quick update

Just a quick note for those inquiring minds, my endoscopy and biopsy results came back clean. My tummy and other inside particulars are just fine for the time being. My special tummy doc just wants me to eat more and eat even more fattier and calorific foods when I do eat.... if any body has any suggestions to buff up mealtime, we are ready to listen :)

my turn to play MarioKart...

The Haneys came over to visit on Sunday and to let us try out their new game for the Wii - MarioKart. It was pretty fun, (so fun that we ended up buying the game too..) but, anways, the kids had a lot of fun in the meantime enjoying each others company.

here's Alicia reading a book to Samantha, Alicia had the book originally and Sam came up next to her while she was reading it, it was pretty cute. They actually were kinda shall I say the word, "sharing?"


the girls were enjoying the kid table a lot :) ...all smiles...

whew... what a long day, Alicia didn't really nap earlier that day and boy, she was out on the floor... I know, we were kinda mean, but it's so hard to get a good comparison length shot anymore of her laying on the floor. Note, of length - Elmo is about 28 in long, so I think Alicia is darn close to 30 inches. very scientific, eh?

Saturday night fun

Saturday night my friend from work, Nicole, and her husband, Chris, (and their son, Roger) came over to visit. Alicia really got along with Roger well, I was almost surprised, as sometimes, she can be a bit reserved with other kids. But the two of them played together really well :) Roger kept calling Alicia "baby" so that was cute, but really he's only a few months older than her. The kids stayed up later than normal that night and got pretty goofy actually, we were afraid they were going to get cranky, but they did awesome and Alicia actually slept that night :) wohoo!

All Done.

Well,

Alicia had her "procedure" today. They placed a camera (endoscopy) down her throat, and took a biopsy on her stomach. We don't have the results back, (not till next week), but the doctor said it was visually OK. Also, her "Sweat" test from a few weeks ago came back OK as well.

Here are a few pics of Alicia waiting for the procedure. She was quite entertaining to be around after she drank some of the medicine to relax her before anesthesia. She was laughing, and talking. She was very relaxed. I wish we could get her to a somewhat relaxed state @ other times. So we are at home now relaxing and she's doing rather well considering it all.



Sitting in the chair watching TV












Sitting with Elmo. (Elmo's wearing her ID band)















Holding onto Mommy, in her scrubs, (thermometer sticker on her forehead).



















Can't forget about the wagon ride, this was the kiddy wheel chair. She was waiting for Carl or Lucas to pull her, but she had to settle for daddy.

She wasn't fond of her attire - she thinks they need more
fashionable surgery wear.

At the park with my friends.

Below are some pictures from the kids spring get together, this past weekend. We visited the Bormets, and Carl, Lucas, Kaylee, and Alicia were able to hang out at the park near their house. Sorry for the cropping on some of the pictures, but its due to the collage software that generated it. If you would like an individual picture, please let us know the row and column.

Enjoy
Kluesner's

go cardinals!

Last night we went up to Milwaukee to watch the Cardinals play the Brewers. It was a pretty fun. Alicia was having a good pre-game, she had fun dancing and clapping along to the music and all, and of course, eating her hot dog. :) Then, once the game started, Alicia was not a fan of the loud speaker systems or the fireworks... they were much louder than the pre-game activities. She was having such a great time and then the fireworks started part of the game and she freaked out, we felt so bad for her, she was very upset. I think the announcers and the crazy music everytime a Brewers' batter was up to bat scared the heck out of her.. poor thing.. maybe it was just she wanted the Cardinals to be back up to bat.. Oh yeah, and the Cardinals did win, 4-3.

Alicia playing in the playground at Miller Park. There was a lot of crazy kids running around there, so she didn't get to play too much. She was a little fish in big pond.


Alicia enjoying the game and sitting in her own big girl chair :)


Not sure how this picture came about, but it looks pretty cool.

happy birthday, daddy!

Happy birthday, daddy!


Thanks for being a cool daddy! Here's some pics of us having fun!