Surgery done!

YEY!! She's done. Seems that she was awesome and hardly fussed. The palate repair went great but we'll have to keep an eye on her ears. They were a "mess" to quote the dr. There's going to be lots of draining and when the tubes come out most likely she'll need new ones. Hearing issues??? that remains to be seen. It's something we'll have to keep after for a long time.

She will need the bone graft surgery in a few years. He said that there wasn't much bone for her teeth on the right side. We'll worry about that later. Healing starts now!

The hospital has WIFI so I'll keep updating the blog.. and feel free to skype(type only.. this laptop HATES wifi and video) and Windows messenger me.

ZaiJian

~Donna

I hate Waiting.

To quote Inigo Montoya... She's been in surgery an hour now. We had some breakfast and they have the Disney XD Channel on in the Children's surgery waiting room. Which is nicer than the adult one from what we saw. She was a real trooper.. only started to get a bit winy for food just before they took her back. They didn't mellow her out before taking her back, guess the anesthesiologist didn't want to do that. He is Dr. Jones! love it!

Well will update as soon as the dr comes out. should be in an hour or so. We pray that all goes well.

ZaiJian

~Donna

2 days to go.

Yesterday she had her preop blood work at Florida Hospital. Great day to head downtown!! no traffic and no one at the hospital! We didn't have to pay for parking and it only took and hour or so. Poor Robyn, they had to try two times before they got blood. She was quite the trooper. Maria was a great help..her doll. It's so cute how she holds on to her.

So we now know where to go Tuesday morning for her surgery and where we will wait and .. ugh.. part of me is ok and part of me is a wreck. My baby, I just got her and I can't loose her now. Yea you always worry when surgery is involved. I try to stay positive and let me tell you I've been praying all the time. And I think she sense our stress/worry. It's been hard to get her to sleep. Tonight took an hour! We just want to hold her all the time and she wants to be with us. Poor thing got another cold and is just about over it. David was keen on it on Wednesday and got her to the dr before the holiday. Tomorrow is the last day of meds so we are really hoping that she is a go for surgery on Tuesday. We go to the surgeon preop on Monday afternoon and they have the final say. Things are all in order so we really don't want to delay it any longer. it would be great to have it over with and done before she gets older and might remember it.

Otherwise she's doing great. We have moments of standing without holding on. Then she realizes she's not holding on and either falls or grabs on. She can walk anywhere as long as she is holding on to something. She's also gibber jabbering like crazy. I think she says mama now.. sorta hard to tell. Like I said last post she's almost 20lbs but from what we can tell she really hasn't gotten any taller. maybe an inch?!?! she is gonna be one petite little girl. Her hair is getting longer and now she actually gets bad hair days! so cute. and that's one thing that is for sure this girl is so flippin cute! When she had her blood work all the nurses had to come and see her and tell us how she cute she is! She is gonna charm them all on Tuesday! And let me tell you Daddy is gonna have his hands full when she gets older. guess he'll have to keep his shotguns handy!

No pics right now. maybe later. Plan on brining the laptop to the hospital. not sure if they have Wifi but I hope so.

Well that's all for now.

ZaiJian

~Donna

More pics and an update...

So yey she's over her cold.. actually was pretty much done last Tuesday. David took her to the dr yesterday for her follow up and and they said her lungs were clear. And the little bugger now weighs 19.4 lbs!!!! Wahooo! She's getting so big! She's now wearing 12mos.. but not for much longer and wears a size 2 shoe. She can wear 18mos shirts.. but man I have to shorten everything. She is very short. We both realize that she's gonna be very petite.

She loves the ladies at "school" and they love her. She went 3 days last week. David wanted to be home for Aunt Nancy's visit last Thursday. She was fine. This week it's back to only 2 days. Next week is just one and then the week after is her surgery. It all depends on how she heals to when David goes back to work FT again. Then Christmas is here and then her Baptism in January. YIKES!! Time is just flying by.

She's really starting to understand us now. She loves her baby doll we named Maria, after one of her great grandmothers and Frank.. he's a stuffed animal frog. (we named a frog outside who chirped all summer long Frank, thus his name)

She's not walking on her own yet. She can walk holding on and does her butt scoots on the floor. She is a very happy girl and for the most part sleeps through the night and nap. Except today. She's been in her room since 12:40pm. and has been blabbing on the entire time (it's almost 2pm now) guess no nap today. She'll be miss cranky for sure later. oh well. Maybe she'll go to bed earlier.

She's just a joy to have and we count our blessings everyday to be .. well blessed with her in our lives.

ZaiJian

~Donna

MMM... RIBS...

Snoozin with Daddy

Lots of Pictures.

Just uploading tons of pictures..

Food & Wine at EPCOT

Her first artwork from school!!! how cool!!!

Aunt Nancy came to visit too!!!

Just being all cute with Aunt Nancy!

Emptying Mom's purse and wallet.

Must wisk!! to get just the right consistancy!

Do I have any food on my face??

Her Halloween costume!

Swimming in the pool!!!! on Halloween day!

Sick Gal.

Poor kid has bronchitis. Got her to the dr yesterday, ask me about that if you call me, and she's on antibiotics, prednisone, and a nebulizer. Oh fun. She's much better today, actually she's been napping going on 3.5hrs!! We all need our sleep when we are sick.

She had a ball with her Aunt Suzanne this past Saturday! They played and played. Suzanne was kind enough to hang at the house during her nap so we could go vote early. I LOVE early voting! So much easier. Aunt Nancy is coming down next week, good timing she should be over this by then.

We got our pool fence installed today. SOOO glad that is done. One less worry. She just recently "discovered" the patio and sliding glass doors and we've been VERY vigilant in making sure we close them when we go in and out.. but as they say.. it only takes one time to forget and seconds and she's out there. It looks good and it's still easy to get around the pool. Will post a pic later. It's rainy yucky today. BUT that means that it's a COLD front and wahoo.. highs in the mid 70s' tomorrow and near 70 on the weekend! Fall will have finally arrived here in Central Florida! And just in time for the time change. That'll be interesting to see how that goes with Robyn! We were supposed to start daycare this week, but her sickness nixed that in the butt. So next week she'll go. Let's hope it goes well.

Here are a few shots from last week. I meant to post this past Sunday.

Our cool pumpkins!!

Robyn and Aunt Suzanne!

My car has been puffed!! She can't just take one out of the snack cup... they all come out and roll under her butt! I discovered this pile after getting her out of the car!

She put this box on her head all by herself!! soo cute!

Just being cute.. what else can I say.

ZaiJian

~Donna