Finally finals are done!

Finals are finally done for the semester. I only had three but boy, was it hard to find the motivation to study. Now I just have clinics until Thursday and then Christmas break! Not too much planned for break, we have a few Christmases planned, one with Josh's mom and brothers, one with his dad's family, one with my family and possibly one with his step dads family. Otherwise I just want to relax maybe get some scrapbooking done, see a couple of movies, play outside with Coen.

I'm done with all of my Christmas shopping, Josh of course is not. He says he is going tomorrow so we'll see.

What a surprise

So I was changing Coen's dirty diaper on Friday and much to my surprise I found a button in his diaper. It was about the size a penny. We thought we kept a pretty good eye on him... and we never heard him choking on anything, I just couldn't believe that our kid swallowed something that large. It makes me wonder what else might be hanging out in his intestines.

Let it Snow!

Today I took Coen out for his first sledding adventure. At first he was pretty stoic, I couldn't even get a smile for the camera. I think he was just sort of taking it all in. But then, when I went over a snow bank he just started grinning, and kept grinning as I ran pulling his sled all over CSCC. As soon as I would stop to turn around and look at him he would start whining, but once that sled was going full speed again it was all giggles. I think I know how I'll be getting my exercise this winter.

Matt if you thought the bear hat was bad what do you think of the whole monkey snowsuit?

Update

Some pictures from our Thanksgiving weekend spent at the farm for Josh's cousins wedding reception. It was nice to see the whole family and have a picture taken of our family. Unfortunately it was Coen's dinner time and he got kind of crabby towards the end of the pictures.



We got to spend some time at a hotel where Craig was staying, so we hung out in the pool for a few hours, Coen would not let go of Josh but he seemed to be ok in the water otherwise.

We have started celebrating Coen's first Christmas season. I bought a few penguin shirts for him last year when I was pregnant, Josh loves it when he wears them... We got our tree for the year, my first artificial tree ever, it made me kind of sad but I wasn't willing to vacuum every 3 hours if we got a real one. Now that its decorated it really doesn't look that bad. Today we spent the afternoon at my dads union Christmas party, which was Coen's first visit to Santa, we were a little surprised that he didn't cry since he has had some stranger anxiety lately. But I think as long as he can see us he does ok.

Other than that school has been keeping us both pretty busy. Josh has one week left of student teaching and then will be off for a whole month. I am looking forward to that, especially with finals approaching and I'm really feeling pressure in clinic to get as much done with my patients now because next semester I will be busy with rotations, mainly pediatric dentistry. That will be a nice change of pace but will not allow much time to see my other patients and start checking off competencies. Somehow everyone , or just about everyone, manages to graduate on time so even though I worry I am not too concerned about not graduating. But thats about all thats happened in in the last few weeks. So enjoy the pictures.