Baby (Un)News

This is Amber, Thursday, August 21 at 11:00pm NOT in labor! (and 3 days overdue)

I'm sure most of you have thought that we neglected to call you from the hospital to tell you of Elizabeth's safe arrival. However, the lack of contact was simply due to a lack of news.

Elizabeth has not yet made her grand appearance into this world. I have cried everyday for about a week over the whole thing. But there is an end in sight. If she doesn't come on her own, my doctor wants to induce labor on Monday. While I was hoping for no medications at all during labor and delivery, I'd rather get her here than spend the rest of the month (or my life!) pregnant!

If you have any tips on starting labor, I'd love to hear them. Here are the ones we've tried:

• caster oil (twice)
• walking and walking and walking
• spicy food
• expensive dinner
• jumping
• moving (packing and unpacking)
• cleaning
• stripping wallpaper
• (updated) stripped my membranes
  

A Little Overdue

Sammi's former nursery teacher is an amazing photographer. For Mother's Day she took pictures of all the children in nursery and made the sweetest cards for all the moms. WOW! I just found her blog where she's posted the Mother's Day cards. See if you can find the CUTEST grandbaby, yet. Thanks Amy for being so thoughtful.

Medical School News

So, Brent has been waiting and waiting for his application to be sent to the schools. It was finally sent out on Wednesday and so now we're waiting to hear from the schools about filling out the secondary application. I hate waiting!!

But, in good news, he received an email from one school in Maine Thursday morning. We thought that was a pretty good sign. Then, yesterday afternoon he received a personal phone call from the head of recruiting at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine!!! He wanted to make sure Brent didn't have any questions about the next step in the application process and basically to encourage him to finish his application to LECOM. Brent was pretty stoked about that kind of reception to his application. I was more than stoked! LECOM has been my #1 choice for quite some time. I can't really explain why, except that I love the East, I am intrigued by Pennsylvania and the campus looks beautiful. Not to mention that I like their program and housing is more affordable there than here in Utah.

So, the wait continues, but at least there's a light at the end of the tunnel. I'm excited to see what the next week brings. Congratulations, Brent. You've worked hard for this and I'm so glad it's finally happening!! Good luck!!!

Out of the Raw

We're making gyoza for dinner tonight. Sammi is helping us fold them to get them ready to cook. She pointed to the pan of uncooked gyoza and said they're already cooked. I explained that they weren't cooked yet; they were still raw. Sammi responded: "We need to cook them to get them out of the raw." So smart for two years old!

Brent has called her GQ: you know, Gyoza Queen!

More Birthday Fun

Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Chatterley for saving the day! their package for Sammi's birthday arrived today while Brent and I were trying to decide what to have Sammi wear to bed (we always seem to be short on pjs.) Sammi was excited to open another present, but not nearly as excited as she was about the actual present! She happily put on her pjs (including the shorts for a hat) and took the book promptly to Daddy to have it read to her. What a doll!