Carlyn

i am pleased to announce that i have finished Pearl's 2nd Year Photobook . now time finish cooking for our family Christmas we are having tomorrow, finish wrapping presents & get my Christmas cards mailed!! so take a look if you get a chance. i am pretty happy with how it turned out. i feel like each one i do gets a little better.

so i typed this back in December and never exactly finished it and just remembered about it today(Feb 7th). so here is our uncompleted unedited year in review!! 2010 has been a busy year, but isn’t every year?? So what have we been up to?? well, we started the year with a 1yr & and a 3 yr old and ended the year with a 5month old, 2 yr old and a 4 yr old!! James finished up his 2 nd year of residency which was his 1 st year doing anesthesia and he is now half way through his 2 nd year of anesthesia. So, that means he just has about 18 months left of anesthesia training and he will be an independent anesthesiologist!! We will then have to relocate at that point for him to do a one year fellowship in pediatric anesthesia. We are looking at several locations and James is in the application process. We won’t know where we will be moving until the official match day in June. We have really enjoyed these last few years in the Birmingham area and we are planning on m...

calvin just turned 4 months old, and man is he a sweetie!! he is cuddly, smiley and loves to suck his thumb. he has started laughing in the last month and pearl is aways asking me to make him laugh. luther loves translating his coos and telling us what calvin is saying. he is sleeping through the night most of the time and taking a good morning nap. he stays up the rest of the day except taking one or two short cat naps. i wish he would nap more, but my other two never did either. he is nursing 5 times a day, 6 when he wakes up in the middle of the night. he is a very happy baby and rarely fussy. he does like to be held a lot, but he is sleeping in his bed at night and for his morning nap. he falls asleep on his own and puts himself back to sleep very often. he is very attached to a certain blanket, and his thumb. i have never had a thumb sucker and it is so so cute!! and so so nice!! i think it is a big part of the reason he is a happy baby. i am sure it will be a pain trying to g...

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i don't remember saying "show me your most unattractive smiles" on a hike to no where where is the waterfall daddy promised us??? another beauty of a smile from luther we don't going hiking without this:

On Wednesday, June 30 th my contractions started to pick up. I had been having contractions for 3 weeks at that point, but they were worse that night. I had not been having any while I was laying down at night. I would have a few every time I got up to the bathroom, but none when I was laying in the bed or sleeping(that i noticed). But that night I had several really hard ones that woke me up. They continued all day on Thursday being very regular all day long. When I would time them, they would be between 8 to 4 minutes apart. I tried to just not think about it because everyone says you will know when you are really in labor. James had a really important case at work that day and we had plans to go on a date that night and we had already paid $40 for the tickets. so I wanted to really make sure something was going on before I went running to the hospital for no reason. T he contractions continued all day and were strong, but not unbearable. By that evening I wa...