Joel had his residency graduation on June 20th. Joel's whole family and everyone in my family but Barb and her family were able to make it. We had a really good time at graduation, and because it was also Superior Bike Fest we also got to watch loads of biking. This has only served to increase my son's obsession with riding his bike.
Joel is thrilled to be done with residency and started his "real" job on July 7th. Thus far it has been pretty slow, but I'm sure he'll have more patients as time goes on. He is also working with a med student and precepting for the residents. The best part of the deal is that he gets every Thursday afternoon off for paperwork... which he is not behind on yet, so he just comes home. We have also been able to eat lunch with him every day this week, which has been awesome. He gets an actual lunch hour now, not just a lecture during which he can eat.
Here is Joel receiving his plaque thingy. Jam and I missed him actually getting it because James decided he really had to pee. Thanks to Kristy Roberge for taking this picture for us.
James' favorite part of graduation was the dancing. He danced until the very end. When the dance floor would clear off he would pull Mommy onto the floor. I was totally exhausted by the end :)
Joel, James, Baby D and I at the end of graduation.
At the very end the DJ played "Say" by John Mayer and Jam got up on the stage and gave us an air-guitar/lip-synced concert. All the clean up crew stood around to watch. James didn't get to bed until after midnight, but then he slept until 11 AM (Joel said he is ready for college). I was thrilled to have the time to sleep in. All in all we had a really good time.
