Life Lately

Josh started his official clinical duties as a resident on July 1.  It is really starting to sink in that he is really a doctor!  He is prescibing medications people!!  

 Let's take a closer look at this.  I don't think seeing the letters Dr. or MD next to his name will ever get old!

 It is kind of like medical school in that he has different rotations every month.  He started out with a busy one, the inpatient service at the hospital.  One day he came home and told me how he was in charge of the pager that afternoon and he felt like he would be trying to work on an admit or something and then the pager would go off and he'd have to go take care of whatever it was that needed attention and he just never felt like he could completely finish what he was doing.  I said, "Welcome to how I feel every second of the day!!!"  We are both busy and working very hard in our respective areas, he is working about 70 hours a week (it could be worse!!), which means that I am left to take care of most everything around here with 3 small children in tow.  But, I wouldn't trade it.  It is so cool seeing Josh do what he has been working toward all this time, and even better to see how much he enjoys it.  And to get treated well- they really do treat them very well here even as lowly interns.  It is just not something we were used to with Ross!  I have my hands full that's for sure, and get told it several times a day by strangers, but amidsdt the craziness there are always at least a few moments each day that make it all worth it.  Yesterday it was the dance party in my bedroom to Shane's self-proclaimed favorite song (Die Young by Ke$ha- not sure why he likes it so much but every time it comes on he goes crazy!)

I ♥ The Y

We are really really loving it here in Fort Wayne.  Sometimes I feel like parts of this city were designed with me personally in mind. Like the Y.  I'm sure the Y is great everywhere, but look how pretty this one is!  This picture shows about 1/3 of it, it is pretty big with a workout center, indoor track, climbing wall, indoor pool with waterslide, indoor playground, etc. etc.  

The one downside is that I have to call ahead of time to make a reservation for Sadie, but there are trails outside and they let you leave your kids in the childwatch if you are running on them and have your cell phone on you.  So I usually take Sadie in the stroller while Shane and Marissa play inside.  You can kind of see in this picture but there is also a big park next to it.

And if all that wasn't enough, they just opened their new outdoor aquatic center that is included with your membership.  (One of the hospital systems funded it, they really sponsor a lot of cool things in the town).  There is no way I could take my 3 kids to a regular pool by myself, but I can to this one because there are lots of areas for them to just wade around and play.  Marissa likes this area,

and Shane likes the little slide area behind it.  I like that there area lots of areas for me to sit with Sadie and supervise, and several shady areas right next to the pool too.

This was 4th of July, but usually it is a lot busier (and Josh is not usually there)

Basically, we will be spending lots of time here!

My Little Holy Roller

Marissa's latest obsession?  The scriptures.  A good one to have, except we are trying to keep her from ruining all of our nice ones!  They are some of her favorite things to play with, she loves putting them in and out of Shane's scripture bag. 

 She loves flipping through the pages, and will string together random things she's heard and say them as she turns the pages- "prophets.... blessings.... he was mad at him....in the city...."  She loves the prophet song right now too and for some reason is especially obsessed with Enoch.

She can be a real feisty one sometimes, but oh she makes us smile and laugh a lot too!  Sorry future Marissa, had to throw this awful picture on here to document.  I'm pretty sure she got a bug bite/s on her eyelid and it got infected, this picture was before it got even worse, it was swollen completely shut.  Glad it's pretty much back to normal and we can see those big blue eyes again!