Baby Fever...

happy FRIDAY everyone!
today starts my week. while the rest of you are off enjoying the "extra six weeks of winter" in your capri pants and flip flops... i will be work work working...

This week has gone by incredibly fast! Included a Physics and Calculus test, getting to play with e. coli in my Microbiology Lab, going to a meeting for my MOCK DOC program this semester! That's right, they are going to put me in the hospital and allow me to walk around pretending to be a doctor! YAY ME! I will have a round in Internal Medicine, Radiology, Social work, Medical Lab, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics (bring on the babies), and Pediatrics!!! I am so excited i can't even express it. I just smile. Stupidly.

Don't you just love my son's flirty eyes? I don't know where he gets the flirtation from! Seriously, this is the look he gives everyone. I think i underestimate his sneakiness...

I also took Laken to the park this week for his very first time. I had the afternoon off one day and decided it "was time."

I can't even begin to tell you how amazing it is to see my child this happy! It is the best reward as a parent. He embraces this big bad world with no fear and i admire that. he's not apprehensive or worried. He just lives. I wish i could be more like that. He looks at things from every angle. He studies it. HARD!! but only for the sake of looking. not to judge, or scrutinize. he still attacks everything without a care in the world. and i envy that! I thought he would freak out on the swings... but he didn't. He just laughed and kicked his feet like mad!

My little boy. He's not even my baby anymore. I can't say "i have a baby." I have a little boy! And everyday he grows up. He just took off at the park. He's not walking, but he thinks he can. I set him down on the ground and just let him get dirty and crawl around in it. We went down the slides, climbed on the playground... and he just LOVED it!

We'll have to do this more often. Because my son gave this park his stamp of approval. He stuck out his tongue. and when he does this (and continues to keep it out like this for 20 minutes straight) i can only assume that he is trying to say, "Mom, you RAWK for bringing me to this place!!!!!"

There - now you've seen updated pictures of my TEN MONTH OLD!!! and for others of you - you know that Laken is my son... not my pet. Although, what's the difference really??? (wow, that sound worse than i meant it to...)