Visiting G-ma At The High School

Callie entertained all the kids at the school. I am told she sold some newspapers and ran around like she owned the place. My kids love putting themselves inside cabinets and shutting the door so I am not surprised she loved this locker.

Papa Banks' New Ride

Banks' is borrowing Johnny and Scott's Silver Eagle while he hunts for a new job.

If Cade is lucky, he will get to drive this someday too

Cade Loves Emily

Cade was at school this morning when we visited Amy so Tyler and I took him tonight to meet Emily. He loves elevators and we can't get him out once he is in them
Dr. Akin

"What brings you in here today?"
rearranging the furniture

Cade was sweet to Emily and gave her lots of kisses

He didn't do a very good job of holding her though...

Playing on The Deck

Socialized Medicine

I thought it was perfect that Amy had this stamped across her chest. Working in a birthing center and having had babies, I know how different her experience could have been. Everything felt so out of her control. She did not get to pick her doctor, was assigned to a nurse midwife despite risk factors, never saw a perinatologist, didn't get to pick her hospital, had to be at least 4 centimeters and in active labor to be admitted, no exceptions, contracted irregularly for a week and was incredibly miserable, no plans for an induction of any kind until at least 41 weeks, barely got an epidural. She is happy now and glad it is all over and I guess it all ends in the same result but I can't help but feel turned off by this system. I just know how unhappy Amy was and it made me unhappy and there was definitely a feeling of helplessness. And I really had hoped she would go into labor in New Braunfels and have to deliver at my hospital :). I hope this is not what the world is coming too...

Callie Loves Emily!

Callie really liked little Emily and she was so sweet to her. She got really excited to see her and began waving immediately!
She was giving Emily lots of kisses and patting her head

Here Aunt Amy, if you need to spew, spew in this
Uh oh, I'm not the baby anymore...

Had to include the pictures of her incredibly long toes! She could climb trees with these!

Meeting Cousin Emily

We got the call early this morning that Amy was in active labor and progressing right along. So we put Cade on the bus and headed to San Antonio. Callie was still asleep when we left so she came in her pajamas. She is not a morning person so I didn't dare wake her up!Here she is waiting in the car at the visitor center so we could get a pass to go on base. My parents and I waited for an hour to get the pass and while we were waiting Amy had Emily. I missed the whole labor and delivery! Damn military hospitals!
Callie was patient though and just ate her breakfast.

Potty Time

We figure it will take years to potty train Cade so we bought him a toilet. So far we haven't gotten lucky enough to get anything in the pot. We are just getting him acquainted with it. He likes to sit on it. Callie brings him toilet paper. She may be the one to teach him!

Callie Likes Her Chicken Fried

More Room To Play

My dad decided to pour a driveway and back patio at my house this week. The kids are so excited they have more room to run and drive their cars. However, the butterbraid trailer does have to sit back there but we can deal with that. My mom has all kinds of landscaping plans but here is what it looks like now...back side (I know cade's jeans are a little long, we will be taking them up)
driveway \/

Dental Check Up

Cade went to the dentist today. As a parent, it kinda feels like a test to see how good you are taking care of your child, so I was nervous. Now Cade has several strikes against him. Because of his chromosome deletion, he is predisposed to dental carries. I am sure you can tell from his cute smile that his teeth are also a little different. They are more jagged with deep crevices and he has talons on two teeth and a microdontic tooth (I learned a lot today!). He also doesn't clear food out of his mouth well so it sits on his teeth. I wrestle him every night and have never felt satisfied with the brushing he gets. Well, long story short, he has NO cavities. His white fang is also still firmly in place. He was pretty good through his cleaning, didn't bite the hygenist. I tried to keep him laughing so he would keep his mouth open. The dentist was praising me for his good check up, I must me doing something right!

Jumping On The Bed

Callie is a little sumo wrestler

Double Trouble!

playing with Danny

Got to meet Chanel's new boyfriend