Is this gross or what?

Update on Joseph's finger incident. The tip that was sewn back on did, indeed, die. Turned black as night. But the doctor doesn't think he'll need further surgery after all, which is good. The black part will eventually fall off, revealing the skin that has been regenerating underneath. It'll just be a little short, as predicted. Pretty amazing.

We are beginning to see it coming off, so we thought we should have some pictures for posterity.

Joseph is very proud of his finger and likes to show it off.

Look closely and you can see the stitches. Because they are designed to dissolve in red blood cells, they never dissolved.

The nail is a little funky look and long, but I'm afraid to cut it.

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to the best Daddy ever!

Love, Charlie and Joseph

Weekend in Galveston

This past weekend, Grandad and GranSan were going to Galveston to help celebrate with family friend David Greer, who received a distinguished alumnus award from UTMB. So we tagged along to spend a weekend at the beach with the boys.

Joseph loved the beach and spent almost all Saturday morning building houses in the sand. He also loved his hat and sunglasses, and called himself a "beach dude." The big blue thing on his arm is an Xerosox (we called it the "flipper") to keep his bum finger dry. It worked pretty well.

Unlike Joseph, Charlie preferred to spend his Saturday morning in the ocean. He loved throwing his balls out into the ocean and letting the waves carry them back. There was a lot of seaweed in the ocean, but Charlie didn't seem to mind.

Saturday afternoon, we took a boat tour of Galveston Harbor. We saw some dolphins, lots of other boats, and lots of seagulls. The boys had a great time. I think it was a historical tour, but we missed the history commentary since we were running after 2-year-olds the whole time.

On Sunday morning before heading back to Houston, we crashed a new resort just opening on the west end of the island called Pointe West. Cort acted like we were interested in buying a place (we're not!), so we were invited to swim. They have a great pool overlooking the ocean and a separate kiddie pool. The boys had a good time "swimming" and jumping off the side. All in all, we had a great weekend.