Summer! Tonsils!

So, the other day I went to the pool at Annie's house and Cooper was very tired, but he liked the water and stayed in it until he was completely exhausted, so when I got him out of the pool I lay him down to take off his swim diaper and put his dry clothes on, and this is what resulted:

He was asleep before I could do anything! I just had to let the poor kid sleep in his soggy pants he was so tired! For Memorial day we took a trip out to Sand Hollow reservoir to play on the red sandy beaches. Cooper kept eating the Red Sand. Consequently the next day he had a red sandy diaper...

But he wasn't the only one with a souvenir. Jesse and Amanda came home with "swimmer's itch" which is a parasite that comes from... well.. never mind where it comes from, but which enters the skin and is immediately killed by your immune system, but still causes red splotches all over your skin which are horribly itchy and painful. The only real solution is calamine and benadryl, but since Jesse had a tonsillectomy looming in a few days he could take no benadryl! Poor guy! I had to console him with an oatmeal bath and calamine lotion.

Jesse has needed his tonsils out for a long time coming. Every winter he is sick almost the whole season, and whenever he gets a sinus infection it lasts weeks on end with terrific headaches. So after a visit to our trusty otorhinolaryngologist, he confirmed what I had supposed: Jesse needed his sinus passages widened and his septum straightened. We decided since the baby is due mid-December, now would be a good time to get it over with. So when the baby comes, Daddy won't be sick like he normally is all winter! Hooray! (and maybe no more snoring!) Here's Jesse on his way in to the hospital for his surgery, pointing to his throat in token of his soon to be removed tonsils, and at his nose in token of his soon to be straightened septum and widened sinus passages:

So, here he is being prepped for surgery, and then here's an after shot when he came out... see if you can tell which is which:

I know, tough huh. So recovery has been, to say the least, an adventure. To try and side step the nausea he is prone to getting from lortab, we opted for percacet. Little did we know that it gives Jesse not only the jitters, but hallucinations. By the 4th day he'd had it, and refused to take anymore. So now I just have him on plain ol' Tylenol. He says the pain is worse, but at least there's no people above him in a glass house trying to shoot red blobs at him.