"Boohoo, we want to have our appendix out too!"

All the kids are jealous of Sophia. This morning at breakfast Craig asked Sophia to name her favorite ice cream flavor. I wanted to know her favorite flavor of jello and Gatorade.

When Craig told her she could watch as much t.v. as she wanted next week, the rest of the kids started whining!

Never mind Sophia is having her tonsils/adenoids removed and ear tubes placed in order to receive such special treatment.

Next Monday, February 8th, Sophia will be having surgery. Our hopes (and our doctor's assurance) are that her speech and hearing will be improved. As of right now, neither eardrum is vibrating and she has LOTS of fluid behind her eardrums. Her tonsils are grossly enlarged which are pushing up her adenoids. She has already done 1 1/2 years of speech therapy to no avail.

Please keep her in your prayers next Monday. We have never had a child receive general anesthesia and we're nervous. Tonight we're all going to mass where she will receive the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick.

And later this week we'll be buying lots of Bluebell Ice Cream, Jello, Gatorade, apple sauce and so forth. Sophia isn't scared because she doesn't really understand surgery (remember, she's having speech, hearing and comprehension issues!!). She's excited and has all her movies lined up. Craig took off all of next week to help me out.