February 2014 Photos

February was a good month! Aaron was on ER, which is shift work, so he had more time off than usual. I was on an elective, and divided my time between Pediatric Ophthalmology and Sports Medicine. I also took a week of vacation at the beginning of the month. Aaron had a few days off during that time, and it was was so nice for the three of us to be together. We enjoyed celebrating Aaron's birthday and Valentine's day in February.

Julia and her friend Valerie playing kitchen.

Yes, that is our Christmas tree still up on February 1st.

We went out on a date on Aaron's birthday eve! We saw the movie "Saving Mr. Banks," which we really enjoyed.

And then we went out for seafood. It was a good night!

We went to the monastery on Aaron's actual birthday to celebrate his shared birthday with Stephen! This is my blurry attempt at capturing the two blowing out the candles on their carrot cake :-)

Julia enjoyed drinking out of a tiny glass goblet at the monastery.

Out on a wintery walk one evening.

Chef Julia!

We celebrated Aaron's birthday with my family as well over at my parents' house one evening. I made dinner (and this awesome ice cream... haha!). Here's a cute photo of the birthday boy! It was his 27th birthday this year!

Singing happy birthday.

We didn't get to watch nearly as much of the Olympics as I would have liked, but we did enjoy what we could!

Dr. Julia really has the touch, doesn't she? You can see the Wii U in the background - that was Aaron' birthday present from his parents! We had such fun playing through the new Mario game together.

Julia and her "brother" Joey. For a while, she was insisting that we treat him like her brother, including sitting at the dinner table with us eating his fake food, bathing with Julia, having his own bath towel, and getting tucked in for bed.

These stomp rockets were a gift from Aaron's uncle, aunt, and cousins.

Julia got a big kick out of seeing them fly!

I told you in the January post that we were on a Coney I-Lander kick! Here is proof from our return visit in February! ;-)

My beautiful girl!

Meghan's family was at our church one Sunday for mass, so we went out to lunch together one Sunday.

We enjoyed it, and so did our girls!

We went out for a date a couple days after Valentine's Day!

It was a lot of fun!

Getting some exercise in!

This one cracks me up - it kind of looks like Julia is trying to hurt me!

I got new glasses while on my ophthalmology rotation! The doctor I worked with graciously allowed me to buy glasses at cost. I snapped a rare selfie to send to my family to show off my new specs.

I read a lot this year. This "yoghurt cake" Julia and I made together was from the book "Bringing up Bebe." I will have to do a post on this book and other books I read.

Out to lunch after mass with Gee Terri!

Carefully checking Super Grover's blood pressure with her sphygmomanometer.

January 2014 Photos

 I'm finally done blogging about 2013! Hallelujah! Now that 2014 is almost over, I thought I'd reflect on the year gone by ;-) These 2014 stories are long overdue, but it's been fun looking back at these photos and remembering the good times.

There aren't a ton of photos of January 2014, which is what quickly reminds me that this was a busy month of work. I was on clinic, which has decent hours, but LOTS of charting. Aaron was on teaching service on what is likely the busiest month of the year. Poor guy worked some looonnng hours. He had a couple days during the month in which the off service residents were gone and his senior resident was at clinic, so Aaron talked to, examined, and wrote notes on 28 patients all on his own before rounding with the attending. Twenty-eight! Craziness.

Fun times together at the mall on a weekend I had off!

Julia and I had a delightful tea party one day.

We enjoyed decorating sock puppets from a kit she'd gotten from her grandparents for her birthday.

Hard at work.

The finished products.

This is what happens when the toothpaste is on the counter rather than up in the cabinet and tastes too good.

Big helper doing dishes.

We got a dusting of snow in January, too. Not enough to get me out of work, though, unfortunately ;-)

Julia giving MC she her belated Christmas present - felt family members! I took photos of everyone in the family, photoshopped the background out, printed them on iron transfer paper, ironed them onto white felt, and cut them out for use with her flannel board that I made her last year. I think she has really enjoyed them!

January museum day with daddy on one of his rare days off. I was working. I pretty much worked every Saturday that Aaron was off, and Aaron worked every full weekend that I was off during the early part of 2014. We had like 2 or 3 weekends off together for 2014 during intern year (second year has been better so far). It was pretty rough.

Fooling around, surrounded by centuries old art. We live in a cool city... what can I say?

These Lion King flannel sheets were purchased when Lion King was a relatively new movie! They were never used, but my mom had them in the linen closet for years. We busted them out for Julia, and she loved them.

Dr. Aaron and Dr. Julia. I'm one lucky lady, aren't I?

I'm so proud of these two.

One Saturday while Aaron was working, Julia and I got sandwiches for lunch. Shortly afterward, I started feeling terrible. We went home and I began having awful vomiting/diarrhea. I could not keep anything down. I got so dehydrated. My insides were cramping and I was literally lying around moaning in between trips to the bathroom. I just kept praying, "Help me, help me, help me, God. Help me, help me, help." I put Netflix on for Julia to keep her away from me, but she'd hear me calling out to God sometimes and come running. "Jesus won't help you!" she said. "I'll help you! I'm a doctor! Let me get my doctor tools!" I would thank her for her offer, and then beg her to leave me and go watch more TV so she wouldn't get sick. Aaron called me in some anti-nausea medicine, and the sight of him coming home that night with medicine and Gatorade and to take care of Julia was one of the best things I've ever seen in my life. I was sick for the next few days (and had to take my one and only sick day of residency so far), but thankfully, my parents were able to help me out with Julia, and she avoided getting sick. It was the sickest I've been in recent memory. So awful. I will never forget the Viral Gastroenteritis of 2014. Gross. I couldn't eat at this sandwich place for a long time afterward (although I don't think it was connected - I'm sure I picked the bug up at clinic).

Look at this face. Julia must have sensed what was coming.

Julia's art skills really improved this year! We were impressed with this person she drew!

We had a short stretch where we were really into Coney I-Lander. So healthy, I know ;-) I want to figure out the recipe for their chili. It tastes like there must be cinnamon in it. So good. Aaron and I always have a blast trying to figure out the anagrams on the wall. We're nerdy like that. I try to text my Aunt Cindy when we go here because Uncle John grew up going here and loves it, too.

December 2013 :Snow and Ice

In December, we had some beautiful winter weather.

We had a snow storm early in the month.  Julia had the best time playing out in the snow with us.

Aaron had had a snow ball to the face! ;-)

Later in the month, we had an ice storm. The ice was deposited right before we were supposed to head to Kansas to celebrate Christmas, so that delayed our trip a bit. A lot of the trees and bushes suffered under the weight of the ice, but ours luckily bounced back after thawing.

This bush was literally on the ground under the weight of the ice.

Some of our trees were horizontal.

We braved the weather to get a hot lunch.

Hmmm.