Feb 7th - 13th

This was somewhat of a slow week for us. Richard had a few meetings on Monday, along with AFP study group to go over things for their exam on Friday. Tuesday was breakfast with his faculty advisor, then class and preceptorship. After his first exam for SPH he and Allen met with one of the deans to discuss a possible internship with some of the faculty.
This week has been wonderful as we have spent a lot of time together, and with our friends. Richard has been able to come home and make us dinner most nights and even the night before the exam we had David and Geoffrey over for some yummy tacos.
Its been a great week!

Jan 31st- Feb 6th

This has been a very busy week. Monday was Richard's final test for CSF, right after the test he went to the PNHP talk by a national speaker Dr. Oli Fein here at OHSU that he helped organize. Followed by another talk from Dr. Fein at PSU. He came home to pick us up and we all went to dinner with the PNHP people who were in town for the events. We left dinner for the Healthcare Reform panel at held at Providence. We of course had to leave early to get little T home to sleep but Richard went back to meet everyone for the after party. Tuesday he started his new class SPH (Systems, Processes, and Homeostasis) and attended a psychiatry video at lunch. He then had preceptorship at CHH where T and I met him upon returning from downtown for the tram ride up, since he was going to his senate meeting right after and we were missing him. After the senate meeting he had the PNHP pdx meeting and stayed out til pretty late. Tilly and I had Krisanna over to watch Lost and had a great fondue party!! Wednesday was another long day, SPH in the morning and a VACUUM meeting during lunch followed by PCM and a Family Medicine ward walk until 6:30pm. Thursday we all made our way to the dentist at 7 in the morning, Tilly and I stayed downtown to go to story time and do a little shopping and Richard hurried back to class. He got home around 4 after the donating some blood. Friday he had class and another lunch meeting for PNHP. He stayed at school and studied for awhile because Tilly and I were at the Childrens' museum with Miles, Luanne, and Krisanna. When he got home we all got ready to go to the Family Medicine dinner. It was a casual get-to-know-you dinner with the 4th years who were sharing their wisdom on applying for residencies. We sat and ate and chatted with some great people but had to leave early so Richard could make it to band practice and Tilly could go to sleep. Saturday Richard woke up early with Tilly then headed out to work on the ADHD study- he came home just in time to make us dinner!

Tilly was amazing this week, no matter where we were she was always happy. Her new thing is fist bumps or knuckles- She can't just give one, once she gets going she has to go around the room. Most of the time she is the hit of the party!

Jan 24th-30th

The 24th we celebrated Anna's birthday at the Children Museum and had the best time! There is so much there to explore, and Tilly loved that she could run around by herself touch everything and make lots of messes. She had a great night sleep that night! Maybe we need to go there more often. Monday and Tuesday Tilly and I organized a little bit, well I did most of that while she disorganized her books. Wednesday night Richard and I went to Podnah's bbq for a date night. We hadn't been on one in about 7 months!! We took Tilly over to Moses's house and I of course was wondering if she was ok the whole time I was gone - We got back to the silliest little girl in the world! She was giving fist bumps to Moses, then Cara, then me, then Richard, and over again with a great laugh each time. I was told she only noticed we were gone for just a second so I am very excited!! She is all grown up. We of course went to story time on Thursday and Saturday and played outside whenever the sun would peek through.

Richard had a busy week, He left Anna's party early with David to go to AFP. On Sunday he edited together a montage of some of the videos he has done for VACUUM which I watched when it was complete and it turned out very lovely. On Monday he went to a meeting with some of the doctors he is working on a paper with. Tuesday he went to a presentation by the Portland non-profit Medical Teams International about doing relief work in disaster-struck countries. That night he also went to a MoveOn rally downtown and met with other people promoting universal healthcare. Thursday he was interviewed by a woman making a documentary on universal healthcare--he said he was excited to tell the med student side of the story! Then he went and volunteered at the Southwest Community Health Clinic, where he sees uninsured patients who have no other access to healthcare. And of course as he likes me to point out he made time to come home and cook us dinner :)

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.