Coccinellidaephobia (Cock-sin-ellie-day-pho-bee-ah)

A fear of Ladybugs

Why am I posting about this? Well Oscar has Coccinellidaephobia. Yes he is afraid of ladybugs. Come this time of the year we have what is actually called Asian Beetles but look basically like ladybugs. They can get everywhere but so far only one or two have gotten in the house but you'd think a million were charging in all at once based on Oscar's reaction to them. He reacts whether there are real ones or he's imagining them. He even gets hysterical sometimes. He'll think/image/sometimes see one and run to Christian or I stand on our feet and try to climb up us to safety. Sometimes he won't get out of his bed because there are "badybugs" all over the floor. Majority of the time I'm laughing but when he sees one every 5 seconds it starts to get on my nerves. Oh badybugs, badybugs go away. Come again another day.

Cake Anyone?

Well, finals are done for this quarter! One more quarter to go and I'm screaming, crying, laughing, well I don't know what to do. I think that was the most difficult quarter I've been through here in med school. I feel like I won an Oscar (haha). (I love how I can make jokes like that all the time!) Thank you Oscar and Felix for putting up with me and Congratulations to Christian for all his hard work!

1546 hours of med school classes down and 200 hours to go... oh and boards! Piece of cake!

too much and not enough

I love when I have a million things to do and here I find myself roaming facebook (which I never do), posting on my blog and eating chocolate ice cream. Hmmm... I think I'll just go to bed and hope some things on my list disappear.

Question: Does Santa rent out his elves? They can't be that busy during this time of the year, right?!

Oh and here's whom I blame for my list being so long...

catch me in you can

A lot has been happening and then again it feels like nothing is happening.

First of all let me say ADIOS January and February! Ever since we've come to med school those are officially my most hated months. It's cold, most likely snowing, sickness hits, Christian is never home, big winter coats are hard to get in a car seat, kitchen floor is always wet from snow being tracked in, nap time ceases to exist cause I can't run around in enough circles to get this kid worn out, the list could go on but I'll stop cause I'm bumming myself out let alone my readers. (Not that the post is going to get any better, sorry.)

However to help ease the awful month of February Kelly (mother-in-law) and Loretta (aunt) came to visit this last weekend! It was wonderful having them here. Oscar LOVES company. They helped with the kiddos wonderfully and it was nice to have a little break!

Last of all on Feb. 18th our dear friend passed away from cancer. She was the wife of a med student we met our first year in Kirksville. She was a wonderful woman and led an amazing life. We will miss her dearly.
Love you Brandy.