Fall weekend

It has been a cool fall weekend here, for the most part. I have soooo enjoyed the cooler weather, and I can admit that it is mostly because I've been so anxious to put Rebecca in her cute fall clothes that have been sitting in her closet waiting for the temps to drop below 95. This weekend was my chance! As you can see from the pics above, she was attired in fall themed clothing today at church. Apparently I went to church and looked like death warmed over, or at least that is what the pictures that Ramy took of me with Rebecca looked like. And that's why you won't see them on here - that's the beauty of it being my blog, you see.

On Friday, Rebecca and I got up early. I finished up the last touches of my proposal document and emailed it to my committee members. Then we drove over to Casa Colina so I could drop something off and went to our new Gymboree class time of 9:45. I like that time so much better than her old time of 11:45. Rebecca was loving Gymboree! She played with her friend Megan, and a little boy named Aidan followed her around and wanted to play with her (Rebecca was less than interested in him). Next we drove out to Loma Linda so that I could drop off the hard copies of my dissertation proposal to my committee members and pick up all the forms I need to get done. We already had plans to meet my friend Julie and her baby girl Adelaide afterward, but as it turned out, Julie had to go to LLU for the same reason as me. So we traipsed around the campus getting forms A, C, Q, XX, ABC123...whatever and had a nice chat with Dr. Vermeersch about internship application questions. When we were finished, we drove to Victoria Gardens, where we had lunch and participated in a little retail therapy to ease our dissertation proposal/internship application stress. It worked! After redeeming my Gymbucks, I felt much more relaxed (and Rebecca has even more cute clothes, which always makes me happy). We got home around 4:30, and Rebecca sacked out. Friday night, we drove to Monrovia to have dinner with our friends Maddie and Paul and their little girls Rachel and Ashley. It is always nice to meet up with them.

Yesterday morning, we awoke to gray skies and rain! WOO HOO! The first rain of the season is always exciting. It was sweats and hoodies weather! We cleaned up around the house and played with Rebecca. Then I needed to exchange some things at Gymboree (different sizes than I could get at Victoria Gardens), so we walked around at the Shoppes at Chino Hills. Ramy also got new windshield wipers for me and installed them on my car. We got takeout Italian for dinner, because I was craving fettucini alfredo, and we just watched tv at home and played with Crazy Rebecca. Crazy Rebecca, by the way, has a funny but almost maniacal laugh. We were driving around yesterday, with both Ramy and me in the front seat and Rebecca was in the back and she kept laughing this deep laugh. Then we'd laugh at her, and she'd laugh because we were laughing at her. It's a shame she has nothing to be happy about in life. ;-) I spent most of the evening doing laundry, since I hadn't done any in two weeks. Ramy folded I don't know how many piles of laundry. A man that volunteers to fold laundry - can anyone possibly have a more amazing husband than me?

This morning we went to church, and now Rebecca is taking a nap, while Ramy went in to the office for a couple of hours. I just finished writing up a neuropsych report and need to put away laundry. Ramy's murder trial will likely be in the jury's hands by Tuesday afternoon, so then it is just a wait and see game. I think he'll be relieved when the trial itself is over. Thursday is my dissertation proposal defense. I'm not really nervous at all, surprisingly. We'll both be soooo glad to have these things off our backs and minds so that we can enjoy our autumn vacation in Tennessee next week. I suppose at some point, I will need to pack. Ramy has gotten a stash of clothes that he leaves at my mom's house, so he will probably have nothing to pack. Rebecca, of course, will bring 3/4 of her closet. You just never know what a toddler will need to wear. As for me, I end up throwing things randomly into a suitcase and then wondering what I've brought with me and what I've forgotten.