Happy Birthday Ezra BALTZLY!!!!

Today is Ezra's birthday! Wow! Two years has FLOWN by! Shew! This is his first birthday with OUR last name!! Thank You, JESUS!!! We're so thankful!

We too are remembering our sweet Loren Walter! Today would've been his birthday also!

Surgery!

BEFORE

Post surgery recovery!

You can see my fingers very swollen! They are better today.

Several are asking for an update from surgery! I've decided to post one handed! :)

It went well. A little trouble with respiratory at the beginning of anesthesia, but all turned out alright! Benjamin just got real worried when he sat in the waiting room for me and about 5 minutes after they rolled me away he heard over the loud speaker, "Dr Erickson (my dr) to OR #5 STAT for respitory! STAT to OR#5." That was me! Everything else went smooothly!

Today, I'm pretty uncomfortable, although that's to be expected! Running a low grade fever, so praying hard that goes away and no infection at incision site!! I get to take original dressing off tomorrow. Am very curious to see!

Thank you for your continued prayers! There is still tingly numbness in fingers as before, but hopefully that goes away. They said 70% of the patients that have this surgery will have immediate day after surgery relief or feeling back! Not me quite yet, but hopefully soon!

I'll post later!

Big Day

Tomorrow is the big day! Phew! As I write, the house is quiet. Two of my kids are spending the night tonight instead of getting up at 4:30 in the morning to get all loaded up and dropped off at three different homes! Shew! But I'm WIPED! That wasn't originally the plan. The hospital doesn't call you until the night before to tell you what time you have to be there. So, I didn't find out it was so early until tonight at 6:00 PM. NICE! :) Luckily, Laine & Ezra are situated, and now it will just be Chavalah we have to drop off so early in the morning!!! It's been reported Laine is asleep, and Ezra was asleep before I left. I wanted to make sure he wasn't going to cry awhile when he was not in his own bed. He went right down! :) So nice!

Good night! Other than the possibility of Benjamin posting for me, it may be a bit before you see another post! JUST WARNING YOU, you blog regulars!!! :) I actually LOVE it that you so faithfully read my blog! And that you so faithfully pray for our family!

Hugs!

Happy St. Patty's Day!!!!!!!!!

Best baby EVER! Happy all the time and smiley all the time! :)

This is her new silly thing. She sucks her bottom lip and squeaks it.

Here's our little sweetie on St Patrick's Day!!! :) Do you see now, why I can't quit squeezing her!?!?

Also, Happy Birthday Annika, my sweet cousins' baby (not anymore). And Happy Birthday Isabella, my dear friends little girl!!!

Chavalah

Chavalah is just too cute! I can't quick squeezing her! Just lovey! Scrumptious!

She has a new thing that she does and that's scrunch up her cute little face and inhale and exhale through her nose! Watch! :) She has also figured out how to click her tongue!

Spaghetti Man!

Ezra LOVES spaghetti! I usually strip him down to just his diaper when he eats it as he gets it EVERYWHERE! :) He's such a dolly! I love him so much! He's just growing up SO FAST!

Mmmm, mmmm, Mommy!! :)

GNO!!!!

Much needed Girls Night Out happened last night! What a delightful time! My friend Amber and I went out WITHOUT our kids! WOW! It was so wonderful! THANK YOU ROB AND BENJAMIN for watching the kids while we got out. We went to a really good restaurant called Z Tejas first and enjoyed a PLEASANT surprise when we got our bill. We ended up ordering appetizers from the menu cause that's what we wanted and they ended up being half price as it was "happy hour." Didn't even know it!!!! What a blessing!

Then we went to As You Wish which is a paint your own pottery place to paint a birthday plate for our families. I will serve all of our family a piece of cake on their very own birthday! Should be fun! I just want my kids to have special memories of growing up just as I do! As you can see, they turned out pretty cute, but you really CAN'T tell what they'll look like until you actually see them glazed, which we can pick them up on Tuesday, so I'll take another picture and post when we get them back.

Thank, Amber, for a great night!