Jan 17th-23rd

Richard did not have school on Monday for MLK day, so the 3 day weekend was great. He had plenty to work on that day, boy does he have a lot of emails to respond to! He had his regular schedule the rest of the week and manged to fit in the ADHD study he works on and had his Healthcare Reform elective. As well as PNHP meeting and Sleep apnea support group. On saturday he had another Princeton interview. So he kept plenty busy, and as always managed to spend lots of time with us, even cooked us dinner each night. I will never know how he does it all!

Tilly and just hung out most of the week, We had Moses over on Wed., went to story time on Thursday and Saturday, and got creative with crayons and stamps at home. She is growing up so fast. She ate TONS of fruit, I thought she might turn into a mango!

Jan 10th-16th

Another wonderful and busy week. Richard started the week with an advisor meeting with Dr. Taylor, went to class and came home and studied. Tuesday he had class and preceptorship and of course studied. Wednesday he had class, more meetings, PCM and AFP. Thursday he had the day off from school, he spent most of the day studing for the exam on Friday morning. Tilly and I had Moses over and we went to story time at the library. After the exam on Friday morning, we all had dentist appointments then we all went to Nick's Coney Island food for a dinner with the Dean of the School of Medicine, Dr Mark Richardson and his wife Ellen. Saturday we all went swimming in the morning. Tilly loved the water and wanted to blow bubbles, I had a hard time keeping her in my arms - it will be no time before she is swimming on her own. Tilly and I came home for a nap, and Richard went to interview 2 highschoolers for Princeton. He came home to play for a minute then went to band practice. His band changed names to Xul Solar, they just put out a cd and it sounds great- you can find some of the songs on their facebook page.

Jan 3-9th

Richard is back at school and has gotten back into his regular activities of CSF, Precept, and PCM along with his regular added-on, over-achiever activities. He had his baby beeper appt. this week, a CSF forum the first day back, a senate meeting, and an elective class he helped organize which is on Health Care Reform. He amazes me with how much things he can do in just one week and still come home to play with Tilly and cook a great meal.

Tilly and I have been re-organizing the house, pulling out the next size clothes, putting the small clothes away for my soon-to-be-new nephew or niece (my guess is nephew). We went to playgroup today and didn't see any of our regular friends but hope to catch up with everyone once the group is regular again. She was pretty independent today, playing in her room while I cleaned in the kitchen - I went to check on her several times and she was just talking to her toys while pulling them out of the basket. We had another game night with Krisanna and David this week - It never gets old, I wish we could do it every night!! We also started the Your Baby Can Read books, which are so fun! Tilly likes to look as you read and point, she has even waved when she sees the word "wave," or clapped when that word comes around. She is just so much fun!!

I got so spoiled having Richard home for 2 weeks that it seems unfair that a test is next friday and he has to put a lot of study time in. I have to keep thinking its only 2 more months until spring break- what should we do then??

Dec 27th- Jan 2

We had a great week, lounged around and hung out with friends. Celebrated 2 of our friends' birthdays. And did a lot of things together. Tilly really loved being with Richard for such a long time, she now goes to the door when he is at school and says, "Dada?" We celebrated the new year by counting down around 6, then putting Tilly to sleep. We then fell asleep ourselves but were woken up by Tilly around 11:30pm, so we did get to ring in the new year. Tilly was put back to sleep pretty quickly so she got her new year's kisses in the morning. We ended the week with a fun filled Sunday. Stopped by our friend's jammy birthday party, picked a neighbor up at the airport, watched a little arkansas football with fletcher, then stayed up til almost midnight playing clue, banana grams, and wii with our neighbors. It was a great ending to the break.