Demoted

Today, Richie announced that watching the "Animal Movie" (Disney's "The Wild") is his "favorite thing in the whole world."

We are as deflated as you are, grandparents.

Three years of no TV flushed down the toilet in just two days.

Better

Rain ended early this morning and it warmed up nicely. We spent the morning at the beach, cooled off in the "house" over lunch, and then spent the evening at funland on the boardwalk. Now, it's story time and bedtime.

Rainy

It's rainy in Rehoboth Beach.

Another Quick Update

After 6 month of making my friends and family suffer with my lack of communication and absences, it finally paid off, hopefully. Here is my mom, ML and dad enjoying a fruit basket my wife and mom surprised me with for graduation.

Can't forget Richie! I think this was shortly after his nap.

As a special treat for Richie and ML, we went to Rehoboth Beach for vacation! Here's our first day on the beach.

Richie was clearly more comfortable this year than last year! The water, unfortunately, is still a little prohibitively cold.

Diving into the sand...

Tide on it's way in.

Poor Richie

We took Richie out with my fellow residents for a happy hour dinner. We braved the weather and had a nice time getting home around 730p. Got Richie to bed and then we both collapsed. ML got up a couple of times at Richie's request and finally woke me at 1130p when she found out he had a fever of 104F. She gave him some Tylonol. He thanked her by promptly hurling all over her. Oh, did I mention that he ate like a champ tonight? Once she whisked him into the shower, I started to clean. I must have puked in my mouth at least a half dozen times. I guess all of the margaritas I drank with dinner were not helping me.

We finally got some Tylonol in him and his temp is down to 102.9. He's sleeping with mama in the big bed.

Poor kid.

Passed!

Gaga is officially a Board Certified Radiologist! Six months NOT wasted!

Waiting

The Exam is done, and now it's just a matter of waiting for the results. In the mean time, here are some picture that were hiding on our phones.

Here is a funny picture of Richie...must have been from Mama's phone because I don't know where it was taken or under what circumstances. :)

This was taken at a coworker's child's first birthday party...I think. The last 6 months are something of a blur.

Okay, this one is a little out of order, I think. We went to Florida over the December break and we went to some really cool gardens in Fort Lauderdale with my Uncle and Grandma'....

We walked around for hours!

Here's the boy at Fort Myers beach. He's significantly more comfortable in the water!

Richie has moved up from feeding the neighbors fish to walking their dog! Well, actually, Charlie is usually taking Richie for a walk.

This was done at a festival this spring....I was studying.

They went to the Walter's Museum and enjoyed the kids area....I was studying.

Richie went to his little friend Julia's birthday party and all the kids had their own table....you guessed it, I was studying.

Hey! I think I took this picture!! Oh, no, wait, I think not, but I was there! This is at one of our little local restaurants we like to go to on burger night! Richie is, no doubt, watching TV with his sun glasses on.

There's a new park in the city over by the aquarium and they went to go investigate it....yes, I was studying.

Here is my hotel room in Louisville, KY just before the exam...I did all of that studying for this!

Actually, it was a nice room and had a great will cuby where I could.....study.

Out the window I could watch other radiology residents walking to go take their exam....I didn't spend much time looking out the window.

Before I left, we all tried a thing called Chicken-and-Waffle from one of the well known food truck vendors. It was actually really good! I was told that it was a "Southern" thing, but I had never heard of it and looking it up on Wiki, it's actually a New York thing. None the less, I thought it would be good to try Panko Chicken with Mama's Pancakes. And, as you might imagine, I was right! It was amazing!!