A Small Sample of Us: Change

This week marks a week of change in the Sample household. Today was officially Reed's last day at Growing Footprints Daycare. Tomorrow morning he will start at Julie's house. Julie is a woman in the neighborhood who was recommended to us. She currently watches one other three year old boy. His mom raved about Julie, so that put us a little more at ease about this transition. Julie will watch Reed four days a week and Pat will watch him one day (Thursdays). At least for the summer, Papa will also be there with Pat so Reed will have 2 on 1 attention! Obviously this switch creates a pretty good money saving opportunity for us and as an added benefit, Reed will be getting much more attention. This does not ease our nerves, however.
In other exciting news, after a rather gruelling interview process (involving several phone interviews and one 9 hour long interview culminating in teaching a lesson) my dad was offered the position of Assistant Professor of Education and Director of Clinical Practice at Greenville College. My Alma Mater! How exciting is that?!?!? When I was a freshman at Greenville, my dad mentioned how nice it would be to retire to a small college town like that and be a quircky professor. I am so proud of him and in awe of how God brought him to this place. Why am I still surprised at how God takes care of us and leads us directly where we need to be? Yet another example of Jeremiah 29:11. I'm so excited to see my dad grow in this new position.
Anyway, back to Reed...
He has added more food to his repetroi which include: vegetable beef, turkey and rice, chicken and apples, chicken and noodles, vegetable chicken, and an apple/strawberry/banana mix. He eats fruit with oatmeal along with a bottle at 10am and then gets another dose of baby food at dinner which is usually meat and some veggies. I haven't found a food he doesn't like. Squash is not his favorite and neither are peaches, but he'll still eat them if he has to ;) He has a doctor appointment tomorrow to check his ears again, so we'll see if he's gained any weight in the past couple weeks since we've added the extra baby food. Regarding his ears, this last round of meds seemed to have worked really well. Hopefully that was the last ear infection he'll have for a while. Really don't want to do another surgery!
Here's what Reed's been up to:

Standing up at the Doctor's office. Reed had to change cribs at daycare to one with higher sides because he had pulled himself up to a standing position one day last week and freaked the teachers out!