Dallas surgery

What a week it's been! Dallas has been having an ongoing battle with his right ear since September. Somehow fluid got in the bone that is right behind the ear and stayed there. A couple doctors, a tube put in his ear and taken out, the doctor finally decided it was time for surgery. It was a pretty intense scary surgery. The doctors cut his ear and moved in forward so that they could drill into his bone behind the ear and remove all of the fluid that has been built up in there. The doctors even placed alarms near certain nerves so they would not get close to hitting one because if they did they could have paralyzed his face or he could have lost sense of taste. The surgery was only suppose to take and hour and a half and it ended up taking three hours because there was more fluid in there then the doctor had expected. I went with Dallas and waited there so after 2 hours I was starting to get nervous. Of course we had watched Grey's Anatonmey and Private Practice the night before and there are always complications in those tv shows so I was starting to think the worst. Finally the doctor came out and told me how the surgery went and that once Dallas woke up I could go in there. It turned out to be a long day we got there and 10 and didn't leave until 6:30. When I got in to see Dallas he did not look so good. He still had his sense of humor though. The doctor and nurse were telling him how to recover and Dallas goes so I guess I can't go race dirt bikes tonight huh? Leave it to Dallas to want to go and do something like that afterwards a surgery. The nurse told him that he should take a week off of work, can't lift over 20 pounds, and wont be able to hear out of that ear for a month. Dallas was pretty naseous so the nurse gave him Phenegren which puts you to sleep. We stayed until he was awake enough to leave and then we came home where he puked most of the night. I have only seen Dallas throw up one other time since we have been married, so it's always weird to see him sick. He was funny though because I made him soup and he had fruit snacks and threw it all up, and he was surprised that it looked exactly the same as when it went in. I laughed because that's how it was for me for the first 5 months of both my pregnancies. Dallas slept most of that day and the next day he was starting to feel better. He over did it Sunday. Dallas can't seem to sit still he has such a hard time not being able to do anything. He goes stir crazy. I was betting that he would go back to work Tuesday even though he should be taking off a week of work but Dallas went back to work Tuesday. You can't keep Dallas down for long even after drilling into his head!


Dallas' last race before he gets surgery!
Here Dallas is waiting forever for his surgery.
Here he is after his surgery not looking so hot.
Cohen being a little helper, he wouldn't let Dallas out of his sight. Cohen was cute he went to the store with Grandma to get Dallas some medicine and Jello and he comes home and says look Dad we got you medicine and jello.
Dallas has been telling me that Kenzley is ready to eat, which she is. I have been putting it off because I can't believe how fast she is growing up. I finally gave in and we fed her some rice. Kenzley is always watching us eat and you can tell she wants to be apart of it as well. She did pretty good and kept some in her mouth.


Monday, me and the kids tried to stay out of Dallas' hair so that he could get some rest. Cohen had a play date with Zack. Zack came over to our house and they jumped, rode bikes, and of course played with trucks and trailers. Cohen loves playing with other kids so much. Then Grandma came down to play with him and they had fun too.
Cohen loves to lay in his blow up toy while it blows up and sinks. He gets in and out of it and turns it on and off.




My cute little kids. I can't get enough of them!
Daddy and Kenzley playing. I love when she watches her dad, she is all smiles and giggles. It is so cute!
Nose kisses.




I need to journal some of Cohen's funny stories. At church Kenzley was getting a little fussy, so I stood to the side of where we were sitting and Cohen gestures me to come back and started couting 1,2,3 I was laughing. Whenever he goes to far or to where we shouldn't I motion with my finger for him to come here and start counting to 3. So he thought that I had gone to far and that I better come back or I was going to time out. Cohen likes to put me in time out when I start acting out of hand.

Another thing he did which mortified me but is a funny story. Cohen was playing with our neighbors kids while we were outside and the neighbors were working in the yard, planting vegetables and flowers and such. Later that evening they had gone in and we were still out playing. Cohen was showing Grammy how he drives his black truck. Well our neighbors had made trenches and mounds for where they had planted their vegetables. Cohen drove over there and thought it was a little moto track. He drove right through their garden! I was mortified. I ran over there holding Kenz through their sprinklers and tried to pull him out even though his truck his pretty heavy. Finally I told him to get out and I got in and drove his truck home which he was not very happy that I was driving it. Needless to say he got in quite a bit of trouble and had to go apologize to the neighbors. I felt bad because I got pretty mad. I felt bad sense they had been working in their yard all day trying to make it nice then my kid goes bombing through their garden. But I can't be too mad because Cohen doesn't know what a garden is and it really looked like a little dirt bike track for him. Hopefully he now knows the difference between the two! We have so much fun with Cohen. The other day we drove our razor while Cohen drove his truck and followed us over to the park. He is a good little driver! It has been a pretty busy week for us. Hopefully Dallas's ear will continue to heal and he can hear out of it soon and get back to his crazy fun life!