Kate- Post Surgery

Kate's hernia surgery is over with and all is well. You wouldn't have thought she even had surgery if you saw her Friday afternoon. She was jumping, begging to go outside and climbing all over things. It's crazy how fast kids bounce back. Her surgery was at 9 am on Friday (we were there at 7:45 am for check-in) and then we left for home around 12:00. She was very emotional after coming out of general anesthesia and recovery. It took her until we got home before she was better. Once she found out she had an IV in she started pulling it out and so we called for the nurse who came and took it out. Then, she wanted her bracelets off and cried until those were taken off. We kind of had to laugh though when she was trying to eat a popsicle, she would miss her mouth and she was not herself at all. We are glad it all went well and it's over. My Mom and Sara came over to watch Preston for the day. Marci also came up to hang out for the day. It was very nice of all of them to do that. My Mom even washed all my downstairs windows from the outside as a surprise. Love it! Thanks for your ALL your help!

Kate- the night before surgery in PJ's from Grandma Dee Ann (she calls them her "cindebrella" pajamas because they are blue and white)

Playing with a doll and things they used on her at the hospital so she could get familiar with them.

She liked this hat- she thought it was funny

Recovery- I like how she still tried to smile even when she felt horrible!

Eating the grape popsicle and totally out of it. :)

A little something

Swim lessons are officially over and Kate did great the last few times. Right after her last swim lesson we headed down to Children's to get Kate evaluated by a pediatric general surgeon. She has an inguinal hernia and needs to get it removed. So we scheduled for surgery next Friday. I know things will go fine and she'll bounce back quickly, but it's crossed my mind "what if something happened to her?!" I would be terribly sad. She's a fun girl. She can't swim for a week after getting the surgery so it's good we waited until after swim lessons.

When we were in Rexburg we were eating dinner at Jeff's "clean and tidy" boy apartment (note the sarcasm there!). Kate noticed an ant on the outside of her cup. She watched it very carefully while holding the cup and moving it to allow the ant to walk around the cup's rim. Well, later we were going on a little walk with the whole family and Sara asked Kate, "who is your favorite Aunt?" (Sara was thinking she would say her or maybe even Marci.) Kate's reply was, "the ant on the cup." We just thought that was so funny!