Today

So this is the fastest update I can manage. I have been so HORRIBLE with keeping my blog up to date and for those of you who like to see what we are up to I'm really sorry. I decided to make it fast and post a list of the 10 most recent things we have done not in exact order but close enough.

1. We just got back from Idaho about a week ago (literally at 1:00 am Sunday). Our last flight was Davie's worst flight ever. He was so wiggly and he needed to sleep but everyone around us had their lights on even though it was super late. Davie cried/ fussed a LOT, at first I felt bad but then I was just super annoyed that no one would turn their lights off. As a parent I can only do so much.

2. David's brother and his wife have officially transplanted themselves to Toledo and his brother will be attending medical school here at UT starting in the fall. Can I get a Hallelujah!?!?! They are staying with us while they search for a home and this means Davie is sleeping in our room. I was pretty nervous at first, but Davie has been pretty darn good so I'm slowly getting used to it.

3. I finished my first Summer session with a 4.0. It was a miracle! Haha, however I am still in the running for possibly graduating with a 3.9 until I get another A minus. So it's good and bad. Good because I can still hopefully obtain my goal, bad because getting a 4.0 with on campus classes this fall with Davie in Daycare and David gone for 2ish months out of the 4ish months in the semester is beyond daunting. In the end I only took 6 credits during the first Summer session and I am currently taking 3 during the third session. So 9 credits total, not as much as I had hoped for but enough to get me graduated this upcoming Spring. I would have taken more but the reading is what stopped me, most of the classes wanted me to read 2-3 chapters a week which was literally impossible. The photo below is proof that I have been eating like a college student. My last day of finals I spent drinking that coke in the library and eating a rather large bag of Funyuns, I'd tell you the other things I ate that day but its just too embarrassing.

4. David has been accepted to two away rotations for orthopedics. For all you non-medical people these are kind of like prolonged interviews/ away experiences (4 weeks a piece). The general hope is that David can get letters of recommendation from each program to help when he applies to residency. But they are also to experience each program to see if he likes them and to see how orthopedics works in other hospitals (bigger/ smaller etc). I'm sure there are other reasons, but for now that's the basics.

5. Davie is crazy busy. He walks and talks and is not shy when it comes to letting you know what he wants or letting you know you are not doing what he wants. He's also so smart. He seriously studies everything we do so that he can do it too. Just yesterday I realized he could turn the little on/off switch to this really loud toy. So I guess we won't be turning his toys off anymore if he wants them on.

His favorite person is his Daddy. To his credit David can be a lot more fun then me. The picture below pretty much sums it up. I was willing to capture the moment but it freaked me out. And of course Davie still refuses to say Mama or mommy, even though he can and has been able to for months. It makes me sad, but he is really stubborn when it comes to getting him to talk so at least Mama isn't the only thing he refused to repeat once he learned it.

6. David's youngest brother got married in Portland in May! We went to their Idaho Falls reception a little over a week ago. All of David's siblings are now married, haha and now we just have mine, but mine are a good deal younger than me so it's going to be a while.

7. David has finished his third year of medical school!! Wahoooooo!!!!! That means one more year and I will actually have a husband that is employed for money! It won't be much but it will be enough to have a little more freedom.

8. David has picked his specialty and he is going to be an orthopedic surgeon when he grows up :) So he is now in the process of applying to residencies, which is both exciting and terrifying. David earned a good enough score that I doubt he won't match, but there is always the fear that you won't match or you will match with one of your lesser choices. Orthopedics is challenging and David loves the engineering, medical and physical labor that are involved in the everyday work. The only downside is the residency for orthopedics last 5 years and then most go on to do a one year fellowship, so it's still a long road. Also he has recently lost 30 pounds and I am VERY proud of him. He has almost no free time for exercising so he did the Atkins diet super strict for several weeks, which meant he had ALMOST no carbs.

9. We got a new dryer as our combined birthday present, because our old one was literally burning everything. It wasn't so bad at first as long as we didn't use the high heat setting, but there was only two heat settings to begin with so that really didn't mean much. The new one is beautiful and has lots of pretty buttons that glow and make pretty sing-songy noises that Davie just LOVES. Thank goodness it has a lock button!

10. Also as a combined birthday present David and I got to attend a Mormon Tabernacle choir in Columbus concert on my birthday. It was lots of fun and I loved being able to enjoy a night with Davie all to myself. Not the best picture of us, but we recently got family pictures taken again so its all good.