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04/03/09

We were up bright and early this morning, mainly because Monkey was up at 5 a.m. and also because he was getting tubes in his ears today. Luckily we were able to keep him distracted with a morning bath (not in the usual routine) and some book reading and Sesame Street so he didn't notice that we hadn't (and couldn't) feed him breakfast. He was a trooper and gave us snuggles before the nurses did the "swap and go" with a warm blanket to carry him off to the OR, monkey in hand. Everyone was great, but the emotional part of my brain was winning out over the rational side and I got a little teary eyed.

But everything went quickly and well and pretty soon we were rounding a corner to hear our little guy screaming "Daddy! Mommy!" He was a little loopy from the anesthetic and I ended up wearing most of his apple juice :). After a long nap, he was up and back to his old, pre-ear issue self! He was feeling so good that he made a trip to the store, a consignment sale in town, and to get his hair cut:

We were so blessed and lucky to have such great care and so glad our little guy is back to feeling better!