What can we say?

Just wanted to post a few things here. No real connections, just what I would like everyone to hear and know.

1st thing: Little man is kicking butt. He has gained a pound and is looking really big already. He sleeps pretty dang good, and wakes up every 3 hours at night to eat and usually goes right back to sleep and stays pretty awake during the day. He usually has a few peaceful moments in the morning after Mom feeds him and then he is mauled the rest of the day by his sisters. They think that he is the best thing ever. We have a few more pictures of him and thus we will share.

He has even inspired Annie to potty train a little more diligently now that she is the big sister. She did good yesterday, and has put the big girl pants back on this morning, so we will see how well she holds up. She has been telling everyone that she does, or doesn't like their kisses. Last night putting her to bed, she didn't like mine. "Dad, I not like yoo kisses. I ony yike kisses from mom, and dwama, and Carrie and..." "Good night Annie." About 10 minutes later she is yelling for me. Normally they want some water, or some toy, or something, so I open the door "And dwammas kisses and moms kisses..." So I just shut the door.

Grandma Warner and Aunt Whitnee have been out to visit us this last week too, and we have really loved having them. The girls think it's the greatest thing ever. Whitnee and Hallie and I are going to a movie this afternoon, so that should be fun. I am thinking about taking them to "Quantum of Solace". My they came with us to a mass Thanksgiving we had over at Chris and Carries. My mom made deviled eggs and a KILLER banana cream pie. She has also promised me a big fat batch of potato salad, and if you never have had a bit of that salad... well, let's just say that heaven isn't too much further.

Today we are going to go tree hunting. We are going to a tree farm and gonna cut it down ourselves and everything. We will get some pictures of that fo' sho'. We also have a webcam now. Not really sure what to do with it, any of you with one that want to see our faces or something, we can now do that.

So now to my slightly soap-boxy portion of this post. I will now 'slpain the difference and similarities of M.D. schools, and D.O. schools. I have a few friends in M.D. schools, and so I can tell you what differences I have heard of and noticed for my self. All in all, I think they are about 95% exactly the same. We all take the same classes in the same order at roughly the same time in our quarters. We then take very similar tests to become licenced, we take one called the COMLEX and the M.D.'s take the USMLE. We then all go through the same residencies with the same requirements. Any of either group can specialize in any branch they want, or are qualified for. So the differences. My MD buddies tell me that they take a statistics class (well, one did in one school) and it seems they stress genetics a bit more than we do. They seem to be groomed for research with these two things, well, just a little bit more than us anyway. (I'm talkin' like 2 or three lectures difference in class content here roughly). The MAJOR difference is that they teach us some manipulative medicine (like chiropractic style stuff). We are not chiropractors. 60% of D.O.'s don't ever use their manipulative stuff once they get to residency. 90% only use it for family and friends. Learning to do this, we learn a whole bunch of physical examination skills that would take an M.D.'s skills out to lunch, on his dime. But really once we hit residency we are all about the same. The reason they teach us the back popping is because the founder of D.O. did it, and it really is useful in it's own way. They do not teach it as a replacement for any sort of clinically proven methods of treatment. It is often supplemental to the normal treatments, or to treat things that aren't worth throwing a whole bunch of drugs at. So there you go. *stepping down off of soap box*.

We will talk at you all later.