Update on Cade's weight

Today at 8 Cade had a weight check with his peditirican in Enterprise. He now weighs 17 lbs 12 oz. He is doing really well. His doctor said though he will defintally have to have the eye probe done to open his clogged tear duct. She thought a few months back he wouldnt have to, but after seeing him today it hasnt cleared up and he will have to have it done around his first birthday. 

This posses a new problem for us. We are coming home for Christmas and John thinks he will have two weeks vacation built up. We hadn't talked about or decided how long we were going to stay in MO because we also wanted to go out to VA. But if he needs to out patient surgery he will also have to have the cyst removed from his ear if they deem that necessary. The issue I am seeing is, we wanted to use that time to visit family, but it is also important that John be with Cade and I during that time (when ever they schedule it). 

So now I am just wondering about how long we are going to be visiting at Christmas time, so we can save some of John's leave for when Cade has surgery. His doctor said it is out patient, but she also said they will do his ear at the same time since he will have to be put under for that as well. I guess it will all just depend on what the specialist's say when we see them in a few weeks. They are still working on his referral for the eye doctor, but he does have one scheduled for the ENT the same day as his GI.

Nothing much else is going on.  John's last day of BOLIC 3A is tomorrow. He failed to get the paperwork to have leave to go with us to Birmingham because he told me it was out of the way. This comment hurt my feelings and upset me immensely. He said he understood that he needed to be there for Cade and I and we needed his support, but he just kept forgetting. So now we aren't sure if he will be able to go with us, which I believe was probably he was hoping would happen.

After BOLIC 3A he has been assigned a detail. He wont know anything else until tomorrow. So I should be able to give you all an update this weekend. Tomorrow night we are going to a friends house for poker. They have an 11 year old daughter and while we are there I asked her to watch Cade. I am sort of test driving her to see how well she does with a baby. She has an younger brother she watches, but its not the same when its not related to you. But I am trying to find a baby sitter, which is harder than you would think. I prefer them to have some sort of class or experience. But unless you know someone who knows someone or know them personally it is hard to find someone you trust. So I was trying to say we wont be home tomorrow night so I wont be posting. Unless we both get out way early in the game. But last time John wasn't home until 2AM.