I can't believe it's already August...

It sure feels like I've blinked a few times and now it's August. I know a bunch has happened since I posted last (which was a while ago), so I'll attempt to go through things since I've been offline:

For those who don't know, I attended law school part time while working full time. Three of the four years of school were while I was living in Houston. The last year of law school I lived in Austin and commuted back on the weekends to attend classes and live for two-three nights with my husband and puppies. It was traumatic, but I got through. Doug stayed in Houston for that last year to finish law school and work. Yes, we are one of those couples...we met in law school (in new student orientation of all places) and got married and honeymooned during law school. How cheesy, but it was God's plan, we know. I tell you all this to let you know that I've been out of pocket for so long because I was studying for the Texas Bar Exam. The review course is 6 weeks and then the Bar itself is 2 1/2 days. It was over as of a few Thursdays ago (the 30th) which was a huge sigh of relief for me. There were a lot of sacrifices that took place in our house during those two months of my preparation. I took CCR to Jen's in the mornings (which is not the usual way of things because I'm really not a morning person) and Doug picked him up in the evenings. Doug did all of the dinners, baths and bedtime rituals. It was a little lonely for me since I got to hang out with CCR for about an hour in the mornings and then "re-tucked" him in to bed before I headed that direction. I did take two weeks off from work which was helpful for studying and spending a little more time with CCR. Doug and I did have time for each other, but most times we were ships passing in the night. We were just going through the motions which was about all we could do due to circumstances. So needless to say, we are all glad it's over. I figure it's better to get those things out of the way while our kids are still little/unborn and won't remember that I was gone every night for 6 weeks and couldn't spend as much time with CCR as I wanted. I can only hope and pray now that my preparation were enough to get me through it and have it actually behind me. I don't have much confidence regarding whether I passed...I'm pretty much on the fence. I won't be surprised regardless of which way it goes. I will be disappointed, obviously, if I fail, but I surely won't be surprised. I will be relieved if I pass...which makes perfect sense. I really just don't want to have to do it again...but I'll do what makes best sense...

That said, CCR has come leaps and bounds in the past month. We are pulling up all on our own in all sorts of places, but no footsteps yet. He is a crawling king and get where he wants to go very quickly on all fours. CCR now has a few pairs of shoes that we're having him wear for limited times throughout the days at home so he can work on standing on his feet flat. He likes to stand on his toes and the balls of his feet so in order to better facilitate walking, we're trying to get him to put his heels down...the shoes are super cute and look hilarious coming off of his chunky legs...for as chunky as they are, these shoes just seem to look a few sizes too big...but he sure looks adorable in them...he's starting to get accustomed to them which helps, but at first all he wanted to do was treat them like toys...now they're shoes which is nice...he's not trying to pull them off and throw them along with his wiffle balls...

Speaking of...we think we have a lefty baseball player on our hands. Now I know that sounds like some lofty dream, but we legitimately believe CCR to be a lefty and it would be a gift from God if he is because Doug's late father, David, was a lefty...so it would be a very sweet connection only they would share. For that reason alone, we would love for him to be a lefty...we shall see what happens over the next few years. But to top things off, he loves to throw balls...sorry Jen! I know he likes to throw other toys too which makes for a necessary separation of approved and not approved throwing toys. But he's got a slew of wiffle balls and a fun plastic wire-framed ball that he loves to throw with his left hand and fling with his right hand...so maybe he will be a righty or ambidextrous...who knows...but it's sure fun to watch him throw a ball across the room, watch Doug chase it (sometimes CCR can get it past him) and then toss/roll it back to CCR to repeat. They are very sweet when they're playing "toss". It'll eventually graduate to playing catch, but there's no catching going on in this house right now...tee hee

Doug is good. Work is keeping him busy, and we had the honor of congratulating him on a big trial win a few weeks ago. Actually he obtained his not guilty verdict the day I finished the Bar exam. Doug was very excited, and needless to say we were all excited for him as well. The best text you can ever get from your husband (the defense attorney) when you get out of the Bar exam is one that says merely "not guilty". I was stoked for him! It was a big day in our house and we celebrated by eating leftovers for dinner and going to bed early...it was awesome!!!

The puppies are good too...all are beating the heat and continuing to be worthless...some things never change.

Well, I think that's all for now. I hope that helps to fill in the gaps of the past few months. We're off to Big Bend this next weekend, CCR's first birthday is on the 18th so Grammy B is coming to town to help us celebrate, and we have good friends (of mine from high school) coming to town the last weekend in August. It's going to be a busy few weeks, but there should be tons of photos to follow...those are all big photo ops for us...I'll be sure to share...It's been nice keeping up with everyone else's blogs...thanks for filling me up in between sets of multiple choice questions on real property, torts and criminal law...it really helped to get me through...

Speaking of blogs...please check out my mom's new blog. She's frustrated with politics so it's a snapshot into her head with her thoughts on many different issues that we are all suffering through right now...I think it's great as she's so pointed in her thoughts and a bit humorous at times...enjoy!

Until next time...