CarliAnn gets her tonsils out.

The day finally came for CarliAnn to get her tonsils and adenoids out, she is our 3rd child to have to have this done, Tyler at 3.5 half (same age about as her) and Alison at 8. Both Tyler and Carli have had sleep issues, Alison had repeated monthly Strep.

I am just amazed at how well she did, I have been bracing myself for months for the crying and pain and she didn't even cry after the surgery!! I remember poor little Tyler after they let me see him crying and saying "take them out, they hurt!" and me telling him they were already out, poor little guy. But none of that for Carli! Here are a few pictures....

Look at that trust in her eyes as the nurse warms her cold hands so the heart monitor will pick up her heart beat correctly.

She was so happy I was worried that it was all a game to her and she was going to be so mad at us afterwards. It seemed like it was a fun game to her to play Dr and such and she was loving all the attention. Cute Hospital jammies!

Here she is ready to walk of with the Anesthesiologist to the operating room, the place we cannot go. A nurse in post-op commented "oh she was the little girl I saw holding her doll and skipping down the hall to the operating room" Yep, that's our happy girl!

While we waited we had a snack, of chips and a soda, Nathan was playing with the chips and when I wasn't looking he decided to taste one, I caught him sucking on it LOL, He then proceeded to want some soda, luckily he doesn't know how to get the lid off! He kept us pretty entertained while waiting, along with Jarin watching TV on his phone.

Then he fell asleep.

Jarin went back to see Carli first, that was hard for me to let him, I had gone back with the other kids, but I knew she is a daddy's girl and he could calm her crying. Only there wasn't any, she fell back asleep when he got to her, and woke up without a tear!

When they took her to post op 2 and I could go back this is how I first saw her, just staring at the TV.

Then a smile when I called her name, I was shocked she was doing so well and sat down to relax, the stress was going away!

The hardest part was taking the IV out so she could get dressed to go home, that didn't last long though.

Just 2 hours after Surgery we were on our way home.

Then she fell asleep with her mouth wide open, when we were almost home she woke up (I was hoping we would make it home) and the pain of the dry sores hurt and she finally cried.

But after some cuddles and more pain meds she was fine and fell asleep for a couple hours, so cute!