Chubby Face, Skinny Face and New ears!

So, every once in awhile (especially when I want Riley to stay put on the couch and chill), I play the "chubby face/skinny face" game with Riley. He loves it and it often cracks Jim and I up as well, so it's win-win all around!



In even better news, Riley had his ear tubes (no, you can't see them!) today and he did really well (so did his parents). The "no drinking" after midnight was a tough one b/c even though his appointment for pre-op was at 6:45 and we put him to bed an hour later than normal, he still awoke raring to go at 4:45 am (also raring for a "baba"). We distracted him for the most part but the car ride over to Shrewsbury was no picnic. In any event, he was a good little man and even put his hands out to the anesthesiologist when it was time to "hand him over"...no tears, nothing. Then again, he all doped up on his pre-relaxing syrup, Versad. He giggled like a little school girl on his "drunk juice", which was a much better alternative to the bawling and wailing for his baba. The recovery was good, but it was made very clear to us that the giggle juice had worn off..luckily, he was allowed back on the bottle. After a few good cranks and and bottomless bottle of water, Riley napped when we got home for a strong 2 hours and woke up in a relatively good mood (still a bit cranky and unstready on his feet though). The Doc said we could resume normal activities so we took him to the mall for a bit this afternoon to get out of the house..since it is still a sweltering hundy in dirty Jersey.

10 hrs post tubes:


sunglasses (b/c this pic cracks Jim up):