Next on the agenda is the afore-mentioned surgery. Molly was scheduled to go under the knife at 11:30 on October 1st. She had to stop eating at 1:30 am, and had to stop all liquids by 7:30. After that, NOTHING in her mouth at all. I had a plan . . . I woke her at 7:25 and gave her a glass of white grape juice. Everything went smoothly. At 8:15, I was wrestling with my curling iron and trying to keep Micah from getting into the toilet/ grabbing the curling off the counter/slamming cabinet doors while shouting directions at Molly (brush your hair, get your coloring books, brush your hair, where is your blanket, brush your hair, brush your hair) when suddenly Molly walked into my bathroom. She spied a pile of animal crackers that had migrated from my pocket (confiscated at church the day before) onto the bathroom counter. She said, "Oooooh, my animal crackers!" I said, "Uh-huh. . . .Micah, NO, that's hot . . . animal crackers?? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Too late. We found that 1/2 an animal cracker can push surgery back by 3 hours.
Molly was really good the whole day. I could tell she was nervous, but she finds so many ways to entertain herself. When it was finally time to go, the nurse gave her a Tylenol/sleeping medicine concoction. It was really funny watching her sloooooowly go under. She got kind of giggly, and squealy, and her speech got kind of slurry, then she started waving at things that weren't there . . . . Watching her come out was about the same. She was a sleepy little thing for several hours. On the plus side, she got to have popsicles and blue slushies. One of the pictures I am posting shows the side effects of the blue slushy. The doctor said everything went well. They had to cut down through 3 layers of muscle to get to it, but it all came out once they got down to it. There was quite a bit of bleeding, but that was to be expected since they had to cauterize all of the capillaries feeding into it (hemangiomas are an abnormal build up of blood vessels in the skin or internal organs . . . consisting of dense, usually elevated masses of dilated blood vessels.) . She is left with a little soreness and a 3 inch long scar running down her back just to the left of her backbone. Now, the challenge is to keep her inactive for 2 whole weeks!! She stayed home Tuesday, but went back for a half-day stint on Wednesday. Thursday it was back to business as usual. Wow.Todd's mom took care of Micah the whole day. She then got to care for Sofia and Peter as well, thanks to the delayed schedule. It sounded like Micah was a little angel for Grandma the whole day. I should have expected it - he is such an easy-going little guy. Thanks, Grandma!
And for the final bit of news. Sofia and Molly had their birthdays on Wednesday, October 3rd. Happy 10th and 6th, girlies!! I am posting a picture of Sofia reacting to opening her present from Peter . . . when she started to open his present, Peter ran and hid behind a chair. Todd and I thought he was scared she wouldn't like it. Turns out, he was scared of what he thought she
would do when she saw the present. Turns out he was right to hide! She saw it, screamed, and LAUNCHED herself at him! Who'da thought a Webkinz horse could bring out such excitement? I am also posting a shot of Molly seeing her Barbie Dream House (rescued from a friend's attic after 20+ years of storage). She hit frequencies with her screams that I didn't think were humanly possible. Guess they enjoyed their gifts. Sofia had her birthday party on Friday - she was off for parent-teacher conferences. Molly will be having hers this week on Saturday.
Oops, THIS is the final bit of news. Micah is finally starting to get the idea of how to use a spoon. A picture is worth a thousand words, so here are two thousand words.
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