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Where did December go?

I know I have been horrible this month! But so much has happened! Abby got sick with a horrible cold and ear infection. So we took her to the DR and she got an antibiotic. 10 days later she is still sick. We get a call from school to come and get her because she says her ear hurts. So John goes to get her and takes her to the DR. He takes one look at it and say her ear drum is about to burst. After looking at her chronic ear infection history he gives her a stronger antibiotic and tells us we need to see and ENT about tubes. UGH! I tried this with our last ped and he said she didn't need them even though we couldn't go a whole month without an ear infection! So John gets the antibiotic and takes her home to ear a message from the ENT's office saying the DR called and they needed to see her right away. So John takes her to the ENT. 2 DR's in one day was way to traumatic for my little petrified princess. The ENT took one look at her and said we should hold off on the tubes and have her tonsils and adnoids removed. Her tonsils, even when not infected, cover 2/3 of her airway and is the cause for her snoring and poor sleeping. Finally an answer to why my 5 year old has only slept throught the night a handful of times! He said that it is probably why her ears do not drain properly. So we think ok we will get this done in January after the holidays. But the next day the surgery center is calling to schedule her for DECEMBER 28th! AHHHHHHH!!! They think they need to come out right away! So last week she had to go get a blood draw in which she screamed so loud I am sure an earthquake happened somewhere. She also walked around with her arm straight for 2 days! So we did not tell her about the surgery. We didn't want to ruin her Christmas plus have her stress and freak out for a week! So Christmas happens and it was the best Christmas ever. She was so excited! She did get the throw ups Saturday night but that ended by Sunday morning. John then got it Sunday night. UGH! But Sunday we had John's family over for Christmas. Abby had so much fun. We had to check out the norad website about 5o times. After everybody left and we got stuff cleaned up somewhat. She asked to check it again so we did. She just freaked out! She said "He is getting close! I need to get to bed!" She was out by 8:15!!!!! WOO HOO! So we got everything moved down. What a spoiled child! She first woke up at 1am. Just begging to go down and just check to see if Santa arrived. "She said it was driving her crazy!" LOL I got her back to bed and fell back asleep only to have John get up at 2am sick. So he went to the recliner. I fell back asleep and Abby was back in at 4am. She just KNOWS he has been there and we need to get up and go see. I try to explain it is too early. I finally get her back to sleep next to me at 5am. I wake up at 6:30 to go potty and try to hold it because I know she will get up as soon as I do. So I hold off until 7am. I am not in the bathroom 2 seconds and she is up. So we get Daddy and go down. She was so happy to see that Santa had eaten her cookies and had left her a note. She loved everything she got and was so dramatic with everything. Her favorites are her castle, her pink keyboard, her princess pillow, her Polly Pockets and her ultimate favorite is her white teddy bear that lights up with a magic wand. She begged for 3 months for that! She loves it!
So now here we are the night before surgery. We told her tonight and she is petrified. She screamed and cried that she is just not going to go. So tomorrow could be very interesting! I can't get out of my head all the days and nights of her laying in the NICU. I know this is different and pretty routine but I can't help going back to those days. So please say a prayer for my little princess tomorrow.

I better post this one before I loose it. I will post some pics next.

ALL DONE!!!

We are finally all done Christmas shopping!! WOO HOO! Including stocking stuffers!!! This is a new record for us!!! Saturday we dropped off Abby at my Mom's and John and I spent the day shopping. It was great! First it was nice to go to stores with out somebody begging at every store for a toy and for John and I to spend some time together. It was been quite some time that we have had the day together. Abby had a blast playing at Grandma's. Plus Taelyr, Kaelyn and Jaemee were there. So she got to spend time with her cousins.
Today we just did some cleaning and I got everybodies stockings made that will be here Christmas day. Plus Abby, John and I worked on a project with Abby. We painted Christmas ornaments. She loves to paint.
It was a great weekend I just wished it would last longer. Back to work tomorrow. UGH!