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Alright, so lots has happened since I last entered a blog.
Yes, I know this is a little late, I just haven’t had much time to do it.
After Christmas in Phoenix, we spent time hanging out and
waiting to hear where we would be going next. Eric spent the first few months
studying for his big Step 1 exam that he needed to write before we would find out
where we would be going for clinical rotations. We waited and found out we would be going
to Miami for June - September. After that, we will be moving again to Kansas City from November for about a year. We started getting ready and
figured out what we needed to pack and how we would get there. Eric packed up the van with whatever we
thought we would need and made his way by himself to Miami. About a week before,
my dad drove from Christopher Lake to Miami with our second vehicle and some belongings to Miami,
which helped us out greatly. After
that, my mom came to Phoenix to help me get the girls to Miami. We flew there since the drive
would be pretty long with the kids. It was great to have the extra
hands, I am not sure if I would have been able to do it without her help.
Eric had the house organized and set up for when we got here.
The place we have is close to where Eric is doing his rotations so it has been
good. We are close to a grocery store and a few shops. We are about 15 mins away from the
ocean and we have taken the kids there a few times to have a beach day. The kids very much
enjoy playing in the water and running in the sand. Sairalyn and Cally also love
going for walks to the pond that is just down the street. There they can see the
weird-looking Florida ducks that reside in the little pond. Sometime we even see the ducks in the parking lot of the condo complex
and they love to watch them.
The weather is very hot and humid and it rains pretty much
every day. It is so humid and moist here that I even found mushrooms growing
from the carpet inside the condo. We take the kids to the park almost every day
but find that we can’t stay out to long as it is very hot, and we can’t last
very long with out getting over heated or it starts to rain. It is nice to have such warm weather so
that we can get outside and enjoy it everyday, but it really is so humid here that being outside for a long period can seem unbearable. The other day we took the kids to the zoo and they enjoyed
seeing the animals. It was nice to
see the kids running around and seeing all animals.
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| Trotro at the zoo (donkeys) |
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| Gorilla Cally |
The girls are growing fast. We started potty training the
beginning of June and Cally really got it quickly this time. The first couple of
days were crazy but then Cally caught on quickly and it just got better from there.
We have been successfully going out with no accident (or very minimal ones). We
are very proud of Cally at how well she has done. Sairalyn sometimes
even sits on the potty because she wants to be like her big sister. Not sure I
am ready for Sairalyn to be starting so I am not going to push it but I won’t
deny her the chance to try if she wants to go.
Sairalyn is talking lots and is a very busy girl. She loves
to do everything Cally does which sometimes Cally does not like. The girls love
to sit and color or do stickers together. We also have been going to the
library and getting books for the kids to enjoy. The girls love going to see
all the different books at the library. Hopefully in the fall there will be
some story time programming. Right now, because it is summer there isn’t really
anything going on for the kids to do.
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| Sister best friends |
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| Touching the water buffalo |
The girls also love to help me do chores. Their favorite
thing to do is go grocery shopping and drive the airplane cart while we get
groceries. The last grocery run we did Cally got very excited because there
were baby bananas like on Saba. Another thing they like to help with is the
vacuuming in the house after they get over the initial fear of the
machine. Another favorite is
helping with laundry which sometimes I don’t exactly appreciate because it
usually means un-folding it after I have already done it.
Eric is busy doing his rotations and making sure that he keeps up with his studying. He is out the door early and then comes home for lunch to see his girls and help me put Cally to bed. Then he gets ready to go and study for the rest of the afternoon so that he can come home and play with his girls and have supper as a family. Then it is usually followed by going for a walk after supper or to the park depending on how the girls are doing.
I haven’t really been doing too much. Taking care of the
kids and making sure all the chores are done or somewhat done. I haven’t
started a new sewing project other than sewing some new diaper inserts, how
exciting. I am thinking of
starting something in the next little bit but haven’t found any fabric yet so I
will wait and see what I want to do. Hopefully something will come to my mind
soon that I would like to start on. I may try making a few more inserts with a
different fabric but other than that nothing too big.
Well maybe that is it for now, like I always say I will try
and keep this up for people to see how we are doing. Just finding the time is
sometimes hard to do!
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| Puddle splashing!! |
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| "Daddy time" |
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| Sharing soother with Baby |
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| Looking at fish in the water @ the beach |
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| Walk with the girls |
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| Smiley Sairalyn |
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| Cally riding the water buffalo |
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| Helping mom with her birthday cake |
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| Checking out the elephants |
