So boards are over..........yah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now I have a week off before starting in clinic with full days of patients. Hendrix and Slade are doing great. We are looking forward to having a few cookouts this summer now that we have the basement finished and our fence almost fixed. I can't wait to actually enjoy a little bit of summer before we add classes back into our schedule again in August. As stressful as seeing patients is, at least you can leave that at school at the end of the day......classes mean tests which means all day all night. Well here are some pics we took lately. I took the one of Slade sitting up at around 4 1/2 mos!

Well, it's finished!!!!!!!!!!Besides a fireplace that will go under the big screen and some pics on the walls our basement is finally done! I really can't believe it. Brandon has his music studio, the kids have their play room and we have a better place to entertain guests. I can't tell you how happy I am to have this finished, but as the person doing most of the work-Brandon, I'm sure is even happier. more basement pics

We also opened the pool memorial day weekend. It was a little chilly but fun and the kids loved it. We had a wild turkey come for the event. He seems to think he is the family pet. I like him. He is digging in moms flowers so she is trying to hire kathlyns fiance Travis to shoot him(he is a hunter) but hopefully "Tom" the Turkey will survive. He really is a sweet pet.
Slade has recently had a terrible rash, mostly on his face, that flares up with food but stays there in between despite benadryl and no solid food. He has recently have vaccinations and is getting over an ear infection, so what is the cause of the rash?????Probably a combo of everything. I found out that you arent supposed to give oatmeal cereal to babies under 6mos....whoops I did with Hendrix and he was fine, but I was feeding Slade Beechnut brand and didnt know the oatmeal also had wheat flour in it....a real no no this early. Why would they put wheat flour in their oatmeal!!!!!!!!! After all of this mess with days of rash and no studying for mommy I decided from now on vaccinations will be given two at a time only(one if it is a combo shot) because I am just so sick of all the complications after. I also threw out all the beachnut and went on a mission to find good food for my kids. Our house may go organic if I can ever talk my husband into it, but for now without the extra time to go to Louisville constantly for groceries, we are just going to start small, and as for the baby food, we went back to the brand we fed Hendrix and it is good so far.

Another new happening in the Thomas house......we have gone Green. Well, that is the fad right now right? I don't really care why or how this whole thing got going but I'm glad it did. I feel like I needed a boost to start doing the right thing all the time not just occasionally, and this was it. Hendrix has learned all about recycling and we now have huge garbage cans in our kitchen that he helped me label for different recylables. One thing I have learned is how many things cant be recycled which is a shame but I guess some is better than none. We are also being super conscious of lights left on and water usage, along with gas.....although the car/gas thing is our biggest culprit. I am not sure I am ready to give up my SUV convenience and I dont have the money for a hybrid SUV just yet but someday. I also drive to Louisville every day which is bad, but hopefully these other things will start to help, and I really want to teach my kids to be crazy about their environment. Well, enough rambling for now. Oh, congrats to Obama!! Now Hendrix, who says "mom, look...Obama!" EVERY TIME he is on TV (thanks papa) will be saying his name constantly. I think Hendrix thinks Obama is one of our family or friends.