So Mia's eye procedure was today. It was really fast. After they took her I went down to eat a quick bite and right as I got back they rolled her out. Let me tell you, she was screaming! She did not like waking up from that anesthesia. The doc. said everything went well. Her eye was swollen all to heck though. The picture was actually taken a few hours after the procedure and it looks a ton better than it did at first. But, they put 10 shots of steroids in her eye so it was all full of extra fluid. The other picture was taken a few days ago. I was trying to find something to compare it to. To be honest though, whenever we take pics. of her, the eye doesn't look that bad. It looks bigger and more purple in real life. Right now, she is just sleeping like crazy. It should make tonight fun. Love ya all and hope you are doing well.

A new vehicle

Well, after weeks of stressing over what was going to happen with our car situation we finally got a new car. It's an unfortunate situation and no matter what the option was we were going to be out some money. So, it was go into credit card debt and not eat for a month to scrape together the money to fix our car which has a lot of miles and seemed like we were having to put a lot of money into it lately. Or, try and find something new. So, we finally found a dealership that gave us a reasonable amount for a trade in as it was. We used the rest of our savings to help pay off our loan. We ended up only having to carry over a small amount. Again, not the ideal situation but it was the best we could do. We bought a 2008 Ford Escape. It's used but still has low miles. The best part is that the warranties carry over so if anything goes wrong in the next few years, they have to pay for it. It's a little smaller but we are only losing space in the back hatch area really. I actually like it better. Mostly, I just feel good about not having to stress about something going wrong with it. So, although our cruise is gone. Our trip to Calli is back on. Yeahh!
On another note. We moved up Amelia's surgery. We were afraid it would be too big by that time so I called to see if they had anything available before we left for CA. When I talked to the doctor's assistant, he said Dr. Shelley was going to call us anyway because he thought that was too far away also. So, it is scheduled now for June 17th. Everyday, it seems to get bigger. I need to take some pics. and show you guys. People are always asking about it. I don't mind though. I actually prefer that they just ask and not stare. I almost feel a need to tell people that we meet or that don't know. It looks like she has a really bad black eye which can be alarming with a little baby so I'd prefer that they know that I don't beat my child. Well, love ya all and God is good. I feel so relieved about how this whole drama was resolved.
Britt

What a week!

We've had quite the week. Last weekend (Memorial weekend) we found out that our car needs some transmission work which will cost $3,000, Eric's mom was bucked off a horse and in the hospital with 4 broken ribs and a partially collapsed lung, and his sister told us that her and her husband have decided to get divorced. Then on Tue. we took Amelia back to the eye specialist and he suggested that we get the steroid injections. I see her everyday so I hadn't realized how big it had gotten in just 3 weeks but it has doubled in size and he's worried that it is just going to get bigger. We asked about side effects and he said that it won't look very pretty for a couple of days and she'll be pretty fussy just like people who are on steroids anger easily. I thought, "Great, my little girl is going to have roid rage." They have to put her out also. We weren't too crazy about the idea of putting steroids into her body so we said we would think about it. We went home, prayed, slept on it, and talked about it and on Friday we made the appointment for July 15. The side effects only last a couple of days and when I started looking at her eye, I realized that it does cover half her eye and when she smiles, she looks like a pirate. I'm glad now we decided to do it because I went online and read about how it can cause lazy eye because the vision is impaired in that eye and gradually the brain will just stop trying to use that eye. Everything I read suggested that if there is hemangioma on the eye, that treatment should be done as soon as possible. So... that's that.
Now about our car. I'm mostly upset because we have some money that we were going to use on a cruise and now this has happened and we can say bye bye to that. We are debating right now on whether to fix it or try and get something new that will not break down. Our car does have over 100,000 miles on it so it would be nice to have something that I won't have to stress about breaking down. Well, it's bathtime and Mia is starting to fuss so I better go. Love ya all,
Britt