I THINK BRADY HAS WATCHED ME GET READY ONE TO MANY TIMES....

Brady is so silly!

Brady ABSOLUTELY loves animals. He actually has a couple of different animal books that he can sit and look at for hours. The other day he actually got mad at me because I wasn't paying attention to him when he was pointing to one of the animals.
This morning I put him in the high chair to eat breakfast in the living room. I then put on the movie " SPIRIT- The Last of the Cimarron" (or something like that) It's about wild stallions and Brady loves it!! He has even started acting like a horse- where he gets on his hands and knees and neighs.Brady spilt his cereal all over the floor and when I got him out of the highchair I then got on my hands and knees to pick it up. Brady the silly boy he is, came up behind me and tried to climb up onto my back and "neighs" again! Haha! He was trying to be a cowboy and me the horse!!! Oh I just love that little boy!
PS... *He also ROARS like a Lion
*OW'S (meow) like a cat
*MOOS like a cow
*BAA like a Sheep
*OOHH, OOHH like a Monkey

The ReCreation by Dr. Cuadros

It didn't seem like the end of August would ever get here and now it is already September 3, 2009 and Emma is done with her surgery and the stitches are taken out.

We had to be at Presbyterian Hospital at 10am and when we left Bloomfield we forgot about the road construction so we were getting a little scared if we were going to make it on time. Just before we got to the hospital, like a block down, Brady decides to throw up every where. I tried cleaning up, but once I got a whoof of the smell.... YUCK! My dad is so great, he ended up cleaning the mess. Before we left, I had gotten this feeling that I should bring Brady and extra pair of clothes... Do you think I did? Nope! I totally forgot. We get to the hospital right at 10am and we started rushing because we didn't know if they were waiting on us... We go to inpatient registration and they told us just to get stitches out, we need to go to outpatient reg. We walk over there and this lady had no idea what we were talking about. I told her that Dr. Cuadros is going to do it and she said we need to go to his office.. we just didn't think that was right. So, my mom got frustrated with her and walked off.. I just stood there, like what do I do? and then told her to have a good day! We then found a nurse and she told us that there is a building that Dr. Cuadros meets in just a block from the hospital where he usually meets. Because we were already running late, we decide to walk; we didn't get very far when my mom decides to call Dr. Cuadros office. They told us to go the surgical entrance where we went last week. By that time is was 10:10am. We appologize for being late. The nurse said that is ok because she is not scheduled to get the sutures (stitches) out until 12pm. Are you kidding me? I didn't know that we were going to have to wait that long. Plus, that has got to be really hard on a baby when they have to start fasting at 5am and stop having water at 9am. So, overall, she has had to go for almost 7hours of fasting and then who knows how long after when she recovers.

My dad finally walks in with Brady and boy did he stink. We decide to go the gift shop to see if we could find something for him to wear. The smallest thing I found for him was a 10-12 shirt for kids. I laughed so hard-I needed that laugh. Brady reminded me of a little kid who puts on their parents shirts and wears them to bed. See...

Everybody got a kick out of him! There was nothing else that we could do.

Preparing Emma to get the sutures out took like an hour or longer. They weighed her and she now weighs: 11lbs 0.1oz! She gained alittle over 7oz since last wednesday.
I of course, had to put Emma to sleep so she would stop crying and calm down. Poor girl. When Dr. Cuadros would be taking out the sutures, he said that he would get another look at her palate-as you recall in surgery blog he saw that she has a submucous palate aka soft palate and it would be best to have surgery on it and repair it just in case if something down the road was to happen. The whole procedure ended up taking about 15min. Dr. Cuadros came in said that everything went really well. Emma was still asleep but it would be good to have her see you when she wakes up. He did give us some good news; while checking out the palate he actually noticed that the palate is actually not as bad as he thought. We would just need to check it out everyonce in a while and then; he really thinks that we wont need to do surgery on it. Yay! When we met up with Emma she was not asleep and the nurse was trying to get her to calm down. I put her in my lap and she fell back asleep. I guess it's just Mommy's touch. :) Once she was able to eat, she gobbled down the pedialyte and formula-It was close to 8oz! That is ALOT!


BEFORE:

Right before surgery 08/26/09

AFTER:

Today 09/03/09

It is still a little swollen, and the suture line will be red for awhile but everything will be better in no time. We just now have to prepare to do the right side of her lip. That won't be for a couple of months atleast.

Jason's family came to visit....

SO BEHIND ON POSTING......

The week of the 17th of August Jason's sister, Jessica and family came down from utah. It was nice to visit with them again and we really enjoyed the fact that they were seeing Emma for the first time and we were seeing McKenna for the first time. (Besides pictures) It was nice to have a family get together. We were also able to celebrate Bryce's 3rd Birthday! You know I got to thinking about it... When Bryce was first born, Jason and I were engaged. When Bryce tunred a 1yr old, I was a couple of months prego with Brady. When Bryce turned 2, Brady was born and I was prego with Emma. And when Bryce turned 3, I now have two kids and NOT PREGNANT! We celebrated Bryce's birthday at a park and watching Brady play all over the play sets made me realized that 1) He needs to play at the park more often and 2)I can't wait for him to climb up and down and I not be so paronoid.

Bob & Lillie-Grandparents with all the grandkids! Emma enjoyed watching McKenna!

When we were having a family dinner one night, I wanted to show Jessica how to make bows for McKenna's hair. I love to make them for Emma-plus she looks so cute! Both Jessica and Monica (Daniels girlfriend) were able to make one. Jason thought it was cool for me to share a talent of mine. Emma was born in April; Jason cousin, Heather, had Matthew in May; Jasons cousin, Amanda, had Aviana in June and Jasons sister, Jessica, had McKenna in July. It was a major BABY BOOM for that family. Because the babies were born one month after another they decided to have a combined baby shower for everyone but Emma. We have been greatly blessed to have plenty for Emma but it would have been nice to be included. Owell, it's over and done with. The baby shower was nice. Their cousin Tia, I believe, made these awesome cakes for each baby and boy do I wish I knew about her during my wedding preparations. She did an awesome job! Because there were three girls born, I bought an outfit for each of them! We needed a picture! I married into a family that one side of the family is not very tall. So, as you can see by the picture that I just totally overpower the girls. I just look big all around. The majority of Jason's family lives here and so they decided to bless McKenna here. She looked so cute! Sacrament meeting was very nice besides the fact that Brady was being a brat and very disruptive. Now that Bryce is three he now getd to chew gum and when Bryce would walk up and down the row Brady saw his gum and wanted so badly for a piece. He didn't get gum but he did get a dum dum sucker-yay! Boy did he make a mess.We had a family luncheon afterwards and boy were the brisket sandwiches DEEELICIOUS! I really enjoyed the family time even though it was not every day.

Allergic Reaction

We have been giving Emma Tylenol with Codeine(Sp?) for pain and Cephalexon(Sp?) to help fight any infections that may occur. About Friday afternoon we had begun to notice that Emma's eyes have been turning red, kind of puffy and she constantly tries to itch them. Jason was concerned and wanted me to call the hospital and see what they say. I call Presbyterian Hospital and they thought it would be best to contact my Pediatritian. Of course, Dr. Dekay doesn't work on Fridays and so I had to wait for a call back from the on call doctor. The on call doctor called back within a couple of minutes and because she is not to familiar with surgical procedures, she thought it would be best to go to Urgent Care and have them check her out. I hesitated about that and decided to call Dr. Cuadros. He has never had a child or someone have this problem and he believes that Emma is having an allergic reaction to the Cephalexon. We are asked to stop and see if that is the case. It is now Tuesday and her eyes are red no more, nor does she have a problem. Yay!