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(Clara's "Rudolph toe" in the hospital...she loved this! One small joy during a scary time...)
So, as many of you know, my daughter Clara was born with a cleft palate, and last week she had surgery to repair it. It is something we had been nervously anticipating since she was born. All went well, although it was very, very hard to see her immediately afterwards. She was in a alot of pain and very confused and scared. She is a serious thumbsucker, and for the next three weeks, she has to wear special arm braces so she can't put her hands or any toys in her mouth (not even a bottle..poor thing has to eat with a syringe). This has proved to be the hardest part! She is in the midst of teething, so imagine that she can't chew on anything to relieve the pain! And she is used to using her thumb to put herself to sleep...so needless to say, we have had about, oh, maybe a total of 15 hrs of sleep in the past 7 days.
But now only 2 weeks to go, and it will be behind us!
The anticipation of her surgery has been the focus of a very busy month of May.
I also went out to Cincinnati to shoot the photos for my book! I am so excited about how everything looks! There seem to be a few needle felting books coming out in the next few months, but I think everyone should hold out for mine ;) It is going to be really, really cute! Look for it in early Spring of '08, but I think you'll be able to preorder it soon!
And for those of you wondering where the new critters are...I promise to have more soon! Once things return to normal around my house! Probably in late June, early July (if I'm lucky!)