It's been a long time coming...

When Clint and I first met, school wasn't exactly the most important thing for Clint. He disliked it and his grades proved it. He'd received many F's his freshman year, and spent the remaining years of high school struggling to get it done with. This had nothing to do with his ability, but more with desire. Clint hated high school, as did I.

Many people who knew him back then never would have thought he would go to college, let alone go to college for 10 years and get a doctor's degree! Due to a low GPA Clint went to community college after taking a year off after high school, waiting for me to get done. In fact, many people told him that he wasn't going to go back to school if he took a year off.

If anything it was the best decision he could have made! While working at a construction company, being treated like scum, he got fed up and wanted to do something that was as far away from a construction work as possible. So he thought, "Hey how about a doctor?" Only problem was that Clint didn't like sick people. So he decided on Veterinary Medicine. He excelled at community college then at UCSD and finally at Kansas State!

When we moved her in 2006 I remember thinking that graduation was going to be so far away and that our time in Kansas was going to be a really long time. There have been times, that living in the mid-west has had it's challenges but we have also had many wonderful blessing from this experience. One of the high-lights has been Clint graduating and officially making a dream come true to become a doctor!










Dr. Wayland leaving the stage.


When I sat down in my chair, I had a sense of relief, thinking, It's finally here! What a great feeling.

He might be a doctor now, but the daddy duty is never done.

Dr. Wayland and his family!



Dr. Wayland, me, Clark and my brother Jack. What you don't see is Diane is flailing her arms around and acting like a goof ball all so she could get Clark to smile. I think she did a great job because she got all of us to laugh!

Dr. Wayland, Jack, Diane, and Clark covering my face, but that's o.k. He's cute.


Dr. Wayland, Jack and Diane


Dr. Wayland and his mommy.



Clark and his Doctor daddy!

Clint with Grandma and Dick our family friend. It was very nice he could make it out and we were so happy he was able to join us!





The gang walking back after taking pictures together.

To celebrate Clint's achievements, we all enjoyed a DELICIOUS meal at Harry's. Harry's is the best restaurant in town and we all loved our food.

During the entire meal, every time our waitress would come by, Clark would follow her around the table with his eyes. She was standing behind him at this point.

Clark enjoying eating at the table.

Clark saying he's done with his bottle.

I couldn't decide which of the group pictures were better, so I picked the one that Clark looks the best in!


One of my biggest fears for the day was that Clark would have a massive spitting up episode and ruin my outfit. I held him facing out pretty much the entire day. When I went to take my seat for the ceremony I had him facing away from me as I scooted down in front of others to get to my seat. The entire time he was facing out and toward the people sitting in their chairs. I prayed that he wouldn't spit up on anyone and I was lucky he didn't.

Clark did FABULOUS! Graduation ceremonies was during his afternoon nap, but he sat in my lap and happily played with toys and hardly made a sound. He did have some spit up episodes, but I made sure to cover my dress and his pants with burp clothes so that if he did it would just hit that instead of our clothes. It worked rather well. I actually made it through the whole night without spit up on my dress, but a little got on Clark's sweater. He was amazing and I am so lucky to have two wonderful guys that I am so proud of!

Visit from Clark's Moogie

Clint's mom came in to town this weekend for Clint's graduation. Clark got to have some good quality time with his Moogie.

Clark and his moogie:




"Look Moogie, isn't my toy cool?"



Clark making a mess with his dinner. Notice the food ALL over his outfit and the high chair. He's gotten really good at getting food on his hands then reaching around behind him and wiping them on his chair.





Clark taking a nap after all the play time.


I know the picture is dark, but can you see his right foot up on the side of the bed?

Clark's 6 Month Check Up

On Saturday Clark turned 6 months old! I can't believe that 6 months ago he was a tiny baby. Well NOT ANYMORE! Check out his growth!

Weight: 21 lbs 4 & 1/4 oz 94th percentile.
Height: 29.5 Inches 99th percentile.
And the winner is...head circumference at 47cm putting him OFF THE GROWTH CHARTS!

Here's some pictures of his new growth.

Clark no longer sleeps in the bassinet because it's too small. See how his head and his feet are touching the ends?


Had to include this one.

Giddy up horsey!


Clark can also put his foot in his mouth.

Here I go:


Almost there:


Got it!


Clark is also getting closer to sitting up on his own.

See, I can do this sitting up thing!


And I'm really good at falling backward! See mom's hand trying to catch me!


That wasn't fun! Why'd you let me fall mom? Good thing your feet kept me from hitting the darn hardwood floor!

Can't wait to be at Grandpa and Mimi's house that has nice plush carpet. They'll just need to invest in a steam cleaner for all my spit up!

Clint's 30th Birthday and Recieved Awards

Last weekend was a big weekend for us.
On Friday Clint had an awards ceremony for the Vet School. Many of the seniors receive awards for the great work and slavery they are put through their last year of vet school.
Clint received the Dr. Wayne and Druecillia Burch Memorial Award for demonstrated proficiency in food animal medicine and surgery and the Dr. and Mrs. Gordon C. Howell Memorial Award for demonstrated proficiency in practice management and case records.
These awards gave him money that will go toward buying his graduation present, which is a new mountain bike.

Then on Saturday we celebrated Clint's 30th birthday. He won't officially be 30 until the 27th. Our friend Jeremy has the same birthday as Clint. So Jeanette and I decided to throw them a birthday party together. Jeanette was due to have a baby this Saturday the 24th so we decided to have the party on the 17th. Well baby Wyatt had different plans and arrived Friday morning! Hurray! So unfortunately, Jeanette didn't get to join us, but we did manage to have to move the party around to 3 different locations, finally settling at our house because people had reserved the park shelters. Oh well, we had a blast.





Clint at the award ceremony. The beads around his neck were for one of the awards he won.

Clark hanging at the awards ceremony. He did AWESOMELY! He just enjoyed the night and didn't fuss or anything. Some other people had brought their children and there was some baby crying, but not from Clark. He's a trooper. Then on Saturday he just went from person to person without complaint! What a great kid.

Scissors

Reasons why Mommy dresses baby and not Daddy:


Did you notice that the legs of the pants have been CUT OFF? A few nights ago I had dressed Clark and he either spit up on his p.j.s or was too warm so I sent him in with Clint to get a new pair. Clint comes out with two different pairs and I told him to try the yellow ones because I was pretty sure the other ones won't work. After almost 10 minutes I hear, "Hey Jen, can you bring me the pair of scissors with the black handles?" So thinking there's a lose string or something, I take him the scissors to him. Before I realize what he is doing, he's cut the foot off of the p.j.s so that Clark will "fit" into them.

The truth is that Clint really hates dressing Clark if he puts something on that doesn't fit. It always seems to happen to him more then me and Clint get's frustrated with it. When I told him he's not allowed to do it any more and that he's lucky those one's were not my favorites, he said, "Why, they don't fit him any more." My response: "For the next baby!" Clint, "Oh." Don't think I'll blindly be handing over a pair of scissors next time either!

Getting to eat new food.

So blogspot and our laptop have been having some issues with uploading pictures. I would be in the process of uploading and right as it looked like it would work it would say that the session timed out or something like that. I thought it was blogspot having issues but after a few weeks of the same issue, I assume that it's some problem with Clint's computer. So I have gotten things "fixed" (using another computer) and here are pictures and video of Clark eating food.

Clark did really well with eating the oatmeal and so last week on April 4th we started to give Clark Sweet Potatoes. He LOVES them. Here are some pictures and a video to prove it! I am also including some other adorable pictures of him and Clint.

Oatmeal face


First sweet potato bite



Boy does he love his sweet potatoes and the spoon




Cute video of Clark after he ate and with hiccups


Clark hanging in his swing



Clark and Daddy Time


Right before I took the picture, Clark was looking over at Clint and it was adorable, but he wouldn't stop looking at me once he saw me. Oh well.

Going for a Walk

Going for a walk and trying to stay healthy can be some what of a challenge here during the winter. Not only do Clint and I have to bundle up, but we REALLY have to bundle up Clark since he is just sitting in the stroller.

Clark also likes to sit in the rocking chair like a big boy. (Don't worry, we don't leave him there!) So here are some pictures of him getting to sit in the rocking chair and getting bundled up for our walk.