Making a comeback!

Update...

Last Friday, a week ago, we took Kelsey back to the ENT for her follow up after surgery. He said that everything looked perfect and he didn't feel the need to see her back for another 6 months! She's been doing so good since she had the tubes placed! She is going to bed at 8pm and she normally wakes up once around midnight and then sleeps until 6 or 6:30am. She now has 12 teeth, 6 on top and 6 on the bottom! She has picked up on a lot of words throughout the last few weeks, but this week she's started saying "hello" and "sissy!"
Karli is ready for the summer and school to come to an end, what kid isn't this time of year? She's playing tball and she's on the Scrappers team. Her first game was scheduled for last Saturday but it was canceled due to the smoke from the big Dare County fire. On the 2nd of May I took her to the dentist to have 2 cavities filled........I was terrified!!! She was wonderful! She was in the back 45 minutes, had 2 cavities filled and 4 sealants. I was in tears in the waiting room (I know, but I have a fear of the dentist...funny huh). I had to call William so he could tell me that everything would be fine, and he did! She came out and told me she never even felt them numb her gums, it was fine and she now likes going to the dentist. We have an appointment to go back next Monday to get the other 2 cavities filled. Karli and I made a pact that there would be NO MORE cavities, and she's been trying so hard brushing and getting help with flossing!
Our girls are growing...seems like faster and faster all the time! SLOW DOWN GIRLS!

Easter Egg Hunting

Saturday before Easter we went to a big easter egg hunt at church, The Assembly of Praise! It was wonderful! They had games and a HUGE egg hunt with three separate egg hunting sections depending on your age. I went with Kelsey and William went with Karli. They had the most fun! It took Kelsey a minute to understand the concept of what we were doing, but once she picked up on it...away we went!

 I just followed her around with her little bucket and she would pick them up and drop them in. After a few she realized she could open them and find a prize. After that, everone had to be opened and put back together before going into the bucket!

 I promise she picked up every single on herself, I didn't help at all!

 Karli had fun too! Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of her actually looking for eggs. I'm sure that her age group was so fast that it would of been difficult to get them anyway! She found a bucket full herself!

 Here they are sitting on the grass going through their eggs to see what kinds of candy they had!

 After the egg hunt we all filled our bellies with lots of wonderful cookout food! Heres a picture of the girls with their daddy, headed back to the car after a long morning that ran into the afternoon! Tired girls!

Show Me Your Smile!

Karli officially has not a single front tooth! On the way home yesterday, it just fell out! She holds her hand out for me to see and I asked her did you just pull it out! No she says, I just caught it! So here is that priceless picture that will no doubtly go in a yearbook one day!

 My little girl is not so little anymore, she's growing up way to fast for my liking. This is the perfect age and if I could I'd keep her right here forever!

 Ofcourse I had to throw in a picture of Kelsey this morning! She too, is growing incredibly fast! Where have all my children gone?!

Play Dates

Saturday before the big storm mom came over with Nathan and Sawyer to play with the girls! They had a good time! We watched a movie, ran around outside, played on the swings, rode in the power wheels jeep and had lasagna and applesauce for lunch! Here are a couple pictures of them. Nathan and Karli had to sit together in the rocking chair to watch the movie!

 Here Kelsey is showing Sawyer the ropes, pushing him around on her little ride along. Too cute!

Surgery for Kelsey

Last Thursday April, 14 was an early morning for us. We were up and out the door by 4:30 am, headed to Greenville to the surgi center for Kelsey to have tubes placed in both of her ears. MiMi came over and spent the night so that when we left she could be there with Karli. I picked Kelsey up, changed her diaper, and put her in her carseat. Thank goodness she fell back asleep and slept the entire way. She woke up as we were pulling into the parking lot, hows that for timing?

 After we registered and she got her armband they gave us a buzzer/pager that would go off when we needed to present to the front desk. We were only there about 5 minutes when it went off and the nurse came to get us and take us back to the preop area to get Kelsey ready for surgery. Here is a picture of Kelsey sitting in the waiting room, just looking around holding on to that buzzer.

 William took this picture just as I handed her off to the OR nurse. She went willfully and without fuss. We stood in the hallway and watched her walk all the way into the OR doors. I really was impressed at how pre occupied she was and didn't cry a bit.

 William and I took the buzzer and went out into the waiting room. Maybe 20 minutes later they paged us back. Dr Brechtelsbauer came in and told us she did great, she had alot of fluid in her ears. He then took us to the PACU (the recovery room) where she was NOT happy. She had just started to wake up and kicking and screaming as the pacu nurse tried to hold her. I took her and she just kept wimpering (she was drunk from anesthesia gas), she couldn't sit up without falling down. We gave her a bit of Tylenol and apple juice and went out the door 30 minutes later. I sat in the back with her as she cried, I kept rubbing her head and brushing her hair and she fell back asleep within a few minutes. This is a picture of her on the ride home.

 About 30 minutes from home she woke up...happy as a clam!

 All in all she's done very well. She seems so happy and she's been sleeping MUCH better! Even still, this is a particular braclet I don't care to put on either one of my children again!

My Name is Kelsey

Name: Kelsey Morgan Hollis
Age: 4 days away from 16 months
Weight: 24 lbs 12 ounces
Height: 30 6/8"
Favorite Color: She tends to go for things that are red first
Favorite Animal: Dogs and ducks...she points them out and says "dog" or "duck" everywhere we go, even in pictures.
Favorite Food: Maccaroni and cheese, hot dogs, pancakes, bbq, green peas, applesauce, grits & eggs
Favorite Toy: She doesn't specify one toy over another (although she loves her little push and ride car). At any given time if you see Kelsey she more than likely has some sort of burp rag in her hand. It comforts her and she must have it to go to sleep. She will drag it around with her all day.
Schedule: Most days she's up around 6am, takes a 2 hour nap around 11, then goes down for bed at 8pm. Still up twice a night for something to drink, occasionally sleeps all night. I'm hoping that gtting tubes in her ears on Thursday will help the sleep issue.
Words: Her first words that she consistently put together and said in context were "thank you." She also says: ball, dog, duck, whats that, whos that, shoes, socks, turk, mama, dada, papa, baba, eyes, and ears. She is pretty good at repeating a word if you say it to her such as baby, but she doesn't say them on her own yet. If you ask her where her baby is she points to her picture on the wall. She can point to her eyes and ears when asked and she will go get just about anything in her room if you ask. Tell her in the kitchen or living room to go put something up (that belongs in her room) she'll go put it right where it needs to go. She's very good about helping clean her room, she brings things to you and then claps her hands as if to say "yay me!" She gives everyone and everything "kisses." Reading a book takes forever because she kisses every picture of a character. She also leans in to hug them making the noise "uh-uh-uh"...this also goes for any picture of the family in our house that she can reach....and also poor Turk if he's around!

Love her to no end!