. I don't know, I know she needs to keep it easy but that seems like a daunting task for an active 4 year old in the summertime.

Kids:

Corbin:
Nana sent a package this week for Gabby's surgery. Upon opening the box Corbin said, "I hope it's not clothes." (Luckily there was a water toy among the clothes).
I broke the screen on my phone a month ago and now it's cutting me and I have to use it with saran wrap to not get cut. Corbin said to me, "I know why your phone is broken, it's because you didn't take very good care of it." Yep.

Gabby: "I have some hiccups going on."

Piper: "Nana gave that to me. It was wonderful."
"Uh oh mama! Baby Ryan is a crabby little boy. You have to put him to bed."
(Talking about the yolk of her boiled egg). "I want to eat the golden egg because it was magic." How do they come up with this stuff?

Ryan is army crawling all through the house. I have to go looking for him often. I sure hope we can keep this baby safe. It's hard to have lots of little kids that may leave inappropriate things on the ground. I've pretty much gotten rid of the tiny stuff like marbles and things like that. He cut another tooth last week. He still spits up all day everyday. It's getting very old. He's our super cute disgusting stinking baby. He is so cute though, I just want to eat his chubby face. Ha.