Leeza's Nose

After the last year and a half of nose bleeds and being told she will grow out of them, we went to the ENT Dr a week ago.  Leeza would not sit still for him to cauterize 3 vessels he found.  So off we go to the hospital to get it taken care of for good.  Leeza started crying the minute we got to the pre-op ward.  Then she had a nose bleed. While I am trying to rinse out the bloody wash cloth, Leeza makes a break for freedom.  Out the hall she goes, out the pre-op doors, down the hallway heading to registration.  I got her back and finally got the nose bleed taken care of with almost no help from the nurse.  She did get me a washcloth so she actually did do something.  Then she came back to get me to sign paperwork, once I was distracted again, Leeza made break #2 for freedom.   She made it almost down to the turn to registration before I caught her again.  Then it was time to go off to surgery.  She was in there only 30 minutes and the Dr said it went well. Then she was off to recovery.  When they let me in, she still had her IV in.  When the nurse came to take it out, she was so busy taking the tape off Leeza's hand that she kept jerking the needle around causing Leeza's hand to bleed.  Since she hadn't bothered to put on any gloves, I ended up taking the gauze and stopping the bleeding.  The nurse was suppose to bring some more gauze back, but she never did.  I guess she wanted to get rid of us(maybe because I was rather mad at this point) and she said Leeza could go.  Last time it took almost 2 hours in recovery since they wanted Leeza to eat Lorna Doone cookies which she doesn't like.  This time she didn't even ask if she had eaten something. 

Update:  Leeza had her first nose bleed that night.  Thursday she had a big one at McDonalds.  Friday she had about 4 little ones while she was trying to sleep.  Plus she now snores.  She never did before Wednesday. I love Drs and hospitals.

Kindergarten is exhausting

For mommy that is.  It seems like everyday I need to rememberto send something , do something, buy something....  I thought kindergarten was tough for kids, but it is really tough on the mommy.
This week I had to:
Dress Leeza in a tshirt with her favorite place or character on it on Tuesday
Take the girls to dance on Tuesday night
Dress Leeza in a yellow shirt for Yellow Wednesday On Tuesday, go buy a yellow shirt at target for Yellow Wednesday
On wednesday find out Sasha needs gold fish crackers for class on friday.
On Thursday go back to target and get gold fish crackers
Sign Leeza's reading homework after she read us the books 3 times
Do other homework -writing Ts 2 nights
Order some clothes from Kohls because no long pants fit Leeza
Look at ordering for the latest fundraiser at school
Send in money fro their first field trip
Deal with the people putting a roof on the house

And then do the normal things like work, cook, clean(ok maybe not that) etc

Actually, Leeza is exhausted also by thursday and is Ms Cranky Pants on Thursday nights.  Sasha does not need sleep so she does fine with no nap.  Mommy wishes she could nap.

Boo Boo week continues

Sasha slammed her finger in the bathroom door at DQ.  The fingernail is half off.  Not a good week for bleeding around here.
Update Thursday night:  Sasha went running out of the school after we picked up Leeza and fell on the sidewalk, scraping her knee up really badly- more blood and bandaids.
Update:  Friday morning in the garage, Sasha turned around and ran to the door and fell on the steps causing 2 more bleeding scraps on her legs.  I am running out of bandaids.

Another Nose Bleed post

Leeza is supposed to grow out of these nose bleeds.  She has now had 6 since the start of school.  Stress probably isn't helping any.  She had 2 bad ones tonight or one really long one.  I guess it is time to go back to the ENT.  That means hospital and knocking her out for a 5 minute operation. 

Our FIrst Dance Class

 All dressed up in our new dance outfits and ready to go to the Dance Studio for the first time.  The girls are taking ballet and tap.  It is half an hour of ballet and then half an hour of tap. 

 All ready to walk in the doors and start dancing.

 Before class started, the girls check out the room.

 Sasha looks a little worried.  Mom does not get to come in the room so she wasn't sure how that was going to work out.  Leeza is all ready to go.  She would probably push me out of the room and slam the door if she could. She wanted to dance.  I ended up sitting in the van for about 45 minutes waiting for them.  The classes are very disciplined.  No running around or goofing off.  Dance is serious.

 Modeling their outfits at home after class.  They had a good time.  Sasha loved ballet and thought tap was a little loud.  Leeza said she had a lotta lotta fun.

I'm glad they could take the class together.  They let Sasha in even though she wasn't 5 yet, but she will do great.

Happy Labor Day

Yesterday, the  girls were up at 3:30am telling me the sun was up.  I sent them back to bed. At 4am, I caved and told them to go watch TV.  They were hyper all morning.  I wonder if being away from each other all week means they are extra excited about Saturdays together.  By 1:30pm, they crashed watching a movie.  they look so sweet when they are sleeping.

Hailey's Birthday

 The girls in their party dresses on their way to their friends Hailey's 3rd birthday party

 Hailey's mom rented a bounce house.  For some reason, Sasha decided she was too shy to jump. She gets this way sometimes and I do not understand it.  She wouldn't bounce and she wouldn't come out.  Leeza had no problem bouncing.

 Hailey, the birthday girl, eating lunch.

 Leeza had a good time at lunch, but then she is a party girl.  Sasha was still in her shy mode here.  It didn't last much past lunch.  I think she is just needing some attention since Leeza had so much focus on her and kindergarten this week.

 Yes, that is Sasha going in the bounce house with out me.  They just ran out there together and they both got in.

 Then the little playhouse got a workout.  Leeza, Cora, Dexter  and another girl are inside and Sasha and another kid are on the outside.  That is a lot of kids in one little house.

It was a princess party and the birthday girl did good blowing out her candles.  I had best start planning for Sasha's birthday- it is only a montha nd a half away