2 weeks old

2 weeks old and smiling :) she melts my heart.

Introducing....

-Hazel Marie Hill
April 16, 2012
7 pounds 14 ounces
20 inches long
5 days late but worth the wait :)

Internship

Amongst all the craziness of surgeries, Jake was busy interviewing for a internship. Interview season began in January and concluded in March. It was nerve wrecking waiting to hear from back from each company he had interviewed with.

After numerous interviews and patiently waiting the internship offers came trickling in. We accepted an offer that was high on our list. They pay a competitive wage and offered a location package! -score! And they are located in Southern California- double score!

We selected our start date and anxiously awaited the moving date, we have so many fun things we can do while we are there, and we will be much closer to family :) we will see how many visitors we get now that we are back on the West Coast.

Surgery

Our surgery time was bright and early, thank goodness, Sadie couldn't eat anything prior to surgery. We showed up, they quickly checked us in and banded us with the traditional, highly fashionable hospital bracelets. We sat down and waited for them to call us back to the pre op area.

In no time at all, we were called back. They gave us a cute gown for Sadie, she loved it, I watched the clock on the wall, tick.....tick....tick the time would soon be near where the nurse would come take my little one away to the O.R.


Going into surgery I knew that we would be able to hang out with her until right before they took her back to the OR, but no one ever warned me how hard it would be to watch your child be carried back to the OR. I have watch Jake be wheeled back to the OR and that was hard, but watching your helpless kid being taken back took hard to watch to a whole new level. I choked back tears as I headed to the waiting room. Trying to be strong for my little girl.


I sat waiting impatiently for a nurse to come out and call our names, to notify us that Sadie was done with surgery. I watched as one by one other parents were called back, the time slowly ticked.


Soon enough they called us back, the Doc informed us they had placed tubes and removed adenoids, (prior to surgery he was unsure if he would remove the adenoids, he said he would wait until they performed the surgery to determine if it was necessary) Surprise, surprise it looks like abnormally big adenoids run in the family. I had my adenoids removed when I was 22 (they are supposed to dissolve when you are a kid, mine did not) Sadie's adenoids were huge and affecting her breathing, and drainage so the Doc decided it would be best to remove them. 

The recovery of this surgery is surprisingly fast. After sleeping on and off all day my little girl was up and ready to run the next day, as if surgery had never taken place. I am so thankful for modern medicine and good doctors that know how to help me and my family.

Tubes

Well this winter has been no different from the previous year. Sadie has battled ear infections all winter. After our 8th round of antibiotic I asked for a referal to an ear nose and throat Doc.

Sure enough after a quick look at her ears he announced, "She need tubes!" He informed she is probably only hearing 30-40% of what is going on around her. So all those times she got a time out for not listening were not needed, talk about feeling like a horrible parent. The Doc informed me of the procedure and what to expect, and we scheduled the surgery for the following week.

Christmas

Wow I have so much catching up to do, where do I begin...
Christmas:
For Chirstmas we flew up to Washington to visit the Jones Family, we had a blast hanging out and catching up with everyone. I know I say this all the time but I really wish that we could see family more offten. Since we moved to Indaian our visitors have pretty much deminished. Good thing with a baby on the way we have more hope for visitors in the future =)

(pictures to come soon)

Thanksgiving

This year since we are living on the other side of the country we decided that we would stay here in Bloomington for Thanksgiving, if we had more time and money we definitely would have made the trip to see family but this year just didn't allow for that. Jake didn't have classes the week of Thanksgiving but had lots of networking and GA work to do. So we decided to have a little Thanksgiving dinner with a few people that were sticking around here in B-Town with us.

We had a great time and great food, we broke away from the traditional turkey and ate ham. We were all bigger ham fans anyway so it worked out good =) Thanks to Deepti and the Busby's we enjoyed the company!