Ear Tubes...finally!

Reese had ear tubes put in on Friday morning. The surgery was a breeze...she did very well and we were back at home by 9:30. The hardest part of the whole thing was not feeding her after midnight the night before! Our little bug likes to have a snack around 3-4 am and she was NOT happy when I didn't provide that snack to her! Tim had to take her to the living room and rock her until she fell asleep, every time she saw me, it just made her mad!

I had been dreading the moment I would have to hand her to the nurse that would take her back for surgery. She has been in a very "mommy only" phase right now and I was SO afraid she would scream her head off and I would get really upset. She was a real trooper! She didn't make a peep, just went to the nurse and off she went!

We barely had time to get a drink before the doctor was ready to talk to us! He said everything went perfectly! She had an infection in the right ear when he got in there (infection #6 since November) but that everything was great!

About 5 minutes later we were allowed to go back to her, she had just started to wake up and was crying a little. I scooped her up and fed her and she did great. She was a little fussy for about 1/2 an hour (which the nurse said was pretty normal, they are still coming out of the anesthesia and don't understand why they feel weird) then she fell asleep and was great the rest of the day! We even went out to daycare for the Valentines Day party in the afternoon and went to Mike's basketball game that night.

I was so proud of my baby girl. She did so well!

Here are a couple pics of Reese at her 1st Valentines Day Party

Our Family

We are a happy little family of 4! Tim and I will celebrate our 3rd wedding anniversary this year. We were married in April of 2007 in a beautiful ceremony, in front of all of our family and friends. Our first baby came to us in August of that same year, our puppy Chloe! Chloe doesn't actually knows she is a dog...we're pretty sure she believes she is a person. In July of 2008 we found out that we were expecting our first child. Reese Suzanne was born in March 2009. She is the light of our lives. She makes us smile and laugh everyday.

And that is how we became a family!

Why a blog?

I see so many blogs created my mothers. They are filled with wonderful pictures and detail their children's lives on a monthly, weekly or even daily basis. I am realizing that time is passing very quickly these days. It seems like yesterday I saw the word "pregnant" on a stick and now plans are underway for a 1st birthday party. I try to write in her baby book and take pictures for scrapbooks, but I feel like the "little things" are getting lost. I have created this blog so that there is a place to put those things in writing, so they are never forgotten.