White Coat Ceremony

Oh, gosh. I need to get this blog up to date! This baby could come ANY DAY, and if I don't get caught up before that happens it might never happen.

Reading the Hippocratic Oath. This picture was on CMU's homepage last week. 

Spencer has officially started medical school!! He had a week of orientation and is in his second week of classes now. The friday of his orientation week was his white coat ceremony. His family came up for it and we had a nice time celebrating him! Plus, he just looks so spiffy in that white coat. They had a few speakers and then coated the students in groups of 5. Overall, it was a nice ceremony and it wasn't even too long. The pictures I'm putting up were stolen from CMed's facebook page. I took some that I will upload someday, too.

Just after being coated. 

Listening to a speaker. Not being distracted by the camera. 

This was a little reception held afterward. We're not in this picture. 

Spencer has been enjoying school. So far, a lot of it has been a review of what they should have learned in their undergrads. He hasn't been too busy with schoolwork yet, but he does study for a few hours each night after dinner or whenever he comes home. He has 2 afternoons and 1 morning scheduled as "self-study" time each week. Some days he walks, some days I drop him off before running errands, and some days I let him take the car.

I have been keeping busy with stuff. Okay, I'm not really that busy. In fact, my boredom has translated into impatience as I wait for baby girl to decide to come. I have been working with the sister missionaries and helping to teach Rachel, an investigator. That's been really cool. Plus, it's almost like I'm making friends. :) The sister missionaries came over one day a couple weeks ago to help me assemble some freezer meals, so that was awesome. I have a freezer full of several dinners and nearly a month worth of lunches for Spencer to take with him. Hooray!

I've been working hard to establish good habits and stay on top of cleaning in our new apartment. I think I'm doing a pretty good job. Better than I have been in the past, anyway. I have also been working on the baby's quilt, which is going to be super awesome!

This week I actually packed the hospital bag and put it in the corner with the car seat, all ready to go. Actually, I have to stick my camera charger and a few other things in there still. I have weekly doctor appointments now. I had one yesterday and the doctor said I'm dilated one centimeter and that she could come any day. Yay! However, just because she COULD come any day doesn't mean she WILL. So don't hold your breath. I am so ready for her to come though. I've assembled the bassinet and washed all of her bedding and 0-3 month clothing. And now I feel content to wait impatiently.

And this is my 37 week bump! I'll be 38 weeks tomorrow. Out of 40.