Tubes Again

Little Miss Kaitlin got her second set of tubes in her ears on Feb. 25. When I woke her up that morning she asked where we were going. I told her we were just going for a ride. "Are we going to Disneyland?" she asked. Instantly I felt horrible and told her no. She then said this is what we do when we go to Disneyland. She kept wondering why Cadence wasn't coming and said "Mom, just tell me where we are going!" I kept it a secret, but as soon as we pulled into the parking lot she started crying and saying "this is the doctors office, I don't want to go to the doctor!" She calmed down until I had to put the hospital jammies on her. She thought they were silly looking and didn't wan't anyone to see her in them. Then the nurse told her she could watch a Barbie movie and she was okay. Next came the Versed. It's a drug that makes them loopy so they aren't scared when they go back. She was hilarious! They also gave her a doll to color, so here's my 4 year old acting drunk and trying to color a doll. It was so funny. We had it done at Primary Childrens in Riverton. They were so great to her. Her laughing gas was cotton candy scented and she got root beer slushies afterwards. When she woke up she was really mad and wanted to watch the Barbie movie.(that was the last thing she remembered) Our awesome nurse had a tv rolled into her post-op room so she could watch Barbie and calm down. It helped right away. As we were getting her ready to leave she kept saying "I like this doctor, I always want to come to this doctor" Needless to say they won her over too. They let her take her oxygen mask home and she told me that whenever she wants to go to sleep she just needs to put her mask on. When it didn't work she got angry at me for not asking the doctors for some sleeping medicine to take home. She had a couple rough moments once we got home and threw up twice. She made it all the way to our garage before she threw up in my hands, but that's better than on the car! Hopefully this will take care of her ear infections once and for all.

Cadence got to stay home with Grandma Judy who took her to preschool. She told Kaitlin that everyone missed her, and she even asked Miss Tanya if she could take a snack home for Kaitlin. While Kaitlin was in bed that night Cadence came in and gave her a big hug and kiss and told her she was sorry she had to go to the hospital and that "I love you with ever my heart". She is such a sweet compassionate girl. It was pretty obvious that Kaitlin felt so special that her sister cared about her so much. She didn't want to let Cadence go from their hug.

Swimming lessons

We enrolled the girls in swimming lessons and they are having so much fun! They are learning to blow bubbles, kick, front and back float, open their eyes under water, and they even jump in the deep end (with assistance of course) They loved their first teacher Diane. She was so great with the kids. Their current teacher is a man I don't think they are as comfortable with him.

Kaitlin is a little fish and loves going under water and never wants to leave the pool. She goes down this little slide and never gets tired of it.

Cadence is usually too cold to go down the slide, but I talked her into going down once so I could get a picture. she has learned a lot and is getting more comfortable in the water. I think she would do better if it was a little warmer.

This is the class taking an airplane ride on the teacher. This is how she transports them from the deep end to the shallow water. They even go under water. The girls think it is a blast!

Everytime we take a bath now they want to use their goggles, float on their back and blow bubbles under water.