If we pretend really hard, we can imagine we have a nice, warm, sunny beach with soft hot sand and a snow drift twenty feet high…
The weather has been impossibly beautiful out here in Haines lately. The wind has been out of the north, bringing in the cool air from the interior so the skies have been clear and the sun bright. The days have been stunningly beautiful, but quite chilly. It was below twenty on a few mornings lately.
We simply had to go to the beach and give the boys some run-around and throw rocks time. Having boys leads to that type of activity.
John Caleb is really thriving, he is starting to vocalize a bunch when surrounded by family and in a familiar setting and he’s gaining weight fast.
Physically, he’s gaining skills everyday. Just today he started pushing his torso up to nearly 90 degrees, which is really good for a four month old according to the baby books we have on the shelf.
Luke is really learning to communicate well too and is getting his point across when speaking. Although we have not made much forward progress on the potty training since we had him at the day care center with Kim Larson: she’s a miracle worker when it comes to potty training.
In other news, I went to the doctor to get his opinion on why my knee has been hurting and he things I have a torn left medial 
meniscus and didn’t think any physical therapy would help. His verdict was I have three options: 1) take up to three Ibuprofen per day four times a day to relieve the swelling and reduce the pain 2) have him remove the swelling by removing the fluid and injecting it with some cortisone 3) get orthoscopic surgery to have the meniscus smoothed out again. He didn’t think footwear would make a difference.
I do believe that the meniscus is torn, but do not think the pain is great enough to start in on any treatment at this point, but I am an active guy and may well rue the day I decided not to get surgery before the gillnetting season.
What I find interesting is that only one knee is bothering me. Why not both knees? I don’t remember ever having any sort of catastrophic injury on that knee.
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