The Letter of the Day is E

Today Mom and I took the kids to Indy.  Kora had her 3 week follow up appointment with the ENT to check on her tubes.  They were fine, no more infections, AND she had gained a whole pound and now weighs 17 lbs. 8 oz.

We had planned on going to the Children’s Museum afterward but they were closed so instead we went the Eiteljorg Museum.

They had the Jingle Rails display and it was impressive.  You traveled from Indianapolis to many of the western site seeing spots by rail. There were at least 8 trains and all of the displays were made of natural materials like bark, moss and lichen.

Here is Kora and Nanna and you can see Mt Rushmore above Kora’s head.  They had many of the National Park Inns depicted too.  And Mesa Verde was there too, I used to live right next door.

And here is Tucker back home in Indiana.The next stop was the interactive area.  Tucker’s favorite part was riding the horse.  We nearly didn’t get him off of it.

Luckily there was a second one so Kora got a ride too.

You wouldn’t know by the look on his face but he was actually pretty infatuated by the stagecoach.  He just doesn’t like picture taking right now.

Nanna got in on the fun.

And then we went to visit Mr. Olson at the mercantile.  I thought this was a funny reference but none of the kids around got it….

Mommy and Kora playing dress up.

Here we played in the buffalo chip campfire.

We found lots of traditional Spanish clothes so we dressed…

And we danced.

We had lots of fun.  The kids slept the whole way home.  Another successful adventure.

Kora’s Surgery

This morning was Kora’s surgery to have tubes put in her ears.  She has had chronic ear infections; I think we were on #9 for the year.  After dealing with Tucker’s speech problems, which we think tie back to his ear infections, we decided to go ahead with it for Kora.

We arrived at St. Vincent in Indianapolis at 7, got checked in and met the nurses.Dr. Trigg came and gave us the plan for the day.  Kora was number four for the morning and they were running about a half an hour early.

She played with a big gumball toy and insisted on rolling the balls out into the hall. She was having such fun that the time went by pretty quick and soon the nurse came to get her. 

She played with the Pooh characters on the front and then we loaded her up

and they wheeled her back to surgery at 815.

In less than 2 minutes a nurse came back to tell us that she was asleep and doing fine.  And 8 minutes later Dr. Trigg was back to tell us that all went well, that she was in recovery and would be back with us soon.  About 10 minutes later another nurse brought her to us.  She was sobbing and so cranky but they assured us this was a normal reaction to the anesthesia.  She had some water, nursed and soon settled down.  By 9 we were out the door and on our way to get some breakfast at Cracker Barrel, Daddy’s favorite.  She ate pretty good, drank some more water and slept the whole way home.

Now it is noon and she is up and playing with a birthday balloon and you would not have known anything had happened this morning.  I only hope this is the end of those darn infections.  She’s such a happy kid that I can’t imagine how much better she can get but I know those were rough.

I Love you my brave little girl.  I am so proud of you.