Tonsils Part III

Yes, Tonsils Part III. This time it was Meagan. She got an ear infection while we were in UT this summer and it took a long time to clear up. The pediatrician suggested that she go see the ENT and have her tonsils and ears looked at. He decided that she didn't need tubes in her ears, but just like with Tyler, took one look at her tonsils and declared that they needed to come out. So, Wednesday they came out. She did really well and was really brave to go off to the operating room on her own. Here she is modeling the finest in hospital gowns and her special bracelet.
These are her tonsils just before they were taken out. She wasn't sick then and look at how large they were. I will spare you the after shots, these are bad enough.

Just like with Tyler, after he was wheeled away they sent us to the waiting room with a restaurant-like pager that would go off when she was in the recovery room. When the pager went off we had to drive down to the other end of the building and go in the back door to meet her.

She did really well the first day after she got home. Since then, she has had her ups and downs. Today was her first day eating something other than popsicles and Jell-O. We are hoping that she will be on the up-swing from here on out.

Erin

It was brought to my attention that I never posted any pictures of Erin when she was born. I wasn't keeping the blog up to date and I was too busy with life. So, seeing as how she is almost 9 months, I thought I would give you a few pictures of her as she has "grown up".

1 day

6 weeks

2 months

3 months

4 months (eating rice cereal for the first time)

5 1/2 months

7 months

8 months

9 months (almost)

Pest Control

Every home in the desert has some sort of problem with bugs. Most people have the bug man come to their home to spray insecticide to kill the bugs. Not us, we use a more natural approach. We leave the front porch light on which attracts all the little bugs. Then the bigger bugs come and eat the smaller bugs, and so on and so forth until you get to the top of the insect (or arachnid) food chain. Here is our form of pest control. We have a tarantula that comes and visits our front porch and gets his fill on all the little bugs.

Unfortunately there is nothing in the picture to give a relative size comparison. If I were to judge, he is slightly smaller than my flat hand. It is the biggest of the tarantulas that I have seen on our front porch over the years. I didn't tell Michelle about him because she made me kill the last one that she saw.