Flying high

I've already blown my New Year's resolution of making shorter posts more often... but people make resolutions to break them, right? Since this has been a busy month, I'll try to post mostly pictures of a couple more Grant "firsts".

The weekend of the Super Bowl, we went on a walk to see our friends, Erica and Darren, and Grant rode in the stroller without being in the car seat for the first time.



Grant's also been trying some new foods including avocados, zucchini, pears, and butternut squash. But the most fun thing that he has tried has been Cheerios!

And finally, last weekend we had an exciting trip back to Kansas for my Grandma's wedding (yes, my Grandma's wedding!). We couldn't take off too much time from work, so we decided to fly. We were worried about how Grant's ears would handle the flight, but we had a post-op follow up visit with our ENT last Thursday (his tubes look great), and she said that his ears will probably feel better than anyone else on the plane.

Waiting in the security line

Riding the train to our gate at DIA

Searching for the barf bag on the plane

Waiting in KC for the rental car

Hanging out with Erin, Todd, and Alex

Our dapper diaper dandy

After the wedding

Grant with the happy couple

The fam

Grant did excellent on the flights, the wedding was nice, and it was great to see everyone.

Grant's trip to the hospital

As you probably know, Grant was supposed to get tubes put in his ears tomorrow, but last Wednesday Shannon got a call from the ENT department saying that our insurance required that the surgery be performed at the main Children's Hospital and not another Children's off site facility. We originally had the surgery scheduled for the Broomfield Children's campus only because that was the first available time with our ENT surgeon. The ENT scheduler attempted to get the surgery moved to the main campus on Tuesday but was ultimately unable to do so. On thursday morning, Shannon found out that they were able to put us on the schedule for Friday. So we scrambled to get time off for the next day because we did not want to wait a few more weeks for the next available spot.
Overall, it was a very quick procedure and it did not seem like we were there very long. We arrived to the hospital at 7am and spent the next 2 hours in a pre-op room with a flat screen tv and computer while various doctors and nurses checked on us. Around 9am, a nurse carried him back to the OR and Shannon and I were sent to the waiting room. Thankfully only 15 minutes later, the anesthesiologist found us and took us to the PACU. When we arrived, Grant was waking up and was pretty upset. Once he got some food in his belly however, he settled down and we were ready to go home a little after 10am.
All in all everything went very well and Grant recovered quickly. We hope that the future holds for us many fun memories, and not ones at the pediatrician's office because of another ear infection!