PS
The kids kept calling Chris, Mr. Valentine. It kind of freaked him out. He's apparently never been called Mr. Valentine before. He kept trying to introduce himself as Chris. He turned to me once and said "I'm not Mr. Valentine!"
Friday, October 25, 2013
Drama Club Halloween Party
The school I'm student teaching at had a drama club Halloween party. You were required to show up in costume, even the chaperones.
Chris and I went as a fifties housewife and the milkman. The kids didn't get it but they loved it anyway. Chris enjoyed it because he got to drink milk all night. I liked it because it was all stuff that we had at home.
PS
The kids kept calling Chris, Mr. Valentine. It kind of freaked him out. He's apparently never been called Mr. Valentine before. He kept trying to introduce himself as Chris. He turned to me once and said "I'm not Mr. Valentine!"
PS
The kids kept calling Chris, Mr. Valentine. It kind of freaked him out. He's apparently never been called Mr. Valentine before. He kept trying to introduce himself as Chris. He turned to me once and said "I'm not Mr. Valentine!"
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Hey everybody! Chris here. I'm sitting in McDonald's sucking on a smoothie (blueberry pomegranate, not bad) because i didn't feel like going to the library. It was probably a bad idea (the price of a smoothie and music vs silence and savings) but I felt like a change of scenery.
So, what's new, you might ask? Well, plenty! I started going to a gym that teaches martial arts classes, and I am loving it. I got a reduced price three month membership for my birthday (Thanks, Kylie) and i started last week, so I've been five times now, twice for kickboxing, thrice for boxing. Who'da thunk hitting a bag would be so exhausting? Man, I'm sore all down my back and arms, and even my legs! I love it. We did some exercise using a Moby song called Flower, and every time he'd say down we'd squat, every time he'd say up we'd go up. It's a fun workout, and now the song has been in my head since Monday, haha.
Work is the same. No updates. Hmm, was it even worth typing out for you to read? Probably not, but what's done is done.
Kylie's enjoying school (I think, I'm never there with her) and she is remembering their names, mostly. They had a performance last night, I think. She didn't offer for me to go, so I'm not sure. I think she's ashamed to be seen with me ;).
Speaking of Kylie, she's looking adorable! I love her belly. Even more, I love the little guy inside of it. He's the best. I felt him move for the first time the other day.I'm trying to read to him, when I can. He is (according to our weekly updates online) now the size of a rutabaga (and what is rutabaga? Apparently some kind of vegetable, but who cares, I bet my baby's cooler than one anyway). So that's my boy. Kylie loves him, too, but I think she gets tired of him dancing on her sciatic nerve. Her leg is ALWAYS hurting now. Only four months to go, Kylie! Ganbatte!
We went to the pool the other day, and Kylie was happy. She was able to completely submerge her belly, and that is apparently very relieving. It just made it heavier after getting out, though. She tried to take a bath the other day when we realized there is no way to plug the tub! She tried a plate, plastic wrap, and who knows what else before dejectedly crawling into bed for a moment of sadness. She's adorable. Did I say that already?
Well, the lunch rush from the high school is now in McDonald's so I think it's time to boogie. Listening to teenagers flirt and laugh is not my idea of a day off. Besides, it's almost bed time! So with that, good night!
So, what's new, you might ask? Well, plenty! I started going to a gym that teaches martial arts classes, and I am loving it. I got a reduced price three month membership for my birthday (Thanks, Kylie) and i started last week, so I've been five times now, twice for kickboxing, thrice for boxing. Who'da thunk hitting a bag would be so exhausting? Man, I'm sore all down my back and arms, and even my legs! I love it. We did some exercise using a Moby song called Flower, and every time he'd say down we'd squat, every time he'd say up we'd go up. It's a fun workout, and now the song has been in my head since Monday, haha.
Work is the same. No updates. Hmm, was it even worth typing out for you to read? Probably not, but what's done is done.
Kylie's enjoying school (I think, I'm never there with her) and she is remembering their names, mostly. They had a performance last night, I think. She didn't offer for me to go, so I'm not sure. I think she's ashamed to be seen with me ;).
Speaking of Kylie, she's looking adorable! I love her belly. Even more, I love the little guy inside of it. He's the best. I felt him move for the first time the other day.I'm trying to read to him, when I can. He is (according to our weekly updates online) now the size of a rutabaga (and what is rutabaga? Apparently some kind of vegetable, but who cares, I bet my baby's cooler than one anyway). So that's my boy. Kylie loves him, too, but I think she gets tired of him dancing on her sciatic nerve. Her leg is ALWAYS hurting now. Only four months to go, Kylie! Ganbatte!
We went to the pool the other day, and Kylie was happy. She was able to completely submerge her belly, and that is apparently very relieving. It just made it heavier after getting out, though. She tried to take a bath the other day when we realized there is no way to plug the tub! She tried a plate, plastic wrap, and who knows what else before dejectedly crawling into bed for a moment of sadness. She's adorable. Did I say that already?
Well, the lunch rush from the high school is now in McDonald's so I think it's time to boogie. Listening to teenagers flirt and laugh is not my idea of a day off. Besides, it's almost bed time! So with that, good night!
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Registries
We have had a lot of people asking about what we want so I thought I would post where we have registered.
http://www.diapers.com/baby-registry/welcome
and at Target
Target tends to be a little cheaper than diapers.com but diapers.com gives us points towards free diapers, so that is why we did both. : )
http://www.diapers.com/baby-registry/welcome
and at Target
Target tends to be a little cheaper than diapers.com but diapers.com gives us points towards free diapers, so that is why we did both. : )
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Pictures!
Chris told me I need to write too.
First of all here are the pics from our ultrasound today....
We had a good time at the doctors today. At first our little boy was very cooperative. I drank orange juice before we showed up but we ended up having to wait for about 20 min before we actually got the ultrasound so I think he was just starting to calm down from the orange juice by the time we got in. After the first couple pictures he raised his hands up and kept covering his face. After taking pictures of the rest of him our technician came back to try and get more pictures of the face. He would not cooperate. She spent what felt like ten minutes, poking and prodding me trying to get him to move. It was not very comfortable. Finally she said I needed some sugar to get him moving, so Chris went and got me an orange juice from the vending machine. I chugged the whole bottle and promptly felt very sick. (I'd been feeling sick from her prodding anyway). 10 minutes later she checked and he had started moving up again so we got a couple more pictures that she needed.
One really cool thing about the ultra-sound was that we could see his heart beat (I keep almost writing the baby, instead of him or his. We are having a boy!) It was really neat to visually see the his heart pumping his blood.
Our little boy is one pound three ounces and he is right on track for his weight and size. He is about the size of a spaghetti squash. We also found out at our last doctors appointment that I'm right on track for size. Which is always nice to know. : )
First of all here are the pics from our ultrasound today....
It's a BOY!!!!
Here are some of the pictures closer up.
This one is of the face. His eyes are on the right side of the picture, mouth on the left. He kind of looks like an alien. haha. He had his mouth open. This is the very first shot we got of him.
The one below is the defining picture. Chris loved the fact that we had to spend so much time trying to get a picture of his face after the first one, because he kept covering his face with his hands. However, he wasn't very shy about showing us that he was a boy.
We had a good time at the doctors today. At first our little boy was very cooperative. I drank orange juice before we showed up but we ended up having to wait for about 20 min before we actually got the ultrasound so I think he was just starting to calm down from the orange juice by the time we got in. After the first couple pictures he raised his hands up and kept covering his face. After taking pictures of the rest of him our technician came back to try and get more pictures of the face. He would not cooperate. She spent what felt like ten minutes, poking and prodding me trying to get him to move. It was not very comfortable. Finally she said I needed some sugar to get him moving, so Chris went and got me an orange juice from the vending machine. I chugged the whole bottle and promptly felt very sick. (I'd been feeling sick from her prodding anyway). 10 minutes later she checked and he had started moving up again so we got a couple more pictures that she needed.
One really cool thing about the ultra-sound was that we could see his heart beat (I keep almost writing the baby, instead of him or his. We are having a boy!) It was really neat to visually see the his heart pumping his blood.
Our little boy is one pound three ounces and he is right on track for his weight and size. He is about the size of a spaghetti squash. We also found out at our last doctors appointment that I'm right on track for size. Which is always nice to know. : )
By the time we were through I was ready for bed. I think we were in that dark room for about 30-40 min. Plus I was laying down most of the time not moving. My body was thinking, this is a great time for a nap. Chris had to work pretty hard to convince me to come to the library to blog before I went home to lay down. haha.
I guess that brings you up to speed. Chris is much better at being detailed and telling a narrative. Sorry about that. : )
It's a Boy!
Just got back from the ultrasound, and as you may have discerned from the title, we are having a boy! Our very own boy baby. Kylie has the ultrasound pictures on her computer (well, it's actually my computer, but it's the better computer, so she uses it, so it's hers . . .whatever) so she'll post them when she gets done doing homework over in her chair. I'm so excited! A boy baby, all of our own. Just to clear things up, we would have been just as happy with a girl baby. Most of our excitement comes from being able to definitively use gender-specific pronouns in our conversations rather than being stuck using "it." Now, instead of saying "it's kicking!" Kylie can say "He's kicking!" So we're happy.
On an unrelated topic, I'm using this post as a way to practice proper typing, rather than the hunt and peck method I generally use, so be grateful that it doesn't take you as long to read this as it does for me to type it, haha. I should probably just download a program to help me learn ( or relearn what I've already learned, albeit 13 years ago) how to do this. I keep misplacing all my keys.
So we met our new midwife last week. Her name is Sue Schlegelmilch, if I spelled that right (and auto-correct is insisting that I didn't). Try saying that five times fast. Or even once correctly. Kylie likes her a lot, she's a pretty down to earth lady who doesn't treat you like you're stupid. We'll hopefully get to meet the other two midwives as we go, there are three of them, and one is always on call, so there's no saying which one will deliver our baby BOY. Our next appointment is next week, something like the eighth or ninth. Kylie knows better than me.
Kylie's working real hard, doing well at school. Last week they had their first set of parent teacher conferences, which they do four times a semester, it sounds like. She was super stressed about doing it alone because her teacher was out of town for some kind of conference or seminar, but she came home feeling like she did just fine. She may have more to say about it, if she writes anything when she posts the pictures. Maybe she will. She goes down to St. George this weekend for the Shakespeare festival down there, leaving Thursday and getting home Saturday night. I won't get to see her for four whole days! I will last see her before I go to work Wednesday night, then when I get home Sunday morning. At least it happens on a work week, cause I spend most of my time sleeping anyway.
So this month is going to be exciting, I take the PTCE (Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam) on the 25th, so I'm studying for that. Hopefully I'll be able to transfer to the pharmacy and get a pay raise soon after I get my license, we will need it. However, I probably wouldn't switch too soon, just to help my boss out with being on overnights. It's hard to get someone to switch to being the overnight manager for a mere 25 cents extra. But I'm definitely going to do it, because it will help me transfer up to Rexburg when we move again, whenever that will be.
Well, I think that about does it for me. Kylie will be up next, she's been preparing her lesson plans or something. We think we've pretty much got a name figured out for our baby BOY, but let us know what you might think. Also, we don't know how to make a subscription button, but if you just bookmark this page and put it on your toolbar, you can click it every now and then to get our updates. Bye!!
Oh, I almost forgot! I found the BEST lumpia place not far from home (in fact, right on my way to work) and it is DELICIOUS. It's called eggrollin' and it's in this little red trailer in a parking lot next to a Chevron. $1 lumpia (good sized) if you get the chance, and if you don't live here, know that you are missing out!
On an unrelated topic, I'm using this post as a way to practice proper typing, rather than the hunt and peck method I generally use, so be grateful that it doesn't take you as long to read this as it does for me to type it, haha. I should probably just download a program to help me learn ( or relearn what I've already learned, albeit 13 years ago) how to do this. I keep misplacing all my keys.
So we met our new midwife last week. Her name is Sue Schlegelmilch, if I spelled that right (and auto-correct is insisting that I didn't). Try saying that five times fast. Or even once correctly. Kylie likes her a lot, she's a pretty down to earth lady who doesn't treat you like you're stupid. We'll hopefully get to meet the other two midwives as we go, there are three of them, and one is always on call, so there's no saying which one will deliver our baby BOY. Our next appointment is next week, something like the eighth or ninth. Kylie knows better than me.
Kylie's working real hard, doing well at school. Last week they had their first set of parent teacher conferences, which they do four times a semester, it sounds like. She was super stressed about doing it alone because her teacher was out of town for some kind of conference or seminar, but she came home feeling like she did just fine. She may have more to say about it, if she writes anything when she posts the pictures. Maybe she will. She goes down to St. George this weekend for the Shakespeare festival down there, leaving Thursday and getting home Saturday night. I won't get to see her for four whole days! I will last see her before I go to work Wednesday night, then when I get home Sunday morning. At least it happens on a work week, cause I spend most of my time sleeping anyway.
So this month is going to be exciting, I take the PTCE (Pharmacy Technician Certification Exam) on the 25th, so I'm studying for that. Hopefully I'll be able to transfer to the pharmacy and get a pay raise soon after I get my license, we will need it. However, I probably wouldn't switch too soon, just to help my boss out with being on overnights. It's hard to get someone to switch to being the overnight manager for a mere 25 cents extra. But I'm definitely going to do it, because it will help me transfer up to Rexburg when we move again, whenever that will be.
Well, I think that about does it for me. Kylie will be up next, she's been preparing her lesson plans or something. We think we've pretty much got a name figured out for our baby BOY, but let us know what you might think. Also, we don't know how to make a subscription button, but if you just bookmark this page and put it on your toolbar, you can click it every now and then to get our updates. Bye!!
Oh, I almost forgot! I found the BEST lumpia place not far from home (in fact, right on my way to work) and it is DELICIOUS. It's called eggrollin' and it's in this little red trailer in a parking lot next to a Chevron. $1 lumpia (good sized) if you get the chance, and if you don't live here, know that you are missing out!
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