Shriner's visit and more

Kole and I took the train to Chicago this week for his Shriner's check up with the Cleft team. He was loving the train ride! I think he talked the entire way to the train station then all the way to Chicago. He had a captive audience.

> on the train ride to Chicago
After his S-rays were done.


We stayed at a hotel called The Write Inn. Really cool hotel. Not many amenities like no pool, no workout room that I was aware of, but who needed it when you could walk to a park less than two blocks away. Shopping and plenty of places to eat in about a 5 minutes walk. We enjoyed some Olberweiss ice cream and ate some food from Dino's for dinner.

Kole's exam went really well. He has one cavity that needs to be attended to by our local dentist. Other than that we are to continue his speech services as they are and spend some time working on his phonics and letter recognition. He does not need to go back for 9 months to a year.

Finishing chocolate cake for lunch
Playing in the play area during lunch to burn off some energy

Kali had her first volleyball game today. Her team only lost by 3 points! I thought that was awesome for a first game! She was pretty pumped up. She felt bad that they didn't win. They have a home game on Monday. Her team will do better then.

Kaci starts back to Piano lessons next week. So now we have a full calendar for January and February is going to start filling up too.

Boyd and I are doing fine and busy keeping up with everyone's schedules including out own. Boyd got "the kids" an H.O. race track and cars . The kids like it O.K. Boyd and Reiko really like it.

Reiko chasing H.O. cars.

That's all for now!