Well it's been 10 days since surgery and things are going well. We had a rough week. Avery is tired of her liquid diet and is extremely hard to put to sleep. We call her the midnight Gremlin! As of today we think she is off pain meds for good now. She is happy during the day and loves her No No's. We call them "pretties" and she holds her arms out for us to put them on her. When I take them off the dives into her mouth, but doesn't really do anything. She looks at mom to see if mom will tell her NO! She is a stinker that way! Loves to do what she knows she cannot! Smart cookie! Avery went days without eating anything. initially she did great eating, but then she stopped, even her fluids were hard to get in. Many dry diapers so it started to scar us. She feels as though she is waiting away. She feels super tiny. I suppose we should weigh her. It feels like she has lots a few lbs. I am sure that is not the case! We'll need to weigh her this week. Grammy and Grandpa in Denver sent this to Avery for something fun to do after surgery!

Dad and Avery playing around!

We try to have some time in her chair to give mom a break from the worry that she'll hurt herself somehow. We put non toy items on her tray and let her dig in. Of course we need a vat of these on hand since they all go in the floor in 3.3 seconds. Today was the first day of giving her back her mushy food. We only tried canned carrots and she looked at me like.... really.. really mom I can eat these? She giggled the whole time she ate them. We got some not such great news about Avery's allergies. We did a blood draw when she was under the anesthetic and they found her to be allergic to Dairy, soy, wheat, eggs, and peanuts! What are we going to feed this child? For those of you who don't know the whole story. Avery was give the flu shot by her Doctors, I was against it, but they insisted she needed it. "Perfectly Safe" was the Doctor's last words. Needless to say Avery was not allergic to Wheat and dairy before the Flu shot. Because Avery has an allergy to eggs and the flu shot has eggs in it... it triggered these allergies. I will be listing our 5 week reaction to the shot in a future post. I really feel the need to get this info out to all the moms I know!