Surgery was a success!!!

Thank you all for your prayers, text, emails and messages concerning Gabriella!  God answered our prayers and our baby girl sailed through her surgical procedure!  We knew when Beth, our nurse, took us back to our pre-op room, smiled and said I have two adopted daughters from China who are 10 and 14 that our day was going to go well!  Beth understood our fears of this being the first time Gabriella had been separated from us and went above and beyond to make sure everything went as smooth as possible:)  The boys and grandma were all allowed to come back to pre and post op even though we are only supposed to have two family members with the patient; our anesthesiologist who was Asian was very reassuring and wonderful with Gabriella as well as Curtis and I. Versed is also a wonderful drug which helped her to relax prior to surgery; at one point she told me I had five eyes and five noses!  The surgeon/pediatric dentist and his team were simply AMAZING!!!  The word had been passed along about how important it was for us to be with our baby girl when she woke up; he came out after surgery, gave us an excellent report and then said "I heard you want to be with your daughter in recovery before she even gets to post op...she is still sleeping, come with me and I will take you to her" and off we went to find our precious baby girl hooked up to an IV and monitors yet sleeping very peacefully!  We peeked in her mouth, rubbed her hair and the nurse brought 2 extra tall stools so Curtis and I could sit right there with her until she awoke.  They had educated us that little ones don't always come out of anesthesia well and it could be a rough couple of hours; nope God had other plans!  Gabriella coughed, opened her eyes, looked at us and said "mama, dada, all over, can we go home now"?  We were so thankful to see that she handled the anesthesia well and our baby girl was awake and talking!  As soon as her brothers and grandma heard she was awake they all joined us in the post op room built for a patient plus two...it was ok as we were all back there watching over our princess and couldn't have been happier with how well she did!

The final report was that she had three fillings and four crowns placed, two in her back molars and two on her front two teeth; they were very unsure if she could keep her front teeth however they were able to by placing the crowns; we were prepared if the tooth fairy needed to visit Riley:)  Gabriella's back crowns are silver; it sort of made this mama sad however they said the chances of her keeping them on until her permanent teeth came in were much higher with the silver ones ~ and ~ grandma instantly made me smile when she said "Gabriella, show us your bling that's in your mouth" and she opened her mouth and just smiled!  Soooo, we have put a happy spin on the silver crowns and our baby girl now has her "bling" on every single day!  One thing that surprised us all was that when we were preparing to take her back prior to her surgery she said she wanted to sit with her brothers for a little while; as they were all three lined up Curtis carried her over there and said "which one do you want"...we were all surprised by who she chose as Daniel and Jordan spoil her rotten; yep, she wanted Nicholas!  I believe there is hope for this dynamic duo!

Thank you again for all your prayers!!!  One thing we have to take away from Gabriella's diet is anything chewy...so far so good but this baby girl loves her starburst, taffy and bubble gum....if anyone has any idea for some great substitutes I'd love to hear your suggestions!!!