Adios Adenoids

Today was the big day. Bryce got his adenoids out and got tubes put in his ears. I felt bad for him, he was so nervous about everything. Just Bryce and I went to the surgery center early this morning. Poor Caleb didn't know what to do without his brother, so dad took him and Abby to buy Bryce a balloon and popsicles. We waited a LONG time for it to be our turn and it was hard to entertain him in the waiting room for 2 hours without drinks or snacks.
When we finally got back to the room he got is preop "happy juice", which made for a very silly little Bryce. He was hiding his little panda that he had brought and when someone new would walk in he would pull it out and start growling at them. The bathroom humor also became about 100X funnier when he was loopy! I don't know how many times he made his panda pretend to shoot a poop bomb at me. Really, it was way to early in the morning for me to sit through much of that.
When they finally took him into surgery he looked terrified and I felt terrible leaving him. He was done in about 10 minutes and the doctor said everything went great. I had to wait about another 30 minutes to see him.
He was not a happy camper when I finally got to see him. He was sitting in a chair crying that he wanted his adenoids back. Poor Kid! He was so confused. He kept asking where he was, if he was done, if they really took his adenoids out, if he was in a different room and if I was his mom. I kept answering all his questions and then he would frantically feel his face like he expected there to be a big hole where they cut his adenoids out. Luckily the confusion was short lived and we were out of there in an hour.
Caleb and Abby were very excited to see him! Caleb wanted to play and kept trying to look in his ear to see the tubes. Poor Bryce was just tired and sore and wanted it quiet so he could sleep. Everyone took a nice nap and when he woke up Bryce was much happier. Hopefully the Lutz family is done with surgery for this year!