Life Lately

Last week the girls had Movie Night at school.  They wore their PJs and watched the Polar Express.  A took them so I could finish watching Brantley win the State Championship!  He is good like that and I appreciate it!  He wanted to watch too and had a funeral and then offered to take the girls to this so I could watch the rest of the game so he was only able to see about 15 min of the game. 

These are terrible quality pics but here they are.  It is neat to watch Millie with Lizzie’s friends.  Of course they are only a yr apart but they all love Millie (I think everyone loves Millie!).  I think they love that she is so tiny and they seem to be protective of her.  Lizzie does not seem to mind at all that they love Millie and is sweet to Mill even when her friends are around.  It is sweet!  Sallie got to hang out with Hannah so all was good in her world!As I was uploading the pics above I saw these pics.  No idea but this is real life at the Hall House…Yep…Last week flip flops, this week snow flurries!  This is all we got, a slight dusting.  However in town which is only 9 miles they got enough to play in.  School was delayed until 10 because of the roads.  We could not figure out why school would be delayed based on what we were seeing at our house but turns out there was more and the roads were cold so it made them a mess.  Apparently there were some wrecks.  Sallie got this sweatshirt from Nonnie for her bday and I had put it away for Christmas/Winter.  She went and got it out when she saw the dusting!  She is so funny! 

Funny Millie story:  Wednesday when I picked her up from school she says, “I invited Irene to church tonight and I told her the name of our church.”  I said, “Millie, you are so sweet to invite people to church”  which she and Lizzie both do frequently.  She said, “What?  I want a pixie stick tonight!”  Honesty!  They get a giant pixie stick at AWANA if they bring a friend.  The incentive works apparently! 

Had our post op/pre op with Dr. Bauer yesterday.  All was good from last surgery and we are good to go for implant.  He was very apologetic about the mix up with getting the process started and apparently the responsible party is no longer employed by him.  Not that she was let go over this particular instance just wasn’t working out he said.  He said he would clean out the other ear again which we totally expected.  Of course this will make the equilibrium issue worse because he will be doing something to both ears.  He said everything else should be basically the same as last implant surgery except he will have to make an additional incision this time.  Last time there were incisions for the implant as well as to take muscle to place inside the ear to place the electrodes.  This time he is also going to make another incision behind the ear to pull some fat to put in that ear.  The reason for this is that the area he built to implant in the other ear has shrunk more than it needed to so he is going to add fat in there to hopefully prevent some of that shrinking.  Yes it is another incision but that is nothing compared to what could happen if those electrodes are not covered well so we will take the extra incision.  We see our cochlear audiologist on Monday. So 6 more hours in the car with a Dr’s appt in the middle.  As much as I miss the metroplex I was reminded yesterday that I do not miss the traffic, especially during the holidays!  It was terrible!  Thank you for the continued prayers!