Introducing my new niece!!!

I'm so excited, my older sister, Amy, and her cute husband, Dustin, had their first child together. Her name is Chloe Isabell Duncan, she is 8 lb 7 oz, 19.5 inches long (which just happens to be the exact size I was when I was born). She is beautiful! Her little head is even perfectly round.
Mom is doing well, I was actually a little surprised when I saw her and she look so rested and put together, not at all how I would feel after being in labor all night long, getting no sleep, and having a not so small baby.
Greg and I stopped by to see how they were doing and spent some time with everyone. Skyler and Emily (Amy's son and Dustin's daughter, both 10 years old) are very excited about their new little sister. While Dustin was giving Chloe her first bath they watched at the window and proudly announced to every passerby that "our baby is in there". Most just walked on by ignoring the kids but one young resident stopped and talked to them. Asking which one was their baby and being excited with them. It was so nice of him and completely adorable on the kids part.

Growing Up

So I was at my clinical (basically an unpaid internship) seeing patients and doing my thing. I saw a woman whose blood pressure was through the roof and I realized that I could do anything I wanted to do with her. I could send her away, I could admit her to the hospital, I could prescribe pills. It was up to me.
I have known for a long time that I would be a nurse practitioner but it really hit me that it is getting very close. In a very short four months I will graduate. If all goes well I will have passed my licensing exam by the end of the summer and will be working with my own patients by then. That means that I will be able to treat my own patients, write my own prescriptions, and have my own practice very very soon.
Wow, that sounds so grown up!!!

Our new pets

Greg has wanted a big fish tank for a while. Well, we got one. It is huge; as long as a couch! Setting it up took a little longer than we thought. It turns out that Greg's idea of getting river rocks from a river here in the city doesn't work so well in the winter time. My idea of buying gravel from Home Depot also wasn't so hot, apparently not a lot of people need gravel this time of year. We did eventually find some gravel that Greg deemed worthy of his tank and then added the rocks that he has been collecting and saving for years. We got some fish yesterday, they are tiny little things. They will grow to be big though so we didn't want to over populate the tank, but right now it looks a little funny with just seven tiny fish in that huge tank.
It is fun to watch them though and see how they interact, I also enjoy the sound, it is soothing.

Greg's new toy

So Greg got a new toy. It went a long way to make his nose feel better. He got a new 52 inch Samsung LCD TV. He did a lot of research into what he wanted and now there is a very large television set in my house. The delivery guys even brought it upstairs for us, all we had to do was take it our of the box which was not so bad because it was surprisingly light. I would have taken a picture of our TV except that I am not thrilled with the cleanliness of the room.