It's been a busy 10 days

Wow, I can't really believe that it's May already. Last week I had my finals and I missed my straight A's for the semester by 1.11%. I was pretty bummed. It's amazing that I am so excited about my grades nowadays because it sure was never a priority before. It's a good excuse to ride Tristan about his grades though, although he seems to do just fine without my bugging him. Anyway so usually we have a week off until we start our next semester so it's relaxation time. I tried to pack as much as possible into one week. I had my final and then went on Tristan's field trip to the zoo. I was so exhausted by the end of the day. I had forgotten what hanging out with 15-20 7 year olds can do to you. Wednesday I claimed for my own and scrapbooked all day long which was long overdue. Thursday was Tristan's reading celebration at school. All the kids have a goal to get to for the year depending on their grade level. If they make it they get shirts and a BBQ outside and inflatables to play on and the high school cheerleaders, drill team, chorus and drumline all come. The mascot and owner of the minor league baseball team came out as well, and it was just a great time. The top readers in each grade get to a throw a pie at the principal so the kids have a ball. Then Tristan, Jack and Savannah all had doctor appts to go to Thursday afternoon or Friday morning, it was crazy. Savannah's ear had still not gotten better so we are on a new antibiotic, Claritin and I have to clean her ear and add antibiotic ear drops. They cultured it as well so hopefully we will see what's growing in there. Jaesen and I went on a date on Friday night and then it was the weekend. We never bother to slow down for that though. We had baseball on Saturday afternoon and Jack was allowed to play. There were several other teams that had 4 year olds on them and we were told well if they are a coaches kid they can play. So Jack played. He scored a run and hit a pitch that was thrown instead of just off the tee. Of course he also picked the grass in the outfield and played in the dirt, but it was great to see him finally able to play and his favorite part was drinking gatorade in the dugout. Then we were off to see our friends from Japan, the Smith's, that are here for another two months before heading up to Maine for awhile. We had a great time and the kids were all really good, except for Tristan letting their dog out the gate so he could swim in the pond! Sorry Greg! And now Bailey is having ear surgery because she whacked her ear on the table and it all swelled up. Poor girl, Merlin is lost without his mom. He is somewhere here moping about. That about sums up my week off though, makes me tired to just think about it. This week I start my OB rotation which I am really excited about!!!!