Pictures from the fun weekend

GREAT grandpa!

With Great Grandpa Roger
Uncle JOhn (sorry, I forgot to rotate these pictures of John and Jenny before I uploaded them...)
Sorry, Jenny...forgot to rotate your pic.
Grandma Beth and Auntie Annie. Julia is wearing her bank robber sleeper (all she needs now is a mask...)
All of this action makes for one exhausted little one!

We spent the weekend after Match Day in St. Cloud. It was a great time to see family. We went to a St. patrick's day parade in Maple Lake on Saturday where we saw Great Grandpa and Grandma Rog and Mitzi...we went to Bouja and church on Sunday with the Family Sprengeler, we saw great grandparents Schwartz on Friday night, we got to see family Riesgraf/Wyman on Friday during the day. Gosh, that makes for a full weekend!
With both families living in the same town, we can see them all in one weekend if we try hard enough. That's both a blessing and a curse....if we're at one house, we are getting called by the other one, "come over here! I miss the baby!" (Mike and I just go along for the ride. They just want to see Julia.) If only we could beam ourselves home, life would be a whole lot easier!

Fun weekend!

What a grand weekend we had! Pictures to follow. We drove back from St. Cloud last night and got home around 8:00 after hitting an ice storm the last 30 miles of the trip. There were lots of people in the ditch! Julia voiced her displeasure at us becasue she was SICK of being in the carseat...daddy was singing to her and impersonating the macaw puppet that was in the diaper bag. Mommy thought it was funny....Julia was not humored by the situation. She felt better when we finally got home and let her crawl around her own living room.

I'll upload some pictures tonight. Stay tuned.

Yahoo!

Hi everybody! Sorry we haven't posted much this week. We've been really busy.

We drove down to the twin cities at the crack of dawn on Wednesday to go to the "match day" retreat and then stayed over with aunt Jenny to go to the match day ceremony on Thursday. Match day is the ritual that all med students go through where they find out what residency program accepted them. I had many classmates who weren't sure which specialty they would match into or where on earth they would end up. Some were sent to the Maine, Washington, and everywhere inbetween. I was really excited to open my envelope. It read: "Congratulations, you have matched!

"Duluth Graduate Medical Education Council"

Yahoo!

Duluth is where I wanted to go, and the program is just great. Besides having a house up in Duluth already, I think the family medicine program is as good as they come. They will even teach me how to do c-sections! The best news is, however, that there are five of my favorite classmates who will be joining me up there! I was pretty shocked to see that my co-residents will be primarily from Duluth's med school. What a great day.

Thursday night, Julia went to stay with grandma Ruth, and Mike and I went to this fancy party at the Calhoun Beach Club. It was the first (and probably only) time we used valet parking. Psymuhn was in the backseat and scared the willies out of the valet man.

We had a great time at the party. My wine glass lit up with a little blue light that was implanted in the bottom! Mike was excited for the endless appetizers and desserts. (We almost made the mistake of eating an interesting black and white dip thing. I thought it was oreo cookies...and it turned out to be caviar...) I talked nonstop to my classmates for three hours. It was so great to hear where everyone will be going and what they'll be doing. When we got home at 1am, we were so exhausted that we didn't even brush our teeth. :)

Watching TV

Julia gets excited when the rotating planets come on. She is shaking her arms in delight.
This movie is soo good I had to pull my own socks off!!!

Julia tries to look at me and the TV at the same time.
Watching the planets go by while listening to Mozart...

When we were in the hospital in January, the nurses introduced us to Baby Einstein movies. Mike and I never bought them before this because we thought it was some dumb yuppie thing. However, when Julia watched her first movie (Baby Mozart), she was *riveted*! They are basically pictures of simple things like animals and toys with music playing in the background. No voices or animated things...very simple. Annie could make them.

So, the next week, I found myself on Ebay looking for some used VHS videos to go in our tiny TV. It was promptly moved from our bedroom where it was never used to the living room floor. Julia is limited to one half hour ever day or less...so she doesn't become a Televison Bandit.

Block time!

Happiness!!! (notice Julia's right hand. She was shaking it with delight.)

I bought a big bag of wooden blocks when I was in college. Why in the world would a college student do that??? Because they were on sale, of course! (I got a screamin' good deal...)

We were cleaning out the closet the other day and we found them! They aren't mommy's anymore....they belong to the one in charge around here. Julia just loves to knock down the towers Mike and I so carefully construct. She also likes to throw the blocks across the room in excitement and clank them together. What fun!

Fun with Auntie Annie

Annie puts her cool shades on Julia. Annie, like grandma Beth, seems to like to blink when the camera shoots...
Julia is getting Bung ready for his photo shoot
Bung is such a pretty boy. He is sporting a dish towel made by pearl.
This picture of psymuhn reminds me of that indian woman on the National Geographic magazine a few years back...

Annie came over the other day and helped me fold some laundry and take care of Julia. We played dress-up with the animals, who were very good-natured, as usual.

Sunday Best

Julia got all dressed up for church this morning. She was in a good mood even though we got her up an hour before she wanted to get up (daylight savings time hit mommy like a ton of bricks....)