Surgery

Eli's surgery was today and it went really well. He never cried the whole day! He went with the Dr. into the surgery room easily and when he woke up from the surgery he wanted to cuddle but that was it. As soon as we got home, he saw all of his Christmas toys and wanted to play with them, he was running, jumping and bouncing off the walls as usual. He was also wanting to eat as soon as we got home. So it seems the surgery hasn't affected him at all!!!!

Christmas

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!! Ours was awesome, full of family, food and fun!! Eli's Grandma made him some special green monkey pj's for Christmas Eve. He loves them, he thinks the monkeys look like Curious George. Christmas morning we spent at our own home and let Eli open all his presents then soon after went over to Spencer's Parents house and gathered with all of his brothers and sisters to open more gifts!!! We stayed over there most of the day and enjoyed each others company. Spencer had a blast making a huge sledding hill in the backyard with his brothers, it ended up being about a 6.5 foot tall hill, Eli was scared to death to go down it, but he did it once with his Dad. Eli really enjoyed opening all of his presents, he got a lot of cars, some new books and puzzles, and bath toys. SPOILED!!!!!!!!

Recent Events

We just went and saw Eli's Ear Dr. last week because his right ear drum ruptured again! They decided we should put in ear tubes again and try avoid permanent damage. They will also take out his adnoids, they think that might be contributing to the problem. He will have his surgery the day after Christmas. It should take about 3 days to recover. Because of the adnoid removal he will have bad breath for a few weeks but I'll take that over the ear infections any day!! Poor kid has had a rough year. After his recent Emergency Room visit on Thanksgiving day when he split his head open on the fireplace. Here are some pictures right after it happened........

I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Season. We are still trying to get ready for Christmas here, I have a ton of shopping left to do. I hoping to get it done today but it's snowing pretty good, more to add to our 4-5 inches we already have. Eli loves the snow (until he gets too cold) He asks his dad every night if they can go sledding. They just go in the driveway but its a good slope and its a solid sheet of ice so he gets going pretty fast, it sometimes scares me. But he just keeps laughing and asks "Again, Again" Eli has no fear of anything!!