Bo's surgery

On Monday, Bo had his surgery at 7am in the morning. Luckily, it is an out patient deal. They are able to take out his current tubes that are no longer in place, put new ones in, and remove his adenoids all at the same time. The recovery is very quick and unlike tonsillectomy he really isn't restricted in what he can eat afterwards. They did give him an IV this time to knock him out. Here is a picture of him after the surgery basically passed out.

They like to keep him there for an hour after the surgery to make sure he recovers, eats and drinks something small. However, our little guy decided to just keep sleeping. Even when the nurse removed his IV from his hand, he just rolled over to sleep on his tummy.
The doc said everything went well. They did find that one of his ears was already infected and the old ear tube was sitting on his eardrum so it is a wonder he could hear at all. They gave him some ear drops with steroids in it to help the swelling go down. He just has to take those twice a day for 7 days and that's it. We go back for a follow-up in 4 months.

As for the adenoids, the doc said that for a boy his age the adenoids generally block about 30% of the air passage but in Bo's case they were blocking 80%. Hopefully this will help with Bo's sleeping and snoring. He was already sleeping well that Monday night. Here is a picture of him in Mommy and Daddy's bed, his favorite place.

Also, this past weekend we went to pick out our Xmas tree. Of course, we picked out the biggest one possible that would fit in our house. Bo kept saying that it was too big. But Emily and Bo loved it in the house with all the lights and of course the cho-cho that goes around it.
Bo also helped me put up lights on the outside. There is an inflatable snowman that both of the kids like. They check on it every morning and wonder what happened to "my snowman". I had to tell them that he only comes out at night because during the day he lays flat on the ground.

Mommy (aka Martha Stewart) has been doing a great job decorating the inside of the house. The kids are learning a lot of craft activities to help.