Light at the End of the Tunnel

Woops- didn't post for like, almost a year. That's what happens when third year hits. But it's over by like a lot, I'm just clearly a lazy blogger.

To catch people up to speed:

1. I MATCHED! I MATCHED! And an enthusiastic: I MATCHED!
- I matched into Emergency Medicine at Texas A&M-Scott & White in the awesome state of TEXAS! We are very excited! (Also I'm glad it was Texas. The Turdette has been dead set on moving to Texas since last year when some of her friends moved there. I really wasn't sure how we would have explained to her we weren't going to Texas because in her mind, when you move, you move to Texas.)

2. We're considering buying a house- we'll see how that goes.

3. It's bloody snowing in VIRGINIA at the end of March- clearly the move to Texas couldn't come quickly enough.

4. No post would be complete without a Turdette story so here it is. We went on a hike a few weeks ago down at Dutch Gap and about half way through the hike, Turdette stops and looks around and asks, "Momma, how far are we from the Fire Swamp?"  :-) It doesn't get more intrinsically awesome than that.

So third year has finished and I've started fourth year! YAY! No pictures from it though. But we took our weekend seriously none-the-less going to both Busch Gardens and Virginia Beach in the same weekend. I was definitely tired come Monday morning- but it doesn't matter because... I'm done with third year.


Another funny Turdette story:  last week when I asked every to throw some papers in the garbage and she actually walked out to the dumpster and threw them in there! I guess her idea of "garbage" didn't mean the garbage can in the kitchen (why would it?) And about an hour later I asked her to throw something else out, she took it, sighed and said "here I go again" and walked out the door. I was a bit surprised as I followed her to the dumpster. Kids are so funny.

Fun stories:

 #1: I was brushing my teeth several weeks ago and the Turdette comes in and tells me, "Mama, you've got big boobs!" I tell her no, I don't, they're actually on the smallish side. She looks me right in the eye and said, "Well, compared to really little people who are THIS BIG (smooshes her thumb and pointer finger together) YOU are a giant, and that makes your boobs giant too." How does one argue with that kind of logic? Straight up- you can't.

#2: In the car the other day Beyonce's song "All the single ladies" (I think that's the name) comes on. At the point where she's singing "if you liked then you shoulda put a ring on it" Evy questions what that means and I told her that if a man likes you enough he puts a ring on your finger and marries you. Fast forward to the next day and she is playing with play dough and makes herself a boy and a girl snake. The two get into a fight and the girl snake leaves at which point the boy snake tells her to come back and she then tells the boy snake "Sorry sweetie, if you liked it, you shoulda put a ring on it."

 Evy also attended a birthday party this week, and apparently hammed it up quite a bit and kept begging to have her picture taken. So here's some from that!

Cowboy Boots

We're sliding into the end of third year. 2 more weeks baby! The pictures below are from last Sunday. Evy picked out the entire outfit herself. After she was dressed she grabbed my hand and said, "Mama, we need to take pictures for Grandma, and I know JUST the spot, come on!" I don't know how to argue that- so I didn't. I'm particularly in love with the boots and the headband. We actually have a pink headband that "goes" with the dress... but she wanted the yellow one. Adorable.

Today the Turdette informed me she doesn't like her hair because Ariel is her LEAST favorite princess because she is "stupid" and "doesn't do anything cool." So I asked her which her favorite princess was and she said "Belle, because she's not afraid of the Beast and she does nice things for her Dad and she's smart- but she has brown hair, so I'm going to have to get me some brown hair. Here, let me cut yours and I'll put it on my head!" I really hope that the new movie "Brave" featuring a strong willed red head will appeal to my kid- otherwise I'll be sleeping with one eye open trying to make sure she doesn't cut my hair in my sleep.

Some Easter fun.

Spring

Dinosaur bones at the Smithsonian. Or as Evy calls it, "the musayum." Oh yea, rock that southern accent.

We think Dan looks a bit like Copernicus.

Evy's first day of soccer. It rained. And that's her whole team right there. Four boys and the pale red-headed girl. It's good for her though.

This is what hospitals looked like- old school style. I really think the straw-tck mattresses really give it a homey touch.

Practicing paddling in the Indian village.

Chillaxing by the James River.

And of course- we make her sleep on the floor because we're evil. J/K. She's just practicing good horsemanship. Her horse, Beauty was "Sick." And she apparently decided to sleep next to her to make sure she made it through the night. We relocated her to the bed after snapping a few pictures.

Grandpa Sorrentino Visits

Grandpa Sorrentino came to visit us for a day last week.
We went to Maymont and let them wander around there. We rather enjoyed the otters at the end.

And one from Christmas since I realized I didn't post any from it! I'd say she rather enjoys the Taylor Swift CD. Turdette is all girl.

And happiest news: I've been done with surgery for nearly a month. I almost feel like a real freaking human being again. Just in time to start medicine wards up at VCU. So right back to long hours. But I'm sure I'll live, since it won't be surgery.

I also managed to seriously crash my bike the one day it snowed here. Bike is mostly fine. I bruised the crap out of my right side. Now I've got cool rainbow colors up and down my arm, ribs, hip, and leg on the right. Should be gone by swimsuit season though.

December

We cut Evy's hair! Before and after here!

We also visited the DC temple to to see the Christmas lights. Evy thought it was awesome.

They also had a bunch of Christmas stuff inside the visitor's center as well. They had a "parade of Nativity Scenes" from around the world. Evy's favorite was the one from Uzbekistan! Go figure.

And He knows the End from the Begining

I saw two people pass on last night. Rough night shift. May God bless their families and their souls and welcome them home.

Evy's Camera

We downloaded some of the pictures off of Evy's camera. Can I just say... wow... life from her perspective is fun. The only one she is taller than is the dog.

In Recent News

1. Halloween-
Fun... but seriously hard work... Making the costume was seriously the most retarded thing I have ever done... WHY the hell would someone willingly do that year after year??? Count me out from here on out... unless the Turdette wants to be ghost and all I have to do is cut holes in a damn sheet. It also rained, a lot. Dan and Evy fave up after about 5 houses. Laaameeee.

2. I worked my first week ever of night float... and that sucked some serious monkey rear end. Just saying. I did NOT enjoy my time. Maybe if I had had several more years to get my body fully used to being awake at night and asleep during the day- maybe it'd be less awful. But instead- it was just a week... just enough to seriously mess up my body. Yay!





3. Evy turns 4!! (technically tomorrow, but we celebrated today by taking her out to a lunch and movie and then having some cupcakes afterwards)

4. A little bit of artwork when I should be studying... oops.

5. "Seriously" seems to be my word of the day. Seriously.