Quick Successions: New Mexico Edition

Our semester, like all have been so far, is pretty busy. Hannah especially. She goes running down the sidewalk with me on occasion. I like how she will hold my hand then. Usually she tries to get away so she can explore.  Brian had his birthday. Hannah and I brought him lunch and we played at a park near campus for about 30 minutes. He teaches a class on Wednesday (his birthday). Thursdays we have a class together and I brought cupcakes. Friday, we went out to dinner at the Mexican restaurant by our house. Hannah has a cupboard in our kitchen. She has always played in it and stored stuff. It was the only one down low we didn't child proof. Lately she goes in there to watch Peppa Pig episodes on YouTube. I am home with Hannah all day on Wednesdays and we are all home together on Fridays. On Wednesdays we clean the house and do the grocery shopping and then we play. Sometimes we color, sometimes we play with the Little People and sometimes we play with Legos. Hannah...

One of the tough things about graduate school for us is that we don't have a regular daily schedule. Every day, when classes are in session, we do a different thing. We have a different wake-up time. We leave at different times. Sometimes I leave; sometimes Brian does; sometimes we all do. Our return times vary. The only steadiness comes on Sunday when we go to church.  But school starting again also means that we see our friends and have good times. On Saturday we went to the department picnic for grad students and professors. They have two a year: one in the fall and one in the spring. They are always at a park.  We always hit up the swings. This park had a giant cement turtle. The turtle was very unusual for playground equipment, but it made for good photo ops. Here are all of us who came. My major professor is very sweet to Hannah. Here she is pushing Hannah in the swing. I saw Hannah come up to hug her by the picnic tables, and then they were...