Thank goodness for Tubes!!

If you know us well, you know that Noah inherited bad ear infections from his Dad. Scott & Bonnie spent countless hours through-out Clair's childhood pacing their halls at night trying to calm Clair down from the pain of such horrible infections...and unfortunately he still has problems to date. Luckily Noah's ear infections haven't been that bad or gotten to that point but we have truly felt that since his first ear infection last December he would be needing tubes. His ear infections haven't ever gone away with the help of antibiotics, ear drops etc. and subsequently led to a ruptured ear drum last month. Luckily we found Dr. Craig Stephens (just a little plus to the Dr. we like so much), who listened to our concerns, did a thorough check-up and agreed with our gut feelings of proceeding with tubes before things got worse. July 17th was the day our little boy had surgery. Yes, having tubes put in is a minor surgery and it is so quick, but it's still hard to watch your little child walk away with the nurse knowing he would wake up hurting and scared once the anesthesia wore off (and they don't let parents in the recovery room at all, which I think is a load of crap). Anywho, the surgery went great and Noah is doing fantastic. He doesn't pull and dig in his ears at all, which is amazing considering he was constantly pulling and digging in his ears pre-surgery. We feel very fortunate and grateful for modern technology and great Dr's who are willing to listen to our concerns as parents. The surgery was definetly harder on me than on Noah, but at this point, all we can say is thank goodness for tubes!

6:30 am Getting dressed for surgery. Nice yellow socks! He typically doesn't get his binki except in bed, but since they wouldn't let him eat/drink it was the exception!!

All dressed and ready! Oh he looks so cute! He was glued to a Sesame Street movie.

7:30 am Sweet Nurse Kathy had an amazing ability to charm him into walking with her to the surgery room. He didn't even look back to see if we were following.

8:00 am Boy was he grumpy after surgery. And they made us wait for 40 minutes until we could leave. Noah didn't want to be looked at or touched except by his daddy. I love the pen holder!

By 4:00 PM Noah was doing well and some homemade oreo cookies helped brighten his mood!

We are in!

We are finally moved in and trying to get settled in our new home. It's taken us some time, but we feel like we are finally getting a handle on all of the little projects such as painting all of the inside doors, to changing all of the outlets and switches...by no means are we done with projects, but slowely we are making progress! We are so happy in our new home and love being back in Sandy and so far our neighbors and Ward are treating us great! Thank you to everyone who helped us out as we prepared the house for our arrival. We couldn't have done it without you and we love you so much!

We finally hung a few things on the walls which really helped it to feel like home.

The front room.

A view of our dining area in the kitchen...and Oscar.


My craft room!! I'm still working on getting it put together, and filling my shelves because Noah just loves to pull it all off!