Playing Around the House

Why the update? We just thought we'd keep ya'll up to date with the awesomeness that is us, that's why.

Oh yes, LUCAS IS 9 MONTHS OLD TODAY!!









So you ask "Why the hamburger?" Well, sometimes in parenting we choose our battles. Our battle was trying to get a nice and sweet picture for a 9 month day. Turns out Lucas was really excited about STEVE's toy (the dog). Yeah. It's a doggy chew toy. We figure since Steve has been giving Lucas lots of kisses since the day we brought him home it was bound to happen sometime. He's building up lots of immunity to all sorts of good things. I wiped it off don't worry :-)

Nothing crazy has been happening around here. We've settled into a nice routine with the close of the holidays.

Ted has been running all over this lovely United States doing residency interviews. For those of you unfamiliar with our current state, we are doing residency interviews. Although we REALLY want to stay here in Minnesota at one of the two teaching hospitals for ER (Ted's specialty of choice), we still have to interview at other ER teaching hospitals so that Ted will be guaranteed a Residency position somewhere as of July 1st of this year.

In the past two months, we've been: Akron Ohio, Kansas City Kansas, Regions St Paul, HCMC Minneapolis, Pittsburgh PA, Madison WI, Grand Rapids MI, Cleveland OH, and Buffalo NY next week.

It has been jolly.

We're looking forward to finally having these wrapped up next week.

What have Lucas and I been doing during this time?? He plays, and I work and do mommy things. Ted started his Radiology rotation on Monday. He leaves for Peru on February 11th through March 5th. When he returns from Peru he will do Family Medicine somewhere for a few months and then graduation day!! Woohoo!!

So here are a few "action shots" of the little man's development. We've been doing some solid belly crawling the last few weeks, so freedom as we know it is gone for a few years.

We've been enjoying new big boy toys that we got for Christmas and exploring parts of the house that we've never hung out in before. Like Steve's pet taxi.



"Thanks for the truck Grandma!!"



This is my other swiffer sweeper....





Daddy decided to teach Lucas a super fun game that Mommy and all the Grandma's will surely LOVE!!





He also found one of his Mommies favorite items... her beloved coffee cup.





And finally, the determination and defiance of a little boy who has found a way to avoid sleep. Enjoy :-)



This is perhaps Oscar worthy don't you think?




We hope is all is well :-) Take care!