It has been a good 3 months.
My girls are...enormous and brilliant and lovely.
Carli is a first rate explorer: she can make it to the top of the stairs in under a minute - something you realize when you decide to pick up the blocks before putting up the baby gate. She can climb just about anything, and luckily, has learned to back off the couch (bed, table, laundry basket) safely.
Violet is smarter everyday, and so imaginative. She is constantly taking care of her 'babies' (which she has named Sylvia, Gwendolyn, Rapunzel, Batilda), imitating Rachel Ray in her play kitchen. She received her first bike for Christmas, and within 20 minutes was shooting around the lot on her own. She is also currently obsessed with reading her abridged version of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe - which makes for a very long bedtime ritual.
Perhaps the biggest change has been one that hasn't happened yet. Jason and I have decided to go back to school. My schooling was interrupted by Violet's conception, and Jason's never really started. The thought of school has always stayed in the back of my mind, but with no real direction. However, after nearly 5 years of discussion, Jason decided he wants to be a veterinarian. I am so happy for him, and completely support this decision; I can't wait to get started.
But it is a real commitment; there are only about 40 schools that offer Veterinary degrees in the country. We want to find a place the girls will be happy, where we can all be happy, for the 8+ years it will take for us to get our degrees. Jason will have to get a bachelor's and a master's, and I will be working full time, and only able to attend 1 or 2 classes a semester. So we are on the lookout for a place that matches our family. Our current leaders are Knoxville, TN (university of Tennessee), and Columbia, MO (University of Missouri). We don't know if we will aim for this coming fall, or wait a year so Violet can attend pre-k here. Big decisions afoot.
So that is what we have been up to. You know, plus Thanksgiving and Christmas and my parents moving to Kentucky and Halloween and homemade costumes and blonde hair and red hair and Violet in the Christmas program and changing churches and joining a playgroup and Carli's month long ear infection that wouldn't die and visiting Knoxville and changing my meds and Violet chopping off all her hair and about a million other things I can't remember right now.
*The term of endearment Violet made up for Carli. Now commonly heard in our house.
3 comments:
So glad to hear from you; I missed your posts! Carli and Vi sound wonderful and you sound very happy. Congrats on the school decision. Have you checked out Washington State University? That is where I went for my master's and they had a very good vet program. It is in Pullman, WA, which is a nice small town with good schools on the eastern side of the state.
Miss you, too, but so glad to know your life is rich and full and exciting and...well, just how life should be.
xo
I missed your posts!
I am so excited that you and Jason have made such a big decision as to go to school! As one who put off a desired education (though mine was my Master's) I understand. I am hopeful that you'll make the decision and GO so you can get started on that new life. But that's just my $0.02.
Life is crazy isn't it? I hope you find 2010 to be all you wish it to be. And yes, your girls are lovely!
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