sofia and i woke up this morning at 5am to get ready to go in for her surgical appointment. as most of you know she was having a thyroidectomy. we got out without waking the girls and had an uneventful few hours at kaiser waiting, seeing nurses, and getting ready. here's sofia before they took her into surgery.
by the time they kicked me out it was 8:15 or so, and I headed back home where Mary (AKA Nona) was getting the kids ready for the day. We dressed up Clara as a bear(a) and went over to Kika's house with Nona. Then we all went with Molly and her homemade fire truck costume to Via Nova for their Halloween parade. I dressed up in my usual mechanic outfit. It was a great way to keep our mind off of the surgery going on at that time, marching all around the neighborhood with 100 kids and parents dressed up as everything from hamburgers to traffic lights to, of course, fire trucks.
The rest of the day was uneventful, I did some work and waited for Kaiser to call, which they did around mid-day to say that the surgery went great, everything was removed and there were no signs of additional problems. Yay! After a few more hours in recovery they even decided to let Sofia go straight home instead of spending the night, so I got her and brought her home and set her up with Nona to recuperate here. Then we got the girls, brought them quickly to say hi to mama, then sent them next door for Halloween night with the neighbors. We had a fun night of pizza and trick or treating, a good distraction for the girls of the fact they couldn't visit with their mama much. Nona even joined in the fun with her Fiffer-feffer-feff costume! For those that don't know, a fiffer-feffer-feff is a Dr. Seuss character from Dr. Seuss's ABC's - the letter F stands for "four fluffy feathers on a fiffer-feffer-feff". Finally we all collapsed in exhaustion and went to bed, except for me staying up tending to the ladies and writing this blog post. Happy halloween!
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