No More Tears!

7:55 am I was actually trying to sleep in past 8 for once, and Dad comes and gets me up and puts me in my car seat without any breakfast! How rude is that? This is how I woke up on the day I went to go get my tear duct probed. How fitting.



8:20 I'm signed in and the long wait began. I made myself at home and checked things out. I said "Where is?" when Daddy went into this room to sign some papers.


Then we went to a different part of the hospital and the nurse tried to get my blood pressure and oxygen saturation levels. She couldn't get either because I didn't hold still. They put this tiger dress on me so they could get to my toes. I ran around the hallway in it for at least an hour. My mom put a silly blue hat on me and then I couldn't find it when she took it off.


10:25 The nurse came and walked me back into another big room and I didn't cry about leaving Mom and Dad at all.

10:40 The doctor came and told my parents he cleaned a lot of gunk out of my tear duct.

10:55 I didn't fuss at all about having to wake up from the anesthesia. I guess the boy that had his tear duct probed before me cried a lot about it, and my parents had to listen to it. I just cuddled with Daddy and went to sleep after he finally let me have a big glass of apple juice. Ahhh!


12:00 With just a little bloody nose and groggy eyes to show for my surgery, I'm on my way home. I'm ready for a good snack and a good nap!


Thanks to you who prayed for me. Everything went well.

Hairstyles

Here is a look at some of my current hairstyles. My mom hasn't put me in those knobby pigtails since that football game, thankfully, so I don't have a picture of that.

Here is a common style - one clip pulled to the side - but I take this out all the time, so we haven't been doing it this way often. You can also see in the picture that I help my mom unload the dishwasher. I really don't like it when she tells me they're dirty, and I can't take them out!


Here you see another common style - 2 clips pulled straight back - I'm getting better about taking this out, but mom still mainly picks this style for me for most days. You can also see from this picture that I'm learning to play the guitar.

Here is the hair in the eyes look. I don't mind it at all, but they don't let me keep it this way.

Here is what happens when Dad does my hair. Thankfully it doesn't stay this way when it dries.

Football!

My dad, mom and I went to a high school football game last night. I sat on my mom or dad's lap the whole time and didn't fuss about it much because it was all so very interesting. My favorite part were the little girl cheerleaders! I stared at them most of the first part of the game and tried to clap along. They didn't cheer the second half so I just clapped when everyone else clapped. The band, balloons and fun grandma lady behind me were quite entertaining too. My dad even shared some of his popcorn with me. That was much better than my snack.

I'll post a picture of the cute pigtails I wore to the game soon. I finally figured out that I can take the clips out of my hiar that mom puts in, so now she puts in ponytails. I get mad at her when she's putting them in! She really needs to be more gentle. Doesn't she remember what it was like to be a little girl getting her hair done?

I'm Not a Baby Anymore

I came down with a fever this week from my shots last week. I got to stay home with mom an extra day and one day dad stayed home with me. I don't have a fever anymore, but I'm still kind of a crab. I want to show you some pictures of how I'm a little girl now.

In this picture, you see me drinking my favorite thing, milk, and wearing my brand new tennis shoes! Here I am climbing up on my Dora car. I stood right after this but my parents didn't take a picture because they were putting me back on the ground. See how long my hair is too. My dad likes it when it's all messy like this.
Here I am demonstrating how I like to eat plums just like big people do.

Notice my cute cherry outfit and one of my favorite toys, my puppy. I give him hugs just like I give my babies hugs.

Another thing I am doing now that big girls do is climbing the stairs at the park by putting both of my hands on the railing. I figured this out all by myself too. I don't crawl up them anymore!

That's all for now!

- Elliana -