My new year's resolution is to write in our blog.
Haha I didn't specify how many times- let's get this over with so I can enjoy the rest of my year!
Last time I talked about how nice and non-hectic life was. This needs an addendum. Life is now chaotic, with more than enough to keep both of us busy.
To start off, I am in the nursing program at Westminster in Salt Lake City, UT. This is a rather intensive program, with quite a bit of reading and homework to do on a weekly basis. Don't get me wrong, so far it has been fairly enjoyable, but at the same time it is very stressful. The worst part of the year thus far was actually the very first week- Brittany and I both came down with a debilitating flu on the first day, and ended up in the Taylorsville insta-care that night. It was an awful experience, and I straight-up missed my first class of the nursing program. It bummed me out, which only added to the pain of dramatically losing all my fluids... Thankfully our neighbors were able to watch baby while we fled to the insta-care for a few hours till we could be seen. It was incredibly nice of them to assist us so last second.
In retrospect that was probably the worst point so far. Despite the fact that it's been stressful nothing has been as horrific as that first day. Since then I've learned a lot of interesting things about the nursing process, met a variety of neat people, and started to kind of get a pattern.
Of course it's always hard to get a pattern with a baby. Especially when he keeps changing his own pattern up. For instance, last night he randomly, for the first time, slept a little over 9 hours. 9 hours!!! Just a few months ago we were having to wake up every 2 hours to feed and change him. It's crazy how quickly he is changing.
We were also fortuitous to have Britt's mom come out for a few weeks. She preemptively came out after our bout with the flu in anticipation that baby would catch it too. Oddly enough he never caught the flu, but she sure did. Ty did end up getting a regular cold during her stay, so it was super that she came out anyways. It was fantastic having someone else around to help as we adjusted to my going back to school.
On a random side note he also tried rice cereal for the first time. When the food was put in his mouth he didn't have any reaction. Then all the sudden his eyes got BIG and he was like What was that???? Guess he wasn't expecting to try his first semi-solid food. From there on he was happy to help mom guide the spoon into his mouth... and hold it there as he sloppily slurped the spoon dry.
Britt has been busy with work and projects at home. She is almost at one and a half years of working at Intermountain Medical Center, and acts like she still likes it quite a bit. It may not be what she wants to do for the rest of her life, but she gets satisfaction out of her work and enjoys the company of her coworkers (frequently able to sit for chunks of time talking... even when hubby is waiting outside..........). In fact, it sounds like her work is rather appreciated because of how thorough a job she always does.
As to her projects, maybe she'll talk about them herself (hint hint if you read this Britt). Just in the last little bit she made a pillow, finished an intense mobile for Ty's room (with the help of her mom), they started resurfacing one of the chairs, and probably more that I'm not even aware of. So many projects to keep track of lol.
Altogether things are going pretty well. It's sometimes hard to get myself to study every day (which I kind of need to do to keep up), but it also makes me excited about working as a nurse. Ty is now mobile and keeping us busy, but he smiles so much that it's impossible to stay mad at him. I do spank him, but through multiple layers of diapers he doesn't mind. He just thinks I'm love-patting him and it's kind of therapeutic for me...