Callie is having surgery on her leg today!   We had to drive down last night, because we live three hours from the hospital.  We left after church, and got in about 10PM last night. 

Since Callie had slept some in the car on the way there, she did not want to go back to bed when we got in.  After a snack, I got her ready for bed and got the other children settled. (We only had Hannah, Luke, and Abby with us.)  When it was time for Callie to get settled in, she really was not interested in sleep.  She thrashed and rolled and kicked until about midnight.  This was especially hard for me when it came time to get up at 4:00AM!

We arrived at the hospital just before 6:00AM.  We got to go straight to the pediatric floor, and then had a nurse help us get registered in.  Here is a pic of Callie when we got to our room.  Can you tell that she is making herself at home!?!?!?

And here she is getting some sugar from her Dadda!

Then, it was time to change into a hospital gown.  This was not well received by our little princess!  She really did not want to wear the gown.  It didn't matter how cute is was, or what it had on it.  She did not want to put it on.

She wrestled with it for a while, and then eventually ended up with it turned around backwards.  This made her a little happier, because at least she was wearing it HER way!!

Here she is playing "shy"!  We know the truth, though!!

Her nurse had noticed her sucking her left  thumb, and wanted to make sure that this thumb was free and available for comforting her after her surgery.  So, she wrote on her hand, "sucks left thumb"! I thought that was sweet of her to think of that.

Then it was time to go back for an MRI.  They had already given her some "happy meds", so she was floating at this point.

We just got a call from her doctor, and she is heading over to recovery.  He removed the tight band of tissue around her bone that was pulling and causing tension which made the bone grow crooked.  She has a cast for now, and no hardware in her leg!  So, we will just wait and see how long it takes for her bone to grow straight on it's own.  Please keep us in your prayers!  I don't think she is going to be very happy about having a cast.