4 weeks after surgery and my new life in Omaha

Wow, can you believe that this is what I looked like 4 weeks ago.

It has been 4 weeks since my lip surgery/nose job.  M & D really miss my little cleft, they say it was cute and endearing… whatever that means.  As for me, I'm pretty glad that it is gone.  The down side is that I have to wear a little rubber tube that sticks in my nose, and I HATE it.  I guess it is to keep my nostril from collapsing, but it really hurts to have in.  My lip and nose are healing pretty good; Dr Morales did a really good job.  I still have some stitches in my mouth that I really like to play with, with my tongue; but those should be gone soon.  It took me a couple weeks to start feeling good again after the surgery, but I think I am starting to finally feel alright.  I've had some really fun days lately with M & D (I'll tell you about those in a bit) Here I am, you can barely see my scar

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Omaha:

We moved to Omaha last week to join daddy (you can see my last post to hear about the amazing friends that helped us get here)  I have now been here 1 week and I couldn't love it more!!!  Here are the highlights so far:

-We are surrounded by amazing people that always want to come hang out with us, help mommy during the day, or play with me.  

-Daddy and I have been on a walk every night since I've been here (night time walks are my very favorite, they help me go to sleep)

-Kusaba is starting to hang out with me more

-I have my very own room

- We're close to friends that are near my age that I can try to play with (we are only 1 minute away from my buddy Braxton, that is a fellow special needs baby.  I'm hoping he can teach me a lot of cool tricks)

We spent this past weekend (memorial day) here in Omaha.  M & D didn't have any plans for memorial day, so I planned a tour of the ER at the local children's hospital.  I couldn't breath very good and I was wheezing and short on breath, so we all went to the hospital to get it checked out.  Turns out I had some pulmonary edema (can lead to pneumonia if not careful).  They told me I was going to have to stay the night, but I didn't like that idea.  I tried to be really good for the doctors for the next little while.  When they saw that I was breathing good again, and my O2 sats were back up, they decided I could go home. After I spent most of the day there we finally got to go home to let daddy get ready for his first day of school.  The next day, after daddy was home from school, I had some really really bad pain in my tummy and I screamed really hard.  After a few minutes, blood started to come out of my feeding tube… so we headed back to the ER to hang out with the friends we made the day before.  (unfortunately our car was not home at the moment, so we had to borrow one of our nice neighbors cars. Thanks Chelsea)  I guess I have stomach ulcers (isn't that an old person problem?) and they had perforated and started to bleed, that is what caused the pain and blood.  After a few more hours at the hospital they decided to send me home with some more stomach drugs.

I was pretty miserable for the few weeks after my surgery before we moved to Omaha, but once we got here and I got to see daddy again, despite the 2 ER visits, I have been feeling much better. Mommy and I have had some bonding time lately… she found my happy button (tickling my face with her hair) and its really to fun play with her.  She is the best mommy ever!!!  Here are some pics of us the last couple of weeks!!!

Luvin up on Momma!

Me and my stuffed Beagle cuddling

Me and my real beagle cuddling

Another one of us on our way to Omaha in the airplane

My first Jett ride!!!

Me, Mommy, and G-ma & G-pa Watts all made it to Omaha.  We finally came out to meet daddy here, and start our new life.  Daddy has been out here for the last 2 weeks working really hard to fix up our townhouse before I came.  The house looks great and I'm soooo excited to see him.  We flew in yesterday on a really really cool Citation Encore.   Mommy has an amazing family friend that was able to help get me here.  You see, any sickness that I get could possibly kill me so I can't ride on a big commercial airplane; and I can't sit in my carseat, so a 14 hour drive is also not an option.  Mommy had no idea how she and I were going to move to Omaha.  This amazing friend put us on a private airplane and sent it to Omaha.  I can't ever thank them enough.  They are truly angels on this earth!!

I'm missing my baby aviator glasses, otherwise complete and
ready to go!

G-ma and G-pa Watts coming to Omaha to help

I had to preflight the cockpit

Here we go

Sooooooo comfortable

I'm Daddy's little co-pilot… See my shirt even says so!
You can't tell from the picture, but I felt better during this flight than I have the last 2 weeks.
I guess I was just born to fly!!!

My first concert!!!

Yesterday I got to go to my very first concert.  Jimmy Kimmel hosts a mini concert series in the summer, and Gavin Degraw was performing at it.  I got to go with 2 beautiful ladies, Laura Lambson and Mollie Salazar.

They also gave Gavin and Jimmy some of my t-shirts, which I thought was super awesome.  Word is that the stage manager personally gave the shirts to Gavin and he saw them and thought the were pretty cool.

Thanks sooooooo much for taking me with you Laura and Mollie.  I've now been to a concert and hung out with 2 awesome chikas… who would have ever thought!!!

This weekend...

I got to cuddle with my beautiful Aunt Tiffany.  She sounds just like my mommy.  I love when she sings me songs and tickles my head...some people call her the "Baby Whisperer" because she can calm me down when I get too wiggly.  She is the best!

Maia's gone home

One of my angel baby friends, Maia, passed away this morning.  This came after a long battle with breathing problems and a scary stay at the hospital.  Luckily Maia was released from the hospital yesterday and was able to return to her eternal home peacefully from the comfort of her earthly home.  Maia was only 1 month older than me.  Her parents were lucky enough to play with her for 7 months before her job here was complete.  I know she is comfortable now, and I'm sure she will be watching out for me and all the other angel babies.  I hope that her mommy and the rest of her family can be at peace knowing that Maia has returned to heaven and is truly happy.

Maia, I know you returned to heaven for the angel baby reunion far sooner than anyone wanted.  Your life is an inspiration for me and my parents.  Good luck to your family, and save me a seat!

Jett's at Cabela's

Daddy stopped at the original Cabela's in Sidney Ne, to model my shirt with all the animals.  Thanks daddy.  I hope to go hunting some day and see them all myself. 

New places New faces

As most of you know Amy and Jeremy (my aunt and uncle) gave m & d & me a really cool present.  They made some t shirts with a logo of me on it and gave it to us.  They also made some for other people too.  We have all worn them now and they are AWESOME, I love my shirt.  The coolest thing that happened because of the shirts, is friends and strangers have told us that I have inspired them.  I don't try to inspire anyone, but I guess the fact that I have constant help from my angel friends makes it easy for me.   I'm so excited to travel around the world.  Where do you think I will go first.  Whoever can guess correctly will win a night hanging out with me… Just kidding.  But I am really excited. Thank you A & J, I love you guys so much, and I will try not to poop in my "me" shirt.

Since the last time I wrote in here, my daddy left to go to Omaha for school.  I'm not sure what that means, but I don't like it.  He isn't here anymore.  I miss my nightly walks around the block while he tells me stories about Strawberry Jones and his horse Shooter.  I miss him playing the guitar to me.  I miss doing my 20 tummy rolls everyday.  Mommy keeps telling me that we will see him again soon, but I don't think it will be soon enough.  I want my daddy back!!! 

Mommy and me moved up to Logan today for a little while, until we go to Omaha to see daddy I think.  Its fun to be in a different house now.  I was kind of getting sick of the same old scenery in SLC.  Up here there are all sorts of new friends that I get to meet, and new cousins that I don't ever remember meeting before.  I'm excited for this new adventure.

My tummy and lip are starting to heal pretty well.  Mommy took the big metal ring off my face because it was looking so good.  I'm so glad to get rid of that.  My tummy still hurts whenever there is food in it, but hopefully that stops soon.