Best Date Ever

One of the big perks of working downtown this term has been sneaking in lunch dates with this guy!

It has been so fun! It's like a date in the middle of the week.

Note to self: always work near enough to each other that you can meet for lunch ;)

Girls Gonna Knit

So lucky to have friends like these lovely ladies, who want to sit and chat and knit all night long.

<3

Street Medicine

I have had the opportunity to have the most amazing clinical experience. 

I go out with groups of medical students and my preceptor, literally drive the back streets of downtown Detroit, and treat the homeless right there on the street. 

The whole philosophy is to bring the medicine TO the people that need it.

I have loved this more than anything I've ever done in medicine, and know what I am learning more than I could ever could have imagined.

I have become friends with prostitutes, hugged lots of heroin addicts, and sat in disgusting places dealing with third world living conditions.

And I love them. I love this.

This is why I went in to nursing.

(my first cast)

little animal.

A friend of ours had a grand opening for his storefront, and they had a photo booth set up.

The results- perfection.

Little Scientist

I have no idea what this entailed, but she was adamant about running this "science experiment".

Notice the "safety goggles" and "lab notebook" with dinosaur stickers.

Science!

Stop And Smell...

We were at the Farmer's Market, and Spring is starting, and Sophia couldn't stop looking at all the flowers.

Love her.

Second Home...

So we're rock climbing A LOT lately.

Like so much, the people know us and Sophia by name.

And I love it!

It's so much fun.

I'm thinking Sophia may start working here soon ;)

Happy Earth Day!

We love the Earth!

Just ask anybody- we're tree huggers for sure!

So of course we had a special family lesson about Earth Day to talk about why we care about the Earth, and what we can do to take care of it.

Spring with Friends

We had Sophia's best friend (and our neighbor) spend the night, and they had so much fun.

It was adorable to see how excited they were to spend the night together, and brought back so many fun memories of all the sleepovers I had with my friends growing up.

We kicked it off with roasting marshmallows for s'mores, because who doesn't love a s'more?

They actually slept super well, and all went great.

The next morning we took them down to the farm to see the new baby animals.

Here are the adorable baby lambs.

They got to test their farm-hand strength.

The two of them can just play for hours and hours.

They are just adorable together.

Almost as cute as these two.

Return of Greenfield Village

It's Spring and that means Greenfield Village is back open!

To say we're happy is an understatement!

I love the pure fantastical joy on her face here. I will always love this carousel.

Little Dancer

We just got Sophia's dance costume for her performance in the Summer, and she is SO excited to wear it.

Can you tell?

Tell me a story

Sophia's learning her letters and doing so well.

She'll write these wholly random collection of letters and then tell us a story from them.

This she said was a letter that said, "Dear Mommy, I love you very much. Love, Sophia"

Melt my heart, why don't ya.

Baby Yogi

Sophia often asks to "do my yoga" at random times in the day.

She gets out the yoga mat and is so super cute. 

I found these great yoga videos for kids and that ends with meditation.

She'll definitely be more centered than I ever was a child (hopefully)- haha

let's go fly a kite...

I don't know if ANYONE has been so excited to fly a kite.

She's my fav.

Easter!

Some-bunny is excited for Easter!

Haha- she cracks me up.

We got to have a mommy-daughter day at the Easter event at the Zoo

Even got matching noses and whisker

And we made some Hot Cross Buns for our neighbors.

Legend has it, that a Hot Cross Bun made and delivered on Good Friday will ensure friendship and health for the year to come. 

Love that.

Patiently waiting to dye the eggs...

And finding the Easter basket in the morning!

For Easter morning we went on a hike through the woods.

It was so quiet and we spent time looking for signs of Spring.

 

When I asked Sophia to listen to the quiet, and how she felt, she said "peaceful".

I hope she remembers that's what Easter can be about- renewal and peace.

Love our little bunny.

Scooter Pro

We've been going to the park a lot, and Sophia has become such a pro with her scooter. 

She's so proud to get to go so fast- it's adorable.

April Fools!

Remember that time I was SO funny and put several copies of this paper in the printer at work, and all the OR schedules got printed out on it, and everyone laughed?

And then the next person to come print something was a Dr printing a prescription that you could only print once...

Ooops.

Happy Aprils Fool!