Bye-Bye Tonsils..HELLO Popsicles!

Like the book says "My Surgery" today was Ava's big day they were removing her tonsils and adenoids. She got the royal treatment. Piggy back ride up the elevator and through the hallways to where we signed her in..

There was a awesome waiting room, filled with lots of fun stuff for her. Toys, books and movies.. So she played, and we were even about to put Pinocchio in to watch when they called her in..


It was a pretty long wait. But the hospital made it a nice experience during the time "before the surgery"..The doctor came in and talked to us and asked some questions and asked if we had any for him.. Then another women came in to talk to Ava on how to use the mask, how she would have to blow a bubble with it, and even let her pick out a smell to put inside..She picked bubble gum! Then she let her pick lots of stickers for her jammies..

There was even CLOWNS..they came to the door and there names were Dr.Chester Drawers and Lily Pad..they were really funny. It was a really good way to keep Ava calm.

Even though I have to say my girls a trooper. She wasn't even nervous. She played and drew on the coloring book and all the while not even scared..Brave Girl I got! Mama not so much.. I was scared and trying not to show her. I shed a few tears while she wasn't looking. I couldn't bare to think of my daughter being in a cold OR room on a table, put to sleep and them cutting her..I was just not doing well with all the thoughts of what could happen..

It was time to go back and they asked her if she would go take a walk with them or if they wanted me to go with her, and my heart was screaming please, please let her say she wants me to go with her, and she did just that. The sweetest words "I want my mommy to come"..Her daddy was in the bathroom so we waited a few for him to come and see her off to surgery..Then we started walking and I could feel the nerves in full force..

The room is cold and so bright..We sit her up on the table and it feels like everything is moving so fast. They lay her down and give her the mask and tell her to blow them a balloon like they showed her. So she starts and I am holding her hand and she starts to want to push the mask off and one of them says to me..It may look a little scary cause she may start kicking and moving all around, but it's just part of her falling asleep..Sure enough her legs starting going up and her hands were moving up to the mask..She was fighting pretty hard. They were like she is strong..YES, she is! I wasn't! every fiber in me wanted to rip that mask off of her and take her out of that room! But next thing you know she was OUT! Snoring..yes, snoring really lout at that..My girl said it..When I told her that they would put her to sleep, she said there gonna say.."wow this girl snores loud" and that is basically what they said..

Crying the whole way, one of the nurses walked me back out to a waiting room where my husband was waiting..He laughed at me.."Laurie, your crying" Stop it, she is gonna be fine" Such a Dad thing to say.. He never worries, he is always so calm and sure about everything. I think he knows that I worry enough for both of us..He was in there eating bagels and reading the paper..I just sat there with tears in my eyes and looking at the clock. It seemed like forever. But in all reality it was actually VERY quick..Maybe 20 minutes, if that!

The doctor comes out and walks up to me. He says to me "that everything went well and hands me a little specimen cup..mind you I am thinking WTH is that.. I don't want her tonsils..LOL. He says "her tooth came out during surgery and they left this for her" and hands me a dollar..I was SO excited.. My baby was okay. Thank God AND she lost her FIRST tooth!!!!I knew she was going to be so excited about that!

They call us to go back with her and when I am walking from a distance I see her sitting up and crying and moving her arms around..OMG I had to run to her..She was still very groggy and the anaesthesia was making her nose itchy so she kept rubbing her nose! I tried to comfort her but she was so out of it..I was trying to hold her against me and the nurse finally took her out of the bed and I rocked her in the rocking chair until she was calm enough and then we put her back in the Bed! She slept!



When she came too, she was really excited cause daddy bought her a big balloon. I told her that I had a BIGGER surprise for her but she had to say "CHEESE" and take a picture to take a picture...Then we showed it to her and asked her what she noticed..took her a bit to notice but she got it..MY TOOTH...OMG was she excited!!


She got to rest some more and even got to pick a toy, then the clowns came by to see her again..She got a wheelchair ride to the car..Off to home we went..Thank you God that the surgery was a success! I knew it would be, but what can I say I am a MOM!

Is this what it takes??

So last night the power went out. I was cooking dinner(Late)cause I did a lot of running around yesterday..washing clothes, visiting Marylou etc...

Well I started hearing loud thundering and it was pouting rain, so I knew and so I started getting the flashlights and candles out..Sure enough. Lights out!! I was still cooking, thank God for a gas stove..Talk about moonlight dinner.

Luis says "Is this what it takes for us to all eat dinner together" We usually eat separate. So it was nice..

The girls were telling "ghost stories" at the table..Zoey said "the tooth fairy came and said **In a scary voice** Gimme that tooth..and didn't leave money they left chocolate instead..REAL scary!

Drunken Braves Fan...

Well since Luis does sacrifice seeing my team a lot through baseball season, I did the same..We went to see a Met's vs. Braves game..They are all huge Braves fans! So they had a blast! I just like the excitement of the game. So it was fun. We took lots of pictures and my husband got way drunker then he should have..But, yeah fun times!




His team won so they were super excited and of course drunk and happy go together really well..NOT!!He was so LOUD the whole way out of the stadium..Bad enough he was not rooting for the HOME team..So everyone was looking at him really funny when he was screaming "Let's go Braves" in a Mets stadium..Oh its even worse at Yankee games when he is rooting for the other team..Yankee fans are no joke..I should know I am one...;-)





But yeah it was still fun even though I wasn't rooting for either team..But something about my husband making a complete ASS out of himself just makes me laugh..

This kid was another fellow Brave fan amoung a stadium full of Mets fans..So he went up to him and said..I like this kid..take a picture of us..


This crazy drunk Ass jumped in front of the cop car and said...take a picture of me..The way he was acting.I told he was lucky I didn't have to take a picture of him IN THE COP CAR...LOL!

He took a picture in the outhouse tooo, but there is no way I am putting that crazyness in my blog!!!LOL!

They got to GO!!

Well today was Ava's ENT appointment.The office was really nice. Big blackboard, where Ava had fun playing teacher..I am glad we got the appointment so fast..

Her snoring has got out of control, it being loud is one thing but a few times I listened to her it sounded like she was losing her breathe. So I said yeah it's time to see whats going on..

Of course I am the "Queen" of google, so I already kind of knew that it could be the tonsils and adenoids coming out..So I was right..The doctor put this thing up Ava's nose which she didn't like so much. But she got it up enough to see that they were really huge, she could hear how she was breathing just from sitting in front of her..

So we made the appointment for the 30th of this month. I don't want to put it off. I am SO nervous this is the first time any of my kids have a surgery..Getting put to sleep was scary for me and she is so little SO I am really scared..She is fine with it so far..She doesn't quite understand what it means.. I tried to explain without mentioning any needles to her..That they will put her to sleep and the clown that she is starts making jokes..She says:

"When they hear how loud I snore there gonna say WOW this girl snores really loud" Then she says "They won't be able to concentrate" OMG me and Luis were cracking up..

So yep my baby is gonna be tonsil and adenoid free on the 30th and I am gonna be a wreck that day!!

But as she says after that she will have a "quiet sleep" She is a clown!!!

Saying AYO...gotta let go...

You know how certain things just make you happy..Could be a place, a smell...Well this song, my song your hearing right now..Makes me super happy..When it comes on the radio, doesn't matter what my mood is.I just want to sing and "throw my hands up in the air" The girls sing with me..They love it toooo..

So in case I change my song which I will soon...This is the song...

Taio Cruz Dynamite lyrics

I came to dance, dance, dance, dance
I hit the floor
'Cause that's my, plans, plans, plans, plans
I'm wearing all my favorite
Brands, brands, brands, brands
Give me space for both my hands, hands, hands, hands
You, you
Cause it goes on and on and on
And it goes on and on and on

I throw my hands up in the air sometimes
Saying AYO
Gotta let go
I wanna celebrate and live my life
Saying AYO
Baby, let's go

'Cause we gon' rock this club
We gon' go all night
We gon' light it up
Like it's dynamite
Cause I told you once
Now I told you twice
We gon' light it up
Like it's dynamite

I came to move, move, move, move
Get out the way me and my crew, crew, crew, crew
I'm in the club so I'm gonna do, do, do, do
Just drop the phone, came here to do, do, do, do

Yeah, yeah

Cause it goes on and on and on
And it goes on and on and on

I throw my hands up in the air sometimes
Saying AYO
Gotta let go

SING ALONG...you will feel it too

Hair fun...

So there is a thread on Mog's for hairstyles, and it has inspired me to try new things on the girls..There parts are horrible in most of these but I did the best I could..I did quite a few but I picked out my favorites..

These are the ones I did on Zoey..her hair is really short since I recently cut it and it's also very thin..So it's kind of harder to do much to it, not to mention that she won't stand still very long and complains for everything!!!







These were Ava's her hair is thicker so it's a little easier to do.. She loves having different styles done to her hair..








Plus I did all our nails...These are Zoey's she had them up drying..

Family Fun & Pictures...

Okay so far behind I am with my blog..these are from Lucy's birthday in August..My mother in law did a cake for her and she came with a few of her grandkids..It was a nice time..

We had burgers and sat around and talked..while the kids played all together..Gino was still down so Jay was happy to be able to play with him..I had fun taking pics of all the kids together..






This dress was WAY too small on her..Short. but her grandma brought it from puerto rico so I had to put it on her at least once before the summer ended!

Labor Day

Well Labor day "2010" we went to Mother in laws house for a cookout..I didn't have the greatest time..she had a few of her softball players there and a few of them were annoying..But when they finally left it was okay..

But I got some really cute pictures of my girls before we left to go over there..

My Zoey looks like Dora with her new haircut..that I did...yes ME! I did a good job if I do say so myself..

Daily, Smaily...

I can't keep up and I don't really wanna. I don't have this great spectacular, exciting life, that is even worth blogging about everyday. There is days I do absolutely nothing, so I am tired of posting how I did nothing..So for now on. I will blog with only interesting stories or amazing pics..So no more daily blog! Whew!

Cut short..

Well I got tricked, teased!!With hurricane Earl coming they were gonna send Luis to different stores. So I thought I was going to have a "husband-free vacation" that means more computer time, having the bed to myself(well with whatever kid hops in)!

Well that was cut short..he called and told me that he wasn't staying..Bubble<~~~busted!

What do you let your kids do??

This was a topic on Mog's.. I found it really funny to hear other stories..Some people shared and it was pretty nice to see that not everyone is perfect, we are all human.. I sure don't claim to be perfect or pretend to be..

But I let Vae go to sleep like this...=0)This was from her playing outside..really nice mom...;p

Like the feeling..

Productive, Accomplished. I don't really like to pay bills, but I feel so good after there all paid. I hate to clean but I love when its all done and my house is clean. It feels good!

Today I had a really productive day. Went grocery shopping, stopped at cable vision and paid the bill, went to the first bank to take out the money and deposited into the other bank <~~ checking account..

Came home and put all the groceries away and made dinner(sloppy Joe's)YUMMY!

Still had time to be online...(which is what my husband says I do best)LOL