Whew!

Well I am officially finished with my May mini semester...only to start real summer classes next Monday. Here is what's been going on with us lately:

1. Ben was gone to a meeting in France all last week (and the laptop went with him-I was having withdrawals). He was one of the very few graduate students chosen to present his research to all the professionals in his field (gamma-delta T cells and their role in fighting cancer cells, if you were wondering!). My mom came up and stayed with me to help take care of Sipsey. I unfortunately had a group project to work on so I was up at school from morning until night and didn't get to spend that much time with either of them.
   
2. Sipsey moved from the Infant room to the Creepers class at daycare along with 2 of her friends. She's growing up!
3. I have lost faith in the human race. For the first time in years, I actually took my media card to WalMart to develop some pictures. At the end, it says, "Don't forget your receipt!" It says nothing about not forgetting your media card, which is exactly what I did. When I went back an hour later, my media card was not in the thingy and no one had turned it in! Fortunately, they still had the pictures that I developed in their system and put them on a disk for me. Unfortunately, I did not print off all the pictures from the card so many of them were just lost. Not to mention I had to buy a new stinkin' media card. My camera is only 4 megapixels and this new card is like 2 GB so I can officially take about 1700 pictures at one time. Great.
4. I really had a lot to blog about but now that I have the time to do it, I can't remember everything. These pictures describe the rest:
   

Still lots of hair!

Playing in the Wipes box. I have a picture of my dad pulling me around on the carpet in a diapers box. Sipsey was not quite old enough for that yet.

This is how Sipsey sleeps...on her side, sucking her right thumb and either holding a blanket with her left hand or covering her face with a blanket. She loves to cover her face.

LOVING the exersaucer!
Grumpy girl with Sweet P
Grumpy girl with Mommy

5 months old

Sipsey is 5 months old today. As I was looking at the pictures that I took this morning, I decided to go back through her old ones to see how much she has grown. She is such a big girl! I can't believe she used to be so tiny. Her first few weeks of life are such a blur, especially after losing my dad right in the middle of it. She is so special to our family and has helped us cope in more ways than she will ever know. I weighed her today and she's about 14 pounds. Last month, she was 13 lbs 4 oz. My scale only weighs in 0.5 lb increments, so she could be a little more (and I hope not a little less!)

6 weeks (and tiny!)

2 months

3 months (much happier)

4 months

5 months (and eating everything!)

Let me explain

WHEW! May has been busy, busy, busy! One of my required classes is only offered as a May mini term, which is only 3 weeks long! It started last Wednesday and my midterm was today (that was 1/2 of a semester's material in 7 days BTW). I'm so glad to have it over but we have a group project that we haven't started on and presentations begin on Tuesday. The only good thing is that it will be over on May 28. Then I have a weekend break and the regular summer term starts.

A few people have asked me to elaborate on the bones in my Milo's cheeseburger story. During finals last semester I treated myself to a cheeseburger from Milo's because I had been inside the house all morning and was planing on studying the rest of the day away. About half-way through my burger, I bit down on something hard but thought it was my imagination and spit it out. Then the LAST TWO bites each had something hard in them too!

[Aside: When I eat, I save the best for last, whether it be saving my favorite side dish until last or making my last bite really good. Sometimes this backfires because I get too full and can't finish, leaving my favorites on the plate! Needless to say, my last bites on this day were horrible.]

I, unfortunately, did not have time to deal with bones in my food on this day. When I called Ben to tell him what happened, he said he'd call Milo's. I won't elaborate; I'm sure you all can imagine the amount of concern of the manager at the local Milo's. Ben also emailed the company. We haven't heard anything. Here are some pictures of the bones. They are to the left of the dime. This is the best picture I could get.

Rice Cereal

Today we FINALLY started rice cereal. Sipsey has long been interested in everything Ben and I eat. She watches me intently every morning as I break apart my Poptart and eat it piece by piece. She did really well with the cereal but got a little mad at the end. I think she could tell we were laughing at her, and the constant camera flash wasn't helping. We filmed the whole thing. It was hilarious. Here are some pictures we took along the way.