Getting Bigger

She can't walk yet, but she can sure climb all by herself!

One More Thing

The surgeon's office called me this morning to tell me that I need an MRI done. They reviewed the CAT scan results from the weekend and found a spot on my liver. Argh! Next Monday will be the MRI, the 18th will be the colonoscopy, and the 20th will be hernia surgery.

Recommended Surgery

I had a consult with a surgeon today about my hernia. He thinks that the umbilical hernia and the abdominal pain are two separate issues. So....I will need to have the hernia surgery and a colonoscopy. The colonoscopy will help him determine what is causing the abdominal pain. I could give you my explanation as to what might be causing the abdominal pain, but I guarantee it won't be accurate. I will just wait to give you a more detailed update once he knows what is causing the pain. Sometime in the next week or so I will be having these procedures done. The colonoscopy will be done on a Monday and the hernia surgery will be done on a Wednesday (the same week). I understand that these are elective surgeries, but I am having difficulty liftng the kids and am tired of feeling this dull pain that doesn't go away. It will be nice to know what is going on in my body. I don't worry about the procedures being done, but I do worry about my reaction to the medication that they give me. I watched Dan have reactions after his abscess was drained and after his appendix was taken out. I have never had any surgeries so this is new territory for me.

"Because the bible tells me so......"

"I Can Not Believe It!"..........

For those of you who watch the Disney cartoon Little Einsteins, you will understand when I say that you need to read the title of this blog with gusto. There is a character who makes this remark on each show. Anyway, this is what I was saying last night when we went to the ER because I was having abdominal pain.

Dan and I were certain that I was having apendicitis. How crazy is that? We went to the ER at midnight because I was having abdominal pain and we were sent home at 5:30 this morning. It was a long night. I had a CT scan done and it was confirmed that I have an umbilical hernia, brought on by Sara's pregnancy. I have to meet with a surgeon tomorrow so I should know more information then. I guess I spoke too soon on my previous blog when I commented that our life wasn't very exciting right now. Oops!

The funny thing is that ever since I delivered Sara I have told Dan about a slight pain when I would push on my belly button. I think he thought I was making it up. But I guess that was the start of a hernia. Last Thursday evening I left to go running with my mom's running group and could not run very far. I had lower back pain that suddenly came on and it was painful to run. We thought that was a little odd. Then by Saturday I was having right abdominal pain. So now we know what was really going on. I'll update more after I see a surgeon tomorrow.

Our Girls

I decided that since not much exciting is going on in our lives since the whole appendix rupturing incident that I would post more pictures of our adorable girls. I just think they are so darn cute. I had to share the latest pictures that I took of them. If you look closely in the second picture, Sara has a dried blueberry stuck on her top gum. She must have found it under the couch because I certainly didn't give it to her.

Preschool Party

Today we had our "last day of preschool" party. My mom and I took the five kids to Pizza Hut for lunch. They shared a personal pizza, wore party hats, blew party horns (I'm sure the other customers liked that), and opened presents. It was a very fun morning full of excitement and noise. Actually, the kids were extremely well behaved in the restaurant. Here are some pictures from our great adventure today. You'll notice that the group picture was taken during a break from all the rain we are having. The sun came out as soon as we got outside and aparently was in everyone's eyes. Oh well!