Mmmmm!

Mmm... Mmm... Good!

So... Do you think she enjoyed those Cheetos and apple wagon wheels?

Looks like she Loved 'Em!

EAR UPDATE:

Day 1: Dallie Jo slept from 10pm to 7am last night without waking up, yahoo! She took two naps today and seems to be feeling better. She sleeps sounder too. Before getting the tubes, if we stepped on the wrong floor board (We have TERRIBLY squeeky floor boards, ask anyone who have ever been to our house) she'd wake up. Now I can walk back and forth with no wakey, wakey!

When it comes time for me to give her, her antibiotic drops, she puts up a real good fight. She hates them! She freaks out and will barely hold still for me to put them in. The doctor did say the drops might kinda hurt when they first go in the ear, so I can't tell if she's mad because she has to hold still -OR- if they hurt her. 

Early Morning Procedures

Early this morning, My mom and I took Miss D, in to get tubes put in her ears.

Doctors/Technology these days are so great! They didn't have to do any needle work for this procedure, they just used some gas and to put her out.

The surgery took about 5 mins to finish and she was back in about 25 minutes.

But Boy was she mad! I could hear her screaming in the recovery room, and when they brought her back to me, she was screaming even louder and wasn't sure what she wanted. 

It was so Sad! Poor lil Baby! 

It was kinda bitter sweet that she only wanted her Mamma.

She cuddled into my shoulder and sobbed in my hair.

Dr. Catten talked with us and said they drained quite a bit of fluid from her ear and said there was quite a bit of pressure on the ear drum. He said everything went great and these tubes she should really help her feel alot better.

Its pretty cool how fast they were.

Look at that face!

The nurses said she probably wasn't in pain, just a little dizzy from the gas and confused as to why she was mad.

I felt so bad! We just cuddled and I gave her lots of kisses.

As we were leaving, she gradually cheered up and was glad to be leaving. By the time we got back to our house, she was a happier and had stopped screaming and was ready to play with Grandma.

She's sleeping now, and will probably sleep most of the day.

I sure hope these tubes make her feel better!

And here are just a few happier pictures. On Saturday it was so nice! Well it was warm, almost 80 degrees!

We didn't go outside much because it was pretty breezy but it was warm enough for her to wear a cute summer outfit.

Her favorite thing to do; Love on DAD!

No Foolin...

Dallie Jo is 8 Months Old Today... No Foolin!

If only it was an April Fool's joke... But sadly, it's not.

She's growing too fast!

(I usually post some of her newest tricks and things I want to remember about last month, but there just isn't anytime today! Coming Soon...)

This little Piggy....

(Sorry Danielle H., I know how you HATE FEET!)

Mother, like Daughter 

-OR-

 is it Daughter like Mother?

Either way, these piggies are so cute!

I think today has been the L.O.N.G.E.S.T day of our lives! When I got up this morning, I thought today would actually end up being a decent day; BUT yet again, the wonderful Basin Wind has picked up and we have barricaded ourselves in the house again.

Luckily we were able to get out for a little walk/jog before it picked up.

(More walking than jogging, slowly getting back in shape)

So with it being windy outside and not much to do inside, I decided to paint Dallie Jo's little toes.... It took a bit longer than just painting my own but they turned out SUPER CUTE! 

 This is one of the new little outfits I picked up,

(She's growing out of all her other clothes) 

Its Super CUTE too!

It's probably just the Sweet Baby wearing it...

She's still trying to find her balance,

She wants to walk so BAD!  

Anyways, with these pretty blue eyes and that BIG smile, Baby Jo always makes a long day like today alot better and definitely more fun!

Ice Cream Baby!

These pictures pretty much

speak for themselves.....

Doesn't she look so Happy?! Oh YES!

Dal gobbles the ice cream down faster than Cody can clean her up...

She's definitely her Dad's girl, and has his sweet tooth for Orange Cream Ice Cream!

New Stuff!

We are loving the warm weather SO. VERY. MUCH!

I finally talked Cody into buying me a stroller and I am loving it. It's so fun to just get out and go for a little walk, or a long walk as some of them have turned into. And Miss Dallie Jo LOVES it too!

Sleepy little eyes.

Our little walks usually makes her really tired, but she's too afraid to miss something so we won't fall asleep until we get home.

We don't need to buy toys, all we need is the weekly newspaper and Daddy's toes!

Peek! 

She loves the newspapers, she'll roll back and forth just ripping them up.

Her little shirt was pretty black from the ink, but its okay, she had fun! 

Today I took Miss D to the Doctor (yet again!) and much to our dismay, she has to get tubes put in her ears. I wasn't too happy and was kinda nervous to hear the results but the Doc quickly put my nerves to rest. He fully explained the process and made me see it is just a small surgery; not really a surgery but a procedure which will take less than five minutes. They don't even have to do any needle work, they just put a little mask over her nose and she's out. He did say she'd probably be mad when she wakes up from the dizziness of the anesthetics but really its not a big deal. (I'm still a little nervous, but it's because I'm a worry wart!)

I thought this was kind of interesting: Dr. Catten said, getting tubes is the second most common procedures, right up there with the 'special' procedure a boy baby gets. (If you know what I mean!)

So that's where we are now. Just spilling out more money to the Docs,

BUT if it will make her feel better, I'm all for it!

Sunday Funnies!

Sunday Funnies:

It always so nice when people at church stop and say how cute Dallie Jo is (I love it actually), Then they get a whiff of her stinky diaper, make a funny face and quickly walk away.... 

I laugh Every. Single. TIME! 

I guess that's what they get for stopping me on my way to the Mother's room.

Today Cody got called out as we were getting ready to go to church this morning;  Cody usually gets Dallie Jo dressed while I get my lesson and diaper bag together, then I feed her and we head to church, but this morning I had to do it all..... (its funny, I do this all week by myself but I'm use to his help on Sundays. I didn't schedule/organize myself... ha ha)

Its hard taking: a baby, a car seat, scriptures, a diaper bag, lesson books, blankets, toys, treats, and of course table decorations to the truck, THEN unload it all at the church, THEN reload it all back in the truck THEN unload it at the house... ALL BY YOURSELF. And its even more stressful when your running late. (AND my YW president hates when we are late... but what can you. Needless to say, we were NOT late this morning, I didn't want to feel the wrath of Sister Gerber.)

So here's a big THANK YOU to my awesome hubby for all his help which I usually take for advantage... We miss you today!

I just had to throw this in... Just another cute picture from her photshoot at the beginning of this month.

I hope everyone has a great Sunday and can get their Sunday nap in!

If only Dallie Jo would let me have one.