Toughin' It

These last 3 weeks have been quite tough around our household. Mostly because my Olivia is going through a ton of changes. I finally have potty trained her (wahoo!), but it is always a frustrating challenge. I hate diapers more than anything, but I also despise the kind-of accidents that suck to clean up. Half the time, I end up throwing the undies in the garbage. Believe me, I can always buy more. She started preschool at the School for the Deaf and Blind.

Here she is on her first day of school.
Here is the van that takes her about an hour to and from school. She goes four days a week. I have no kids for about 3 hours in the morning. It is an awesome break.

She had her tonsils and adenoids out a week and a half ago. She needed them out because of sleep apnea and frequent strep infections. The doctor pulled them out he said the tonsils were huge, but the adenoids were even bigger. I was relieved until I took her home. It has been a real big pain in my you know what. I was totally thinking that it would be no big deal, but it has been extremely challenging and I think I have created a monster. Out of all five surgeries that she has had to date, this was by far the worst. To save my sanity I went with my sis to Idaho to see my other sis. There my cute Olivia got a new nickname, HELL on LORTAB. She truly exhibits this name when she is intoxicated with this drug. This is really the only drug that would relieve her pain, but she was mean and demanding and wacko. Just check out how enormous the bottle is (the one on the left). I didn't even realize her pain could get this bad. What is funny is, my sister noticed that she still gets one refill, just in case. I could not believe it, what child needs that much Lortab, especially my little Hell on Lortab.

Here she is before her relaxing Versed.

Here she is after the meds have kicked in, right before she is taken into surgery.