Before and after

After looks dark coutesy of two grape popsicles after we got home. She's back to her daredevil ways, already.



And one from the berry farm Saturday. :) Yeehaw!

Teef!

swelling is going down pretty quick so i get 2 see those pretty pretty new teeth!

NEWS!

She has all of her teeth! Stainless crowns on two upper molars, but that's fine. It took longer because her little teeth required extra work (because they were little.)

Dentist did dance around the nursing issue, but meh whatever. Apple juice or soda easier on the tummy than breastmilk? Uh, ok.

Annnnnyway, they saved her teeth! Now just waiting on the nurse to ocme get us.

(This post took a ridiculous amount of time to type between excitement over the TEETH and cafffeine.)

No news is good news, right?

We're still waiting to hear back. It was supposed to take 1h15m, but it's been 1h30m now. I'm hoping that's because they're taking extra time to make her teeth absolutely perfect.

Also, I'm going to give myself whiplash from turning around anytime that surgery door is opened. ;P

Whenever they're done, the dentist is going to come talk to us about how it went. Then we get to go back to the room where we left her (or somewhere thereabouts) and wait for them to bring her to us. I wish we could be there when she wakes up, but I get the feeling they're damn efficient here and since they seem to be on top of their game, I'm willing to go along with it. (Seriously, if the nurse anesthetist hadn't been so reassuring, I probably wouldn't be down with this idea, but she really really was.)

Adia did well last night. Mom said she woke up to Adia yelling "Noooooo Grandma" at some point. She thought it was just a bad dream, but when she asked Adia about it this morning it was because Mom had rolled onto Horton. Whatever. Grandma can do no wrong, especially since she de-hid the great big balance ball to play with. They were watching PBS Kids when I called a little while ago, so I guess the big list of instructions I left worked. ;P

She's back

I thought I'd be updating from my cell, but it turns out that the entire world has internet now. Yay hospital.

We got here at 6 with a decently grumpy Checka. We did the paperwork and then got taken back by the nurse. The anesthesiologist and nurse anesthetist came back and talked to us, as did the OR nurse. The dentist did too, and she gave me more hope that they'll save the teeth, so good thoughts, prayers, whatever would be good on that end. The NA reassured me that they care for them like their own, and Francesca didn't even cry when I handed her over. That helped a lot. She's tired and wanting to nurse, but at least the tiredness will be taken care of soon. Ha!

They had a pair of socks with grippies (which I had gotten a pair of last night at Tar-jay already, so she's double-wrapped haha) and a new stuffed koala with a hospital tee-shirt on.

I think I'm going to send Charles to the coffee corner here in a minute for food/drink. I'll pretend that I can eat, and if nothing else I can caffeinate myself and spaz more. I do technically have a cheese danish I got from the lobby at the hotel, but it's in the car. Along with my bio textbook to read, but.. um.. I forgot a highlighter. Yeah, that's it. No point in doing homework if I don't have the highlighter and I'll have to read it again.

No updates, what?

I'm so good at blogging. At least I must be, because other bloggers make these "sorry I haven't posted" update posts all the time.

Last weekend's excitement was working the LLL booth at the baby fair at the mall on Saturday. It was a lot of fun meeting breastfeeding moms and moms wanting to breastfeed. The time slot I picked wound up being the busiest too!

During the week we stayed busy with appointments. Training meeting on Monday and dentist on Wednesday. Where we figured out my "treatment plan." All $10k+ of it. *sigh* And it begins with re-doing a root canal at an office in the west end of Richmond (so, a longer drive.) Then a root canal or extraction of the tooth beside what was my wisdom teeth.

When we weren't out running around, I worked on decluttering the guest (read: junk!) room. It still looks like a tornado hit it, but the tornado carried some things away. I've tossed like 4 trashbags of stuff out.

Friday morning I had a coffee-mergency when I woke up out of coffee. So we bundled up and went to the coffee shop at 7:30am and then to the grocery store. We were home by 8:30, which was kinda nice. I didn't really feel like being social, and there aren't too many people to be social with that early in the morning.

Yesterday I got up and did my coffee shop breakfast thang, then hit up the rescue squad auxillary's yard sale. After that, I grabbed a pregnancy test at the drug store (not a chance in hell, but I've felt kinda crappy lately and I know that would be the first thing the doctor suggested if I called. I'm not, BTW.) I also got an Office Space calendar for us for next year. I'm pretty excited about that. (And a dork, apparently.) Then I started my grocery shopping, which I remembered my Zune for for a change. I listened to the Rent soundtrack, which is a bad plan because it leads to things like dancing in the aisles. Whatever, I know I'm the town freak anyway, what with my crazy babywearing devices and cloth shopping bags.

I came home and got ready to make homemade curry (this is the awesome book I used!) and realized I was short on onions, so back to grocery store #2 for those. (When I realized "I go to the grocery store a lot." I get to go back again today!)

The curry turned out fantastic! I need to get to an international grocery (heh) for proper chilli powder and fenugreek, but it was really good. My interpretation of the nan recipe leaves a bit to be desired. I have no problem using the frozen variety of that, though. :P

Last night, Adia woke up around 2:30 coughing. She then puked all over the bed. (Fortunately?, she sleeps in the full size bed with Charles now. Fortunately for me, I guess anyway. ;) She woke up for the day at 6:30 and she's full of energy. That's apparently the course for this virus, since Francesca had it for a couple of days this week, just out of the other end instead. She was still wild girl throughout it, just with a sore bum.

We had contemplated a trip to Fredericksburg today for the aforementioned international grocery run, but we decided it was ill-advised with the viral fun. Now to decide what to do with our day...... (And I got a different kind of coffee the other day, as they were out of my usual. I think I'm twice as wired as normal. Wheeeeeee!) So far we've moved the router into the kitchen next to the phone jack. Yesterday my computer finally went wireless, so we just have a 6' phone cord from the jack to the router instead of a 25' one, plus the looooong cat-5 to my computer.