Yes, Thank You, I Did Make That

Look what I made!

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t's a high waist skirt for Cadance to wear in her 1 year pictures.  Is is perfect?  Not even close, but I did it.  First and foremost I would like to thank Steve for letting me take over the kitchen table with my sewing machine and ironing board.  Also, Cadance for not whining too much during fittings.  And, a special thanks for the random online resources that taught me how to hem and do a gather stitch.   I'm pretty thrilled about it.

Beach Pictures

Here are some of the best ones

The Beach

For Labor Day weekend we were able to go to the South Padre Island with Steve's family.  It was fabulous!  Watching Cadance explore the beach for the first time was priceless.  It was seriously one of the best parts of being a mom so far.  Unfortunately I will not be able to share pictures.  I lost the cable to connect my camera to the computer.  The last time I saw it was in the diaper bag at the zoo :(  So...unless it fell out somewhere I haven't already checked I'm praying the zoo has a good lost and found.  My mother-in-law posted several pictures on FB, which are great, but seriously I have a ton!  It's hard to put the camera away when it's like constant smiles.  She loved the water, the sand, the birds, the wind, the sand, the people, the shells, the sand, the boogie board, and did I mention the sand?  Everyone was so impressed that it didn't bother her at all.  I was praying that a passing by dog didn't pee in the spot that she just put in her mouth.  Besides some irritated eyes from the sand that was rubbed therein she didn't have any problems.  It was fairly impressive.  So, hopefully we'll get some pictures soon!

In other good news Steve received his first invitation to do an interview for residency.  Oh, man.  That was a good email.  And, it became Autumn, like overnight.  When we came home it was suddenly cool at night and only like 90 during the day.  I was coming home from a meeting Tuesday night and thought to myself, "I feel cool, as in not hot, that so cool."  We went for a run today, at noon.  It was hot, but I tried to think about all the times I went out at 8:30 and I was sweating more than the run we went on today.  Good stuff. 

Oh what a month

For four weeks Steve and I lived with my parents in San Antonio.  Steve was doing a rotation with the UT San Antonio Pathology department.  I figured that if I didn't go down for the entirety of the rotation there was a good chance my parents would kill me.  If not, then be really upset and maybe live with me for four weeks, so down we went. 

If was so much fun to be with my family.  As chance had it two siblings who normally don't live in SA were there for a few weeks so most of my family were at my parents house.  Cadance absolutely loved it.  It took her about 12 hours to realize how amazing it is to have constant attention.

We didn't have many plans, but what plans we did have got curtailed by an emergency surgery for moi the 3rd day we were there.  So, luckily I had plenty of hands to take care of Cadance while I recovered, but my baking, scrapbooking, running dreams were put on hold 3 of the 4 weeks of our stay.

So, without being about to go do much we had fun at home swimming, playing with pudding, watching a lot of episodes of Chopped, and straightening my little brother's hair.  When I did venture out there was much shopping for my brother's wedding and one dinner at Dough Pizza (fabulous!).

2.5 weeks into the rotation we flew to Las Vegas for the wedding.  As tired and sick as we all were we had a lot of fun.  The reception was gorgeous as was the bride.  We had a lot of friends come up from California so it was fun to be able to see them again.  Cadance was a sport, especially during the walk on the strip that went right through her nap time.  Also, I am extremely grateful for the invention of the pack n play; Cadance took more than one nap in a classroom at the church building. 

The trip wouldn't be complete without Steve's wonderful family.  We were able to spend some time at the Ellsworths, and Cindy was gracious enough to watch Cadance while we went to the movies.  We also went to the Culinary Institute of America's bakery and enjoyed some fantastic pastries and a great lunch!

In other news, Steve is fairly certain that forensic pathology is the field he wants to get into.  He really liked the rotation- the work, schedule, etc.  He's also almost finished with his residency application (whoot!).  I graduated from the Culinary School of Fort Worth with a certificate in Pastry Arts.  Both our parents came up to celebrate.  It was a great day.

So here are some pictures from the trip, in no particular order:

Steven Passes his Pennsylvania Board Exam

Well let me take just a quick second to share my mini-victory. I found out today that I have passed my PE for COMLEX 2. This is one of several tests that I have to pass in order to continue being a doctor. I did take the test 8-9 weeks ago, so it's been terribly nerve racking to wait this long. Now, I have started with the medical examiner's office in Bexar County and I am having a blast learning about Forensic Medicine. There are some truly awesome things to learn about in this world.

A Bunch of RandomThings

Over the past few weeks I've often thought, oh, I should write a post about that, or, I should put up that video. And, I obviously haven't. So, I thought I would post up a bunch of random stuff.

This video is my favorite. She does this funny thing with her head when she's trying to pick something up off the floor. The problem is, this chair is a glider so it's not working for her. About half way through she discovers a new noise and I think she likes it more than the flip flop




Here are some pictures from the Cowgirl Museum. We went on Saturday.



She also really loves to eat. It's her favorite time of day. Pictured below are her first tastes of sandwiches. She was a fan.



And some random ones just for good measure

When Do You Learn?

For all of you moms out there I have some questions for you. When do you learn that covering a child in a full body frock will not guarantee that paint will remain off the clothes? When do you remember that no matter how clean they look in a high chair they still have food on them somewhere? When does it click that the decision to let your child hold a spoon is really a decision to pick said spoon off the floor? And, when do you realize that bananas stain really badly?