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GoofyDaddy!

Kevin and I needed to put ointment in Aria's eyes before I left for work this morning. The last 4 times were huge struggles and ended with us pinning Aria down and just getting it over with. She screamed & cried, but then got over it a minute later (it's for her own good).

This morning Kevin put on a winning performance to show Aria what we needed to do...he laid down on the floor, I pretended to put the ointment in his eyes, he acted scared but then let me do it. No sooner after Kevin said "All done!" Aria laid herself down in his spot! She let me hold her eyes open and get the ointment in with little struggle. She's such a good little girl. I'm sure it won't be that easy later, but it was sure funny and so nice :-) Good job Daddy!

UPDATE FROM GOOFYDADDY: I tried the same thing before I ran to work at 11:30. Only this time, I asked Aria to put the medicine in my eyes. I quickly realized this was a bad idea, as she started to take the cap off the tube! So, I asked Grammy to put it in my eyes. I added a bit more to my performance, squinting, getting upset, saying "I don't want the medicine! it hurts!" and Grammy acted the scene out with me (take note goofymommy). Once Grammy was done putting the medicine in my eyes, Aria lay down just like before. She let me put the ointment in her eyes, only flinching just a little!

Update!

Aria took a long snooze on the couch and when she woke up we had her drink more juice. She got sick again - poor thing! But, all seems well now...about 6:00 she jumped off the couch and started playing and chatting up a storm. She's kept down a bunch of crackers and some juice! YAY! We are happy she's doing A LOT better now. Getting her to bed will be interesting because she has so much energy :-) Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers.

We are home now

Aria made it through her surgery fine. The prep was a little hard. Try convicing a 2yr old to take her comfy PJs off and put on a weird yellow gown! The nurses were nice and worked around it. It took longer than Kevin and I expected. She was in there for almost 2 hours and recovery took another hour. But, we are home now. We set up a little nest on our couch and turned on Wall-E. She did get sick once already :-( Now she's sleeping, so with time and rest she should feel much better and begin to eat/drink again.

Her buddy Doogan was with her the entire time!

I love you mommy.

Tonight Kevin went to bells and I finished up the bedtime routine. Aria was so easy and agreeable tonight which was really nice after yesterday. (It was an interesting Mothers Day...She missed her nap and was a mess and so dramatic about everything the rest of the day.) After her bath and putting on PJs I told her we needed to go downstairs to have a snack.*** She got her cheese and a banana. We sat down on the floor together and had a "picnic" together. She was happy and just babbling about all sorts of stuff. She stopped, looked at me and said, "I love you mommy." It was the sweetest thing! She's said I love you before, but I think it's ALWAYS been prompted or a response to me saying it. This time it was out of nowhere! It was really nice to hear it so sincere.

*** Tomorrow Aria is having corrective eye surgery. We've been patching for the last year and both her eyes have great vision now, which is good news...before she had one eye that was more dominate. But, her eyes are not aligned straight. She has some upturning and crossing at times. The surgery will re-stretch the muscles in her eyes so that they will be more aligned. We received the direction she can't eat before her surgery starting at midnight. Thankfully we will be leaving the house the time she normally wakes up (7ish) and they should start around 8:30. Poor little thing! I just hope that it's not too traumatic for her. Keep us in your prayers. The recovery shouldn't be too bad. She'll be home from school for a week while she heals. Kevin and I will be with her the first couple days and then my mother will come to help out so we can return to work. We'll keep everyone posted!

yummy chocolate walls!

Last weekend was fun, aside from me checking every now and then to see if our domain was back up (google fails, godaddy rocks as always btw).

We went to a local park on Saturday morning, had a picnic, then Aria played with her friend Austin from across the street. They played in the pool, and sat in the tree. hey, wait. they sat in a tree, but smiled for the camera, and that's it! here's pics to prove it!

JUST sitting in the tree. Nothing else to see here, move along...

As mentioned in the previous post, I painted the walls of baby brother's room on Saturday and Sunday. The top 2/3s of the walls is a light tan, and the bottom 1/3 is dark brown. Dana craved chocolate when she was pregnant with Aria, and I think that craving is beginning to manifest itself in her choice of paint. This "dark brown" really looks like milk chocolate to me! When I was pouring out the paint it reminded me of the chocolate river in Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. I had to stop myself several times from licking my finger whenever I wiped up a mistake! It went on brownish-almost purple, then dried a nice hershey bar dark brown. Maybe the boy's name should be Augustus? :-)

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This weekend has been fun so far, we went to our friends' house this morning and Aria played with their son Devin. They are having a girl about a month before we're having our boy, so we exchanged clothes. thanks guys!

Well, we maybe stayed a little longer than originally expected, through lunch, Devin's nap, and all the while Aria played, and ate (we found out she likes spinach alfredo pizza). I thought she would fall asleep in the car about 5 minutes from home. no, more like 5 minutes INTO the trip home!

I decided to let her sleep on me for a bit after we got home cause in the past, she wakes up right away if we lay her on the couch or her bed. We wanted her to get more than 20 minutes for her nap, even though it was kinda late. And I love it when she sleeps on me. Dana took pictures, and it reminded us of when she was just two weeks old...

Look at how small I've gotten!

baby brother's room

We're just about done with baby brother's room—as usual Dana did an awesome job designing and painting. I helped by breathing paint fumes all last weekend, Dana did the detail work during the week. Grammy is hard at work quilting and sewing the various things to finish off the room.

Yesterday morning, I showed Aria the room, and she said "OH WOW!" when she saw the argyle designs on the walls. Then when she saw the crib, she said "I'm gonna give baby brother a buddy." Aria ran to her room, saw a little elmo doll, said "ooh elmo. no, wait! I give baby brother my caterpillar!" Aria still likes to sleep with the Baby Einstein stuffed caterpillar from her pack and play, but she grabbed it and ran back into baby brother's room. She threw it into the crib, and said "there. he can sleep with it now." And she hasn't asked for it back to sleep with!

a close-up shows the caterpillar waiting for baby brother

as for names—we have a short list now. And we're pretty sure what his name will be, but we still have time to change our minds. :-)