Student Doctor Jayce

Jayce has officially started school at Rocky Vista University. Sigh. It's exciting, scary, stressful, overwhelming, lonely, and a huge blessing all wrapped up into one. 

We both really enjoyed his white coat ceremony, which was the Saturday before classes started. Maria and I spent the first 10 minutes or so of it standing by the wall because it was so crowded, but finally something opened up and someone came and brought us to a handicap seating area at the back which worked out GREAT. Cameron had a lot of room to play, and the nice Grandpa next to me loved letting Cam climb on his walker and playing peekaboo with him. It was perfect. Cam fell asleep for the last 30 minutes or so too. I couldn't have asked for better! I was actually able to enjoy the ceremony, which I hadn't been expecting with a 14-month-old.

Being the proud wife that I am I couldn't help filming just about everything. Here is Jayce walking in. My cute man!

One of the very first things they did was open with an invocation. I didn't fully realize it until the professor was a quarter of the way through it, but then I thought, "He's actually saying a prayer right now!" and I started filming because I thought it was so cool haha.
It was really nice and I was glad for it. The key speaker did a really good job as well, although it did run on a bit. Somehow he was able to compare the agency of a doctor to the agency of Harry Potter (yes he really did bring Harry and Dumbledore into his address to medical students--say what?!), tell a story about a traveler and an angel, read poetry, and tell a story about the meaning of his friends tattoo in one speech. Haha, it was kinda funny at points, but on the whole a good message.

Here he is getting his white coat put on. I'm so proud of him. :-)

Cameron being an angel:

At one point towards the end they had all of the students stand up, turn around, and clap for their families, knowing that what they go through in medical school is hard on us as well. It made me want to cry! After the white coat ceremony I felt really good about Jayce going to Rocky Vista, and he felt the same way. The dean said that over 4,000 people applied for Jayce's seat in that white coat ceremony and I felt so grateful that Jayce was chosen from all those applicants. This is where we are supposed to be. It's one of the top Osteopathic medical schools in the nation, and to me D.O.'s are the doctors of the future. I couldn't be more proud of him.



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