Well, we are sick again! I thought that we were over sickness since the nice weather has been here for a while but most of the month of April has been dealing with on sick kid or another as well as Matthew and I. This time it is a stomach virus that is just nasty. I am glad that the gross part only seems to last about 12 hours. Then it is just fatigue, and soreness. I never thought that I would wish not to have a baby at the end of a pregnancy but I am hoping and praying that his little one is not born to a house full of sick people or the baby and I will have to hole up in the bedroom and stay away from the family :( that would be too sad for words.
OK well off to try to drink more water. I have to stay hydrated or the little one will definately make it's appearance.
Friday, April 24, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Help with this page!
Okay, I know that some of you have been blogging with this site for quite sometime. I don't want followers but rather links to the people that I know and love. I am not sure who riot girl is but I would love to know. Also I was wondering if there was an easier way to upload pictures in the order that you want them in. I can't seem to click and drag them where I want them. Any who just thought I would put that out there so that I could get some good feed back.
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OK on to us. We have had a few very nice days here at our home. Our landscape project is coming along nicely. I say our but Matthew is doing all the work and I am just sort of watching him sweat! :) I will do the planting I guess, especially since it has the new dirt now. I am hoping to not have to buy a ton of plants this year but I know that is probably impossible. As soon as stuff starts to bloom I will take some pictures.
As for me and my actual projects they mostly include getting ready for the baby. The bedroom is still somewhat torn apart as I am weeding through things and moving things into more organized piles and taking things that can be put in the basement down there. It is times like this I wish I had a nice high and dry storage area that I could put things in. Someday Sara, Someday! The project for after May 1st is to convert the television room into a computer/school room/ play/craft area. This is proving to be more difficult to me than I thought it would be. Mostly because I feel as though I am going to loose space even though in reality I am gaining a little. The clutter would be condensed. The problem lies in my selfishness! I seriously just like my stuff and I don't want to sell it, but it is just stuff. The other problem is that we are keeping the television so it is becoming quite a chore to figure out where to put it. I am really having issues over something so silly.
Andrea is almost done with her Kindergarten year of schooling and will be starting on some pre- first grade work soon while she waits for her new books. Matthew and I have to sit down still and figure out what route to take with the schooling this year. Do we do the PC/DVD programs or should we continue in the way that we have been doing things thus far. I lean toward the programs simply because Kayla will be starting and Andrea is a visual learner and would benefit from having more information than what the books are showing but also another "authority" figure. If that makes sense. She still has to do the workbooks and homework stuff so I would still be very hands on. The biggest issue with that is money. It is about two hundred dollars more for those programs. UGH! Not that the regular program is that much less expensive since we still have to buy other things that they don't sell with the kits. So expensive! I wish they would do school vouchers so that we could use the money we already pay in for this to work to our advantage. I am even up for that with regulations like standardized testing each year to show that your kids know what we say they know and that they are at the very least where they should be education wise, possibly even doing a reimbursement check system so that you have to be accountable for the money you spend and that is it truly for education. That is a whole different conversation though that becomes controversial in HS circles. Leave it to me to be a trouble maker:)
Kayla has been doing some kindergarten work instead of preschool. I will be going through the summer on a biweekly schedule in case people reading are wondering what in the world I am worrying about this at the end of the school year for. The younger grades are so crucial that I want the kids to keep up on them and not waste precious time in review. I figure that a couple hours during the hottest parts of the day when they don't want to be outside anyways is not that big a deal. Plus in about an hour and a half I can do two to three days worth of classes with kindergarten. First grade....we have not gotten there yet so we will see how easy doubling up days will be since the course load triples.
Ok, enough school talk. On to Alexis. She is a goofy girl! She loves the outdoors and has been enjoying the nice weather immensely! I can not wait for more consistency in an outdoor routine. April showers are really messing with her out door fun. In fact, so is this blog at the moment (lol!). She has become a little more attached to me in the past month. I don't know if it is the coming addition to the family that she is feeling or if she has finally warmed up to her old mother, but whatever it is I like it. For the longest time now she has solely been a Daddy's girl and let me tell you, though that is all fine and dandy it is not cool being stiff armed by your baby when you go to give her a hug, or being forced apart if I am hugging Matthew. So, I am enjoying the new niceness that she is giving to me. Even if dad is the favored one still.
The new baby is apparently very large. So here is the most recent scoop on my pregnancy and then I will quit boring you. :) I am currently in my 38th week. The doctor and I have concurred that the baby is at least eight pounds, possibly larger. He is very concerned about me having issues delivering naturally if I go past my due date as he has not had much success with women delivering babies over ten pounds that way. So, the current plan is that if by my last appointment that is prior to my due date I have not yet had this baby that we will be setting up an induction date. This is fine with me as I really don't need to skip the baby stage and head right for a toddler! Plus the waiting can be such a pain when you want to do stuff...So selfish this one. Ah well, so I am hoping and praying that the baby comes soon but if not at least I know that I won't be allowed to grow a massive child...only a large one:) Oh and in case some of you are wondering how much weight a baby puts on after the 37th week it is an ounce a day on average and I already grow mine above average size so that is the reason for all the hype.
Ok, have a fabulous Saturday my dear family and friends!
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OK on to us. We have had a few very nice days here at our home. Our landscape project is coming along nicely. I say our but Matthew is doing all the work and I am just sort of watching him sweat! :) I will do the planting I guess, especially since it has the new dirt now. I am hoping to not have to buy a ton of plants this year but I know that is probably impossible. As soon as stuff starts to bloom I will take some pictures.
As for me and my actual projects they mostly include getting ready for the baby. The bedroom is still somewhat torn apart as I am weeding through things and moving things into more organized piles and taking things that can be put in the basement down there. It is times like this I wish I had a nice high and dry storage area that I could put things in. Someday Sara, Someday! The project for after May 1st is to convert the television room into a computer/school room/ play/craft area. This is proving to be more difficult to me than I thought it would be. Mostly because I feel as though I am going to loose space even though in reality I am gaining a little. The clutter would be condensed. The problem lies in my selfishness! I seriously just like my stuff and I don't want to sell it, but it is just stuff. The other problem is that we are keeping the television so it is becoming quite a chore to figure out where to put it. I am really having issues over something so silly.
Andrea is almost done with her Kindergarten year of schooling and will be starting on some pre- first grade work soon while she waits for her new books. Matthew and I have to sit down still and figure out what route to take with the schooling this year. Do we do the PC/DVD programs or should we continue in the way that we have been doing things thus far. I lean toward the programs simply because Kayla will be starting and Andrea is a visual learner and would benefit from having more information than what the books are showing but also another "authority" figure. If that makes sense. She still has to do the workbooks and homework stuff so I would still be very hands on. The biggest issue with that is money. It is about two hundred dollars more for those programs. UGH! Not that the regular program is that much less expensive since we still have to buy other things that they don't sell with the kits. So expensive! I wish they would do school vouchers so that we could use the money we already pay in for this to work to our advantage. I am even up for that with regulations like standardized testing each year to show that your kids know what we say they know and that they are at the very least where they should be education wise, possibly even doing a reimbursement check system so that you have to be accountable for the money you spend and that is it truly for education. That is a whole different conversation though that becomes controversial in HS circles. Leave it to me to be a trouble maker:)
Kayla has been doing some kindergarten work instead of preschool. I will be going through the summer on a biweekly schedule in case people reading are wondering what in the world I am worrying about this at the end of the school year for. The younger grades are so crucial that I want the kids to keep up on them and not waste precious time in review. I figure that a couple hours during the hottest parts of the day when they don't want to be outside anyways is not that big a deal. Plus in about an hour and a half I can do two to three days worth of classes with kindergarten. First grade....we have not gotten there yet so we will see how easy doubling up days will be since the course load triples.
Ok, enough school talk. On to Alexis. She is a goofy girl! She loves the outdoors and has been enjoying the nice weather immensely! I can not wait for more consistency in an outdoor routine. April showers are really messing with her out door fun. In fact, so is this blog at the moment (lol!). She has become a little more attached to me in the past month. I don't know if it is the coming addition to the family that she is feeling or if she has finally warmed up to her old mother, but whatever it is I like it. For the longest time now she has solely been a Daddy's girl and let me tell you, though that is all fine and dandy it is not cool being stiff armed by your baby when you go to give her a hug, or being forced apart if I am hugging Matthew. So, I am enjoying the new niceness that she is giving to me. Even if dad is the favored one still.
The new baby is apparently very large. So here is the most recent scoop on my pregnancy and then I will quit boring you. :) I am currently in my 38th week. The doctor and I have concurred that the baby is at least eight pounds, possibly larger. He is very concerned about me having issues delivering naturally if I go past my due date as he has not had much success with women delivering babies over ten pounds that way. So, the current plan is that if by my last appointment that is prior to my due date I have not yet had this baby that we will be setting up an induction date. This is fine with me as I really don't need to skip the baby stage and head right for a toddler! Plus the waiting can be such a pain when you want to do stuff...So selfish this one. Ah well, so I am hoping and praying that the baby comes soon but if not at least I know that I won't be allowed to grow a massive child...only a large one:) Oh and in case some of you are wondering how much weight a baby puts on after the 37th week it is an ounce a day on average and I already grow mine above average size so that is the reason for all the hype.
Ok, have a fabulous Saturday my dear family and friends!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Nine years together!
Well yesterday April 15th 2009 was our ninth wedding anniversary. We were unable to go out and celebrate yesterday because we both had to work different shifts, but tonight we are hoping to go out and have dinner and a movie. It was a good anniversary anyways. We emailed back and forth and then we took time to remember what we were doing at different times during the day. It was special to get those emails and share in conversation for the hour that we did get to spend together. I have to say that the past nine years have been the best of my life!
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Hello!
Matthew and Alexis at the Indianapolis children's Museum.
Me at 35 weeks pregnant with the new baby!
Three little munchkins sitting in a row Kayla, Andrea, and Alexis
Andrea and Alexis
Alexis on Christmas morning with her dreaded candy cane filled with m&ms that she couldn't figure out how to open so she got mad at it:) We tried to capture the anger but she saw the camera and smiled instead. LOL!Hello to all our family and friends. This is our new family blog! I hope to update it with some nice pictures that are recent but until I get the hang of this I just wanted to say that we are excited to keep up with family and friends in a much more techie way than before. We will be having another new baby in our home anytime now and we will then be back and forth between home and the cabin so I decided that this would be fun and Matthew just sort of said Oh OK...:) So there you have it. To those who have not seen our family in a while I will try to upload a couple of pictures but bare with me I am very new to this:) Anyways, Love and hugs to all our family and friends!
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