From the 16th floor of Peds.

View from 16th floor

The Mayo Plaza

1 week ago I was headed to one of the most famous hospitals in the world. The Mayo Clinic. I ended up having to stay there Wed. and Thursday night and man was it the worst ever. Most people wouldn't believe me when I say that this was a terrible hospital but really I did not like it. I was planning on being there only wed night- thursday but they made me stay and get a test done on Friday where they injected radioactive liquid in me and then I sat around for 3 hours waiting for it to "soak" into my bones. These pictures I took on Thursday before our lunch break. We were on the 16th floor in pediatrics all day Thursday and I think here I was in the waiting room to get a blood test done. How fun... Friday I was in Nuclear Med. all day but there were no windows in that area.

Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis

Our neighbors gave us a jar of caterpillars that were in the process of turning into butterflies. These were some that were already in the chrysalis which was connected to the crocheted jar topper. If you look close there are little specs and on top a line of gold. Pretty neat!

Summer with the girls

These two little girls, who I have known for a very very long time, keep me veryyy busy! Last summer babysitting wasn't nearly as energy consuming as this summer. Lexa is 17 mo. old, can walk, gets into everything and is starting to talk, except really her only understandable words are  "uh-oh" (usually when she's dumping her lunch on the floor) or "mamama" (and yes in 3 syllables everytime). She's definitely a drama queen, even more so than Karli. Karli hates when Alexa tries to play with her toys, needs to hear 1-2-3 before she will even think about what you said, and loves food almost as much as me. But besides being a little harder to do this summer I still enjoy watching these two. We have quite a bit of fun together.

 We are not always happy.

 Stella, the "bull puppy". She causes LOTS of trouble!

 Here I braided her hair, she fell asleep while I was braiding it.

Jumping of the bench... naughty naughty!