Em's eye surgery

 Cute Em had her eye surgery last week Tuesday.  She was such a champ and I'm so proud of her.  We got there at 7 a.m....she went into surgery around 8:30....was done by 10:00 but we didn't see her until about 10:30 or 10:45.  Then she recovered til noon and headed home.  It is SO hard to see your baby have to go through surgery!  She was actually excited for it though so that helped a lot.  The first few days afterwards were scary since she had totally red eyes, was cross eyed and seeing double.  It freaks you out when she tried to grab a  book from my hands but missed by like 4 inches. She was frustrated she couldn't read anymore either.  I guess that is all normal and the double vision went away after two days.  She did so good with that though - I would have had a mega headache! It was a little tricky when we came home too as she wanted the lights off since her eyes were sensitive.  So that made for an interesting play day. :) Here she is after surgery recovering.  We fed her a popsicle which she loved and then went right to sleep.

 Here she is a few days after surgery.  Still smiling but not quite herself.  You can't even really see the redness in this pic or the cross eyed but they were definitely red at this point.

 And this is probably 4 or 5 days after surgery....we have been playing LOTS of cards.  They LOVE the game "Dutch Blitz" which I played a bunch when I was little so it's so fun to play with them now.

 Then these next two weeks the girls have swimming lessons but Em couldn't swim until Wednesday...and then Wednesday's lessons were cancelled because of the rain so this girl can't wait to swim even though it's chillier today!  Here she is rockin' her new shades. :)  She is such a tough girl.  We've had to do eye drops 3 times a day for a week and the first few days were impossible to get them in but now she reminds ME about her drops and does so well with them.  So now we monitor her eyes every couple of weeks and then we know if it actually worked around 6-8 weeks.  She will still be cross eyed and have redness for a few more weeks but I can tell it's going down already!   I hope and pray the surgery worked!!  I love my sweet Em!