Case Life: the last two weeks and the future two weeks..

Monday, April 13, 2009

the last two weeks and the future two weeks..

So I am going to have to catch up a little and I will try to keep it short, but I can't promise anything. A couple weekends ago, Dan's APX office did a Vegas trip. So I brought my mom along to help with the kids while Dan was gone selling, and then thought that maybe she could watch them once they went to sleep and Dan and I could go play. Well it didn't quite go as planned, but I still had a great time. We were able to bring Bai and Afton to MGM, M&M, Belagio, Caesar's, and Excalibur. I even won her an awesome prize at Excalibur! We also swam both days while we were there.. even though it was a little chilly- I couldn't say no to Bailee. We went out to Planet Hollywood with the entire team and that was fun, although my kids have an early bedtime and they were VERY tired! Dan and I managed to get out at night for like 45 minutes and I watched him gamble a little bit and then Afton woke up so I had to go back. We went to Trader Joe's on our way home and got my favorite peach salsa and then came back. It wouldn't have been half as much fun if my mom wouldn't have come, so THANK YOU! So then we get home and it was time to bring Bailee to the ENT doctor. He looked in her throat and said that he agreed her tonsils were "humongous" and said that he likes to call those kind of tonsils "outies" because they stick out into the throat instead of going in. He thought that a tonsilectomy would help her sleeping and breathing a lot. So we scheduled her for Wednesday morning at 6:30. Luckily i know the ENT so he was willing to do it first thing on his day off since we are moving so soon. We brought her in Wednesday morning and she was being soooo brave.. very uncommon for her. 45 minutes after they took her back, they came and told us she was waking up. We went into the room and when I saw her flailing around and whimpering, I about lost it. I was thinking "what the heck did we just do??" We went to comfort and hold her and it took a good 15 minutes before she started to play with my ear and act a little more coherent. I seriously almost fainted 10 minutes into it.. I don't know if it's because the fumes were still lingering or if it really was that hard to see my little girl acting so out of it.. So we brought her home and she acted really good that first day and we were all thinking that she was going to recover quickly and it would all be great.. yeah right. I guess the 3rd and 4th days are the worst because the scabs form and then again 1 week after the surgery will be bad because that is when the scabs are falling off. So Bai really has been a champ, but she hates the Lortab medicine and she just whimpers instead of cries so it makes me feel worse. She has been very spoiled, but I can tell she is in a lot of pain. I am trying to give her half of Lortab and half Tylenol because I am not too happy about how the Lortab makes her act and feel. I had many things I was going to do yesterday, but I wasn't able to because I wanted to stay with Bais. She is beginning to eat a lot better, which is good because she has lost a lot of weight. The pictures above are from this past weekend and maybe you also noticed a difference. Anyway, this week i will hopefully be able to pack more for the summer. I have packed my kitchen into one bin! crazy.. Oh yeah.. this past weekend Dan and I had scheduled (before we knew about the surgery) to go on an early anniversary getaway since we will be in MN for our real anniversary. Dave and Sue gave us gift certificates to the Johnson Mill Bed and Breakfast in midway for Christmas so that is where we went. It was a lot of fun to get away and just enjoy each others company without chasing kids around. Thank you Dave and Sue for giving that to us and watching our sick little girl while we were gone!

1 comment:

Jaimee said...: Oh! It breaks my heart to hear about Bailee!!! :( I'm so sorry you had to go through that! I'm glad you and Dan got to get away to celebrate your anniversary! We are so excited to see you guys... I'm already counting the hours!!! :) Love you!; April 18, 2009 at 9:48 PM

Bailee-isms

12/20/08 We were at the annual Case Christmas party. Grandma Betty and Grandpa Dwayne were nice enough to buy us Sizzler lunch and then had a program at their home. Before I tell the story, I need to clarify that Grandma Betty is from England and still has her accent - which I love! Bailee wanted to ride in Grandma Betty and Grandpa Dwayne's car from Sizzler but we told her no since her car seat was already in ours. Bailee: "I just want to go with them because I love them so much." Grandma Sue : " I know, and they love you, too." Bailee: "But Grandma Betty says it weiood" (wierd without the "r" sound)
11/10/08 We were "puppy sitting" for Dave and Sue overnight so they could spend a night in Midway. Part of Bailee's bedtime routine is that she gets to have "snuggle-wuggles" right before bed every night. Snuggle wuggles started as being a Backyardigans show but has evolved to being a choice between playing make believe with toys, a show, or something else she really wants to do before bed. Well this particular night I gave her the choice between Dragon Tales or going to the store with me and she chose the show. When it was over and I said it was time to brush teeth and go to bed, she started to cry and throw one of her tantrums. She said she wanted to go to the store with me, I then reminded her that she chose the show over going to the store. She replied very seriously that when she chose the show, she was just teasing me. Very smart response.. it didn't fly and she was not a happy girl going to bed that night
11/12/08 We were driving home from Dave and Sue's and Bailee said "What does 'age' mean?" Dan and I weren't quite sure what she said, so we asked her to repeat it and she did. We still weren't sure if she said "H" or "age." Usually she can explain what she is saying by thinking of another word or saying it in a sentence. We asked her to say it in a sentence or tell us when and how she heard it. She stammered a little, then said "You know, like my feet are big." Dan and I tried very hard not to laugh and she finally said "Like I am a big girl." So then I said.. "Okay, you mean 'age'. That is like how old you are, so your age would be 3. When someone asks you what your age is, you would say 3." So Dan said "Yeah. It is like someone asking you how old you are. What are you going to say when someone asks you what your age is?" and Bailee said, "That I am a big girl!" Maybe you had to be there or it was pretty late, but it was very funny.
Grandma Sue bought a doctors kit for the grandkids. It came with a couple of cards that showed what to do with the "tools" - kind of like directions. When we were cleaning up all the parts to it, Bai couldn't find the cards and she was saying over and over.. "where are the indirections? " I think she was mixing up the words "instructions" and "directions." It is very cute that her vocabulary is growing so fast that she just has a ton of information to sort through. I am biased, but I definitely think she is a smartie!
Bailee was trying to get Dan to fill up her aqua-doodle pen with water so she could color on her mat, but apparently Dan wasn't jumping on the task. He continued to get ready for work and gather his things when Bailee said very demandingly "Dad, when you are all done with this world stuff, will you please fill this up with water?!" It definitely got his attention and he filled it up with water and she went on her way.
Bailee was talking with her cousin, Aliyah, and her grandma Packer about places they have been and things they have seen. My mom brought up that Aliyah was in a whale's mouth at Storybook land and Bai was in a shark's mouth in Disneyworld. They were laughing about that and my mom said, "Weren't you scared in the mouth?" and Bailee looked at my mom with her index finger pointed at her and said, " Remember grandma, those things are just PRETEND!" My mom thought it was very cute how Bailee was trying to comfort her on the scary pretend things that are out there.
Bailee is pretty much a vegetarian and refuses to eat meat - except for chicken nuggets and taco soup). In colorado, they took out a lunchable jr. and she wouldn't eat the meat. Well, someone told her that the meat would make her jump higher. She had a couple bites of the meat and walked away. Sue asked "Did you like it?" and Bai said "yeah, I am going to see if I can jump higher now, though." She jumped and everyone cheered - Maybe she will continue to eat meat and end up in the olympics!
Bailee was riding home from a dinner in the back seat of papa Dave and grandma Sue's car. Her uncle Andy was sitting next to her talking to her when the sun came shining into the car all of a sudden and her grandparents both burst into song "Here Comes the Sun, do do do do.." Uncle Andy then whispered to Bai "Grandma and Grandpa are getting old." and bailee replied, "Grandma's not old, but Papa is."
Being the great English buff that he is, Bailee's uncle Jason was trying to enhance Bailee's vocabulary by teaching her some new words. One of the words was "plump." He told her about having a nice, big, juicy, plump apple. Then he went on to explain that it meant "big." Bailee then was able to catch on and said, "Like you, uncle Jason?"
When Bailee says prayers, she really lets Heavenly Father into her heart. She has said things like, "please bless that I can watch a movie tomorrow. Please bless that I can get tinkerbell makeup at the store. Please bless I can sleep the whole night in my bed. Please bless we will grow up healthy and go to heaven."
Bai was helping grandma Sue wrap some baptism gifts and asked her what they were for. Sue said that they were for her primary kids who were going to be baptized and when Bailee turned 8, she would also be baptized. Bai looked at grandma like she was out in the night and said " Oh, no, grandma, I am going to be a doctor when I grow up!"
We were leaving grandma Sue and papa Dave's so Bai went and hugged grandma and said "I love you, grandma." Dan told her to go and tell grandpa the same thing so she went and hugged grandpa and said " Papa, I love grandma."
Bailee thought her pee would be pink after she drank her strawberry milk. After I told her it would still be yellow or clear, she still had her hopes up. When we got home, she ran to the bathroom to go potty and we heard her disappointed voice come from the bathroom saying "Yep, it's still yellow."