Playing outside

Carter and Jami came over Tuesday night and had supper with us. Cade and Carter had a great time playing outside afterwards. The weather was beautiful so Jami, Avery and I had a good time watching them play from our chairs in the shade. They rode the horse and the lawnmower and then I threw balls for them while they played fetch.

So trainable! Carter was so concerned with getting her ball before Cade could she tripped and pretty much went end over end, but got right back up and grabbed her ball without hardly even being fazed at all. I sure miss having Jami next door. She's been gone (six or so miles a way) for about a year now. But it was so fun having her next door and we could just walk over to see each other.

GIDDYUP!!!

Cade got a new (to him) horse from Aunt Nancy and has been having a great time riding it. He climbs on and rides as hard as he can and yells "Giddy up! Giddy up! GIDDYUP!"
So thanks Aunty! His legs aren't quite long enough for his feet to reach the stirrups, but they sit just on top of the blue spring covers and that works great.

McDonalds Supper

Avery is liking her tummy time a lot better and is trying to scoot forward a little bit. Once she is tired she is over it. She has found her screechy voice and yesterday she would just screech over and over as loud as she could, talk about hard on the eardrums.

Rance called me from town Sunday and asked what was for supper, my answer was whatever you are bringing home. Cade was excited for his cheeseburger!

I don't start my new job until December sometime, they aren't sure yet as it all depends on when construction gets finished on the building!

Views from the Back

i took this picture of Avery while helping support her with my other hand. She is getting very determined to stand and to sit. She still needs a lot of work on her balance though. Just lying on the floor all the time is no longer good enough, there is so much to investigate.

This is Cade headed out to play in the sand. We hand a sand box courtesy of my Dad but Rance thought it looked a little too redneck and hauled the big tractor tire away and left the sand hill for Cade to play in. Rance was pretty sure on this day that he was having more fun playing in the sand than Cade was and can't wait to get more trucks to play in it with. Thanks Dad for the sand!

Big News for Christy

Well over a month ago I interviewed for a staff nurse position at the Ambulatory Surgery Center. The Billings Clinic (where I currently am employed in the operating room) is opening a separate outpatient surgery facility sometime early next year. I have been waiting on this it seem like years, from when it was very first rumored to actually breaking ground last November. I want it for a variety of reasons 1. No call. Call is not convenient with little kids. 2. No holidays, not a biggie here we only had holiday call one rarely two holidays a year, but still! 3. No call this means no weekends, no middle of the night, no holidays. Still there are a lot of things I will have to give up that I love doing: total joints, big traumas, scrubbing ortho cases. Not an all around easy decisions but one that seems to fit best where I am in my life with my family.

I FINALLY got the call I had been (not) so patiently waiting for yesterday afternoon and I was offered the position...full time, five days a week for eight hour days. Anyone who knows me know that I have only worked three days a week for about seven years now. I did twelve hour shifts until I had Cade and since I returned to work after having Cade I have only worked three eight hour shifts a week. Plus call. So the thought of five days a week was way too many days at work. Not to mention way to much time away from my two darling babies. So after some deliberation and discussion I called them back today to regretfully turn down the job offer. thanks for thinking I am great, but no thanks on five days a week. I can handle four call days a month in exchange for more time with my little family.

Not long after I left the director a message detailing why I couldn't take the job she called back to say it had been a mistake on the part of the human resources person who called to offer me the job, they are taking me on THREE DAYS A WEEK! I am a little sad to leave so many of the great people I have worked with for the last seven and a half years. They have been great teachers, mentors, and friends. I love my job as it is but I am also excited about a new facility and no call doing basically the same thing with some of the same people! Plus they would always take me back if I hated it, at least I would like to think they would!

Bathtime!

After Avery's messy supper she had to have a bath before bedtime. Cade is a big helper. He likes to help pour the soap under the running wather to make "bubbos".

Avery Starts on Solids

Avery is almost six months old and has been acting very interested in what happens at the dinner table so I introduced rice cereal last week. She did very well with it, in fact better than Cade ever did with it. He is still pretty sure rice cereal is nasty stuff. Last night I introduced sweet potatoes. So got a very surprised look on her face when I put the first spoonful in her mouth and never did quite figure out what to think of them! Notice her little tongue sticking out the corner of her mouth in the picture above. It just looked so goofy I had to post it. The bumbo chair has been wonderful and she is sitting in it really well these days.

My babysitter Landa has been gone last week and this week so I took all but Friday off this week and have been loving the extra time with the kids. I started cleaning out the closet in the office so that in a couple more months Avery can move out of the master bedroom and into her own room. I was going to make the kids share a room, but have changed my mind.