Where's Your Belly?

Happy Valentine's Day!

Tate's Tubes

Tate had his surgery to have tubes placed in his ears this morning. He was such a little trooper. It started with a little bit of a rough night because he wasn't allowed to have anything to eat or drink after midnight. Poor Tate still wakes up once or twice a night and loves to have a small cup of milk to help him go back to sleep. Not being able to have his usual cup of milk made him very upset. We kept him awake until 9pm just to feed him an extra snack before bed, hoping it would help him sleep until we had to wake-up at 5:30, but we didn't have much luck. He was up almost continually from 12:30am until my alarm went off at 5:30am.

While Aunt Laurie stayed with Nathan, Daddy and I took Tate to the surgery center in Frederick, arriving just before 6:30am. They checked him in quickly and we didn't have to wait too long before they took him back to the pre-op area. He was such a charmer! He was a big hit with all the doctors and nurses, and even made a nervous 7 year-old little girl smile (she was getting her tonscils out). While Daddy waited Mommy got to take him to the operating room, and he also got to take his blankie, binky, and Mr. Piggy back with him. I held him as they gave him the funny gas that helped him fall asleep. Since the tube procedure is so fast, he didn't have to have an IV, he needed just enough anesthesia to keep him still while they inserted the tubes.

I was in the waiting room for less than 10 minutes before the doctor came out to tell us everything had gone fine. About 10 minutes after that a nurse came out to take us to see Tate in the recovery room. He was a little scared because he didn't know where he was and he was surrounded by nurses he didn't know. He was trying so hard not to cry, but he had one little tear under his eye. The nurses in the recovery room loved him too. He was most excited to be able to FINALLY drink his cup of milk! He spent the rest of the day a little fussy and sleepy, but overall he did a lot better than we thought he would.

We were even home in time to send Nathan off to pre-school with Aunt Laurie. He was so excited that she was volunteering in his class! Which really worked out well because one of his teachers was sick today. She made 8 new friends who sent her home with special little notes and drawings.

On another note, Tate had his one year check-up at the pediatrician last week and he's right on schedule for everything. He weighs 21 pounds 4 ounces and is 30 1/4 inches tall. Besides Ma-Ma and Da-Da he says "hello" everytime the phone rings (o.k. it sounds more like "O!") and he says "ruff" when he sees a dog or hears one barking.

Happy First Birthday Tate!

It's hard to believe that our little Tate turned a year old on Saturday. We had a wonderful football themed party to celebrate his birthday. He received lots of wonderful gifts and loved having all the kids here to play with him.

We had wonderful food, a yummy cake and ice cream. In addition to mac-n-cheese, green bean casserole, and little hot dogs, my mom made her fabulous sloppy joes and Aunt Pam brought a great taco dip.

Some of his favorites gifts were the golf club set from Nathan, the Go! Diego Go! ball pit from the Burgan's, the Hahn's, the Connor's and Aunt Sharyn, and the Little Tikes police car from Mommy and Daddy, and the funniest little purple pig from Nan. He's also getting a Little Tikes fold-away climber from Aunt Laurie, Uncle Chris and Nonny and Pap, but it's on backorder, so hopefully he'll be climbing soon!

Unfortunately none of the Spahr's could attend Tate's birthday party, so they celebrated his birthday the week before at Daddy's birthday dinner.