The Time Has Come...

It was beautiful while it lasted. Fourth year has now come to an end. There will be less and less of this..
and this...
And a whole lot of this. Eighty average hours a week to be exact.
Here is Bryan in his new white coat. He officially started residency on Wednesday with orientation on Monday and Tuesday. He is really enjoying it. He really enjoys the people he is working with and Riverside is a great place to be.
I had to take a picture of this because it's just so crazy to me! Bryan got his official prescription pad and can now write prescriptions. I can't believe he can sign his name with an M.D. Time really has flown. So now that Bryan is spending his days at the hospital he gets to come home to this...
Our sweet girls. I wish that when he got home this is what he always saw, but I have to admit that is not the case. My first official week on my own has actually been pretty good. I was a little panicked about being on my own with two children, but I was able to take them both to the grocery store, library, some lame magic show and to Sam's Club to develop pictures. They both have done so well and I feel very fortunate to be able to get out with out any problems. Audrey is getting better at going to sleep on her own and taking the binky and Julia is doing very well playing on her own and helping me with cleaning and such. Audrey is easily consoled and doesn't cry too much. She is getting more responsive and even smiles sometimes.
That being said, I am still waiting for Audrey to do better at nights. Most nights she does pretty well but I believe fate is playing a cruel trick on me because the nights she's had four or five hour stretches of sleep I have been awakened by Julia needing to go potty, the noisy neighbors or the scariest storm in history with tornado sirens blaring, crazy lightning and thunder that shakes the entire house. But when everything else is quiet, that is when Audrey decides to eat at 2:00AM and not go back to sleep until 3:30AM, and then wake up every two hours after that grunting like crazy and tooting up a storm. So, those are the mornings that Julia, Audrey and I stay in bed until ten watching several episodes of Backyardigans so I can catch an extra 30 minutes of sleep. These are the days that I am running up and down the stairs, Julia is climbing all over me while I'm trying to feed Audrey, Audrey is screaming and while I am trying to put her to sleep Julia is jumping on the bed, when I tell her to leave the room she starts yelling, and when I leave Julia alone for a few minutes she manages to wedge her play cell phone antenna into the computer, and when I finally sit down to eat lunch Audrey wakes up. This combined with sleep deprivation does not make for a very patient mother. Most days aren't like that, but of course some days are. When all is said and done, it's a good thing that as a mother you have a selective memory and that with all the bad days there are a million good ones. Just check out those beautiful girls. How could I not count my many blessings? We had to take this picture to show how much taller Julia is than Audrey. Audrey is getting so big so fast. Where does the time go?
I suppose that you can see I have a thing with flowers in the hair. I just can't resist the cute little headbands.
Check out that belly! This outfit was given to us by Jason and Christie and is actually 3-6 months. So Audrey made it five and a half weeks in 0-3 month clothes. I have tall big girls!