A good day

I taught my first Toddler sign language class today and that went well. I am going to mostly the material from my Baby sign class as these moms want to go over "the basics". Only two of the three moms enrolled showed up, no real surprise there. The both admitted they just want a place to come for socialization purposes. I totally remember feeling the same way when Mason was little. I needed an excuse for an outing to give us some structure to our day. One of the moms has a special needs child so signing is really important for them. They both seem like they are excited and interested in learning sign language so that makes me excited.

I had to evals in lab today worth 5 points each. An eval is when the instructor asks you to name all the structures of a system that we dissected. You have to name them in order and you don't know which system she'll ask. For instance, on my first eval she either was going to ask us all the parts within the kidney or she was going to ask all the parts of the urinary system. In the second eval, we had to explain all the anatomical parts of either the male or female cat. There are so many anatomical parts and you have to name them in the order that urine flows or semens flows or else you lose points. Well, for the first time ever I got 5 out of 5 on both! Amazing. :) And I got a 5 out of 5 on my notebook check. We have insanely detailed laboratory notebooks we have to keep outlining our dissections, the steps we took to do them, successes and failures, analysis and conclusions. It is draining. And we have to draw beautiful colored diagrams of all the anatomical systems. Hours and hours and hours of work go into that lab notebook. I am going to burn mine when the class is over! :)

My instructure finally switched me over to the internet class so now I won't need to scramble for a babysitter twice a week while Joe is out of town. I watch the lectures on my laptop anyway as I prefer the way the other instructor presents the material (and he is the one to write our exams).

Mason had another dentist appointment today. He had a tooth pulled and a cavity filled. He is done for the next 6 months. Then he will need spacers put in so that the adult teeth will have