Keaton's Nose Surgery

This is the before picture showing how Keatons nose tilts to the left when you look at him straight on. We arrive at the Summit Surgical Center Wednesday morning at 7 am on the morning of a pretty significant snowstorm. They took us back and had Keaton change into this lovely surgical gown including the lovely hat. They at least had a gown long enough for him! (At first, they had one for a 7 year old, not a 17 year old!!) The nurses loved him and exclaimed over him and his cute name. Once he got all dressed and ready to go they took him back and he was gone. This was about 8 am or so. We were told that the surgery would be about an hour and a half and we thought we would be done and ready to go about 11 am.



He was in rough shape when we got to him again. The doctor told us that they were going through bone rasps like they were tinfoil. Must be all those gallons of milk the kid drinks. The resident assistant, Dr. Jensen, attends our ward, and he warned them when they started that Keaton was PURE and had never taken drugs or alcohol. They realized this was true when the anesthesiologist gave him nitrous oxide before the IV which caused a "disinhibition effect" and his arms started windmilling! (Keaton told me later that he started dreaming that he couldn't feel his thumb and was only turning his arm over to regain feeling in his thumb). They stopped the laughing gas and gave him straight oxygen and did the IV without any help. All that was left was the healing. Here are the photos. Enjoy.
He got really bored of being out of school with the splints in his nose from Wednesday to Tuesday. We went back to the Doctor on Monday who pulled the splints out of the inside of his nose - they were clear plastic things on the inside of the nose - about 3 inches long - ewwwww! Grody!!! But Keaton was able to breathe through his nose almost right away.
He is still not able to take physical education until March 8, but should be able to run Track!! But ABSOLUTELY NO BASKETBALL!! or anything where he could be hit in the head. The gym teacher won't even let him play badminton. hahaha. He was REALLY thrilled to finally take a shower a week later Wednesday night. Yes folks, we was not able to get that head wet for a week. yuck. So here is his handsome mug with straight facing nose. Still a bit swollen but Lookin' Good!

KZ just what is it about him... (ha ha I know)

Keaton. Other then the delightful fact that his siblings named him, Keaton is everything our family needed in a "Last Child" ha ha (Did you get the Aerosmith song title there...?) I just didn't want to say "baby" as the last child sometimes gets that "honorary" title. (certainly Brandon and I can relate). The most fun part about Keaton has to be his hair! Would you all agree. I had hair like his when I was young, I remember my brother John messing with my hair, waxing on and on about how full and thick it was... ( :( was ). I cannot begin to count the times i have messed with his hair, and shook it, and ran my fingers thru it, and shapped it when it was all sweaty and nasty, and and and . ha ha The next thing would be his general easygoing character. May I be so bold as to say... a lot like my own... ha ha Imaging Keaton getting angry. Now, don't get me wrong he has been frustrated and a time or two not happy, but I don't think I have ever seen him really mad. Sort of like Pop Yelling "Shut up, bunch of idiots back there!" and you ask yourself, is he serious?

One of my favorite Keaton things is waking him up every morning for seminary. I always try to be gentle and kind. Sometimes it takes 4 or 5 times of "stirring" him, but I don't mind. Only a couple times did he not wake up and I just said, "oh forget it. I'm going back to bed..." but that is our quiet time, I crawl into his bunk and snuggle with him a little and start rubbing his head and face and pat his back tummy, legs and arms to get him up,gennerally messing with him as he slumbers. (I consider it payback for the several times at the Father & Son outings we went on; where we slept in the same bunk so I could keep him warm and he ended up sleeping all over my head and woke me up hour after hour...)

It has really been different with just Keaton home, I get to do more with him than I did with the rest of you all. Not because I didn't want to, but because I was more outnumbered. Like when I would bring you all to bed, one in each arm and one on my back, and one hanging around my neck... Playing Basketball together has been a blast, Blake I know we played a little bit, but keaton has been able to play more with me, and he is gettign pretty good. hitting more of those power shots from the low post then missing. I am excited to see him play his sr. year in "church ball" he should be a scoring machine, (but the rest of the team is pretty weak...) I got him out playing tennis once. What did he say, "it is easier on the Wii" or somthing like that...

Well, what else, I am sorry I don't post more. I will be able to get on the computer more when KZ goes to college, I mentioned to Liberty today she used to always socialize on the computer and I would never get to log on, well, now it is KZ's turn. I have to wait my turn.

I love you all, you'll never know how much. Life is good, I'll post more later. give you a Wall entry. The concert was great. Went with KZ Tuesday and with Della Thursday. spent money but it was worth it. Loves to all, Pop. :)

HELLLLOO SUMNER FAMILYYYY

well la de da! look who's posting!! me silly!

so i missed the last post about the great and wonderful KEATON!

so keaton is pretty much awesome. he plays chess and is pretty good at that since i can't manage to beat him. keaton is funny and smart and a good friend and brother in law! sorry this is short but sadly i don't seem to know the awesome and wonderful keaton as well as i should. my only excuse is that i'm relatively new to the fam... sorry i'm a lame-o!

K.E.A.T.O.N.

Keatonal Sumner. Hmmm, what do I like about him? The first thing that comes to mind is playing Dynasty Warriors. Dynasty is an xbox game where you just beat up chinese people back in the 1100's or something I guess. Well, me and Keaton would play on a team, and I would always die. If I die, we have to restart the whole level. Keaton would always tell me "okay Julia, stay here while I got fight okay? defend the base!" And I would do do a great job defending the base until I got bored and decided to go fight on my own....and die! Keaton would give me a "....julia..." look but then I would always say "Keaton! one more time, I promise I will stay put this time, I'm not leaving the base!!!" and then we would restart the level...and repeat the cycle. haha. So I like keaton in the face that he always ALWAYS gave me second chances (in chess too! I start the game with at least 4 re-do's!!!) So Keaton is always willing to forgive and give second and third chances and he doesn't hold grudges.
I also love his humor. Keaton is so funny. He cracks me up with his antics when he's talking about how awesome he is haha. I mean, I guess he is awesome. I remember when he was embarrassed to show his armpit hair....now he's sporting the tank tops all over the place! I miss him a ton, even though he never tells me anything (like he's the lead in the freaking school play this fall) I miss him a lot, I'm excited for him to graduate and be awesome. I can't wait to see him at Christmas! Love you Keaton!

Not much happening her in Provo, it's cold, there is snow on the mountains, my car is my love. No boyfriends haha, a couple of cuties but nothing for me. I'm going with Dubon (my roommate since freshman year) to California for thanksgiving! Im' stoked! holla!
Oh and Blake, way to go, breaking your finger. That's awesome hahaha. Love you all family! Miss you all so much, we will have a festivus miracle at christmas! (from seinfeld haha) Blog something you fools!

Mr. Wonderful

Keaton began his fabulousness at an early early age and was an early trend setter. This photo, taken at Kashana Graddy's first wedding, has him pairing his beloved cowboy boots with ever appropriate prep-school jacket and little-boy white shorts. He was The Man. Keaton often dressed himself and had Very Definite Ideas of how he wanted to dress. Part of it was having two older, twin-like sisters who loved to play dress-up and who sometimes incorporated him (at the tender age of 2 to 3 years) into their tea parties.

It was at this time that the Great Toe Polish Incident occurred. As has been mentioned earlier, when a little boy who begins to show serious Calvin and Hobbes tendencies, silence from him for longer than 8 minutes means serious trouble.

One of my favorite stories of him is from when he was 5 years old and his teacher at school challenged the children to dress up for the Halloween party and try to STUMP her so that she could not guess what they were dressed as. WELL, Keaton had it ALL figured out. He was going to dress up as a pickle He brought me a sweatshirt and jeans to sew buttons onto (the pickle bumps, you know) and then he painted them green. The kid is FIVE!! Pure Genius. She was stumped.

So now, Mr. Wonderful has made it through grade school, middle school, Jr. High and into High School where he continues his fashion sense (his "lucky socks" for Church Basketball) and pure enjoyment of dressing up. Perhaps it is his own delight at life around him. He cannot help but see the joy in living and it infects all of us. There is the Heroic Keaton and there is the What Will I do Next Keaton. I am glad that we have Mr. Wonderful all to ourselves this year.
I have to squeeze these last two pictures in here because I LOVE them and you will too. Thank you Keaton for choosing this post. Perhaps we should do this every once in a while and give good natured kudo's and memories about one another. It is nice. "I like it" said The Horse from Ren and Stimpy.

KEATONAL!

Some self-serving prompt, eh Keaton? Anyway, just glad you did one.

Hey! Did you notice! I finally got our picture and heading to be centered! Small thing, yes, but it always bothered me, and I just got around to cracking the code to fix it.

So... what is my favorite thing about the wonderful and marvelous Keaton Z. Sumner? Well, he is silly, which is good. Also, he is a good sport. We teased him for years, but for some reason he still likes us. :] I'm glad we can be friends. You're a pretty cool guy. Also cool about Keaton? The hair. It's a plus. Especially when it's so fresh and so clean clean! (I don't even get that reference. ppthb to me)

That pic up there is from when we had that webcam on an old computer. I used to find Keaton in the background of several of my pics and made this icon from one of them. ;]

This one is from Fiddler on the Roof. Keaton's goofiness begins to emerge...

Other random Keaton memories: The nail polish in Utah... the plays and musicals... "When there's Keatons at hoooome!".. Didn't Nicky used to say something like "Keaton is a wheaton"? Fighting over Pokemon Photo Shoot or whatever it was called... Keaton using my tweezers to dip Oreos in milk. Keaton's excellent intro blog post that has yet to be followed up on!!!

I keep thinking of not so flattering memories- so in an attempt to save both Keaton and myself some embarrassment, I'll end there. Oh, here's one: I NAMED YOU! :D (the Keaton part anyway.)

Anyway, Keaton, we love you. Hope you know that. I mean look at that picture! What's not to love?! :]

DFTBA* little brother.

Love,
Liberty

*DFTBA is nerdfighter speak for Don't Forget To Be Awesome. And that goes for all of you!!