Mei Mei's Surgery....

Here is our sweet girl being a champ as we put her through yet another surgery.  This surgery was done to help build up her palate.  They basically take skin from the sides of her throat and attach them up near her palate.  It stops the air from leaking through her nose when she talks.   She really is such a trooper and although the surgery memories came back quickly when we were walking down the dreaded hallway and she started crying and having a hard time letting go of me, she did really well and just pushed through it all.  She had the same routine as last time, nothing but liquids for 5 days, then just soft foods for a couple weeks.  She was so good and always would ask if she could have something and even at preschool she would tell her teacher she couldn't have the snacks because she knew they weren't soft enough.  I did find her once hiding...eating some popcorn (which c'mon that's probably the worst food), but I just felt so bad for the poor thing I just wanted to cry.  But even after she was totally cleared for any type of food, she kept asking if she could have certain things.  What a sweetie!