Saia work party

Last weekend Matt work had a Christmas party at a co.workers house. It was a potluck type dinner & "Santa" made an appearance after dinner for all the little kids. I was not sure how JaCee was going to react when Santa opened the door to come in, but she did great! She was SO shocked. The first thing she did was run up to Santa & say, "Santa! I have been so good!" It was really cute. She did talk to him & wave, but she didn't want to sit on his lap.



Santa coming in the door



Hello Santa, nice to meet you!



Watching Santa leave




Bye Bye Santa



Before we left for the part we tried to take a few pictures of the family.



Morgen's eye surgery

For a few months now (too long for me to admit & still feel good about my mom status) Morgen's left eye has been watering. I talked to her pediatrician about it at her 15 month check up & she said treat it with pink eye drops for 2 weeks & if it doesn't go away, we need to get her to see a specialist. I think I knew all along surgery was in the works...so I was procrastinating. So we went to a special eye Dr. who dilated her eyes & did a full exam --- to determine her tear duct was blocked and she needed surgery & probably a little stint like device (clear piece of spaghetti is how it was described to me) to keep the tear duct open. The surgery was at Sacred Heart. She did pretty good, really. The worst part of little kids surgery is when they wake up. They scream & scream un.controllably. When Morgen woke up...it was not good. She was trying to pull out her IV & pull off all the wires monitoring her vitals. She cried so hard, she threw up. Poor little thing. She finally went to sleep for a while and when she woke up she was better. We came home, she took a long nap & by the evening she was back to herself.

They gave Morgen a "happy drug" ... we wished we had the video.camera...she was sooo happy she wouldn't stop smiling!