The Night Before Surgery

Look at this sweet happy baby! Well, tonight is the night before her surgery. Tomorrow morning we have to be at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital at 6:30 AM for Ella Kate to have the duplicated ureters (the tube that goes from the kidney to the bladder) that she was born with corrected. The Dr. hopes to be able to re-route the ureters into the bladder and make only one on each side. We are praying that this is all that will have to be done. You would never know by looking at her that she has this problem. She has been on antibiotics since the day she was born to help prevent infections. We are spending the night tonight in Nashville because we have to be at the hospital so early and Ella Kate can't eat anything after midnight. We thought just driving a few miles to the hospital with a hungry baby would be better than driving an hour! :) We did some shopping at Opry Mills tonight and ate at the food court. Ella Kate loves to shop!!

Here she is loving on her Ella the elephant. She sleeps with Ella every night and we hear Ella the elephant sing sometimes during the night, but she never wakes up Ella Kate.

Ella Kate loves books! She would rather sit and turn pages in a book than play with her other toys. This has started Allison calling her a nerd, but it hasn't stopped her from reading to Ella Kate.

Now, this is one thing that I would never let Ella Kate do at home and that is play with the remote control, but since we are in a hotel room the rules do not apply. Ha,ha!

I leave with you with this picture of Ella Kate. I love this picture! She loves mirrors and "talks" to herself in them.
Please remember us tomorrow morning and I plan on updating my blog to let everyone know how the surgery went. Until tomorrow, good night!