What we are all up to...

So since this blog is fairly new, I thought that I would bring you all up to speed as to what is going on in the world of Moulton.

SCOTT: The end is near! Scott is almost done with medical school! He graduates May 18, 2008, and we are both ready to be done with medical school and move into the next phase of his medical education. Scott has decided to go into Internal Medicine and sub specialize in Rhuematology. So we have a three year Internal Medicine Residency and a two year Rhuematology Fellowship left to go before he is practicing full time in Rheumatology. Scott spent a busy three months from November to January traveling across the country for Residency interviews. He was very fortunate to have several programs very interested in him so we were able to really look at all the criteria from the program itself as well as the area, cost of living, ease of family visiting, etc. to make sure that where ever we match to will be a good fit for our family. Scott will submit his finalized "Rank List" at the end of February and we will find out on March 18, 2008 as to which Residency he matched to. We could end up anywhere from the University of Connecticut to Loma Linda Medical Center. Scott has decided to rank (6) of the (19) programs that were interested in him because he feels they will be the best overall fit for our family. They are as follows: 1) University of Utah (SLC, Utah); 2) University of Nebraska (Omaha, Nebraska) ; 3) Loma Linda Medical Center (Loma Linda, California); 4) Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle, Washington); 5) University of Connecticut (Farmington, Connecticut); and 6) The Spokane Washington Internal Medicine Residency Program (Spokane, Washington). We know that where ever we end up will be exactly where our family needs to be for the next three to five years. We'll see!

PAIGE: All I have to say is a husband finishing medical school and beginning Residency, a possible cross country move, and two crazy kids. Need I say more? Yes? Okay. We're finally settling into our new apartment in Kaysville, Utah and I figure we will be completely settled just in time to pack up again and move in June or July to where ever we end up for Residency. Hopefully it won't be as hectic a move as our last from Henderson, Nevada to Kaysville. I have really enjoyed being so close to family; however, I have not enjoyed being so sick! Since moving back we all have had to readjust to cold winters and with that comes A LOT of colds! Oh well. While it may be cold, the snow is beautiful! And it's a good thing because we have had a lot of it. I don't, however, like scraping my windshield again. Those nice Nevada winters will be missed, but not the HOT summers.

MAX: I'm not sure if you've been paying attention or not, but Max has had some things going on at the local emergency department. He is a vivacious little guy who is growing up so much each and every day. He is quite the charmer and just loves getting out and seeing the sites. He is the sweetest, most polite little rough and tumble BOY you will ever meet. He loves trucks, cars, balls, bowling, Guitar Hero and spending time with EVERYONE! He loves his little sister very much and is always trying to make her laugh and take care of her. He is a very good big brother and a great son. He is talking more and more each day and it is really fun getting to know him. He definitely makes life interesting and worth it.

KATE: Oh, Miss Kate. She has very busy days consisting of eating, playing, sleeping, talking and just being loved and adored. It is a very hard job. Kate has been perfecting the skills of clapping her hands (she practices all the time) and she rolls every where. She is now trying to get up on her knees and we feel that in the next month or so she could be crawling. She loves her big brother and is always watching him. She loves to talk and laugh, but has one incredible poker face. I guess it comes natural since she was born in Las Vegas. Kate loves to talk so much that every time that you are rocking her to sleep, she mumbles herself to sleep and the only time you know that she is truly asleep is when she stops! It makes me smile almost every time (the times I'm not smiling is in the wee hours of the morning when I'm mumbling to myself "I wish we were both asleep right now, Kate!"). What a sweet baby girl! She is definately loved!

Adventures in the life and times of stitches. The saga continues...

So in the last post I let you all know that Mr. Max (due to a flying leap) sustained a forehead laceration this past Tuesday. The very next day (Wednesday), Max proceeded to pop all of his stitches, which resulted in the second ER physician suggesting that we glue the cut shut using Dermabond. If any of you know Maxer, you will know that he has a very expressive face. Not two minutes after the Dermabond set, Max was telling the ER doctor all about going to the movies with his Grandma and cousin Emma to see Alvin and the Chipmunks when, low and behold, the cut came apart! The doctor then decided to apply several layers of the Dermabond and then sent us on our way. THEN, on Friday night, (or should I say very early Saturday morning) I asked Scott to check on Max because I was worried about him. When Scott checked on him, not only did Max have a fever (he got my cold), but all the Dermabond had come off! Luckily the cut was still closed and we put a bandaid on it so that Max could go back to sleep. The next day Scott applied a Steri-strip to support the cut (that appears to be healing sans stitches and Dermabond) and we'll see how well it works! Keep your fingers crossed. If only insurance approved Toddler Botox so that Max's cut could heal already!

One little monkey jumping off the barstool!

Well, after two years of being a crazy little dude, our Max has finally had his first trip to the emergency room. Today Max was being crazy as usual and was triumphantly letting his mother and sister know that he had finished his lunch and launched himself off the barstool and in the process of doing so, knocked his noggin on the corner of the table. Needless to say head trauma was involved and, believe it or not, I actually kept myself together. I ran over to Max and picked him up off the floor. He was crying his 'that scared the you know what out of me' cry. As I picked him up I saw the blood and I did not want to scare him even more, so I asked him "Did that fall scare you?" He said "I fall. That was scary." To which I said "Do you want to go bye-bye?" And of course he immediately said "Yea!" I then asked him "Do you want to see if Poppie (my father-in-law, Garth) wants to go bye-bye with us?" And of course Max was all over that. So I called Garth and he immediately came down and off we all were to the emergency room.

Max was his happy, go lucky self and charmed all the nurses. He didn't even really know that he had a huge laceration on his head. Max was so brave when the doctor came and stitched him up. He did his best not to cry and held as still as our Max could. He did not like it when the nurse had to wake him up to strap him to the 'papoose board' or that he could not see Mom or Dad when they were stitching him up, so he kept saying "Mommy" and "Daddy." He politely thanked the doctor after the doctor finished stitching him up and told me after the doctor left "He is a good doctor." He is such a cute kid. I couldn't be more pleased with the little dude. Here he was with head trauma and he was being his sweet, hilarious self. All the nurses fell in love with him and gave him a lion stuffed animal which we named "Stitches."

So after all was said and done, Max left the emergency room four hours later with seven stitches and a new lion. We told him that we could get a treat for being so brave and he was very adamant that his Poppie get a treat too! Maybe the song "10 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed" will have a special place in Max's heart from now on.

(Scott has asked me to let you all know that should you want to see a photo of the gash, we have them, but I did not think that everyone would want to see the pictures so I just put the 'post incident' photo on here. So if you would like to see the photos, let me know and we'll send them to you).

Halleluja! There's something actually on this blog!

Well everyone, I did it! (Or should I say Randee did it.) I promise to try to keep up on this. I'm not promising anything; however, I will try. Now this is not that long, but it did take me a while to get here.