Newborn Pictures

Thanks to our talented friend Calle we have some great pictures of Rhett. He was 4 days old in these pictures.

Rhett Hobbs McClintock

Rhett Hobbs McClintock was born Sunday, January 9, 2011! He came much faster than our other kids. I labored a little too long at home and by the time we got to the hospital I was dilated to 9 1/2. I begged and pleaded for an epidural, but it was a no go. My nurse was a lady from our church and I looked at her with desperation in my eyes and said, "Sally, be honest with me, how likely is it that I will get an epidural?" And she said, "Honestly, it is not very likely they can do it in time." I thought I would die, but I made it because he came quickly. We got to the hospital at 9:30pm and he was born at 10:10pm.

He is our first non-red head, but he has chubby cheeks, dimples, and blue eyes. The day after he was born we had the hugest snow storm of the year so it was good he came when he did or getting to the hospital might have been tricky. Grandma Hobbs came the day we got home from the hospital and she did an excellent job taking care of our other 2 monsters. Thank you to her and all our other friends that helped so much.

Happy New Year!

We had a blast and spent the New Year with our fellow Riverside Townhouse, 4th year med students. We don't see each other has much as we would like now that clinical rotations have pulled everyone in different directions. It was great to catch up and blissfully celebrate 2011, the year we have all been waiting for graduation!

Class of 2011! These are the 4 studs of their class.


When we all moved to KC and started school there were only 3 kids between all 4 couples. By the time we graduate there will be 10 kids! That is some high quality procreation!


No New Year baby for me. Yes, I am still pregnant. Will this baby ever come?

Christmas 2010

Merry Christmas!

We had a great Christmas this year, just staying at home. It was the first time we set up our own tree in 4 years. Ross and Kay came to visit. Kay and I did fun things around KC to stay out of the cold, while Kyle and Ross went out it in the freezing weather almost every day for none other than the chance at a ..... "BIG BUCK"! They are crazy, but survived with a lot of hand a foot warmers.

We are killer bowlers! We used a ramp and bumpers and we still did not break 100. :)

Kids making a ginger bread house with Grammy. Well, actually kids eating candy while Grammy made the ginder bread house!

Papa and his big kill. The first thing Luke did when he saw the dear was poke it's eye! Sick!!

Cookies and milk for Santa and of course a carrot for Rudolph.

Christmas PJs from "Mrs. Santa". It is a must have tradition in our house and the kids even danced to the Oakridge Boys Christmas, much to Kyle's dismay. He makes fun of me when I jam out to that CD every year.

Happy Birthday to Grammy. It is fun that we get to celebrate her birthday with her every other year since it is on Christmas.

Christmas day after we finally got out of our PJs.

Thanksgiving 2010

We had the best Thanksgiving. The kids and I made apple turkeys with some friends.


Kelsey and Kyle came for our big feast. It was so nice to meet Kyle and see some sites around Kansas City.


We even cut down our own Christmas tree.


And of course we ATE SO MUCH GOOD FOOD!

Halloween

Kyle made it back from the last of his traveling October 31st! Just in time to celebrate with a Halloween meal and go trick-or-treating.

Our Halloween menu consisted of Salty Bones with Vampire Blood Dip, Mummy Pizzas, Carrot Fingers, and Apple Bites! The kids helped me make the whole meal. Definitely not gourmet, but lots of fun.

We went with a bug theme this year. Luke was jazzed to be Spider man and Chloe felt so "pretty" in her ladybug costume. She still asks to put it on!

October

October was a fun month. I swear Halloween is more for me than for my kids. I love the costumes and the festivities and of course the... CANDY!

The month started off with a bang. Hilary came to visit us and she brought Brad and Ashley. We had so much fun doing all the KC stuff. Hilary even took me on a killer date. She treated me like a queen and gave me a great break from having no husband for so many months. Thanks Hil!

Then with my fellow single mother Ali we made caramel apples. Again more for me than for the kids. Who doesn't love a caramel apple?

Next was pumpkin painting with the girls I visit teach. Luke is really into crafting these days since he started school.

We also got to take a trip to the fire station. Chloe would not take her fingers out of her ears for fear the sirens would go off. It was pretty funny.

Then we did our pumpkin carving. The kids were all excited about scraping out the ooey-gooey insides until the time came and then of course it turned into mom and dad's job.