Pretending to be a big kid. . . and a dog!

In my last post I wrote about us spending the weekend with 2 of our nieces while their parents were on a cruise. They love to play board games, and Avery loved to do anything they did, so she "played" board games too! She sat down on her own exactly where the 4th player should sit and moved her little game markers on the board. She thinks she's so big! She is doing a lot of big-girl things now like telling me when she wants milk- "mil", water- "waba", a snack- "na" or her paci- "baba" (no idea where that one came from). She is saying so many words now and imitates new ones every day. The speech pathologist in me is of course very proud. She has also started trying to feed herself using a spoon. I have to scoop the food on there, but she can usually hold it and get it to her mouth.

Today we went to the park for a little bit and we always let Josie out of her kennel 1st thing when we get home. Avery decided to climb right in and see what it's like to be a dog for a little while. It was probably more because she had just been crawling in tunnels and going down tunnel-slides at the park and the kennel just seemed like another tunnel to her. I had to coax Josie to stay in there a while so I could get some pictures-- I just couldn't pass up the photo-op.

On the business front, Scott met with the interior designer yesterday and made his final choices on stained cement, carpeting, cabinetry, counters and woodwork. We have started shopping for waiting room furniture and are thumbing through catalogs of furniture for Scott's personal office. Today some of the digital x-ray stuff came along with Scott's new laptop for the office-- which means we now have a home laptop- yea! Now I have computer access during the day! Scott went up to Durant today to pick up some dental chairs from a friend of his that we are going to have re-covered for the office. Things are moving fast and furious and we are just hoping that it all gets accomplished and falls into place in time for a June 19th opening!

The longest blog ever!

I sat down to blog tonight and of course the camera battery needed to be charged for me to download pics, so this will be a picture-less blog tonight. Moving on. . . I sometimes wonder what other people's day to day lives really consist of. Call me nosey or curious, but i just think it would be interesting to see what people do with their time. Our life is a little weird right now since Scott is waiting for the practice to be finished. He's very busy getting things ready to open in June, but niether of us has a workplace or work hours, so we don't have the usual structure or routine. This past weekend we stayed with our nieces - ages 10 and 9-in Coppell while my brother-in-law and his wife were on a Mediterranean cruise. So here's a little run-down of what the Bedicheks have done the past couple of days, just in case you're the curious sort like me: (If details bore you, please forgive me and don't waste your time reading because believe me when I say "I know you've got better things to do")

Friday- 3:00 Arrived at Doug and Sheila's so we could be there when Braden got home from school
5:30 Took Braden to her softball game; My mom came to the softball field to see Avery, Scott picked up Bailey from her party at school and came back to the field
7:15 Picked up dinner at Dairy Queen, back to the house to eat, play with girls etc

Saturday 10:00 Avery and I picked up my Mom for belated Mother's Day shopping and lunch at La Madeline; Scott stayed with Baliey and Braden
1:00 Avery fell asleep in the car so i let her nap at my parents' house and Scott took the girls to Braden's softball game
5:45 Bailey was picked up for slumber party; we took Braden to her favorite place to eat- Dickey's BBQ
9:00 I played hairstylist and straightened Braden's hair for church sunday

Sunday 10:15 Managed to make it to church on time with all 3 girls!
11:30 Picked up lunch at Sonic/ Subway and back to the house to eat/nap/play
1:30 Scott came back over to Ft worth to mow our yard and put out the trash;
my Mom came over to Doug and Sheila's to visit Avery and I since my Dad
was out of town
5:00 Dropped Avery off at my parents' house, assigned Bailey and Braden chores to do while I was gone
5:30 Took Bailey and Braden to eat at the mall food court and then to see Shrek 3
8:30 Picked up Avery, then back to the house to help Bailey and Braden pack for the next 2 nights and get ready for school Monday

Monday 6:45 Got Bailey up for school; Avery woke up early
7:00 got Braden up
helped them get ready for school, eat breakfast and get out the door at 7:30
11:30 Left Doug and Sheila's
12:15 Got home, ate lunch
3:00 Went to see the office, which has walls now- and to Staples to fax stuff and look at furniture
6:00 Met Scott's sister and her husband for dinner at Pizza Hut , they came over to the house and left at 8:00
9:00-11:00 Scott and I had "financial night"- worked on budget changes, paying bills, etc

Tuesday
8:00 Slept in a little!
10:30 Took the cars to get state inspection-- Honda failed because of a battery problem!
11:30 Honda wouldn't start when we tried to leave Zippy Lube-- they tried to jump it unsucessfully
12:15 Dropped off battery at O'Reilly's to be charged and went to eat at Taco Bell- Wow- we have eaten so much junk food the past few days! ugh!
12:45 Picked up battery, went back to Zippy Lube and installed it; Avery and I went home for her nap and Scott finished up with the car, I made phone calls and cleaned house
3:00 Avery got up from nap, Scott left to meet the new front desk girl he hired and show her the office
6:00 Scott went to Fort worth dental society dinner that cost $35 a person at some country club to meet dentists and try to drum up referrals; Avery and I ate dinner
7:00 went for a walk, gave Avery a bath and a breathing treatment since she has chest congestion/wheezing and put her to bed at 8:45
9:45 Scott came home and I'm still on the computer!

Bath?

Well, it's that time of year now for swimming and with weather in the mid-high 80's in Ft. Worth, Avery has had the chance to try it out a few times lately. Whenever we fill the little pool up with water she always asks me, "Bath?"-- only it comes out more like "Thath" since she sticks her tongue out to say it. Which I guess the bath and pool are basically the same, just cold water instead of warm. She loves playing with her toys and splashing around. She never has minded water in her face, she just laughs. One of these days I'm going to take her down to the neighborhood pool and we'll swim for real, but the backyard pool is just so easy.


The next picture kind of makes me look like a bad mother, but it's funny so I have to include it. Yesterday after we "swam" I put Avery in her highchair to watch a Baby Einstein video while I showered. When I got out and came into the living room, she was fast asleep! She loves Baby Einstein and this is the one time of day that she gets to watch TV, so I can't believe that she actually fell asleep. We are in an awkward time right now with the naps. She gets tired around 11:00 or 11:30, which is really too late for a morning nap and makes an afternoon nap difficult. So she either takes a little snooze in the car if we're out and about, or we have a little rough spot right before lunch if I keep her awake. I guess yesterday she was just so tired from playing in the pool that when she got still watching the movie, she just nodded right off. I guess it's true that kids will sleep anywhere if they're tired enough!

It's Official

Scott is finally finished with school!! Yea! Last Friday night we attended his graduation dinner at The Ranch steakhouse in OKC and he was awarded his certificate of completion for his periodontics residency. The staff and faculty had many complimentary things to say about Scott and he also received an award for graduating with a 3.8 GPA. Way to go hubby! We are beginning a new chapter of our lives which is exciting and scary all at once. As one of the Grad. Perio faculty members said, "You are in your future!" We have been in the new house almost 2 weeks and we're mostly settled-- minus decorating, putting things in the attic, etc. We really like our neighborhood and the area, but the traffic does take some getting used to. Construction on the office is really moving along now. They have poured the concrete slab and are working on putting up walls now. The projected opening date for the practice is June 19th. so now we just have to hope that everything goes as planned.