Well, the summer is quickly slipping away. KU starts school in 2 weeks- on August 20th. Sarah only has class on Tuesday, so she begins on August 25th. Sarah also finally has a practicum placement. She will be at the Topeka VA in the hematology and oncology unit. Although commuting is definitely ideal, it didn't look as though a placement in Lawrence was going to be an option, especially this late in the placement process. Sarah will commute to Topeka 3 days a week. She is supposed to be at practicum for 24 hours per week, but that's not feasible with all of the other demands our family has. So, Sarah will be at practicum for roughly 19.5 hours and will have to continue her practicum for much, much longer than usual. Sarah has to go to the VA for orientation all day next week on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. She will then officially start her practicum on August 24th. Things at work will begin to get busy at the end of the month as we have a new cohort of participants starting on August 29th. This is our largest cohort thus far (30 participants), so things will be more hectic there, too.
Patrick is wrapping up his 3rd weekend of meets. This time he is in North Dakota for six days. Last weekend Sarah and the kids kept busy by going to the Lawrence Nature Center and to Potter's Lake on KU's campus. The kids enjoyed seeing all of the different animals at the Nature Center. The had bearded dragons, a huge iguana, eagles, owls, turtles, snakes, and more. Elle's favorite were the "mouses." I think she liked watching them running on their wheel! We went to the pet store the next day to pick up dog food. We usually walk around the store and look at their array of animals, and again she was excited to see the mice.
Our walk around Potter's Lake was very pleasant. It seems like it would be a great place for a picnic. It's always interesting to come across things around town or on campus that we didn't know about even though we've been here for years and have possibly walked quite close to the spot. Well, when we were walking around Potter's Lake we saw the class gift from 1943- an outdoor dance pavillion. There was a filled in fire pit and some stone grills. It looked like it would be a fun place to hang out, but I'm guessing it's never really used any more, which is too bad.
This week Sarah and Patrick took the kids swimming at the outdoor pool. It has been a couple of weeks since Elle finished her lessons and since she's been in the pool. None the less, she got right in and was swimming like a fish and was hardly taking a break. Perhaps she was a bit too enthusiastic. I'm guessing she swallowed a bunch of water becasue all of a sudden Patrick asked her if she was okay. Sarah looked over when he said this. Elle's cheeks puffed up and she threw up. Everyone in the pool (perhaps between 100 & 200 people) had to exit the pool while the cleaned it. I'm not sure how long everyone had to stay out of the pool because we left.
Before Patrick left for Zones he wanted to do something fun with the kids so he bought them a slip and slide, or as Elle calls it- a slippering slide. Patrick demonstrated how to use the slip and slide and even helped the kids slide down! We also had a large storm one night during the week. We woke up to find that one of the branches of one of the trees in our backyard had been knocked down. It snapped our clothes line, which we were able to fix easily. Now we just have to take care of the branch. During one of the recent nighttime storms Elle woke up. As Sarah went to get Elle back into bed Elle said, "I better have to get new boots in the morning." This was followed with,"When the rain goes away, there will be sun." This also reminded me of Elle's recent book reading. She wanted to read a book to Sarah and picked out her Bible. This is how her story went: "In the beginning, there was a girl and a boy. They was small. And it was about once upon a dream. Amen."
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