Julian had a tough day.

Julian had a tough day. As we were leaving the grocery store, he was riding on the front of the shopping cart when he fell and somehow got his thumbnail caught in the cart. It came about 75% of the way off. I then had to use tweezers to pull the rest of the hanging nail free. Now he has no thumb nail. I'm sure it will grow back, right? It was not the thumb he sucks. I'm not sure if that's blessing. Maybe he could have kicked the habit in the time it will take for the new thumbnail to grow in. At the same time, it would have been really hard to go through this trauma without the comfort of his thumb.

He spent a lot of the day asking to be held, and asking me to put Schroeder or my camera down. I had my camera on because D'arcy graduated from preschool. She received a trophy for her accomplishment. He asked about twenty times if he could go get his trophy, and was really upset when I told him he wasn't going to receive one today. Today was a hard day to be the "middle" child. Too young to go to preschool, and too old to be held all the time.

The 1st Popsicle of the season

 

Climbing Trees

D'arcy periodically asks to go outside either to sit on the porch and rock, play sidewalk chalk, ride her bike on the sidewalk, eat a popsicle, or climb "her" tree. Here is a few pics of Monkey #1.

 

 

 

A list of firsts

First visits from Grandma, Grandpa, & Grammy....check.
First Easter...check.
First shot....check.
First road trip (to Galveston)....check.
First prescription....check.
First smiles....check.

 

Cousins

Schroeder made it just in time for my parents, my sister, and my nephew to visit. They arrived from Indiana just 19 hours after he was born. Here is one of the first pictures of all four Clark granchildren. We are hoping that by 2010 we will have a couple more kids to add (and no, I'm not planning to deliver anymore by 2010).

 

The Puzzle Master

Julian is tearing through our puzzles. Mastering them one by one. Big ones, small ones, wooden ones, ones with tractors, ones with spiderman, ones with animals, ones with 60 pieces! There is no stopping him. He is our puzzle master. Here he is with his longest puzzle.

 

 

Schroeder = 6 weeks!