TEAR DUCT SURGERY

On August 15, 2011 Hana had tear duct surgery. Her right eye has a narrow or unopened tear duct. Since there are a few seasons her eye drains really bad and some times when she wakes up she can't open her eye due to all the dried up mucus, we thought it would be in her favor to go through with it.
Dr. Miller said that she only has an 80% chance of it being successful. This being that she's a little older. Usually it's about 90%.
We had to be downtown at 7 a.m. We planned to wake up at 5:30. That was a bit of a challenge for me since I haven't seen 5:30a.m. since Hana was still feeding in the middle of the night.
We got there early. Since lil Ricky was with us, we weren't all allowed to go in the back. I was the one who went to the back with her. Helped her get in her hospital gown, she decorated her mask for anesthesia.There were times where she was a little scared, but mostly we had fun back there just goofing around.
I know they were going to give her a relaxer before they wheeled her to the back. I was already prepared for it not to work. Even though I heard the Dr. tell another mother that it works for 95% of the patients. Well wouldn't you know. I was the 5% it didn't work for. Hana NEVER relaxed. Wheeling her back made it very hard. I couldn't go with her. She was scared and crying. I too was scared because this is surgery. Anything could go wrong.
The surgery was pretty quick. About 30 minutes. The hardest part was coming out of anesthesia.  Daddy went back first, but she was scared and kept crying for "mommy". Which surprises me because she's a daddy's girl. It was hard calming her down. She was crying to the extent of hyperventilating.  remembered what always worked on her when she was a baby. Singing "my little sunshine" now when I sing it sounds like your stepping on a squeaky toy, so I wasn't real comfortable with an audience. It worked!! I was so amazed that it still worked. I sat there with her singing for a while, till she was ok to get dressed.
The doctors/nurses told me she would sleep for the rest of the day. They don't know Hana like I do. She did NOT sleep at all. Well other than the car ride home.
I'm extremely thankful that God watched over her and the surgeons and the surgery went as planned.

                   Car ride to the medical center.

                Pretending to be a sleep.

                     Goofing around.

SUMMER FUN - VACATION

The kids and I decided to visit my parents and take a little vacation. Unfortunately daddy had to stay home and work =(.
We did miss daddy a lot but we had a great time. Finally!!!! the beach was beautiful. In the past 2 years it has been so hard for me to time it right. The waves were very minimal, the beach was clear and an emerald green and there was no seaweed. It was perfect!!!
We saw fish swim all around us. A few even nibbled on us. When one nibbled on Ricky he lost his mind. I thought was extremely ironic since every time we were out there swinging in the waves, Ricky would start talking about Great Whites and sharks in general. Really?! I know they are all around us, but I don't need to be reminded. So the whole time i'm on high alert and skimming the surface for fins. Also, I make sure we always stay near people. I noticed on shark bite documentaries it's usually the people that are by themselves that get bit. Not happening here, we were always near people =).
Most of our days consisted of being at the beach from 11 - 1:30 going home to eat and coming back in the evening. The last day I didn't want to leave, it was still so pretty. We spent about 3.5 hours on the beach till we called it quits. Since I ran out of sunscreen for myself I got a little burned.
We stayed a whole week. Even though it was so hard leaving, we were ready to see daddy.

                                                                   Gorgeous!!

 Ricky is wearing goggles so the salt water doesn't sting his eyes. Only wore them for 1 day since the waves weren't really there. 

                             Love this pic. Look how clear the water is!

                                          Enjoying a popsicle on the hot day.

                            Hana and I working on our tan.

HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY RICKY!!!

Seven years ago on July 25 at 5:09pm I held a beautiful little 7.4lb 19" long boy. I never thought I could love something so little and so new so much. My life has never been the same since that day. I wake up every morning blessed to have such an amazing little boy in my life.
We had his birthday party at a friends neighborhood pool. It was perfect. It was like a private party since we were the only ones there. Everyone had so much fun and Ricky was surrounded by so many friends. On Ricky's 7th birthday he weighs 52lbs and is 49 1/4" tall.

                                     Ricky and Logan

       Birthday Cake - So yummy. We did have a Phineas and Ferb theme going on with the plates =)

Ricky,
Happy Birthday, little buddy. You are such an amazing blessing to me and daddy. We love you more than words could ever express. You are an amazing little boy. We are very proud of all your accomplishments and talents. We love how sweet you are. You have such a big heart. You make sure everyone is included and yes that means even your little sister. I love seeing you wanting to learn and try new things each day. You are an amazing little guy and I just know will be an amazing man. For my sake let's not hurry with the man part because I want to keep you as my little boy forever.
I love you to the moon and back times infinity <3 <3 <3
Mommy