We're Back!

Sad but true. We are back in New York and already missing Disney, although we all bought home colds with us so maybe it was time to come home. Our immune systems just couldn't keep up with Disney hours. We had a blast and as soon as we can figure out how to upload pics from our new camera onto our computer we will post some pics ( I have to admit there are some pretty dang cute ones).

Off We Go

We are so excited to be leaving tomorrow to go to Florida. Tomorrow Brett, the girls and I are flying to go see my Grandma in Florida. We are going to spend the day with the girls great grandma and drive up to Orlando tomorrow night. Then we are going to spend the next 8 days in Disney World!!! We are SO excited and this vacation is even more special because Makenna is getting old enough to really have fun at Disney. She knows her disney characters and watches movies all the time so I think she is really going to flip over everything. I hope we figure out how to post pics once we get back because I'm sure we'll have some gems.

Funny, but not Acceptable

So I always get on Brett about watching his language around the girls, because sometimes his "kitchen" mouth follows him home from the restaurant. Myself, I have never really cursed much in my life so I never really thought I had any bad language to erase from my everyday speech until the other day. Last weekend the air conditioner in our living room broke. My dad bought a new one and was bringing it in through the front door when Makenna, sweet in her pink silk nightgown, marches up and ask grandpa "Are you bringing more crap into this house?". Something I would definitly say. She went on to use the word crap, correctly, for the next week or so and it still creeps into my otherwise sweet baby's language. I have got to stop using that word, and watch more carefully what I say around the girls. So, I guess two-year olds really do listen to EVERYTHING you say.

A Sigh of Relief

Today I took Makenna to see Dr. Delgado (the hernia specialist) and I have never wanted to hug a doctor so much. He felt Makenna's hernia and told me it was very small and was pushed back in (which her doctor did yesterday) and that he sees absolutely no reason for surgery. He said that umbilical hernias, such as Makenna's, close spontaneously between the ages of 4 to 5 (not what her pediatrician told me). When I told her about how Makenna was experiencing pain and holding her tummy, he told me that he is sure she does have pain when the hernia is popped out but that is just part of having a hernia and will go away when it closes. I told her that she never had pain before and he said that she probably did but she is older now and can pinpoint right where the pain is coming from and is old enough to tell us about it. Also, he said the warmer weather laeds to more activity which means her hernia is going pop out more and give her a bit more problems. Still no surgery for my baby!! I am so excited and unbelievably relieved. Dr. Delgado did say he would like to see her hernia popped out and just to bring her by next time it does so, but in all he sees no reason to worry and that her hernia is tiny compared to most and should just cause her mild discomfort that will go away once we push the hernia back in. I am one happy mommy, I gave her "lump" so many kisses.

Here we go Again...

Makenna has been complaining on and off about stomach pains for the past 3 or 4 days. I didn't think much of it as she hasn't been sick or acted sick, but last night she was curled up holding her belly right where her hernia is, then it dawned on me, this kid needs to get to the doctor. We went and she pushed Makenna's hernia back in and showed me how to do it also, but she wants the hernia gone. Seems most children who are born with umbilical hernias, like Makenna was, usually are closed up or pretty close to it before they turn 3. Makenna will be 3 in 2 months and hers is still pretty big, so we are going to see the same spacialist who did surgery on Brett's hernia tomorrow. We are hoping that the surgery can be put off until we get back from Florida, but we will have to see what the specialist says. It kills me to think of such a young kid(especially my baby) going through surgery where she will have to be put out, even worse I am dreading her waking up and them not letting me be there right when she wakes up. So this will be on my mind until we get all the details sorted out and even more so until her hernia is just a memory and hopefully a little scar.