Life is Good!: May 2010

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Quick Update

I finished my first semester of graduate school! Huge accomplishment in my book. I was very happy with my semester, too. I had 3 A's and on B. I loved all my therapy clients this semester and was very sad the last day knowing I wouldn't see them again as clients, but that is how it goes. I had a sort of week off. I still had to run up to the school everyday to do GA work, but it wasn't too bad. I actually had time to clean my own house and play with the family we had visiting for Amy's graduation. We loved having the Bell's come for a visit. We even got to have Kalani and Bitsy stay at the house with us! He's such a little cutie. It was great to get some quality time in with them before they leave us for the islands again.
This Monday I started at a hospital in Fort Worth for my first internship. I really do love it! I get to see adults, which is completely different than working with kiddos. Most adult clients have some sort of cognitive deficit due to stroke. This is a brand new area for me (other than a class I had last semester) and I feel very much out of my comfort zone, but I love that I am able to do something new and exciting. I also get to see and evaluate people for swallowing difficulties. This is not something I ever thought I would be interested in but after learning all about it, I have become very fascinated with this topic. I loved the class last semester. I think it's the anatomy that I'm really in love with. Maybe I'm a dork. I have to say working in a hospital, I actually feel so much closer to being the real thing than I have up to this point. Maybe it's being out of the school setting, I don't know. I am actually starting to see myself as a Speech Language Pathologist. Weird. I hope the rest of the summer goes as well as things have so far.
I also started my first of three summer classes on Tuesday. I go 2 days a week for the next 8 weeks. After the 8 weeks of classes I will begin 5 days a week at the hospital until August 6. It's going to be a long summer, but a necessary means to an end.
The kids are getting ready for school to be out. May is always a busy, busy month so it's hard for me to be so preooccupied during this time of year. The kids are so wonderful though. Katie has a graduation next week. I can't believe she's graduating from Kinder. My baby is growing up so fast. Jack went up to the middle school and picked an instrument for band next year. He's going to play French Horn. We'll see how that goes.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Botanic Garden with Jesse

Going places with Jesse is always an adventure. I have been to the Fort Worth Botanic Gardens several times and I just walk through the grounds taking in the beautiful flowers and wondering over the amazing colors all around me. Jesse went with us for the fist time this weekend and I saw a whole different side of the gardens. Beginning with...

of course, he had to catch the snake. He can't just admire from a distance but actually has to hold it and pass it around to all the children.

Next he was swinging from a vine in a tree.

Katie of course had to have a turn too.

There is a large pond and there were millions of turtles sunning themselves. Jesse couldn't stand it when he saw a snapping turtle. He had to catch it just because he can. It was not a happy snapping turtle. He didn't want to come out and play. But he came out, by his tail, and he was ticked.

This thing was a monster.

Sydney invited Justin to come along for the day. He definitely scored points with us for wanting to hang out with Sydney and her parents for the day. Good kid.