Praises, Allie's surgery went great!

Allie did really well with her surgery, and you can already tell such a difference!  She is swollen, but doing great!  The ENT had asked for her ears to be cleaned really well since he couldn't really see them well - they did, and she needed tubes, so they did that while she was under, then started the lip and rhinoplasti surgery.  It started out that we were supposed to be there at 5:15 am for the 7:15 slot - on our way Wednesday night, they called, and said we didn't have to be there until 11:00, for 1:00 surgery - we got there about 10:40, and surgery wound up not starting until 3:30.  What was supposed to be 2-2 1/2 hours turned into almost 4 hours, and we didn't see her again until about 7:20!  We were getting worried!  She had a tough time waking up at first, and just cried and cried.  They gave her a little more medicine to knock her out again - though a much lower dose, and in 15 minutes, she awoke much happier!  After intensive care, they did admit her since the surgery had been so late, and given that we live an hour and a half from the hospital.  She is so sweet - they gave her a bunch of Dora stickers, and she said, "Can I have some for my sister, please?" - the nurses all said "AW" together - funny!  She was a popular little girl in the hospital!  The hospital pre-school teacher came by this morning, and offered Allie the opportunity to go to preschool - she wanted to go, so we did, and she had a great time!  It gave us all something to do while we waited on her discharge papers - we got to leave around 11:30 or so, and BOY are we glad to be home!!  Here are a few pics from our venture...