More Merry Christmas

The biggest Christmas hit was the game Scene it from Seinfield. AJ won, but Loreal did pretty darn good. That's Alika and Emma under the tree. Emma's hair is short, she cut it herself. I think she's trying to take Alika's job!

Merry Christmas

Baby Nate (Steph's baby) playing with the Christmas wrap. That was his favorite thing to do.

Akex and Sean hanging out. Sean thinks he can control the games.

AJ got more hats for Christmas. Marjorie, Shari and Shari's boyfriend Brandon came out from N.C. for Christmas. Shari and Brandon snowboarded. There was lots of snow for it. It's suppose to snow a foot today. It's definitely a white Christmas.

Ginger Bread Houses

We had a Ginger Bread house party. Actually it was a graham cracker house party because the ginger bread houses turned out like crap. It was fun none the less. Jackson even decorated his house on the inside. Very impressive. Kyle decorated a master piece. Lidia was styling in her sparkly dress. The far right picture is Bradley's daughter Tea playing with Nate.

chuck e cheese and David

Yesterday was fun. We had good news in regards to David. Last Thursday we got a call from the Jr High. David had a pocket knife in his back pack that he had given to another student who then planned to use the knife in a fight. When I got to the school I spoke with the principal and the police officer. There were 8 kids involved in a fight that never really got to the fighting stage. They were all suspended. David had to go to the school district for a "risk assessment" to see if he would be allowed back in school. Because of the zero tolerance for violence they said they could expel him for ever. Aghh, good grief. Expelled for being stupid. Aren't all teenagers stupid at some point? Anyway the psychologist said he was no risk and could go back to school. Don went to the school but they aren't going to let David back until all the involved parties have had their risk assessment. It will be next week before he can go back to school. The police are actually pressing charges against David for having a weapon at school. We will have to go to juvenile court. What a pain. The positive side is David is grounded and I've had him do lots of work around the house. Let me clarify that the knife involved is a small pocket knife that he used to scrape tape off his skate board. Granted, he should not have had a knife at school at all but we are not talking weapons of mass destruction.

Chuck e cheese: Jenny asked me to adopt her new baby, tempting but I said we couldn't, but we'd love to adopt Sean. Jenny said Ryan doesn't want to give us Sean. Which is kind of interesting when we have him most of the time. Don and I love Sean like he's already ours. Jenny asked me to help her find a family for the new baby so I had Catherine get some family files and Jenny and Ryan picked a family. Don and I met the family last week and really liked them. Jenny and the kids all came with me to Chuck e cheese. Catherine and Jameson were there and the adoptive mom and her adopted daughter, Holland. Jenny really liked them. I was worried about Ryan because Jenny had an ultrasound earlier in the day and we found out the baby was a boy. I was hoping it was a girl because I thought it might be easier for Ryan to give up a girl. Ultimately Ryan told Jenny it didn't matter, they couldn't take care of either. I'm hoping it all works out.

homeless clinic

I took Sean home this morning at 7:30 a.m. on the way to the homeless clinic. Jenny called me about five times after I got home. I was busy with Nate and cooking dinner. When I answered she asked if I would take Sean back because she didn't have any diapers. I told her I'd keep him if she'd bring him over which she did. She said he was "high balling it." I always thought it was called "going commando." Any way he didn't have a diaper on. He was very happy to see us and we are always happy to see him.

Speaking of the homeless clinic I am sure grateful to have a home. I had all sorts of crazy patients today. One thought he was a pirate. He even wore a patch over his eye with a pirate sign. He talked a lot, I thought he was talking to me and then I realized he was talking to the voices. Occasionally, he would answer my questions. I had another patient with bad diabetes and I asked him how he slept at the shelter with all the noise. He said he's so tired from walking the streets all day that he goes to sleep even though there are 80 other people sleeping in the same warehouse room with him. Just sounds awful.

The bigger the better

If you buy it they will come...and stay! There was lots of discussion about how big of a wall mounted TV we should get. Don and AJ both said the bigger the better.

Who's a naughty biscuit?

The little kids have lots more energy than the adults.

Nate looks like a really big kid in this picture. His cousin Tyson sat on Nate''s legs. Tyson didn't notice and Nate didn't seem to mind. Silly babies.

Today we had Thanksgiving dinner. We of course ate too much. There were lots of little kids running amuk. The big debate is if anyone is going to get out of bed at 0500 to check out the sales at Walmart. Steph wanted me to look at Nate's ears then Catherine wanted me to look at Tyson's ears. Then Jameson fancied himself a doctor checking out Sean's ears.

Voting for Obama

We all went to the library to vote for Obama. It was hard to be in line with a bunch of Republican's talking about how much they love McCain and Palin. Palin, PLEASE. She can see Russia from her window. Tina Fey, I would vote for.

Don and Sean hanging out

This is my first attempt at a blog.
Blog, Blog, Blog.
Don, A.J., David, Sean and I all just got back from Walmart. That's worth blogging about!
I had to pick Sean up today. His parents had him for a couple of days and they had dropped him and his sisters off at the crisis nursery. They got kicked out of the crisis nursery because Sean had diarrhea. I thought it strange that a crisis nursery would kick out a baby with diarrhea. Is that not in and of itself a crisis? I don't know why they took him to the nursery instead of calling us to come get him. Ours is not to reason why.