June Already

This week Michael started his trauma surgery rotation, and it has been kind of a long week for us with his call schedule. With this rotation, they have 30-hour shifts at the hospital when they are on call, and little or no sleep for that entire time. Michael was on call Wednesday through Thursday morning, and then again Saturday until around noon today. So it has been a little tiring, but luckily it seems like we can get through any rough schedule for a month, and then we get to try out something new the next month.

We had a playgroup planning session at Brittney Winkler’s house where the kids got to play with a baby pool in the back yard while we made a schedule of weekly visits to playgrounds and splash pools throughout the summer. We had the boys’ toddler art class on Thursday, which they both enjoy. This week the theme was fish, and they made a fun picture that they got to glue sand and fishes cut out of different colored and textured papers. And that afternoon I went and helped my friend Sandra cut her son, Simon’s, hair. Simon is extremely afraid of having his hair cut, and it is somewhat of a battle to get it done, but it looks nice after we get it all cut.

Kolby and Eli each had their swim lessons this week too. Kolby is looking forward to two weeks from now when he will be starting a new swim class where he will be in the water with his class and we will watch him from the side. And I am looking forward to Eli’s new swim class in a couple of weeks that will be in the evening, as opposed to his Friday morning class we have been attending, so that Michael and I can switch off swimming with him sometimes.

And on Friday evening Michael took the boys for a few hours to the Fathers and Sons Campout, which I posted photos for in a post below. They enjoyed that, and then Michael was on call the next morning and he got home just before we got home from church. He tells me about the trauma surgeries – lots of motorcycle accidents, some car accidents, some gun-shot wounds, some drunken fights, and a few other things – and it sounds a lot like the tv show, ER.

So, my friends and I were going to have a garage sale this summer, but it never happened, so I’ve started trying to sell my garage sale items on craigslist. So, I had a toy kitchen that I bought at a garage sale a year ago for $1 – and the boys have really enjoyed playing with it, but lately they continually tip it over or use it to climb up onto the top bunk or to reach the lock on their closet door – so I sold it yesterday for $20. That’s a pretty good profit.

Well, after church today we went over to Tyce and Faith Kearl’s house to celebrate the blessing of their daughter, Katie, in church today. Michael was sad that he was on call today and couldn’t be part of the blessing, but it was nice to go over and visit with them afterwards, even though Michael was exhausted from getting 0 hours of sleep on his shift, and eventually fell asleep on their couch. Now we are home and Michael is trying to recuperate and rest while the boys are all napping. And this upcoming week we have several things to look forward to: our ultrasound will be on Tuesday, this will be Kolby’s last week of preschool until next Fall, and on Wednesday I will officially be 19 weeks along with this pregnancy.

We learned several interesting things this week: 1. Sidewalk chalk makes a loud fizzing noise if you dump it into a baby pool, 2. Michael has confirmed the fact that he is not interested in a career as a surgeon, 3. Kolby decided that he doesn’t like the taste of coffee (he took a sip of someone else’s drink when we were in the McDonald’s play area), 4. Michael has seen enough bad trauma surgeries lately to make him commit to never riding a motorcycle, and 5. When you live somewhere that the winter lasts at least seven months long, the summer sure does go by quickly – I can’t believe June is already here!