Anything you can do, Embree can do better....

Embree had a little surgery (adenoids) this morning.

She was a little nervous.

I had to coax a little smile out of her.

We distracted her by taking a few pictures. This is 'blowing a kiss'.

We call this one 'silly face'.



'I looked out the window'.

'Embree sandwich'.

Then she picked her feet a while.

She requested to take a few pictures herself. 'bunny'.

Then she got some Versed.

At her request Sean went with her into the OR.

Post-op. They (thankfully) let her sleep for as long as she wanted.

Which was for about a half an hour.

We got to talk to TWO nurses who had cleft affected children too! It was really cool.

One of the nurses had a cleft lip herself.

She woke up while I was wiping a little blood off her mouth. She blinked once, sat right up and asked for something to eat! She is tough as nails! We said why don't you have a drink first. She insisted on food. She did suck the whole drink down without taking a breath.

Then she got her ice cream.

She insisted on feeding herself, wanted the pulse-ox, and IV out.

As soon as she took her last bite of vanilla, she said "now chocolate".

The nurse promptly brought her some. She ate it all.

She's home now on the lawn mower with dad.