Staycation: Day 5

We broke a major rule of vacation today, we got up early. 5:30am to be exact. That that is really all that early in our normal everyday lives, but when you've been sleeping to 8am, that is big different. Today is the day that Matthew gets his tubes. I was dreading this more than his first procedure in March, but seeing as we can't seem to get over ear infections, it really is necessary.

We did the surgery at the hospital this time and Matthew was a trooper. He bared with us as we got him up early and drug him to a place that was totally unfamiliar. The cool thing about our surgery here is Matthew got a cute pair of PJs and his own school bus bags as a memento.




True to everything we'd been told, the procedure was super quick, but the anesthesia was a whole other story. Matthew did wonderful in March and I expected much the same this time around, but I couldn't have been more wrong. He work up in a very bad mood. He didn't want anything - didn't want to drink, didn't want to sit, didn't want to be held and didn't want down. After 30 minutes we were able to leave and we weren't even a block from the hospital when Matthew was back asleep. In fact, we all took a four hour nap when we got home. Yes - the whole family slept until 12:30pm. It was awesome! I don't remember the last time I slept that late.

The afternoon was fairly low key - Matthew and I went to the mall while daddy got his chance to relax and have "me-time." We did the normal mall stuff - carousel, play area, shop. It was great fun! I'm sad this has come to an end.