Where does time go?!?

So sorry it has been such a long time since my last post!  I can not believe Christmas is less than a week away! 

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Kade had his adenoids removed the morning of the 7th.  Saying the night before was tough for this Mama is an understatement.  I kept telling myself that it was a routine procedure and he would be fine.  It was a TOTALLY different situation than when Natalie had surgery.  Still, the memories of when Natalie had surgery kept surfacing.  I was a wreck.  Since we had to have Kade at the surgery center early, I took Marleigh out to spend the night at my parents' house.  I even had a hard time leaving her, and she wasn't the one having surgery! 

We got Kade over to the surgery center, and he did suprisingly well without any food or drink.  The nurse came to take him back and I lost it.  Complete ugly cry, right there in front of everyone.  About 30 minutes later, they took us to a recovery room.  They said they would bring Kade right out.  For about 5 minutes, I could hear the poor little guy screaming.  My heart broke.  He had no idea where he was or who these people were, let alone being in pain.  They finally brought him to us, still groggy, and still with an IV in his wrist.  He would scream and thrash angrily for a couple of minutes, then sleep for about a minute.  They finally took his IV out, and about another hour passed of him trying to wake up from the anesthesia.  The doctor came and talked with us briefly.  He confirmed that Kade's adenoids were nasty, and that his sinus cavities were inflamed.  A little while later, we headed home. 

Within a day, you would have never known Kade had surgery.  They told us not to let him run for 48 hours.  Yeah, obviously they don't know Kade very well!  ;)  I am so glad he had his surgery.  He still has chubby cheeks, but they are not as puffy as before.  His sinus cavities were so swollen, that it actually made his cheeks puffy.  Very thankful to have the procedure behind us!

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I had previously mentioned both on the blog and on Facebook, that Marleigh had been having some serious #2 issues.  She all of the sudden was having accidents ALL the time, and it was sort of a sticky consistency.  (Sorry, TMI, I know.)  This all started at the tail end of her antibiotics, so I thought it might possibly have messed with the "good" bacteria in her tummy, so I pushed plenty of yogurt and fiber.  I kept thinking things would improve.  Finally, after battling it for a month, I made her an appointment with the doctor.  The night before her scheduled appointment, she FINALLY had a nice, normal bowel movement.  The next day, the doctor and I discussed everything that had been going on.  I am officially the worst mother ever.  Marleigh had had a bowel obstruction.  She was leaking around the obstruction, and often, children can not control it.  I felt absolutely horrible that I waited so long to go to the doctor.  We have not had a single problem since. 

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Tuesday, we took Marleigh back to see her opthamologist.  She has been doing great wearing her eye patch the last 2 months.  I was so shocked and pleased with the results.  Her right eye had been somewhere around 20/70.  In just 2 short months, her right eye is now between 20/30 to 20/20.  I never could have imagined it would make such a dramatic difference in that little time.  The doctor instructed us to go to wearing the eye patch every other day to see if she can maintain at that level.  We will check her again in February. 

I would SO encourage anyone that has a family history of  "lazy eye" to get your children screened young by an opthamologist.  Marleigh appeared to be seeing just fine.  She technically could pass a vision exam, but she was only using her left eye. Her right eye would have continued to weaken to point where it could not be corrected,  had we not intervened with glasses and the eye patch. 

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We are getting ready to head back to Mound City for our Johnson side of Christmas this weekend.  It will be good to see everyone.  Marleigh is talking about getting to see her grandma, grandpa, aunties and cousins.  She is so excited!  I asked her if she was excited to see her uncles, too.  She said, "Well, I suppose, but they are more for Daddy to play with."  Ha ha.... sorry Uncle Ryan, Uncle Chewy, and Uncle Dave!  ;)