What a week it has been

We went back to classes this past Monday and after being in class for 4 days it feels like we have been there for 4 months and are really ready for a vacation. It has been absolutely crazy with classes and trying to figure out things with clinic. We have 4 classes this summer, implant lecture and lab, endo lecture and lab, pediatric dentistry and biomaterials. Both labs are plenty of work to keep me busy all summer but unfortunately they are not all we have. We have around 4 clinic blocks scheduled each week. I probably won't be seeing 4 patients a week, because my patient base isn't big enough to keep me that busy but as of right now I am booked for the next couple of weeks. I had my first patient on Tuesday, it was the craziest day and I left school thinking I would never go back, well I did. Wednesday I had no patient- just 8 hours of class and lab, and today I had a perio patient (basically hygiene but I'm a dental student so its called perio) It was Josh, and it went very well. At least I remember how to do something from all that pre clinic work. Josh even managed to escape with no cavities! But if you ask him how I did I'm sure he'll tell you not to take a shower before you see me- not my fault its the instrument that we have to use. Tomorrow I have another perio patient, she only has 4 teeth so I'm thinking it won't take nearly as long as Josh's appointment, which is good because tomorrow afternoon Coen and I go to the doctors! I can't wait to see what percentile he is falling into. I am grateful to Josh for sort of being my guinea pig, it was nice to do a real run through of a full appointment on someone I felt comfortable with. He is so brave.

Coen has been just amazing this week. Not only does he "talk" to us all the time, but the past three nights he has "slept" through the night. I say slept in quotations because around 3 or 4 he gets a little restless and I end up holding him and sleeping with him until he wakes up at 6 or so. But hey, no night feedings is a BIG step and I am grateful!

This weekend we are going up north to spend some time with Josh's family. Anthony and Heather and their boys will be there and Andrew even took the whole weekend off. On the way up we are stopping in Foley to visit Patric and pick up Josh's Wii! That's right, we're getting a Wii. Sometime soon we'll have to have a wii party. Hopefully Josh won't spend all weekend playing it with his brothers. Josh and I haven't seen much of each other this week, the three hours we spent in the dental office was the most I've seen of him all week. So I'm really looking forward to a long weekend to spend with my husband and baby.

4 weeks

Well Coen is now 4 weeks old and guess what? I fit into my prepregnancy jeans! This is a very monumental day for me. I still haven't tried on my bridesmaid dress, but I'm sure it will fit, how good I will look in it is another problem, but at least I know I will be able to be in Emily and Eric's wedding.