(Associated Press) - Two Year Old Cries While Witnessing Crying Baby Sister Receive Inoculations -- The Haley And Emily Canche Story

Today we woke up around 9 am. All of us were in the bed by the time we finally got up.  We gave the girls breakfast and called the Healthy Living Hideaway and got a slot for Emily at the gym at 10:45.  Katelyn and I ran around the outside track.  I could only manage to make it one time around the track running due to my back pain, but we did walk around a few times and we got to talk which is nice.  The weather is nice now in September in Texas.  The temperature has dropped and it's pretty cool in the mornings.  Haley played with babies and watched some movie or something.  Emily did well and didn't cry at all.  When we were driving home I told Katelyn maybe I would see if my friend Josh could do lunch on Wednesday.  Then Katelyn said "don't you have Jobs for Life with him on Wednesday anyway?" and I realized that I actually had an informational meeting today at noon, which was fifteen minutes away.  I hurried home to drop off Katelyn and the girls and went to the meeting which lasted a long time.  Katelyn had started to clean when I got home.  Emily was asleep and Haley was just playing but soon went down for a nap.  I started helping Katelyn clean the house and we finished with just a few minutes to spare before we had to get the girls up to take them to the doctor's office for Emily's well check.  Emily was right on track with her stats...that is to say, she was right on track with Haley; the two of them, together, are expanding the growth charts in the downward direction.  Emily was 27.75inches long and 18.5lbs 4.5oz, with a remarkable, yet easily foreseeable BMI of 16.7 (57.43%).

The girls started to get sick of waiting in the doctor's office.  Haley went potty probably 5 times legitimately.  We practiced numbers, colors, and animals with this one toy.  We also saw the Watson's there.  They took baby Claire in there because she has been sick with some congestion and I think they were gonna head to Houston if it looked bad.  That baby is pretty big and old looking.  She has longer hair.  She is still small but she's almost a year old now.  Haley was really excited to see her.  Emily had to get a couple shots today which was no fun.  Emily obviously cried, but Haley also cried and said she was sad that they were hurting Emily.  I guess she inherited some of my empathy.  Then we went home and played for a while.  Katelyn and I had Bible study tonight so we left the kids with the ever-gracious Feenstra's and headed out there.  Haley was kind of bad I guess because she was crawling under the table during dinner.  We got home and put them to bed.  

Haleyism: Haley always says "leave the door open." when we put her to bed.  Now I know why.  If the door is open, we can't hear her sneak out of her bed into ours.  We aren't even in there! I don't think it's that much more comfortable of a bed... The other day I got back from work and sat on my bed to take my shoes off and I heard "Daddy" behind me.  It was her just smiling in there laying on my pillow.  She is a wierdo.

Emilyism:  Emily has officially taken her first steps.  They are tiny but I think they count .  We are trying to capture them on video.  

Our attempts to capture a step.  I think there is a tiny one in there.