A Brave Little Girl

Our brave little girl Emie had her tonsils and adenoids taken out during surgery on Friday @ St. Paul Childrens Hospital. Emie has had some swallowing and breathing issues and after seeing a specialist last fall - one of the main causes is that she had VERY large tonsils. She would aspirate and have trouble swallowing and choke and she was such a good sport about it - but we think this surgery will give her a huge improvement in eating, breathing and just being a normal little girl.



Everyone at St. Paul Childrens was so pleasant, helpful and caring - it was really a good experience. Emie and I (dad) got to spend the night there last night and other than being woken up every 3 hours for meds - it wasn't too bad a night. She hit the popsicles and ice cream pretty hard yesterday and this morning.

We got home around 10:00 AM this morning and she is doing well. She will be sore for a few days; and probably not see much school this week - but it won't be long and she will be back to 100% again.

We love our Emie :)

Goldy & Gill

The girls bought Pepper the makings of a goldfish tank for Christmas. One bought food, one bought colored rock and another a plant to go into the tank. I salvage an odd shaped beaker from the garbage at work and presto - a fish tank. Last Saturday morning, Pepper, Katie, Poppa Lind and I drove up to Wal-Mart and spent $.68 to get 2 little goldfish.

Pepper has called his Goldy - which happens to be the same name that Franklin (the turtle, from the book series) named his. Sam is to name the other one - but so far names have not been forthcoming - so I have named him Gill. We'll see if it sticks. We now have 3 cats and 2 fish as a start to our zoo.

Christmas

We had a wonderful Christmas. We ended up staying home for the holidays and just enjoyed time together and seeing Christmas through the eyes of our kids; which is one of the best ways to observe Christmas. Even thought it is New Years Day - today; we still have a few remnants of Christmas left; the tree will come down today and we had our Christmas with Poppa Lind last night, which was great fun. A few photos.