P is for Paige

I've been so completely busy and focused on school, I haven't really thought about updating this much. In this lack of updating, I forgot to write about my sister's new baby!

Okay, so you know back when my sister was pregnant and I wrote that she was having a little boy that was due in August? My sister was so excited that she was having another little boy. Owen and Maddie were excited that they were going to have a younger brother. Baby Parker was already in their vocabulary and everything was all set up in blue. August 21st, Paige Alivia was born. Yes, Paige. Not Baby Parker. A girl. Not only did they miss that Miss Paige was a girl, they also did not notice the little cleft on her lip. She came out healthy and happy and everything anyone could ask for in a little girl. Paige does have a cleft lip and palate, but she is a beautiful little girl. Every day she looks more and more like her older siblings. In January, she will undergo surgery to repair her lip. I feel like repair is such an awful word, because she isn't broken. She doesn't need fixed. Paige is the way Paige was supposed to be and she is perfect. God made her this way for a reason. Of course, at first it was a shock. I think that her being a girl was more of a shock to me. :-P And for Miss Madison who was asking when Baby Parker was coming home for about a month. It is a hard concept for a 3-year-old to understand what happened. But the kids have come to understand that Paige is there to stay and Baby Parker IS Baby Paige. If you want to check out some pictures and read updates about Miss Paige and progress she has made (and Owen and Madison), you can read my sister's blog at http://simmermans.blogspot.com

Other than that, my life is all about grad school. Okay, and maybe on occasion some IUP trips. But for the most part, grad school is sucking the life out of me. By the end of the month, I have to decide where I want to work for my first internship. (YIKES!) My first placement will be at a Skilled Nursing Facility. Then spring of 2011, I will be interning at a hospital and a school. I am still not sure where I want to work for any of it. So that is just another thing on my plate. But I'll be sure to update (at some point) more on this when I figure out what I'm doing.

TTFN!