Daphne Crawls

So I told you she was crawling, but I had to get a video. She still is a little unsure so it takes he awhile to get going, but she does it. Enjoy!

P.S. My mother-in-love says I sound like i'm getting teary eyed at the end, but I assure you I'm not, I'm just giving positive feed back.

M.I.A.

Well the thing I didn't want to do happened I missed posting about my baby's 10 month birthday. The lack of recent posts is two fold: nothing really fun or different has been happening and I just haven't gotten on the computer in about 2 weeks. 

Daphne seems to be growing up so fast lately. Her two top teeth came out this last week and yesterday she crawled for the first time and she is pulling herself up on things really well now. 

Yesterday I was down stairs and Johnny called me up stairs and told me we needed to talk. When I got up it was the last thing I thought it would be. He told me that he had just got an email telling him that he can apply to rotations TODAY. I didn't think we would get to until after we got his scores from the test back (which by the way won't be until July 15). So we got to pick our top choices and they said they decide on a first come first served basis which is good because we had the application done an half hour after the email was recieved. They also said they would let us know where we are assigned in two weeks. So if Johnny passes we will know where we are going to be living for rotations in the next TWO WEEKS. That is such a stress re-leaver for me cause that gives me ample time to find a place to live and go through our stuff to decide what we are taking with us. Oh It makes me excited just to think of it. Our number one pick starts in September and is for the full two years, so we wouldn't have to move around at all. Please pray for us that we get it and pray for Johnny to do well on his test on Wednesday. It is the biggest test of his life and determines the rest of his medical career. Pray, Pray, Pray!!!!

A whole lot of the same

Since being here in Lamar we really haven't been doing much. We are home all day, everyday. Johnny studies and Daphne and I play. Seems like the story of our lives. Johnny has the date for the STEP set up for the 6th of June. It seems to be coming up fast. 

Daphne is continuing to grow. She is officially mobile. She has been rolling for awhile and was very good at getting where she wanted to be, but she started scooting this week. Right now she looks a lot like some one beat her up. She fell of the bed and got carpet burn on her nose and then Nana took her out on the porch swing and she came back with a split lip. She also is going to get her two front teeth in any day now.

As for me I have not been doing to much just my daily chores and a little bit of sewing. I made this dress for myself and really love it. I was so excited it turned out so well. I've never made a dress for myself before. I helped my mom make my 8th grade graduation dress, but she did most of it. I just watched her. This dress had a couple of things  was nervous to try: pleats, pin tucks, and pockets. The whole time making the dress I would say I can't do this and then I would sit and figure it out and then look at it and would just say "I LOVE IT!" It turned out pretty cute.

School is going to be over for the kids next week, Joey will be coming to visit and the pool will be opening, so our little schedule will be changing I think. 

Settled in

We are getting pretty settled here. We have a very good schedule going. I am trying to do things around house to stay busy and to help John and Mary out since we are staying here rent free. Daphne likes having family come home after school to play with her and its nice for me so I can relax a little more in the evenings.

Johnny is full on into studying for the STEP. He has a schedule he sticks to and I can't believe how much he has to study. Today he said some thing about having to read 180ish pages and that today was a "light day". I know I couldn't do that. I'm so proud of him all the time. 

Washington D.C. Day 2

I have to say our second day was so much longer than the first day. We also had a couple of moment where we lost each other, but we had such a wonderful time. 

We wanted to get the museums in first so then we could take our time and enjoy the monuments. On our walk to the Art museum we took a detour through a sculpture garden. We spent a lot more time in the art museum than we thought we would. Johnny was more interested in the art than I thought he would be and we lost each other for the first time of the day. 

The Natural History Museum was just a quick stop. Johnny just wanted to check it out and we decided it would have been a lot more interesting if we were about 15 years younger.

Next we headed across the mall to take the metro under the river to Arlington.

After a long morning of walking we decided to shell out the money to take the bus tour through the Cemetery, and let me just say so worth it!Walking up those hills would not have been fun and we got to see everything in about and hour.

We got to see the changing of the guards. They do it every half hour and we got there at the five o'clock switch so we also got to see them take down and fold the flag.

After the tour of Arlington we decided to walk across the bridge. It didn't look that far, but let me just say I DO NOT advise walking from Arlington to Jefferson. It was a beautiful, but horrible walk. I wanted to die. Plus we hadn't eaten all day so I was starving. 

As we walked back towards the mall we stopped at the Roosevelt Monument. By this time the sun was going down and it was freezing cold and Daphne was hungry so I stopped and she ate while we both warmed up in the gift shop. We got split up again. I didn't communicate my plans to Johnny so he thought I had gone ahead to the Lincoln Memorial. He stopped by at the Martin Luther King Memorial.

I ran to the Lincoln Monument as fast as a I could. It was beautiful at night.

As was the view from it.

 

We did a quick stop by Vietnam Memorial... 

and the WWII. 

I was so exhuasted and hungry by this time I was done, but we still had to walk all the way to the Metro. On the way we saw glimpses of the White House and e went right under the Washington Monument. 

I was so happy to get some food and get back to the hotel. 

All and all it was great trip. It was a nice break from the drive and from Med school. 

Riding in cars with boys... I mean boy.

Tanner made Daphne a little "car" to play in. She seems to like it especially when he plays with her. The first part of the video is him pushing her in it and the second is of him pretending to be a dog. He seemed to like both of them a lot. 

Today is Daphne's NINE month birthday! She is so big. She is just full of love. She loves to play. She loves to eat. She loves me and her daddy. She loves watching cats. She loves to brush her teeth. She loves her family. She loves to scoot backward, but not forward.

She does not love getting her face wiped, or people looking at her teeth. She hates me to leave the room. She hates having  fever. She hates poopy diapers.

Washington DC: Day 1

Like I said, we had not planned to go to Washington on our way home. I had wanted Johnny to plan a little trip for our way home, but he didn't think it was a good idea...until we got to Lisa's. he spent all Saturday looking up places to go. I went to bed not knowing where or what we were doing the next day. When I woke up he had decided on DC. 

The drive on Sunday was not bad. We stopped in this "great" little town, Historic Halifax. All we wanted was a little park to eat our sandwiches, but we got a tour of the town, the WHOLE time.When we got into DC I was amazed. I Had been there before, but I didn't remember it being so beautiful. 

We started our tour of the Mall at the National Archives. This is where they keep the Declaration, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution. It was one of the places I didn't get to see when I had been there before. I was amazed how faded the Declaration and Bill of Rights were you could not read them, but the Constitution was  like it had been written yesterday. 

Next we headed to the Air and Space Museum I remember it being a lot cooler the first time. Maybe its more for kids.

Now on to what Johnny really wanted to see. If you know Johnny you know he LOVES our 16th President, Mr. Abe Lincon himself. Johnny had already been to DC before and he did not get to visit Ford's Theatre, so this was a must for him. It was one of my favorite places we saw this trip. We got to listen to a lecture on Lincon and the events leading o his death. 

Then we headed to the capitol building. We were planning on going in, but there were a ton of guards with big scary guns, so we thought it was best not to try and enter. 

Our next stop was the Library of Congress, Johnny's #2 on his must see list, but by the time we walked there it was after just after five, and that meant it was closed. As I sat mourning that fact for Johnny (while he wandered trying to get a peak inside) I heard a bell tolling. I got to thinking hey why would a bell be tolling if the hour should have already tolled? I ran over to Johnny and mentioned it and he said it looked like they were still letting people in. So it wasn't passed five it was just turning five. Anyway they let us in and I'm so glad they did. It was the most beautiful building I have ever seen. The pictures don't even do it justice.

Our day was done so we headed over to Union Station to take the metro back to the hotel On our way we passed the Supreme Court Building.  Union Station was pretty cool. It was like a shopping mall inside. Johnny found a Barnes and Noble inside and spent some time there. 

So that sums up our first day in DC.