Happy Birthday Leigh!

I hope you and Jake had fun on your cruise. :) I thought about you today, and was jealous that I had to work while you two were off having fun.

Tack on another year...

Jake has decided that he wants to apply for a second fellowship. That's right I said SECOND. He wants to do neo-natal anesthesiology so he will be able to work with the tiniest patients. This would be after the pediatric year and would mean one more year here in St. Louis. It's a new program that's being offered here and two other hospitals (Boston Mass General and one in New York, I think) so it would be a tremendous opportunity. I'm trying to be supportive while hinting that this may be too much training... we'll see.

Nelson shootaround

Milk, etc.

Hey everyone,

I heard of an interesting website created by someone at BYU. You can go on it and find out where your dairy products come from. It is interesting to find that most of it comes from the same place. I looked at Western Family, Smith's, Mt. Dairy and found they came from Smith's Dairy in Layton. Cream O' Weber comes from the Cream O' Weber plant in SLC. You can find the code on your bottle and then put it in at the website and it will locate the origin. 49-70 is the one in Layton and 49-10 is Cream O' Weber. Here is the website: whereismymilkfrom.com

Leigh, you might even be able to use it. It's just something to look at to give you a bit of information about local products vs those from far away. You can save some money and buy the cheaper product knowing they come from the same place.

Mom

Speech Therapy, etc.

Wyatt has been to six speech therapy sessions. I think he is making some progress, but it is SLOW! He doesn't say much at home around us, so you can imagine that things don't improve when he's at the hospital with a stranger in the room. That said, today was his best day yet. He repeatedly said "ball" to play with a ball and "more" to pop more bubbles. And he cooperated by touching buttons on a screen to show what he wanted to do next. Wyatt has become familiar with the therapist's office (they have a huge fish tank that he likes to look at), but he still acts clingy during the sessions. He has to sit on my lap and grab onto my arms. We are hoping to get him accepted into a magnet school this fall where they would be able to provide free speech therapy that would be integrated into his school day. I'm surprised how sad I feel about having him start school at such a young age. But I know this is the best way to get him talking. I'll let you know how things go. I'm excited to see you all next month!

Leigh

Where is everyone?

I don't think there are enough posts being made. I check the blog and find the same posts without anything new added. Let's all write a little more, we don't call, we don't write, we could stand to be a bit more in touch. Love you all...

Mom

Wyatt's birthday

I realized that I never posted anything about Wyatt's birthday. We had a combined party with one of his friends who is just one day older (his name is Jake... and Jake's dad is named Lee - not confusing at all!). Anyway, Wyatt and Jake had a pizza party at Jake's house. There were 11 kids in all (and several parents, thank goodness) and we had a great party planned for them. I brought dough and toppings and each child made their own little pizza. Jake's mom Abbie made an apron for each kid and I cut out some felt mustaches and the little chefs got to work. Neither of the birthday boys would wear an apron or a mustache, but the other kids seemed to enjoy dressing up. We didn't plan any games or activities so the kids all enjoyed some time just playing. After the pizza, we opened presents (Wyatt wasn't thrilled about that so we opened his at home) and then had ice cream and cake that was made to look like pizza. I wish that I had some pictures to show, but we forgot our camera! Abbie and Lee are going to send us copies of their pictures, but they recently had a baby so it may be a while yet. I'd love to hear about Corwin's recent birthday. Love you all!

Leigh

March Madness

No...this isn't about college basketball. March Madness is about reading the Book of Mormon in the month of March. (Mom mentioned it at FHE last Sunday.) We are only 5 days into it. It is possible to catch up if you have fallen behind, or if you haven't even started yet. Todays reading is 2 Nephi 7-16. If you've lost your bookmark with the reading schedule, or if you never got one I can post one here...or you can just look at the "quote-a-day" calendar that Mom gave everyone for Christmas...look at December 31st.

I just wanted to encourage everyone to do this challenge. I know. Me. A reading challenge. I'm actually really enjoying this. It has been way too long since I have read the entire Book of Mormon. I have already learned some things that I didn't know before-Or may have forgotten...I don't remember. ;)

FINAL DAY

TOTAL MEDAL COUNT FINAL RESULTS

BLK: GER 30 CHN 11 EST 1 JPN 5 BLR 3: 50

GRN: AUT 16 ITA 5 NED 8 UKR 0 BUL 0: 29

RED: RUS 15 KOR 14 FIN 5 POL 6 GBR 1: 41

BLU: CAN 26 SUI 9 CZE 6 AUS 3 SVK 3: 47

YLW: NOR 23 SWE 11 FRA 11 CRO 3 LAT 2: 50


GOLD MEDAL COUNT FINAL RESULTS

BLK: GER 10 CHN 5 EST 0 JPN 0 BLR 1: 16

GRN: AUT 4 ITA 1 NED 4 UKR 0 BUL 0: 09

RED: RUS 3 KOR 6 FIN 0 POL 1 GBR 1: 11

BLU: CAN 14 SUI 6 CZE 2 AUS 4 SVK 1: 27

YLW: NOR 9 SWE 5 FRA 2 CRO 0 LAT 0: 16

DAY 12

TOTAL MEDAL COUNT AFTER DAY 12

BLK: GER 23 CHN 5 EST 1 JPN 3 BLR 2: 34

GRN: AUT 10 ITA 4 NED 6 UKR 0 BUL 0: 20

RED: RUS 13 KOR 10 FIN 1 POL 4 GBR 1: 29

BLU: CAN 11 SUI 8 CZE 3 AUS 2 SVK 3: 27

YLW: NOR 17 SWE 7 FRA 10 CRO 2 LAT 2: 38