My Kid's Tonsils Could Beat Up Your Kid's Tonsils

1. I often get words or phrases stuck in my head, like I hear them in my brain over and over again and just have the urge to say them over and over. Most of the time I supress it, but sometimes I give in but I usually stop myself after a couple of minutes because I start to realize I sound like Rain Man. The other day, the phrase was "tubal ligation." Before that, it was just "meow." Today's word: "Obama." But I have to say it like "Oooooo-BAMA!" It has nothing to do with how I feel politically or even the name of our new president--to me it's just a word that I can't stop thinking or saying. So much so, that I walked into my spin class today and yelled "Oooooo-BAMA!" and a bunch of people cheered, which really wasn't my point--I just had to say the word and get it out of my system so I could move on and teach my class. Oooooo-BAMA!

2. We had May's surgical consult for her tonsillectomy yesterday, which was with a surgeon Go had been working with last month. He took one look down May's throat and screamed in horror. After regaining his composure, he said "I don't know whether to call O.R. scheduling, 9-1-1 or Child Protective Services." He then proceeded to call people in to have them look at her tonsils, to which they all reacted basically the same way. After we left, he called Go and told him that May's tonsils were the biggest tonsils he had ever seen. And this guy has seen a lot of tonsils in his day--tens of thousands. Her surgery is next Tuesday. Though it's scary, I am looking forward to the possibility of her and I having some uninterrupted nights of sleep in the future (well, before March, anyway). Because her tonsils are such beasts, she has major sleep apnea. To give you an idea of how big her tonsils are, I tried to find an image online of big tonsils but May's bigger than all of them - the not only touch, but they rub together. The doctor wondered how it was that she could even breathe. He also said that he'd have to scrounge up a tractor trailer to haul her tonsils away after they were removed. Are you getting the picture? May's tonsils are huge.

3. I received a little gift in the mail from my Mama - our new baby's first outfit that's all her own. This may be the only UN-hand me down she will ever wear. So cute! And take out the blue and these are the colors of the baby's nursery after I get some time to work on it. (post to come!)


4. This picture below is two-fold.

1) A belly update for anyone who cares.
2) The scarf I finished for Ruby a couple of weeks ago. I got the knitting bug several years ago but it was a short lived phase. Around Conference time this year, I picked it back up because I wanted something to do and a nice girl in our ward had an instruction night so I got a little refresher. Anyway, I did a double seed knitting pattern for most of it, with ribbing on the ends. It was fun and my first try at something other than just knit, pearl, knit, pearl. It's just nice to have something to keep my hands busy when I'm at the doctor's office or watching the girls to gymnastics, etc. Yes, I totally knit in public. If I could get away with knitting at church, I would. May's is almost done and then it's on to one of my very own. I'm thinking cream colored because I use to have a very soft, very nice, cream colored scarf before and I loved it and I felt very grown up, which is rare for me, whenever I wore it. And then I wore it all around San Fransisco on our trip and something rusty dripped on it so I think I might just make one to replace it.
5. I'm very aware that this post was snooze-ville and I sincerly apologize. If you're actually still reading this very boring post, I just have one thing to say: Oooooo-BAMA!