Photo Fancy

“The apple doesn’t fall
far from the tree”

-?-

Judah loves our Iphones. First he loved the bubble game. (you create bubbles and then pop them before they fall of the screen.) But when he found out that you can take pictures with the phone he wanted to take pictures of everything. Out of nowhere he will say: “I want to take a picture of that” as he points at something. It is nice to see what he is looking at. Even though most of his pictures have either a partial finger in the photo or are completely moved and blurry as a result of it. I have taught him that he is not allowed to touch my camera. I can leave it laying within his reach and he won’t touch it. But now that he can play with our Iphones he seems to have gotten the ‘photo-bug.’ Seems like he fell from my tree =). We will just have to see how long this will continue. Perhaps I will need to invest in another camera. (Judah took this picture)

Residency

“People without a vision perish”

-Bible-

I (Joshua) will attempt for now to give you an insight into Amy’s life. I haven’t seen my wife as much as I would like in the last few weeks. That’s when I was home. It has been nice to receive a real paycheck. But I think that she has been working more than an average of 80 hours a week. Her first day she came home in tears questioning herself and her capabilities. She has a lot of pressure on her to make the right decisions and to know exactly the right information. I for one know that couldn’t do it. But then she got to do OB/GYN her second day. She worked the afternoon in a clinic for underprivileged women. And as we all know that is where here heart and vision lay. So when she came home she was excited to say the least. Now that we re in her third month of residency I can tell you that even though there are hard days, and sometimes even months, she really loves what she does. Especially this month, which is probably the hardest month of this year. She gets up at 3:30AM and leaves by 4:15AM and comes home anywhere between 7PM (on an easy day) to 10:30PM (on a harder day) only to do it all again the next day. But she is doing what she loves to do. She is doing OB/GYN this month.

Riding his Radio

“People without a vision perish”
-Bible-


“but why?”
-Judah-

Judah has entered the ‘but why’ phase. This can be very annoying but most of the time it is fun to see what he is wondering. We went biking and he wouldn’t steer his wheel. As a result he crashed into the planter, Kate’s car, and fell (as seen above). When i told him to steer his natural response was... you guessed it. But why? As I explained to him that his steering wheel points in the direction that the bike will go and that by changing that you decide where you will go. followed by one of his, “but why?” I go on and tell him that the bicycle follows the first wheel. He asks “but why?” As you can see i try to give him one chance to understand what I tell him. I try to explain it to the best of my capabilities. Yet sometimes I simply answer with “because I said so”, followed by “because I am your dad” and then by “and that makes me the boss”. You see sometimes playing the ‘chain of command’ card works but most of the time is is followed by a “but why”. He always seems to have the last word. In this case (the bicycle case) I gave up and told him to just try it. And thats how I ended up with this picture of him picking up his bike one more time. And believe it or not but he got it. He rode down the block after this very picture. And then he told me to come get him because he was tired. And because I was so proud of my little cyclist I went and carried him and the trike home =)