Rowan's cast off/Taysen's tubes in

The past week has been pretty busy. Catching up on work from being on vacation. Rowan got her cast off on Thursday morning. The X-rays show her bone is healed perfectly...they want to check it in 3 months to make sure its growing correctly, but after that X-ray, as long as everything looks good still, she will be all done with the leg drama. :) Yay!

Then Thursday night we went to the fair in Pemberville, the little town Josh's parents live in. Taysen's grandparents (Joshs parents) bought tickets for him to ride rides. He rode the carousel 5 or 6 times! He loved it. All of the other rides just looked too big for him. He wasn't sure about the carousel the first few seconds of his first ride...but after that he loved it, and every time it stopped he freaked out wanting back on. Man that was a long nite! LOL! Luckily his grandparents are saps for the kids and kept buying tickets until mommy couldnt stand going around in circles anymore. I seriously had a pounding headache! Anyhow...it was fun and a new thing to do with the kiddos. Yes even Rowan rode and loved it too. :)

Saturday we went back out to Pemberville for the Parade (for the fair week.) Taysen loved it and collected a bunch of candy in a cool little Cars bag that I picked up for him. It was hilarious because he tried to walk away with a few of the marching bands. LOL! He was so cute running out to pick up the candy that was thrown from the floats. :) Then we went back up to the fair, my parents and Hayden went this time and lucky for Josh and me, they are saps for the kids too and bought a bunch of tickets for the rides. (Those silly rides cost like 3 bucks per kid to ride!! Totally crazy for a two minute ride for a toddler!) Anyhow, with Hayden there, I felt that Taysen might ride some of the bigger rides since he sort of looks up to Hayden. :) (Its quite adorable actually...Hayden pets Taysens head, and Taysen just lets him do whatever...its so funny...) Anyhow there was this Firetruck ride that Hayden wanted to do, and Taysen kept screaming "racecar" in his Tater language. So he wanted to do it too. I was totally terrified, because you know how fair rides can be sort of unsafe! Well I put Taysen in the inside of the car because that door didnt open, so he wouldnt be able to get out. Hayden sat on the side with the door. It started up with a jerk, but Taysen and Hayden both loved it! It was so cute! Taysen would scream "Woah!" and "Wheeee" as the trucks went around the track! I was so proud of him because he, at least to me, was being so brave! I thought it was going fast for a kid his size! Anyhow, he ended up riding that 3 more times throughout the evening, and the guy at the ride gave the boys a free ride because Taysen was screaming so much after it ended. Haha...even strangers give in to my childs shreiks! But it was really nice of him to do that. :) Anyhow, Taysen also rode the super slide with Josh and he did the fair version of the Ocean Motion...(like the big boat that swings forward and backward. He loved that too! It was enough that I got a tickle in my stomach when we would rise and fall, and when we did, Taysen would shake his hands and scream because he was so happy! He is going to be a roller coaster lover after all! It was a really great evening.

Well on to this morning. We woke up really early because today was Taysen's ear tube surgery. I was excited because I have been wanting the kid to get tubes for the longest time, just didnt switch peds fast enough! LOL! I was pretty nervous though...just because no matter how small the surgery may be, its still your kid going under! Anyhow, we get there, they weigh him and do all that stuff. Put him in a room and turn on cartoons for him, and lucky for him The Wonder Pets were even on! He loves that show. Then we changed him and a few minutes later they went over the anesthesia paperwork with us. A few minutes after that they came and got him to give him the anesthesia. He didnt even have to have an IV. :) That was the best part...no pokes! A nurse came and got him, he cried when they took him away, but not as bad as I thought it would be. Josh, Me, Rowan, my mom, and Joshs mom all sat watching tv and chatting for I'd say a short 20 minutes at the most, and here comes the Tater...all done! He cried a little bit when he first came back, but that was to be expected. When we got in the van, we started up the Wonder Pets on the DVD player and he went ballistic. We couldnt figure out which episode he wanted...he kept saying "the Roo's" (kangaroos) but even when we would put it on he just screamed like we were idiots because that wasnt the one he wanted...it was like that the whole way home. Im sure he was just anxious and his ears probably hurt. Anyhow, once we got home I forced some Ibuprofen. After a bowl of cereal and about 20 minutes passing, he was as good as new. :) It seemed like he got frustrated easily today, but nothing too out of the norm. He took a nap around noon...slept until 4:00pm. After he woke up, you wouldnt have even known he had anything done today! He didnt really want to eat much after he woke up, but oh well. Thats nothing out of the ordinary. He took a bath, I read some books, and now he is sleeping. :) I think he did great! :) Now, hopefully in a few short weeks, maybe we will notice a change in his speech. We will find out. If not, at least we know that we shouldnt have too many ear infections to deal with anymore, if any at all! That is one great thing! Im soo happy for that...an ear infection every month or two gets old. Well...cross your fingers for the speech aspect of it all!

Well I guess thats it for now...I better get to bed...he has speech therapy in the morning and its getting late! :) I hope youre all doing well! :D