Okay..New Plan

I'll stop promising to blog more frequently and you'll stop pretending to believe me.

John Lennon said, "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

I truly understand what he meant.

On the medical school front, I have just started my antepenultimate rotation: Neurology. ( ok fine- look it up, ye non Lovers-of-Latin)
Ailments of the brain and nervous system are what my world will be about for the next 4 weeks. So far the rotation started out very disorganized but when we finally got around to rounding it was rather good. My only complaint would be the hours, since I barely made it home in time for Kathy to hand-off the kids to me and head to work.

I finally completed the application process for residency and currently I am in sit-around-and-wait-mode. I have heard from only one of the programs that I applied to with a nice little email letting me know they are reviewing all the applications and will not be offering interview invitations until the first week of November. From what I hear this seems to be the modus operandi of many of the programs in Emergency Medicine, so I have not begun to worry yet.

The family is doing great and I am enjoying all the extra time being with them since my schedule has been a little easier (up until today anyway).

Kids update:

• After quite possibly the longest ping pong losing streak in history (151 games- just ask him) Johnny's systematic trouncing of the old man came to an end! I was finally able to beat him. I promptly decided to retire from play and go out on top;-) [update: My retirement was short-lived and a week later I was back to "coming in second" ]
  
• Meagan is being inducted into the National Honor Society this Wednesday, we are all very proud of her. As several people were quick to point out, she must get her brains from her mother.
  
• Kaitlyn is also doing very well in school, this is no small feat- considering that she spends almost every waking moment trying to become the world's greatest Flyers fan. Apparently she is in "Daddy, you just don't understand" kind of LOVE with several of the players and has even roped me into taking her to a Flyers practice. Not sure how I should feel that my daughter is all starry-eyed smitten with someone who is missing his front teeth.... I suppose it could be worse.
  
• Rileigh is doing quite well with the potty-training and aside from the occasional mishap, I believe that we are just about home-free. From the most recent entry in her Toddler Tricks to Horrify, Frighten, and Annoy your Parents playbook, our little darling painted her face with White-out (don't ask) and then got a hold of Dylan's tub of formula powder and decided to eat some with the convenient little scoop provided and as I was running from the other side of the room screaming attempting to redirect her, it must have sounded to her like "dump all the powder on the floor just before Daddy gets there, sweetie!" because ...yeah that is just what she did.
  
• Dylan is growing like a weed and at this rate will be as big as Rileigh any day now.

That's it for now.

Tune in soon.