Day with Daddy

On Cinco de Mayo, I had an interview at Loyola and Pat was able to spend some time with Alex. During these "Daddy times," I am often surprised what pictures I find on my camera (the fingerprints) . Alex can be a very demanding photographer (needless to say, I have TONS of pictures of his toys).

Also...if you get a chance.. ask Pat about the Car trip the preschool and the word Alex picked up ;)

VA Weekend

This weekend, as a Valentine's Day present, Abuelos watched Alex while Pat and I went down to visit VA.

Friday afternoon we drove down to Chantilly, VA and I had a phone interview. On a positive note, I was sent a Writing Sample for the 2nd round and will hear by mid-week.

Saturday, we went exploring. Pat showed me where he worked in Fairfax and then we explored the cheaper Woodbridge area of DC. This led to a lot of discussion of what sort of life/home we wanted to provide and a lot of us getting lost :) Thankfully the GPS led us back to Chantilly.

Sunday, we say goodbye to high speed Internet and look forward to seeing Alex (and Abuelos) again :) Life should be busy the next few months!

Fairfield Visit

June 27th to July 2nd, Alex and I spent the time at Abuelos while Daddy was busy with his BarBri classes. The time was spent interviewing, visiting family and friends, riding tractors, and driving his trike. Alex and I had enjoyed ourselves!

jobs, jobs, jobs....

This week has been fairly busy...

Pat is back to class...at least BarBri classes. Thankfully he is taking the classes at Widner which is only 10 minutes away. He has homework every night and day but seems to get most of it done before Alex and I get home. Tonight he is working on a practice test, creating flashcards, and biting his nails :)

Alex has been his usual weird self :) Thankfully he talks very plain and is coming out with complete sentences. The only annoying thing is today he picked up "Shut up, no more talking" from the babysitter. However, Tara did say Alex is the most polite child she has at daycare who always says please and thank you. Yea!

Ok....job front... a lot of applications have gone out for Pat and I... Pat has a phone interview for the Immigration Services on Monday at 1:30 pm. We both keep hoping for the Baltimore office but that is out of our hands. As for me... I have 11 more days in which I will wake up to my own alarm clock. Things have been super busy and frustrating at work but I will at least get a reprieve in a bit.

prayers, prayers, prayers :)

Pat's Interview

Today, Pat had his first after law school job interview. It was with the government for a 2 year intern position with the Immigration Department. He said everything went well and he was asked 11 questions. Officially he will hear back in a month. After that he will be subject to a 2 month security check and then possibly offered the job in Philadelphia.

So that's the job front update.

This past weekend...

was interesting with the release of the new Harry Potter book. Which I finished by Saturday night (a good book) :)

While I was reading, Alex was very unhappy with his new ear infection. He had a fever, not eating or sleeping, and constantly poking at his ear. Monday morning we saw Dr. Brooks. Alex's right ear was very infected (omnicef to the rescue) and his "I" teeth are coming in. The top right tooth was a new addition.

I still have not heard from Millersville :( So I have started applying for other new positions. I feel returning back in September would be another unhappy year. Hopefully that situation can be avoided and I can get out of this rut.

Other than that...Alex' website: http://astro.temple.edu/~pcarr/AjbcWeb/start.htm has been updated. Unfortunately, my limited webdesign skill has not allowed me to make it an RSS feed. If anyone has any pointers, please let me know. Until then I will just post the update information on here.