A Week Full of Firsts

On Sunday, Miss Makenna hit a HUGE milestone! She had her first day in Primary!!! My baby girl is now a Sunbeam!!! (Can you tell we are all excited about it?!?) To celebrate, we gave Makenna her very own scriptures. We decided this would be a tradition in our family—each child will receive their first scriptures the Sunday they go into Primary.

  

Makenna had a GREAT time in Primary, and we are so excited that she is such a big girl now! After Church, the first words she said to me were, “Did you cry, Mom? Did you cry because your baby girl is so big she is in Primary now?” : )

Max also had a “first” this week—he is now wearing a patch over his eye in the mornings! We went to the doctor on Tuesday, and the doctor is having Max patch his good eye for four hours a day (so basically breakfast to lunch). The first day was really hard.  Max kept the patch on perfectly fine, but he really had a hard time seeing.  His uncovered eye would try to look at us, but then would turn in and he had a hard time focusing.  At one point he seemed super sad.  I asked him what was wrong and he said, “I can’t see anybody!” : ( Poor little guy! But he is a champ and is wearing the patch without complaint.  We go back in to the doctor on March 6 and we will see what she says then!

 

Austin had his own “firsts” this week. His work week was just super strange.  This month he is at a hospital about 45 minutes to a hour away from here (a hour and a half in traffic). He went in to work on Monday, rounded, and then they told him he could go home.  He was supposed to go to work on Tuesday at 6:30.  He left our house at 5:30 to get there.  Then he gets to work and they said, “Oh. Our cases were canceled this morning. Come back at 1” and he had to turn around and drive the hour back home, and then come back for clinic in the afternoon! The same thing happened on Wednesday morning. Seriously, this seems to be a pretty unorganized place! Anyway, but back to his “first.” Because Austin came back home on Tuesday morning, he was able to go to our Play and Learn with us for the first time! The kids had a BLAST playing with their Dad! Our theme this week was “Artic—Polar Bears” and the kids played and played in the fake snow with their Dad!

I also had my own “first” this week—I had to get my first Michigan driver’s license and registration on Wednesday. I was super sad to get a new license when my Arizona license doesn’t expire until 2049, but I had to get my new car plates and you have to get a Michigan license to do that… Oh well I guess.

Other than all of our “firsts,” this week was actually a pretty weird week.  Because of the holiday, our schedule was all messed up.  For instance, Play and Learn this week was on Tuesday instead of Monday, and Preschool was on Wednesday and Friday rather than Tuesday and Thursday.  This really seemed to throw our week all off.  Then with Austin’s weird work week, we were all over the place this week! Hopefully things will get back to normal next week!

One more piece of news—Austin took his second boards on Friday! He had to drive 4+ hours to take this test AND pay a ton of money for it! Don’t you love tests like that?!? Here’s hoping we hear good results with they come back in about a month!