Thursday, April 14, 2011

Time For Some Updates!

We are just getting over our latest round of the crud, in which both kids ended up with ear infections and I ended up with strep, I was so sick my friends, it knocked me on my butt for 3 days and I had to miss class on Monday which means I know have 4.5 hours that I need to make up hour for hour, like I needed that extra stress. At least we are all feeling better and I think it's kinda funny that me and the kids are all on the same antibiotic right now, I call it the amoxcillin cocktail hour over here.

Well where to start...

Most importantly Matt got the job he interviewed for at University of Chicago!!!! Thank God for small favors. He spent about 3.5 hours at the interview, and interviewed with a lot of people, so we knew that they liked him and by the end of the week it was a done deal, it happened so fast, but at the perfect time. So same job title (Head Circulation Manager), although his job will be much different and in a much different environment, just want he needed. Check out the library, brand new, opening in May, state of the art facility with a really interesting retrieval system to get the books (there are no books out on the floor like a traditional library) Should be cool during thunderstorms!

Here is a link to the library if you are interested in readingLink more about it, very cool stuff, Matt is excited!
http://mansueto.lib.uchicago.edu/

So we are incredibly blessed that this job came when it did, an answered prayer for sure.

So just as soon as that stress was lifted from us, we all got sick...blah! I am so over this winter/spring and am ready for some sick free summer days.

Next up, our baby girl turned 18 months old!?!?! Time is flying and Ava is turning into such a little person, she cracks us up daily. Her vocab is crazy compared to Logan at this age, I think we will need another phone line when she's a teenager!

18 month stats: 30lbs, 33 inches, Head off the chart (just like her brother)
All is well, next appointment..2 years OMG!

Four days later Logan turned 4 1/2!

Hard to believe he is almost five! He is doing so awesome in preschool and is such a loving boy and he loves his sister so much!

School has been going good, other than missing a day, my lab and theory tests have all been A's and this Saturday we have our mid-term evaluation for clinical, which I am a little nervous about, clinical is so stressful for me, and while I feel better in my ability as time goes on, there is always something you do wrong and it's always something you know better but when you are wrapped up caring for you patients you forget and somehow your clinical instructor is always there in that moment, LOL. Seriously though I really like my clinical instructor and I hope she thinks I am doing ok.

Clinical has been such a life changing experience, the things I have seen just really put life into perspective, when we were going through all the job stress with Matt, in the back of my mind were my patients and how life could really be so much worse and we would make it through. I can't believe we only have four more clinical days left it went really fast.

So that is everything I got for now, I have a bunch of pictures so I will have to do another post to get all those in!


Sunday, April 10, 2011

No Fear!

Ava has no fear when it comes to the slide, even the big ones!



Friday, March 25, 2011

Mom's Night!

After already having Dad's night and Grandparents day at preschool it was finally my turn to have a special day at preschool with Logan!

We had a lot of fun playing, painting, making chalkboard crafts, coloring, snacking and signing last night! Logan was very excited to show me all the fun stuff at school, and he did all the songs during singing time, and he was sooo cute! All the kids made crowns for their Mom's to wear and we all got a pretty flower at the end. What a fun night!






Thursday, March 17, 2011

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

From our two lucky charms!



Friday, March 11, 2011

She Is Her Fathers Daughter...

Ava playing with "Man Barbies" HAHA!



Thursday, March 10, 2011

17 Months!

Ava turned 17 months on Tuesday, time sure is flying...

While she was working on her painting project, I was taking a bunch of pictures of her. She ended up painting a good portion of her body since I took her clothes off while she was working on her project. I hope she enjoys it, I won't be doing that again any time soon LOL!






More Crafty Fun!

I ended up going back to Target and picked up another fun craft for the kids to do. I got this super cute herb garden set, I thought it would be great since Logan is very into plants and planting things, he watches "Planting A Rainbow" on demand about 100 times a day and Matt is always saying we need to grow herbs so we have some fresh so perfect I thought.

I ended up putting the terracotta paint on first and let that dry and then me and the kids each painted a out and planted our seeds.

Logan helped make the dirt as well and Ava, well lets just say she ended up in the bathtub after we were done (FYI getting wood type paint out of toddler hair is a nightmare).
ItalicLogan checks on the herbs every day and we keep the dirt moist waiting to see the first sprouts!