What a week!

I feel better knowing that I'm not the only one neglecting to post anything this first hectic week of school... Everywhere I go, same 'ole blog posts.  I've found myself saying, "sheesh, when are they going to post anything new?"  And then I remember I haven't either :)

So, let's see if I can recap most of this past week...  I've noticed my memory failing me quite a bit, so I'm sure to leave out plenty.

Benjamin's news:
We're beginning to see a little neck somewhere in there as he approaches 3 months old.  I've been telling everybody this can't be my son: he's calm, never cries, and sleeps 8 hours a night.  Well, apparently I should have kept my mouth shut.. This past week he's been getting up 2 to 3 times a night.  Leslie realized that it's probably because he wakes up, doesn't know how to suck his thumb or calm himself, doesn't have his pacifier in his mouth, so he starts crying.  With Emily, we'd let her cry for about 15 minutes or so until she calmed herself down, but the problem with Benjamin doing that is then Emily will wake up in the next room.  Last night she let him cry for about 5 minutes at a time before going in there to try to calm him down.  Oh, and he can cry now... wow can he cry :)

Emily's news:
Her first week of school seemed to go well.  Apparently there is another little girl who is obsessed (even more than Emily, which is remarkable) with Disney Princesses, so for the first few mornings she would try to hold Emily's backpack after she had put it up on the hook.  Apparently Emily didn't appreciate this too much, so when the kids would start moving to centers, Emily would place herself squarely in front of her backpack, guarding it while the other kids played.  The very creative teacher decided that it may be better for Emily to put her backpack up on top of the cubbies instead of the hooks, which seemed to do the trick.  I remember her saying to us each day when we'd ask her about school, "well, some girls aren't nice in there, they try to take all the backpacks..." OCD anybody?  That's my girl :)

Two nights ago dad was watching Emily and Benjamin while Leslie and I got something to eat.  When we got home, Emily was complaining about her stomach, neck, and she felt like she had a fever.  We loaded everybody up, and headed out to the Urgent Care, much to the dislike of Emily.  If I would have thought about it more than three minutes before loading everybody up, I would have remembered those were the exact symptoms I had the night before school started, and it lasted about 24 hours...

She didn't enjoy the visit at all.  So little, in fact, that when they looked in her mouth, and swabbed it for a throat culture, she spit up a little (TMI?) Anyway, we got a z-pack (didn't know they did that for kids..) and the next morning she was doing fine.

Leslie and I have been busy trying to keep up with school, home, and the kids.  It's always an adjustment period when school starts, and we spend as much time as possible sleeping :) 

I started my Quant I class this week, and wow was that interesting.  All of my classes for my Masters had no more than about 11 people in the class.  This class had about 40 on the first day, and ALL were there pursuing their doctorate.  My favorite moment of the first class was about an hour in when I looked up from trying to take as many notes as I could, and seeing everybody else with very content looks on their faces and nodding affirmatively... I was wondering if the instructor was even speaking English... It wasn't a great start, hopefully it will get better...

This morning was race day for the Nike+ Human Race .  I got out and did my 10k in 49 minutes.. Not bad for sub-8 minute pace!  Now I just need to get that pace down to about 7 minute pace for 26 miles... That'll be the day :)