Life as I know it… or at least for right now
May 19, 2011
Well, since no one has commented on what they want to hear about, I guess I’ll ramble on for a bit. On the baby front, we had a 3D ultrasound several weeks ago that provided us with some great images of our baby. During the ultrasound, Dr. K asked us if we wanted to know the sex prior to the delivery – which we’d already decided to do. I was watching on the screen and said – yes and it definitely looks like a boy! Dr. K agreed as did Amanda. No hard feelings if we’re wrong, but baby was in a good position to tell and it was pretty clearly a boy. This news was a disappointment to my eldest brother who was initially hoping to beat us to the “grandchild punch” but was planing to settle for first grandson. Really he was happy for us 
. Other baby news, we registered at Babies R Us this past weekend – FYI there’s more to buy in preparation for a child than you’d think. It seemed to take forever, but I’m sure being incredibly hungry didn’t help.
On the fitness front, the 365 day challenge starts in 7 days. After I committed him on this very blog – Jason formally accepted via text message earlier this week. I think he’s planning to run the Akron full in Sept. and I’m hoping he’ll run the Pittsburgh full with me next year. I’m also planning to run the Tough Mudder next March. http://toughmudder.com/ It’s a 10-12 mile run with 18 obstacles through it. Two of my med school classmates are probably going to run it with me – it should be a good time.
On the med school front, I’m currently at the Dayton VA for psychiatry. It’s interesting, but not a career for me. At least I’m getting a better idea of whom to admit to psych from the ER and who not to. I was also robbed by the NBME (national board of medical examiners) today – registering for the two sections of my step 2 was $1,645 not to mention I have to travel to one of six or so major cities to take the clinical skills portion – probably Atlanta for me.
Last weekend we were having some good ‘ole country fun at a classmates grandparent’s farm. Campfire, food, clay pigeon shooting, 4 wheelers, and tornado warnings?! We were cruising through some fields on a golf cart when someone looked up – hey check out that odd cloud. It was indeed a funnel cloud. We continued to watch 10 funnel clouds come out of the same cloud bank, but none of them touched down. Probably good considering that when we initially spotted the funnel cloud it was very very very close to us – as in almost over top of us.
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Baby Boy?! 13 weeks 3 days
Funnel Cloud!
