Who ya Gonna Call?

DR. CARR!!!!??? Jordan, thats who.

It actually happened, after WAY TOO much money and time invested in applying to medical schools, Jordan was ACCEPTED to his number one choice school of Medicine.

We are soooo excited!!! We have been waiting and dreaming of the day we were finally accepted and now its here. And even better is that it is exactly the school he wants to go to. After interviewing there he fell in love with the school and knew that was where he wanted to go. And he is sooo pumped to be studying the body in great detail, he loves anatomy and that is also my favorite subject of all time, and I am looking forward to learning what he learns, we plan on studying together as much as possible. Out of all the careers we have looked into and all the jobs he has done being a Doctor has always been his number one goal, he has always wanted the skills to help people when they are physically ill, and even more the ability to help his family and has always hated depending on other Doctors to diagnose/help his family. And if any of you really know Jordan you will also know that he is a "prepare for the end of the world" addict and has always had the goal of being completely self reliant, and that includes being a Doctor. Its soooo exciting to actually be accomplishing your number one choice path, instead of number 2. Hooray!!

So the school........is
Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences, located in.........drum roll..........the next place of habitation on the Carrs journey all over the country :)..........our future home for the next 4 years*.............yes yes, you didnt guess it, good ol (and ugly) YAKIMA WA. I am so excited that its in WA, but it is quite the bummer that its on the ugly side, altho it is very close to the pretty side. BUT it is only 2 hours from my (loni's) family. YAY And my sister lives in Boise which is only 6 hours away and we will be only 13 hours from Jordans family,which is the same as we are right now and is definately close enough to drive!! HURRAY!! Its a very small school, infact it only has 2 buildings and the class size is 75. Jordan starts september of 2011, so one year away. We probably wont move until next august, late july. Until then its ENJOY paradise.

We still can't believe it, it seems so unreal. I have gotten so used to waiting to hear from the schools that feel like we still have work to do regarding applications. In fact we are still recieved secondary applications from other schools and its SOO nice to be able to throw them away and not waste another dime, or spend the time writing essays.

But the greatest part of all, is.....thats it. We feel like this has been the last great unknown, the last choice, the last curtain over the future. Its been lifted and we can now see which direction we are headed in. When your 15 you wonder what its like to be 16, when your 17 you wonder about graduating high school and how you cant wait......and what the future will hold for you, then you wait some more and speculate about what colleges you are going to be accepted to, where you want to go and what you want to do. Then freshmen year of college you wonder what major would be best for your future. You wonder about whether you will go on a mission (at least I did) and for boys you wonder about where you will be sent on your mission. Then you wonder when you will get married and to whom, and how you will meet them.......wonder wonder wonder.....and then its still I wonder what we should do with our lives, what career? what path? What area? What jobs are out there? Which career would allow me to stay home and still have security? Will I as the wife be able to stay home with the kids? Always I wonder what the future will hold?!

So whereas the question is never completely answered, I at least will always be asking and obssessing about the future, we both feel that this is like right after our engagement when we realized that the question of WHO?, was actually answered and we knew who we would be spending all of eternity with, the wondering was over. Well thats how we feel right now, the wondering is over. Sure theres more questions to be answered, what area of medicine, what residency, where to live, own a practice?, etc, but it is no longer a great big IF, the big fat door of medicine has relinquished and swung wide open, and we are free to walk through.

We have been doing much studying, talking and praying, along with trips to the temple to decide if we should indeed walk through that huge gate....and luckily and thankfully we both have decided and agree to "marry" medicine. And unlike when we were married to each other blissfully, this "marriage" to medicine is much more of a Selfish partner and not always the easiest partner to live with. But its right for us. So here we go....

Subject to change, Jordan would like to go in family medicine, or PCP, something where he can open his own practice in a small town....he calls it the "village doctor". It has more flexible hours, especially if he joins or creates a shared practice where he only has to work half the week, and it has less exposure to crap, as in the atmosphere he would be working in all day. Albeit family medicine is rather boring as compared to surgery.

For those unfamiliar witht the process of becoming a dr: so just like any path farther than graduate degrees you have to take a standerdized test called the MCAT, its all chemistry, physics, math, biology, an essay section, and a reading section. It officially has 3 section and then the writing portion. It takes about 4 hours to complete and costs around 200 to take. It scores from 0-38 plus a letter of the alphabet for the writing. A score of 22 is considered pretty low, you would have to have a sweet GPA to get into a school with that score, and a score of 34 and up is considered "genius status", a ten in each section (so a 30 )is basically a gauruntee into any school as far as the MCAT goes. Jordan scored a 10, 10, 9, Q, so a 29Q. We were of course pretty downed that we didnt hit the 30 bench mark but it is still considered to be a very good score, the average score is 25.

Medical school is all about waiting, and Loni is never about waiting. It was close to murder to make me wait for all the slow secretaries out there to get results and answers back. Once you take the test it takes about 2 months for the scores to be released. Then once you have gotten 4 or more letters of recommendation and shadowed several doctors and recieved there letters of recommendation you send your scores, GPA, MCAT and letters to your schools board for review and their cumulative letter or status of recommendation to any schools reviewing your application and that of course costs 200. Once they recieve that you have to fill out all your info: transcripts, essays, service hours and logs, personal info, personal essay, professional resume etc onto a medical school internet Portal, called the ACOMAS. Once that is done, which usually takes about a month you get your results back from the board and then pay An ABSURD amount of money to apply.....the first year we spend about 4,000 to apply to about 14 schools. ( and now that is all over we have spent around 6,000 total!! eek) And this is not mentioning all the head ache dealing with tons of unqualified secretaries to do their job which caused me soooo much stress! and of course add into that mix, school, graduating, pregnancy, first baby, moving, new job, now place amongst all this essay writing.

THEN about 3 months later, cuz you have to wait for Acomas to get and process all your transcipts, the schools send out letters for Secondary applications. Which means you passed the first screen of just number qualifications. then you have to fill out all the SAME information as the first ones, lame, and write about 5 essays per school. So times 14 thats 70 questions!!! And of course pay the schools more money, each seconday costs about 60 dollars. Infact the school he was accepted to we almost didnt apply to because the secondary fee was 175!!!! so thats another 1200 down the hole. then you wait wait wait....................

And about 4 months later hear back and are invited for an Interview, so you spend more money on plane tickets and rental cars and places to stay. Money money money...... At the interview you get a tour of the school, some students talk to you, Jordan even got to spend the night the night before with a student family (who happened to be LDS) and then the interview is a series of questions about current events, theoretical scenarios, what if questions, medical related questions and general test of character, it lasts about an hour. After the interview luckily you only have to wait 1-2 weeks for the results of the interview. However on our first year applying to this school, PNWU, they lost some info and so were not invited to interview till later in the year and so were put on the waiting list......more waiting and loni is almost out of hair!!!

So then we talked to the admissions lady, who also interviewed Jordan, and she told us we were basically garunteed admittance based on his qualifications and interview results, if we just applied next year but super early (in june) so that we could be in the first interview group of the year (in october) and come the next year sept of 2011. Afraid to bank completely on that but also unwilling to accept any other school instead, we applied to 6 schools this year (more waste of money) just incase we didnt get in to PNWU and could accept somewhere else. After interviewing at PNWU Jordan liked that school alot and felt like that was the place to go. So he had his 2nd interview at PNWU oct 8th, the friday before PArry was blessed, and we found out our results the 13th. In fact Leann Hunter (the lady I mentioned) personally called him to tell him the good news, she was quite excited to deliver on her promise, and SO WERE WE!!

So we got a call saying WE WERE ACCEPTED. And of course were soooo excited and relieved that the hunting was done!

Oh and med school works like this: 2 years of class/book learning. the whole cadaver cut up thing, they usually take a year to dissect one cadaver per 4-6 students. Then they start rotations (means like 4-8 weeks in almost every field of medicine, from pediatrics to OBGYN) and more hands on hospital learning their 3-4 years. And actually this will probably not take place in Yakima since it is such a small town, so we might move again in two years, somewhere not too far tho, like vancouver, boise etc. Then you take lots of board exams and skill exams and apply for a residency based upon the specific field you want.....think of it as a two year minimum internship. surgery fields are usually 4-6 years residency and PCP is usually only two. THEN you take more exams and boards for states and pay pay pay to get licensed to practice.

A blessed lil Parry at two months

Well we have had a lot happening over here. Tho the first to note, because it goes in order, is Parry's baby blessing. He had the CUTEST lil tux for his baby blessing outfit. It actually has the cutest little suit jacket that goes with it, but being in southern california it was too hot for him to wear it. I had to force the blanket to stick around cuz I made that one myself and didnt care if it was too hot or not. Isnt the bow tie adorble? Definatly the most fun I have had dressing up a lil boy, I would say it even rivals the cute girlie dresses.

I made the blaket underneath him, it turned out sooooo beautiful but I don't actually have a good pic of it. I plan on doing a little studio shooting in our house of Parry in his baby blessing outfit and blanket later this week so hopefully i get to putting them on here as well. The blanket is what I worked on while I was too big to do much else. Oh and I loved the waist band!

This is the crew that came for Parry's blessing, minus one who is Kristen, she is taking the picture. We were so grateful for all of their sacrifice to come all the way to our house just for a short weekend. Jordans family drove 13 hours from utah and Jordans grandma and Aunt drove up from san diego, which was a huge deal.....I don't know the last time she drove anywhere that far, but we were so glad they came, they are the sweetest funnest two ladies, and we have been so glad to be living closer to them, we visit every time we go to the san diego zoo. My dad flew down from WA so I got to spend the weekend with him, which I enjoyed, its not very often that I get to spend one on one time with my dad. And to be fair to the rest of the crew, my sister just spent 4 weeks here helping out and my mom also was just here in september and then Eldon and Kimi came over a couple of weeks ago. So every one has been able to see and spend a little time with Parry (well except Mandi but she gets to see him at thanksgiving), which I am soo glad of.

This is a pic of all the Carr side grandbabies/ kyren and Parry's cousins. Kyren had a blast playing with all of them, he loved having so many people around, I could tell he was very confused as to why all of a sudden there were tons of people in our house and they kept coming back. He especially enjoyed playing with Sakara, shes the little girl holding Parry, they were so cute together.


Friday I got to hang out with Jordans family while Jordan was actually gone, he was up in Wa having a medical school interview. He flew back with my dad saturday morning. Saturday Jordan went with his fam to Knotts Berry Farm and as reported had a lot of fun. Luckily the park was not empty and it was a perfect day to go and he had a lot of fun going on rides and hanging out with everyone. I stayed home with my dad and the two boys and we actaully had a very enjoyable day. Grandpa Parry got to see Kyrens mad skills in the pool and was able to hold Parry a lot. We also went for a long walk down the boardwalk to the pier and generally just enjoyed good conversation and amusement provided by Kyren. Sunday we of course had the baby blessing and after church we came back to our apartment and had a BBQ with delicious watermelon. After that we just hung out at our apartment. My dad flew back monday morning but Jordans family was able to stay unti monday evening, so we played tennis, and went to the beach and played in the waves. It was Jordans brothers (Nathan) first time in the ocean!

Kyren and Sakara taking a bath together after the beach

I LOVE baby toes! oh I just wanna chew on them!!

My naked little boy!!

This is my dad, we made it to the pier just before sunset which took about 30 seconds, I couldnt believe how fast the sun was going down, it was completely up when I started to get the phone out to take a pic and was almost gone by the time I took the picture!

Oh and this is our new "baby" to hold our new baby, we LOVE this double stroller, definately our favorite toy and a life saver, I can now go anywhere I want with the kids by myself, it transforms between stroller, jogging stroller and a bike trailor.

Parry and Kyren

We finally bought an MTS file converter so that we can use our videos from our camcorder on the blog and Youtube. They were too high def to be used, hence why there have not been videos on here for a long time, but fear no more, there will now be videos. So these are the most current videos of Kyren, Parry and Jordan, I think I was recording all of them so I am not in any of them. Kyren is 16 months and Parry is 5 wks old, look how well he holds his head up. .

Random Kyren and Parry

These are just random videos of Kyren over the summer and some recently of him with Parry

Kyren's First Birthday

So here is Kyrens first birthday videos and pics, I feel bad that I never posted them way back on his birthday, and seeing how I use this as my surrogate journal I feel like I should even tho it is way past.

So for his birthday we decided to take him to his favorite place, the mall. We had been there once before and he loved climbing on all the stuff and it was great that it is all enclosed so that we could let him wander at his will. After that we came home and he took his afternoon nap. When he woke up we went swimming at the community pool, he LOVES swimming and always enjoys all the people. Back them he was just learning to kick his legs.

After swimming we came home, and it was around 7pm, I don't remember why anymore but for some reason I was unable to make his cake earlier that day and so I was trying to hurry and make his cake around 7:30pm. The cake was done....kind of....aruond 8 and kyren was really tired, but I really wanted him to have his first cake on his birthday....now that I think about it I probably should have just waited till the next day, its not like he knows what day is his birthday. So the cake got halfway finished...as far as the Fondant went, I had glorious plans of course but they got put on hold. So as you will see in the video, there is an ugly side of the cake. :)

He didnt like his cake anyway, which I was kinda sad about, I wanted those cute pictures of one year olds with frosting and cake smeared all over. (which was kinda an oversight with fondant....seing how it doesnt smear) Anyway it didnt matter cuz he wouldnt even eat it. I later tried a cupcake with real frosting on it to see if he would eat it, and he didn't he doesnt like frosting or cake....at least not yet anyway.

After cake we opened up a few presents. We had made this family picture book, and got him some hotwheels with a "Mack" truck that he can load them in. He actually liked them and 4 months later he Loves his hot wheels.

Ladies and Gentlemen please welcome BABY Parry!!!!

Which is Which? Parry or Kyren?

Alright so this time I will post pics first and put the story down at the bottom.

Look at all that back fat.

We think Parry looks just like Jordan, especially when he made this face.

Heres Kyren at 2 days (below)

Heres PArry at 3 days (below)

This is how we keep Parry safe from Kyren during tummy time.

The CARR BOYS

Parry (above) at 4 days old, heading home from the Hosptial

The one above is Kyren at around 2 days old.....Can you believe how much they look alike? The one below is Parry at 1 week

Parry at One week old, the swelling has decreased in his face a ton, pictures of course don't quite do justice.

Its amazing how the last two months feel like the whole 9 months, making pregnancy feel like its at least 18 months long!! I spend the first 3 months being awed by the idea of being pregnant, and of course all the nice side effects of being nautious ( i know thats not how you spell that) and not wanting to eat, not being able to eat and just feeling all over sickly, but pregnancy doesnt seem real, you are showing anything yet, and it just feels like you have a bad cold that insists on sticking around for 3 months. I think about being pregnant and about the baby and look up on the interenet what stage he is at etc, let just say its very much on my mind and yet seems unreal, all the while looking forward to being week 20 so that we can go get our ultrasound. Then the awaited day of the ultrasound comes and its almost like your having the baby that day, its here, we get to see him! Then all of sudden its like you forget your pregnant, about week 25 my sicknesses finally go away and I can choke dont food (previously i have been subsisting on dole juice and chocolate milk 24-7). I almost forget I am pregnant, its too far away to really hope for or get excited about delivary days (that will just depress you) and I am not quite big enough to make daily living an impossibility, so your forced to "pretend" that your not pregant, pretend like you think its a beautiful "miracle" that your getting fatter and puffier every day, and it is really quite amazing that you can't breathe when you bend over any more, and its always fun to ignore the 2 hour long hiccups inside that make you feel like your spassing but you cant even hold your breath or flex to get rid of them and then of course there are the relaxing evening/nights when I like to stay awake pondering (best accomplished in the bathroom of course) on the beauty of being a woman cuz I can no longer sleep..... that last about 7 weeks.....and then I hit the dreaded 32-33 weeks along. Now I should give pregnacy some credit, it is very fun around 6 months when you can feel the baby move and Jordan can finally feel and see him move also, there is a 3 weeks span in there where its not soooo bad and the babies still small enough to move . At 33 weeks however, I am done! This time around especiallymy belly was already bigger than most full term women, thanks to my small torso and my bodies inability to correlate a small torso with a small baby! The ultrasound at 34 weeks declared Parry 7 + pounds and I still had 6 weeks to go. The last 2 months are awful and I will not hide my contempt for the whole ordeal of bringing children into this world, there should be another way. Animals have pregnancies of 3-4 months, why cant we? And 200 lb panda bears give birth to a pound cub! Now is that fair? I don't think so. And the worst part is that there is no choice, once you decide you want a child, thats the end of your ability to choose, it just grows and grows and grows and the little glutenous baby gets to decide when HE wants to come out, without consulting me! There should be an eject button, or a "Times UP!" button, a warning sign that they only have 3 weeks left till you want them out so they better hurry up and finish, don't worry about putting fat on just finish the vitals first. These are the lovely thoughts that posses my brain the last 6 weeks. You start getting things together, you think about what its going to be like and as it gets closer you start wondering every day if Today is the day!? I might not be so impatient if Kyren hadnt come 3 weeks early, so at the 3 weeks mark I really start getting bitter. Oh and then you add the Constant remarks that I am having twins. I didnt get that with Kyren, he was pretty normal sized as far as the belly went, I think he sunk down lower cuz I had a lot of problems with numb legs, and swelling in my feet and pelvic pain with him that I didnt have with Parry. Even my doctors wife looked at me and said...."You know I only ever reached 40 cm with my twins" And a lady in my ward with twins liked to remind me constantly that I was way bigger than she was so that baby was going to pop out any day. Which at first was kinda excitng to think....maybe he would come at 35 weeks! But then at 37 weeks when she said the same thing I felt like saying...." NO he is not coming out he is going to stay in there FOREVER and next week my belly will be so BIG you won't be able to see my FACE!!!" Then I started feeling ripped off, heck I should be having twins, how ridiculous is that? I have a huge belly and I am only getting one out of the deal, they atleast got two, I want the two for one deal, what newspaper was that coupon in? Oh and thats not even mentioning the fact that with Kyren i got 2 little stretch marks that you could barely see, and Mr,. Parry here was having fun turning my belly into a tiger pattern, I never really cared for animal prints, so I really didnt like his taste in remodeling my belly for me. Jordan seems to like them tho, he says it looks like my belly is on Fire, it gives me that wild look....hehehe well what ever. And whats up with not being able to get in hot tubs!! I won't even go there!

So I waited 9 months for the next part of this little story and you only had to wait like 9 minutes while you read this, so heres the part you actually want to read. As you know Jordan flew out to pittsburgh at 36 weeks, now Kyren was born at 37 weeks and this pregnancy I had already had serious false labor that they had to stop so I was a little worried that baby Parry would come while Jordan was gone. Pregnnacy is a horrible thing to have to plan around cuz you cant plan for it. So just for precautions Chelsea flew down the day after Jordan left, which was the last week of July. Which was fun cuz I got to celebrate my birthday with Chels. She stayed for 4 weeks, and it worked out wonderfully. The first two weeks we got to play around and do girly things, like watch girly movies, go to the beach, go boogie boarding, paint nails, get our hair cut/permed, and go shopping. We got to get new outfits for her and buy some college stuff she needed to get. Oh and I found I love the store Nordstrom Rack, I cant wait till I have my body back to go and get some cute, cheap stuff for me.

Anway so two weeks passed and we were getting kinda bored and so decided to go to a water park. I had been to my OB apointment the thursday before and was "high and closed solid" meaning I wasnt dilated or effaced or even close! We almost bought the tickets to the water park online the night before but didnt because we found a coupon that you had to use in person. So we got everything ready and went to bed. That was Monday, Tuesday morning I noted having contractions pretty consistant around 7:30 but didnt give them much credence since I had been having contractions alot (since we had been trying to induce the thing) but they always went away, I had resigned myself to give up hope and just live with it till my due date, Jordan and chels had too, hence why we were going to a water park. But about 40 minutes later I started noting the times between contractions mentally, but I didnt say anything, I tried to tell myself that today was not the day, dont start hoping cuz its two weeks early and your just oing to have live with it for 2 more weeks! At 9 when we were to be leaving we finally decided that we should wait two hours (the park didnt open till 10 anyway) and see what happened. So we kept track. The first hour of keeping track they were every 7-8 minutes apart, then the second hour they were 4 minutes about with minute long duration, and they were really painful, so we finally called the doctor and he said we could come in right then. I was still worried they were going to go away by the time we got there or that even if I was having good contractions I wasnt dilated so they would just say to wait. So we took a shower, ate breakfast, packed out bags etc. Taking our time, by the time we left they really really hurt, but I know how hospitals are and they like to tie you to the bed which just makes them hurt worse, walking around feels much better, but I wasnt sure how c-sections worked, I was pretty sure once they checked you just went in, but again I wasnt sure if you had to be dilated and I was pretty sure I wasnt since I dilate really really slow ( atleast I did last time and I wasnt dilating this time even with serious contractions the week before) So we went in, and everything was very calm, which made it seem unreal, they hooked me up and affimed that I was having contractions every 3 minutes and they were lasting 60-80 seconds. Oh and I was dilated to a 4, which was great news, so the nurse said the c-section should start within a half hour. And they don't give you the spinal shot until you go into the c-section room. Now a little pause for those who don't know, I scheduled a c-section beacuse my tail bone is still not completely healed from giving birth to Kyren. He was 30 hours of labor (30 hours of serious natural labor with contractions starting at 3 minutes apart and by the end of were only 30 seconds apart lasting a minute and half) Anyway he broke my tail bone and pelvic bone coming out, and I learned afterwards that tail bones take a year to a year and half to heal and if broken before they completely heal will take almost twice that to heal the second time. So if the baby was small, around 7 or less I was going to try vaginal delivery again, but he was determined to be a big boy, so we scheduled a c-section, which I really didnt want and was rather apprehensive about.

Anyway so at 12:30 the nurse tells me that a lady came in 10 min before with some complications and so they were attending to her first and the other c room had just started a c right before I came in so I had to wait. So I got to go through 2 more hours of awful contractions before I was admitted, but at least it make it seem a little more real that I was actually going to have a baby by having to go through the contractions. Man those things really hurt, I get that stupid back pain like crazy. They give you something called a spinal shot instead of an epidural if you want, which prevents your baby from being drowsy cuz they give it to you right before the surgery so it doesnt really have time to get tothe baby. Oh and the stupid nurse kept insisting tha tI stay lying down in the stupid bed so that she could monitor the baby, contractions hurt way more when you have to be on your back, at least with the first one I was able to move and walk around (I was with a midwife) and didnt have an IV, it was much better. So I went in and got stabbed in the back and then went completley numb almost through my arms. It was really weird, I couldnt feel anything! I expected to be able to feel tugging and know when my body was moving or being moved, but I couldnt, If i didnt know better I would have declared myself to not even have legs or a torso. Whcih made the whole c-section kinda sureal. It was like watchig someone else have the procedure done. I got to watch the whole thing, which I thought was pretty cool, and of course Jordan loved being able to watch it. It really went very smooth, by the time I went in I had been having contractions for 7 hours and so was more than ready to be done, it was almost like vaginal in that its pain pain pain and then its gone and you see a cute little fat cheeked baby and sigh with relief when it starts screaming. So Parry was "born" at 2:56 pm on Tuesday the 17th of August. The doctor and nurses did a great job, they let me see him and hold him and then did their usual stuff, measuring etc. Jordan said the wierdest part was extracting the fluid from Parry's lungs, I of course didnt see it but the lady had a little hollow mallet that they wack the rib cage with to get all the fluid out and use suction and try to get the guy to scream a much as possible, Jordan was amazed at how much stuff came out. He was measured at 20 inches long and weighed 9 lbs 8 oz. (kyren was the exact opposite and was 8 lb 9 oz at 22 in long)

I'll tell ya, Parry was one Fat little dude, he looked massive, with huge fat little cheeks and fat eyebrows so much so that he couldnt open his eyes. And the funniest part was his back fat, he had rolls on his back just like a new puppy, you know how they are picked upby the nap of their neck. Then it took them about 15 minutes to stictch me up and then I was transfered into another room where I had the skin to skin time and breastfed. He does great at eating. I was very lucky this time around again for he latches on great.

It was perfect for Chelsea to be here, we were able to leave and not worry about Kyren, by that time she new his schedule perfectly and so we were able to stay in the hospital for 3 days and nights while she took care of Kyren and brought him to visit. Chelsea was truly a life saver and we loved having her down with us for amonth. Chelsea got to spend the first week with Parry and then flew home the same day my Mom flew in, so they switched places. Jordan was stuck in Las Vegas doing work for 3 days (they told him just one day but kept extending it every day) so it was a little stressful to figure out how to drop chelsea off and pick up my mom since I cant drive, but it all worked out and Jordan is now back. So now Grandma is here. Which we are so glad for, there's nothing like Grandma being around to help. Kyren does really well with Parry being around. Its so weird taht now we have TWO kids, it makes me feel really old. But I love it, it feels so right and I am so excited that they are close. They are 15 months apart. Kyren is such a good boy and so far Parry is unbelievably good that I don't think its going to be as hard as it could be if either one were less so. Of course its a little early to declare Parry's personality but so far he is a very calm baby. He sleep ALL the time. Last night I fed him at midnight and he didnt wake up again until 6 am. Of couse now Grandma is here he will be sleeping all the way through through the night pretty soon. Kyren slept from 10-6 at two weeks so we will see if Parry learns as fast. He doesnt really cry, he just grunts when he is hungry, and he LOVES belly time. He had his one week apointment and 9.4 lbs and 21.5 inches long and his chord has already fallen off. At first Kyren didnt know what he was, it wasnt untl he saw him naked that I think he realized he was a little human, and he gets very concerned when Parry crys when he gets his diaper changed. At first he would go to touch Parry and then would run away at the last minute and giggle, or poke him and giggle. But a week later he has gotten comfortable enough to give him kisses and he likes to poke his nose and rub his hair. He is finally learning what being Gentle means. two days ago was the first time Kyren held Mr. Parry and it was really cute to watch him go between loving it and not knowing what to do with him.

Well Now it is just reccovering time. Its 6 weeks till I am supposed to be completely healed ready to resume normal life. 2 weeks till I can leave the apt and drive around, I am already 1 and half weeks so only a bit more till I am not a complete invalid. The hardest part is not bending over or picking up Kyren.