Barnes Family Vacation 2012 to California

Our first Barnes Family vacation was to California. We left on the 10th at 6:20 a.m. The night before we left my mom, Julie and her boy Jay, and my family spent the night at a hotel in SLC. When we got to California since it was to early to check into our hotel we went to Julies parents house let the kids take a little nap and the adults as well. Later that afternoon we went to the beach. We had plans to go to 3 different beaches and see different things. However Jace had other plans he had ate his lunch really really fast. then as we were walking out of the restaurant as you came out there was a little hill. so Jace, Addison, and Jay all rolled down this hill. Well Jace did it a few more times then he should have, cause on the way to the first beach he threw up in the back of the rental van. luckily we were right by the exit for our hotel. So about 1.5 hours later after cleaning the van and getting the locked keys out of it we were on our way to the beach!

Having fun at the beach! the water was so cold but the kids had so so much fun. they LOVED running away from the waves

Jace, Addy, and Jay chasing seagulls

Kayelee and mama hanging out on the beach. Kayelee HATED the sand

silly girl

my parents and Addy at Universal studios

The Haney crew

My cute kiddos

My cute nephew Jay

I don't think Jace was to sure of Frankenstein

Addy and Dora

Curious George and 3 others who I dont know putting on a show

Jace was so scared to get his picture taken here

Sponge bob!

The Lorax

Oh no Jaws don't eat Jace!

Monday morning on our way to legoland!

every time you stepped on the yellow circles it would play the instrument it was in front of.








Addy driving her lego car

Flying in a helicopter



I think Jace may of found his girl friend

Playing with legos while waiting in line for a ride









If I remember right this is New Orleans




Jay looking at something















Tuesday and Wednesday were spent at DISNEYLAND! Jace is a scaredy cat and would not ride very many rides. Addy our little dare devil rode every ride she was tall enough to ride. her two favorite were big thunder mountain railroad, and tower of terror. she also really liked splash mountain.

waiting for the parade to start

Addy waiting for the princess float to come and hoping that Bell is on it

Seeing Bell and getting excited

It was so cute to have see Addy Bell. Bell waved at her and even blew her a kiss. Addy was so so so excited that Bell blew her a kiss. I think we all had tears in our eyes after that.

Telling Julie about seeing Bell

Wednesday Morning we had early entry into toontown. so after being there for a few minutes I went over to wait in line to see if Addy could met Bell along with two other princesses. She was able to met Bell and she was so excited. Bell even came to greet her as she came into the princesses castle. And gave her a hug

Bell asked Addy if Jace was her beast.

signing Addys book

One last hug

Addy with princess Tiana

Addy and princess Ariel

Wednesday we also went to California adventure

This is on tower of terror. you can barely see the top of addys head then its my dad, and my moms head turned into Tyler, and Julie screaming her head off holding onto Tyler.

Wednesday night we went to goofs kitchen it was a blast! it is an all you can eat buffet. and while you are eating some of the characters come around to your table while you eat and you get to spend time with them and get your picture with them and get autographs. It was a bit pricey but would totally do it again.

Dale

Dancing with daddy

Aladdin

Dancing with Aladdin

Sleeping Beauty

Chip

After dinner in this car taking turns in the driver seat

that was our trip in a whole crap load of pictures. hope you enjoyed.

Jace is 6

My baby boy had a birthday! he turned 6 on March 8th. we have not had his well visit yet so not sure what he weighs or how tall he is for sure. I know he is at least 48"




Jace and his presents from dad and mom

Presents from papa and nana, as well as Tyler and Julie

his cake!

He was able to get the candles blown out in 3 breaths

The Surgery

Shortly after Kayelees 9 month well visit, we ended up having to take Kayelee into the dr for a sick visit (another ear infection.) The doctor noticed that Kayelee had a bifid uvula. He referred us to the specialty hospital in Logan, were we saw one ent doctor and did not feel comfortable doing any kind of surgery on her so he referred us to Primary Childrens Hospital. Where we met with a ent dr. he found out with the bifid uvula that she also had a submucos cleft palate. Which means she has a whole in her soft palate. So long story short he went and got another doctor which was a plastic surgeon. He also looked at her and from there we were told that she would need surgery to repair her cleft palate, and her bifid uvual, as well as tubes in her ears. Tubes because kids with those two things have greater chances of having multiple ear infections. It took a few days to get her surgery scheduled. Because she would have two surgeons working on her, the plastic surgeon doing the mouth stuff and the ent dr doing tubes. We got her surgery scheduled for March 1st at 2:15 p.m. luckily she was able to have breast milk until 4 hours before her surgery. they were running behind with surgeries so she did not go into surgery till 3:15. They took her in and at about 5:45p.m she was out. It took three doses of morphine to get her pain under control and one more so we could stay on top of her pain. From then on she got more morphine but not every two hours like she was getting. Then as soon as she was eating something we were able to give her just Tylenol and ibuprofen. We were only suppose to have to stay one night but it ended up being a 4 night stay. She was not eating enough to come home. the dr. and nurses had her on a iv and oxygen all thursday night. Because of all the morphine it was causing her to not take as deep of breaths as she should have been. They took her off of the iv Friday afternoon to see if taking her off the iv would help her to drink and eat. We were able to get her to drink a little by force feeding her through a medicine syringe and a one 4oz baby apple sauce. But I did not feel comfortable going home till she ate and drank more. its a good thing we did not go home cause she totally regressed and refused to eat or drink by Saturday morning. Then Saturday afternoon they put her back on the iv till Sunday morning when her iv went bad. by this time we have tried EVERYTHING possible to get this little girl to eat. We started with her bottle she is used to taking she wouldn't take it. From there we tried 3 different bottles 2 of them were cleft palate bottles. We tried two different sippy cups with the valve, without the valve. Which she could not do sippy cups before her surgery. So I really didn't think she would take one but I gave it a shot. We tried giving it to her through a straw pouring it in her mouth that way. Having her drink from a cup. We tried different foods different drinks. I mean we tried EVERTHING. Then Sunday afternoon we found the magic food that she would take and it was cream of wheat. It has got enough liquid in it plus what we were forcing her to drink by squirting it in her mouth that she was able to come home Monday morning. About 4 or 5 days ago she has started to drink better with her bottle nipple that she had before her surgery. She is still not drinking that well. She has lost almost two pounds since her surgery. We went into the ped dr on Friday the 16th for a sick visit. she weighs 15.4 pounds. He said if she falls into the 14 pound range we would have to put her back into the hospital. So we are really trying to get her to drink and eat more so we dont end up back in the hospital. ( I hope this all makes sence)






Kayelee right after surgery, the nurses had to call me back even before we met with the dr. she woke up so cranky they called me back, and as soon as I picked her up she calmed right down. Dan stayed behind to talk with the doctors.


Her stats were low so they put her on oxygen











On our way to our room



this is of her tongue stitch. They did this because her throat was swollen and they dont want her tongue relaxing and chocking her. they took this out the morning after her surgery.

Having some fun listening to some volunteer that comes and plays the guitar







the bruise from her tongue stitch






They had to wrap her iv with coban because she kept pulling on it, and putting the end where they put the iv tube in her mouth.



Not quite used to her new mouth for about the first 2 weeks she constantly had her mouth opened. she is getting a little better now that it has been 17 days, but still has it opened a lot







Playing with some toys in her crib.



Her iv went bad in the middle of the night Saturday night, and it was not caught till sunday rounds about 7:30 a.m. the pictures dont really show how bad her arm was, but her arm was about 2 times bigger then it should have been.



side by side of her arms

Her big swollen arm

ready to go home

Still has her mouth opened

Addy Is 4

On February 20 Addy turned 4! I can't believe my once 8lb baby is now 4 years old! Weighing 34lbs 6oz she is in the 50% her height is 40" she is in the 55%. The camera died right after she opened her first present. so sorry Addy I didn't get many pictures of your 4th birthday. Sorry for the wild hair it was first thing in the morning.