typical day (mobile uploads)

Brooks, not on the furniture. That would be gross. Chris says no animals on the furniture. (And how can a dog have SO MANY toys??? We constantly trip over them. As soon as I put them in the basket, he drags them back out. Every single time.)

window treatment
too big for the bed (and he still sleeps with Ducky almost every night)
***Not for the faint of heart***He isn't drooling on the furniture, because he isn't allowed on the furniture. Yeah, okay. It got about, oh, ten or so inches long before I wiped it. He slept through the entire event. Chris couldn't believe I made and emailed pics of this, either. So gross. That's just how we do things.

desk job

hiding from the thunder (in my closet) & we are a Charmin household, in case you were wondering

begging to get on the couch with me

this doesn't' look comfortable-maybe he is trying to spell out a message to me???

me & my boy

So during the day, Brooks mostly sleeps. Or hides from me trying to take his picture. I send Chris mobile pics throughout the day, since he is so busy now and we really miss him at home. These really are decent pics to be taken with my on-the-fritz crackberry. I guess our schedules will continue to get busier as time goes on. Typical day for us: Wake up (sometimes 4:30am, sometimes 5:30am,) and I fix breakfast and help Chris get out the door. Sometimes I go back to sleep, sometimes not. I cook, and bake, clean, vacuum, make granola, lay out clothes, watch Food Network, apply for jobs, ride my (stationary) bike, eat Nutella out of the jar, read, stuff like that. Sometimes Chris doesn't get to come home for a few days, which is confusing for Brooks and sad for me. We are learning to deal. I am attempting to make arrangements to pass my time, but I am not ready to share all that just yet. In other Shubert news, Chris's cancer research is still going great, even though he isn't at UAB anymore. He will present again at UA in September, and they just started working on a new paper. I can't believe the third year of med school is already going by so fast. It has been one bizarre year for our little family and I don't really see anything slowing down soon...