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.

My Silver Lining

Davie woke up with a fever today and I was not able to take him to daycare- STRESS! I didn't use my time on Monday very well I helped out one of my visiting teaching ladies and in all I just wasn't very focused. So I am hoping that tomorrow Davie will feel better and I will be able to really study. 

This is us this morning. We read books for probably 45 minutes and I would have kept going but I knew he needed to eat. It was pure heaven. I told David I felt bad because I enjoyed Davie soooo much today! He wanted to snuggle and cuddle which is something he seriously never EVER does even if he is sick. At the store he grabbed my hand and wanted me to hold his and later grabbed my hand and wanted me to put it around him while he was sitting in the baby cart seat. At a different store he actually was asleep as I carried him in and didn't wake up for several minutes. There's a first time for everything.

36 hours

David is currently doing his last medical school rotation for his third year, which is OBGYN. He chose to do OBGYN last because he was pretty sure he had no interest in it, thank goodness he still feels that way. The downside to him finishing his last rotation is that he has been in Lima for the past 5 weeks. Lima is an hour and a half away. I am about to finish my first summer session this weekend but because of all the reading, like 4 & 5 chapters a class times about 15 pages, I needed some full time extra help. This week and last Friday Davie has been going to a Daycare that is literally around the corner from us (sooo convenient!). In fact I have walked with him in the stroller on the way there and picked him up on foot as well. It makes for a nice outing for the two of us. 

Now for the fun part, notice the title of my blog says 36 hours? Good I thought you might. Well here's where it becomes relevant. In the last 36 hours I have dealt with poop in the tub AND Davie puking twice! Ugghhhhh!!! If you saw my status update on Facebook you will know that I don't "Do" lots of poop or puke. I have been blessed with David who doesn't really seem to care a whole lot. Turns out when you decide you want to cut people up... I mean be a surgeon for a living poop and puke don't really phase you. 

On Sunday Davie was in the tub and I was curling my hair at the sink right next to him when I look over and POOP! I have no idea when it happened, but I got to (somehow) keep my screaming child (he LOVES the bath and hates when I take him out) still next to the tub while I sifted out the big pieces, washed everything else down the drain and then washed every toy and bottle that had been in the tub. I was teaching the lesson in Relief Society too so the extra time I had hoped to go over my lesson was spent re-washing my baby and completely missing sacrament meeting. Up to that point we had been on time.  I really miss my husband.

Yesterday after Daycare Davie and I took a walk outside, I let him run around in the front yard of our condo and basically just get nice and dirty like little boys are supposed to outside. That night I let him fill up the tub SUPER full, haha it was almost up to his shoulders! It was really fun to watch him swim around like a frog and laugh because he was floating everywhere. Then I had him lay on his back and was trying to get him to float (which we have done before with less water). He kept laughing and kicking his legs even though I was trying to get him to calm down and in the middle of a big laugh he threw his back, threw off his balance and dunked himself backwards. Because he was on his back it all went right up his nose! I quickly stood him up and was trying to calm him down again and he spit out some water, followed by most of his dinner..... great! Again I wrestled with a baby while sifting out the tub and washing off his tub toys. Thank goodness it was bedtime! Game Over!!

Today after dinner Davie started crying and I decided to see if he was teething since he woke up with a fever but no cough or mucous in his eyes or nose. I laid him down and was attempting to touch his gums when he just freaked out and I'm not sure but I think he must have swallowed some spit down the wrong tube. Seconds later he puked a tiny bit but luckily I had his dirty shirt from the day to catch it. I picked him up and was trying to console him and BLEH! He threw up again. I love him to death but he is such a SPAZ! Thankfully (kind of) most of it did not end up on me, it ended up on the carpet and down his front. So yea, that happened.

The only picture you get is this video. Davie has missed David like crazy and when he hears random noises outside he will perk up like a wild animal and start running for the door and shouting "Daddy! Daddy?!?" And it's so sad because he's like half crying half laughing and slightly hysterical. Also I'm not typically big on letting Davie run around sans clothes but he was so hot today and I knew it would help him cool down.

And that ladies and gentlemen pretty much sums up my last 36 hours, poop and puke. Also in case I haven't said it yet I really miss my husband.

Free Money

I was awarded a $1,500 scholarship by my college and in April they had a dinner where all those who had received scholarships would be awarded their's in person. Sorry ahead of time but the pictures are from my cell phone and they were super yellow so I just decided they all looked better in black and white.

This picture is me about the time the faculty started awarding the scholarships to students and I was getting nervous about going up to accept mine. It was pretty fun to be able to go to a dinner involving school for ME for once and not David. When I was initially told I had won the scholarship I remember being disappointed that it was for the whole year and not per semester but after the ceremony I realized that there was only one other scholarship awarded that was more money and it still was only $300 more for the whole year.

There I am!

 I wasn't being greedy it was more a hope that I could replace my scholarship I have had the last two year which was $1,200 a semester (you can only have this scholarship for 4 semesters... lame) which is a LOT of money to try and compensate for.

This is one of my favorite Professors! After first arrived and I sat down she started talking to me like she knew who I was, but I had no clue who she was! Then she introduced herself and my little brain light bulb turned on. With online classes you basically never see your professor, in fact she is the only one I have met in person. It was a funny moment.

 Can I also say it was great timing because my mom had flown in just the day before so David and I were able to go to the dinner by ourselves!

Vanna White

My academic advisor who helped me figure everything about CLEP testing out and just about everything else! If it wasn't for her there is basically no way I would be graduating next Spring.

This is the Dean of the college within University of Toledo that I attend. Now if I can hopefully get just one more scholarship I'll be pretty good! Since my degree is a liberal arts degree (and an online one besides) I have been trying my darndest to graduate with a 3.9, but it's been tough! Thankfully my current GPA 3.85 is still high enough that it puts me towards the top of the list for the scholarships I have been applying to. **(crossing my fingers!)**

Unplugged

Just a friendly FYI I have recently deactivated my Facebook account. Yup I'm unplugging. No need to worry if I un-friended you (all 5 of you cuz yea I'm that cool). Between this last school semester of 16 credits, Davie, David being gone, some travel and everything else in life I have decided that I just can't waste my time on Facebook for the foreseeable future. Have I also mentioned that Facebook kind of annoys me? Yea, it does. I get really tired of the "repost this if.... blah, blah, blah" or check out this pinterest (NO!) and the memes were funny at first, but really I end up feeling like I have to sift through several pages of PURE garbage just to see pictures of my friends and family. I want to see and share stuff like this...

 Davie's new (kind of it's almost three months old now) Cheeser smile

 Hey Mom, what are you doing?

 What? Am I in the way??

 If I smile like this can I do what you are doing??

 Look at those teeth!

Such a cheeser!! He is the most independent baby on the planet when he wants to be, except for any time he thinks you should include him. For a kid who despises cuddling he sure does want to be right by my side. He is already internally conflicted :)

 Lastly in less than a week I will start my summer block of school May 13- June 21 and I will be taking at least 12 credits (I'm signed up for 15 but we will see how I cope). So yea I am going to be doing my best to only update my blog since it's more important anyways and all my family and fiends who actually care can check in on me whenever and I hope to update much more often that way.