Happy Birthday, Nara. You get surgery!

Happy Birthday Nara!She had such a wonderful birthday celebration with family from Roy and So Cal. My fam was up for Christmas and was able to celebrate with us before they headed back down.  She had so much fun eating Kalua Pork, frog cupcakes and opening gifts. She was so tickled when everyone started singing her Happy Birthday and giggled the whole time with a huge smile. Our camera ran out of battery so the other pictures and video we have are on Chris' phone and will be posted when I remember to do it. Face it, I have preggie brain and tend to forget things unless I tattoo them to my forehead. :)
  Our other news is that soon after Nara's birthday, we took her her in to her two year wellness check and found out she had ear infections. She never let us know because of her high pain tolerance. Thanks for passing that one on, Daddy.  She has had a few of them so we decided to go see an ENT. To make a long story short, he recommended that she has tubes put in and tonsils and adenoids removed due to her snoring, size of tonsils, and the way that she was drinking and breathing at the doctor's office. I had it done when I was her age so it really wasn't shocking when we got the news.
   We figured it would be a month or so before it would happen, but it was all in a two week time frame from the initial appointment.
    The following is a sup up of the day from some emails that we sent out to family.

She loved her hospital jammies that she got to wear.  

While we waited, we got to play with bubbles.
Nara was so cute running around in her clothes and popping them

We got to the hospital at 8:45 to register for her surgery at 10:15. She knew we were going to the hospital today and was kind of excited. We went over how the doctor was going to fix her ears ant throat enough so she could repeat it if asked.  She took her favorite puppy with her for comfort and she even got to wear her favorite kitty pj's and sparkly socks. This helped later when we were getting her dressed again.

Playing Wii with Daddy. She kept pushing one button over and over again.
She was a totally different girl when on the Versed.

Showing off the new anklet tag

Loving the new jammies

The doctor was running behind so Nara's surgery was pushed back by a half hour. She had a good time playing with the toys, reading books, and watching Cinderella. We talked to the nurse about them giving her some versed so when she went under anesthesia, it wouldn't be quite so traumatic. Otherwise, the nurse said they hold down the kids,crying and scared, until they get knocked out by the gas. I didn't have the heart to put Nara through that. She would be scared enough not having us there, let alone having strangers hold a mask on her face. Yikes! So we gave her the medicine and she was so subdued when it was time to go back. She got to ride in a wagon, which she thought was pretty cool, and take her puppy with her. We walked back as far as we could then kissed her goodbye. She cried out a little, but was so relaxed she was okay. 

When she first had her tag she thought it was pretty cool.
After she came out of surgery, she kept asking Daddy to take it off.
She even said "please" through the tears.

She loved the fact that she got to ride in a wagon.

40 min later, the doctor came out with a good report that she was out and in recovery. About ten min. after that I got to go back after she woke up and be with her. Chris came back later. She had a hard time coming out of the anesthesia, she was crying and upset when I got to her, but after about five minutes she calmed down as I got to hold her. She fell back asleep and when she woke up the second time was more like herself, tired and groggy, but talking and asking for songs to be sung to her. She was able to drink some juice and have some root beer slushy too. She liked the slushy quite a bit. We got to go home as soon as her oxygen levels stayed up where they needed to be. 

He recover was pretty good. This girl is a trooper. She was off the meds after a week and acting like herself within a few days. She loved eating all of the Popsicles, pudding, and applesauce she could dream of. During this time, she learned how to open the freezer drawer so she could get her own. Finally after she grunted and grimaced and worked so hard to get it open,, she ran over to me at the table and proclaimed in an excited voice, "I did it. Mommy! I did it!" She ran back only to see that it had closed and had to do it again. She said, sadly, "Oh no!" when she saw that it had closed. What a cutie. We go in next week for a post-op appointment. Cross your fingers that all went well. We have already seen a great difference in her sleeping. Now, she is so quiet that we have to check to see if she is breathing. She is! She just doesn't snore anymore. Yea!