Roller Coaster Ride

So this week started off with the tensity of waiting to hear about, well, everything. On Wednesday we were notified that we would be getting paid, Hooray! Then all of the sudden, BAM! We get a smackdown of medical bills from this lame hospital trip I took. How do they always know when you get money? I want to know that. Is there some kind of money alert? "Excuse me sir, it seems that Courtney and Jake just came into some money, maybe we should make up a bill for them." ANYWAY.... the letter comes stating that we owe $935. My jaw dropped. I thought, "WHY in the WORLD do we have insurance if I have to pay for everything?" Long story short, this is how my week was.
Monday: Worried
Tuesday: Anxious, thinking about getting a busier job
Wednesday: Exultant!
Thursday: Anxious
Friday: Relieved (It was really only $100, not 1,000, thankfully)

ON TOP of that, Bentley's mood has gone from smiley to upset to down right cranky. You'd think it was DEFCON 2 at my house or something whenever we try to give him medicine. I swear someone is going to bang down my door, "What are you doing to that child!?" And what's worse is that I can't do anything about it, short of putting it in his bottle--but that is if he NEEDS it when he takes his bottle. He also is then required to finish the WHOLE bottle  which is hard for him because his front, lower gum is in pain. Then he wants to be cuddled and rocked, he does NOT want the swing, he won't lay in his crib for ten minutes. It becomes a never-ending serenade of screaming.

On a happier note, yesterday we went to an Opening Social for Jacob's department. His introduction went something like this:
This is Jacob, he wants to work for Doctor Pitt, he went to UAH, dropped out after a semester and is back to option two. He wants a chemical engineering hat for christmas and he can change a 7 mo old baby's diaper in 8 seconds. There you go.

Clearly this young comedian didn't know our Jacob very well. In fact, one of Jacob's professors told him during the picture that the introduction was not good enough for the kind of man Jacob is, and I agree. It should have gone something more like this:

Jacob Williams grew up in Huntsville Alabama, where he achieved a 4.0 while participating in Football, Wrestling, Band and other extra curricular activities. He served a mission in the Germany-Munich-Austria Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. He completed his Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering and, after taking a sabbatical he has returned with a beautiful family to undertake his PHD, also in Chemical Engineering. Jacob is an assiduous worker, a dedicated student and a loving husband and father. He is the highest caliber of a man that you can find! He can change his son's diaper if he's not kicking his legs or rolling over or screaming, in 8 seconds or less; and he wants nothing more than an all-sports-pass, to see his parents and a container of oreos for christmas, I'm sure a chemical engineering hat would be cool too.

Of Course that last part is a bit of a joke, but feel free to leave anything you want to add below.


Okay, well, that's enough for today, my baby is pumped full of Tylenol and actually smiling. I am going to go play with him. But here is a video that you guys requested. Enjoy!

Best news of all!? I ran ALMOST an entire mile yesterday(I had to walk for some). Be so proud of me. Be so proud.