3 out of 4...

Well, Andrew now has an interview at Westminster! That's 3 out of the 4 programs he has applied to! We are just waiting to hear from the Mayo Clinic now. He is getting anxious I think, but seems to always do well in job interviews. Hopefully he does well in these school interviews too. The first interview in Pennsylvania is less than 2 weeks away. I wish I could go I've never been to the east coast, but tickets are expensive and he will only be there for about 24 hours anyway.

Kaden has had a pretty bad virus (I took him to the Dr. and that's what he said it was.) He didn't give Kaden any meds, just said to wait a few days and hopefully it will get better. He had a fever of around 102-103 on Sunday, and has been really ornery and fussy ever since. I don't know how to deal with this, I think I have been really lucky because he has never been whiny or cried very much at all. This is a whole new side of him. He cries for me to hold him, so I pick him up, then he cries because he wants down, so I put him down, he cries more...over and over. I get really frusterated because I know he doesn't feel good and I want to help, but don't know how. Usually he will quit crying right away if I put him in his crib for a nap, but as soon as he wakes up he starts being really fussy again. He hasn't been drinking or eating much either. So hopefully this goes away soon! Andrew works really long shifts, so it's pretty much my gig to deal with all day and I don't know how many more days I can keep it up, sigh.

Andrew and I are starting the Temple prep discussions on Sunday, yay! One step closer...still need to get a date set.

TCU

The other day Andrew was telling me he didn't think he was going to get an interview at TCU, because they hadn't called yet. The application deadline was Oct. 1st (and it was only 6th when he was saying this). I told him he still had another week until he would know for sure (they said he would hear by the 15th) and I thought they mailed out letters, instead of calling. I had been doing some searching on all nurses and other forums from previous year's posts. Everyone in those forums said they got letters in the mail either denying or accepting them for an interview. I wasn't too worried about it. Low and behold, I was at work on Friday morning and checked our email on my phone, guess what? He got an interview! Yay! If he does get accepted and decide to go there (we are starting to wonder if we should though, it's pretty dang expensive!) I'm not sure how I feel about moving to Texas. All I hear is hot, humid, roaches, and big drought this year. Soo anyway just thought I would share that bit of exciting news!

He will be hearing from Westminster this week. He went to an openhouse on Saturday, and they only have 19 qualified candidates that have applied so far. So there's a pretty good chance that he will get an interview there too. (They only accept 18 people.) I will update when he hears from them.

Kaden's first fish

We have taken Kaden fishing 2 times in the last 2 weeks, both times at Utah Lake. Kind of a nasty, dirty lake, I wish we could have taken him somewhere prettier. But it's close and gets the fishing monkey off Andrew's back for a while. So his first fish was a white bass, same as me! Kaden could care less about the fish, he just loves exploring and playing with anything he can on the boat. He is really good while we are out, it was really hot the other day, and he just played and played.

Big Walleye

Huge White Bass!

Hanging out by grandpa

Dad helping reel it in

First Fish!

Kaden is still growing so fast! He has almost outgrown 12 month clothes and is mostly wearing 18 month stuff now. It's crazy because when he was first born, he was so small he would fit into the clothes way after he wasn't supposed to. Now he is so big, one of my neighbors even said to her little boy today when I was walking Kaden, "Look he is about your age", I said "oh, how old is your little boy?" She said, "Two". I started laughing and said, "He's not even 15 months yet!" With his huge head, he looks so much older than he is. But he is soo cute, without fail every Sunday in church at least one person has to come and say how he is the cutest thing they have ever seen. Not to toot my own horn or anything. :)

Now he knows how to say pssst. Andrew was taking a nap the other day and he crawled upstairs to our bedroom door and started knocking and going psst, psst. I didn't even know it, Andrew told me and I started laughing.
He is always doing something that brings a smile to my face. Kids really do bring so much happiness to your life!

On another note, Andrew got a call the other day inviting him to an openhouse at Westminster on Saturday. He had already traded shifts at work for family coming to town, but luckily someone traded him again so he can have Saturday off and go. The guy that called said it's a good way to get your face out there before they start interviews.
He also talked to a guy he used to work with that just started Excela's program. After talking to him that program is sounding more appealing to us! So hopefully his interview out there goes well.

4 exciting things!

Posted in the order they are happening...

1. Yesterday Andrew and I celebrated 9 years of marriage! Holy cow, I cannot believe how fast that time has gone. We have been together (dating and married) for around 12 and a half years! I love Andrew more than anything and I'm so glad I married him! We celebrated by going to dinner at Tucanos and then went and saw "Contagion" it was a good movie. Now I'm just really paraniod about washing my hands and touching my face.

2. Andrew got an interview at Excela Health School of Anesthesia in Pennsylvania! We sent his application via UPS with tracking so we would know when it got there. We got an e-mail saying it had been delivered, then 2 hours later they called and offered him an interview! We couldn't believe they called the same day. The interview is October 26th. We should be hearing from TCU (Andrew's first choice) and The Mayo clinic in about 2 weeks. I didn't want to move that far away, but if it's the only place Andrew gets in, that's where we are going. I've been thinking though, it will be an adventure and I've never been to the east coast so I think I will be OK with it, if it comes down to it.

3. I am (tentatively) scheduled to get my braces off on Nov. 30th! Yahoo!
I went in on Monday, and they said my teeth were looking really good. They gave me elastics to wear for 4 and a half weeks, which are kind of annoying btw. Then I go in on Nov. 1st to see how the elastics did, just supposed to be lining up my midline. If they worked alright, which I'm praying they do, the braces are coming off!

4. Andrew and I are going to go through the temple in December! This has been a much anticipated, long overdue goal of ours! We finally get our hineys to church (almost) every week. Now that we have Kaden in our lives, we realize how important this is to our family. We don't have a set date yet, probably around Christmas some time. We are thinking either...

Draper Temple


Or

Salt Lake Temple


We went to the Draper Temple open house a few years ago, and I really loved it! I think Andrew really wants to go to the Salt Lake one, which I like too. I just think that maybe the Salt Lake Temple is alot busier than Draper. So we will be making our decision soon, exciting! We have already had so many blessings the last few months, and we are so grateful and can't wait to have an eternal family! I will update with anymore news.

Kaden says:

Kaden has been learning new words at a fast pace! I think he learns a new one almost every day. So far the list is:

Mama
Dada
Grandma, sounds like maa-maw
Grandpa, bop-a
Kitty (always tries to tickle kitty)
Tickle tickle, sounds like tckl tckl
No no
Teddy (loves his teddy, hugs it and kisses it all the time!)
Shoes, soos
Grass, rass
Bye bye
Uh oh
Juice, juissse
Bath, bass
Hot
Cheeto (loves them!)
Mosquito, ss-quito
Ouch

I think that's it for now, I'm sure he will start saying a few more soon.
He will also point to the following when you ask him:
Toes
Belly Button or belly
Ear
Hair
Mouth

Applications

Well, the time has finally come for Andrew to start sending applications into grad schools! So far he has sent one to TCU, Mayo, and West Minster. He is almost done with Excela's and will be mailing it in a couple of days. We decided against OSHU because it was just too expensive and we would have to go clear to Florida for some of the clinicals. So we are thinking about maybe SUNY in Buffalo NY, they are starting a DNP program this year. The bad thing is that they are not accredited with that program-yet, and they don't know how much it will cost. So now we will just have to wait and see if he gets any interviews.

Kaden has a tooth on top and the another one is coming in, so he'll have 4 soon. He is pretty close to walking, I think anyway. The Dr. wants him walking by 15 months, so we have a month to work on that and then we have to go back in to get a 15 month check up. He also wants him off the bottle by 15 months, and right now he is down to just the night time bottle before bed. I think I'm going to take that away in a few days. It's so sad to me that he is so big now, I miss him being a tiny little baby! But he is so cute and interactive now, I think he learns something new everyday so this is a really fun stage (other than the getting into EVERYTHING part!)

We went to Oregon a month ago, and it was a blast! I still haven't put the pictures on the computer yet. I tried once again to put the pictures of Kadens birthday on here, but the computer was taking waaay to long to download them! I will have to have Andrew see what is the matter with it. So hopefully we will hear from a school or two in the next few months. Until then.......................

uh oh

Not alot has happened since I last posted. We did have Kaden's birthday party, it was fun-just some of our family came. I couldn't think of what to title this post, so "uh oh" is one of the words Kaden has learned and he says it all the time. He will be playing and then just randomly say "uh oh", it's pretty funny. He also says "kitty" when he sees our cat, and "ouch"- he learned that from me saying ouch when he bites my fingers! I'm pretty sure I got him to say thank you today, he gave me a taste of his sucker so I told him thank you. He made a sound like thank you, so who knows?
Well I did have some pictures posted of his party and was loading more on here, but the computer decided to freeze, and erased them. So I will have to post them later.

Kaden had his one year check up yesterday and had to get four shots, two in each leg! He screamed and cried pretty hard for a minute or two. I always feel so bad and wish it was me getting the shots. He weighed 23.4 lbs, 30 inches, and head size is in the 99.74 percentile! Height and weight were about 50th percentile. He follows me all over the house, and we don't have a gate for the stairs yet, so I have to always keep my eye on him. Trying to get him off his bottle, he doesn't like his sippy cup very much (I have 4 different kinds!) the Dr. said to "bait" the cup with chocolate or strawberry milk. I tried that today for his afternoon drink and it worked, he drank almost all of it himself out of his cup! They are supposed to be off the bottle by 12-15 months. He quit taking his pacifier all by himself about 3 weeks ago. I don't know why, but it's fine with me, that way I don't have to worry about taking it away when he gets older-I have heard horror stories about that!

We went to Rexburg last week for our bro in law Jacob's graduation. It was a short trip, but pretty fun and good to see family!

I haven't worked the last 2 weeks, Andrew's schedule has been crazy so it leaves me with no time to go to work. I get to spend a lot of time home with Kaden so it's good. I'm still couponing but I haven't found any really good deals lately. (I did get 6 boxes of free band aids yesterday though.) So I need to get out and get my couponing "fix" sometime :)

Andrew is getting applications for schools together. They are finally narrowed down to: TCU (texas), OHSU(oregon), West Minster(utah), Excela(pennsylvania), and Mayo clinic(minnesota). He is stressing getting his letters of reference and everything together. I tried to convince him to only apply to 4 schools but he wanted 6, so I guess 5 is a good compromise. :)
He is going to tour Westminster's campus on Friday, they have been the nicest so far! They even said they would waive the application fee!

We are going to Oregon in 3 days, so I will take lots of pictures to post. Can't wait!!!