Dear Boppy

Dear Boppy,

I love you very much! It brightens my day when I get to play with you. Tummy time just wouldn't be the same! I love to look at my toys and reach for my toys while peering over your soft edge. You don't even mind when I drool all over you and get you soaking wet. We have so much fun together. I can hardly wait to see you again.

Love,

Dexter

Pharmacist Intern

Wahoo!!! It is official, sort of. If you search my name under licenses at the Nebraska Board of Pharmacy, I have a pharmacist intern license. I don't actually physically have it yet, but it should be here soon! Then, I can act as a pharmacist (as long as a real pharmacist is looking over my shoulder). I saw this great T-shirt the other day it said:

TRUST ME
I'M
(almost)<----Imagine this word very small
A PHARMACIST

Just thought it was funny! So look out next time you are at a pharmacy in Nebraska, it could be me!

Dexter's Movin'

Here are some videos of Dexter. He is getting big and strong, and today he decided that he was going to get out of his boppy. Here are a couple of videos. In the first one he rolls over, the second he hits paydirt. FREEDOM!

Ashton's Professionalism Ceremony

"From this day forward I am a professional, and may my thoughts,words, and deeds forever proclaim this fact to the society I pledge to serve."
-quote from the front of the program-

Yesterday was Ashton's white coat ceremony. He and the rest of his class took the oath of a pharmacist and received their white coats. It was a quick little ceremony held in St. John's Church on campus. It was also fun to get to meet some of his classmates. I am so proud of Ashton. He has worked so hard to get here.

Last weekend, I made Dexter his own little white coat so that he and daddy would match. I had so much fun doing it and it turned out great for making up my own pattern. It was quite the hit during and after the ceremony too. Everyone around us loved it!

This is the outside and inside of the Church. It is really pretty.


All 3 of us...


Some if his friends and their kids...


My boys in their white coats...

The white coat I made (I love his name!)


Our future pharmacist. Too cute!

More Talking

For all the grandparents...

3 Months Old

Dexter is the love of our life these days. He loves to talk, and talk, and talk. He is starting to grab at things and bite them. He especially likes to bite and munch on your fingers. He loves his bath and to splash. He likes to go on walks and look around at everything. He also loves his blanket and to pull it up by his cheeks to sleep. He is just a doll!

So Blessed

I am so grateful today for our Heavenly Father and his infinite wisdom and for the faith that moved us here to Omaha. We moved not only for Ashton to get a wonderful education, but for Dexter as well. Today we met with Dexter's new pediatrician at the Boys Town National Research Hospital and well, he is amazing. We were set up with a "meet and greet" appointment to make sure that he was indeed the doctor that we wanted and to make sure he was a good fit for our family. The first thing he started talking to us about is the obvious absence of Dexter's ear and gave us the name of an otologist there at Boys Town. Then we started talking to him about his jaw and there is also a craniofacial group in the Boys Town Hospital that he will be setting us up with. Anything and everything that we will need for our sweet little Dexter is all here in Omaha. The Boys Town National Research Hospital specializes in ear, nose, and throat stuff and things that mess them up (like hemifacial microsomia). We love Boise and were taken very good care of, but here we have everything that we need and are surounded by those who specialized in problems like Dexter's. We have been so blessed and watched over. I am so grateful for this move knowing that Dexter will be receiving great care and will be watched over.

Creighton Soccer

The game

A picture the special soccer turf that they play on.

The 3 of us wearing our Creighton gear

Dexter snoozing before the game

Ashton and I before the game

We went to a soccer game on Saturday at it was a lot of fun. It was Creighton vs. Cal Poly and Creighton won 1 to 0! Go Blue Jays! Creighton's men's soccer is ranked 2nd in the division one conference. Pretty impressive. Dexter enjoyed it. When he wasn't sleeping, he was quite content just looking around at everything. Dexter and I went to Creighton with Ashton on Friday since he only has one class that day, and we walked up the steep hill and down the bumpy bricks into the book store and bought some Creighton apparel. I got a new shirt, Ashton got a new shirt, and Dexter got a cute onsie!

Introducing CCA

September is...craniofacial acceptance month! There is a support system called CCA (Children's Craniofacial Association). It is a support system for families with children who have craniofacial disorders of all kinds. Their motto is: "Beyond the face is a heart". CCA's mission is "to empower and give hope to individuals and families affected by facial differences". It sounds like a great organization that we probably will be joining. It not only gives a support system for everyone in the family, but it also helps find physicians and centers that are specialized in craniofacial disorders. I think it will be a wonderful thing to be involved in.

Their website http://www.ccakids.org is full of wonderful information on every disorder imagined.

Here is a link to their pdf on hemifacial microsomia http://www.ccakids.com/syndrome/hemifacialmicrosomia.pdf/