Archive for August, 2005
Photo Album: August Kids
Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
Alyson – 9 months!
Tuesday, August 30th, 2005Alyson’s 9 month doctor’s appointment was last night. She is 17 pounds, 11 ounces (Christian was 17 lbs at this age). She’s getting so big so fast! Dr thinks she’ll be walking very soon (she’s already crawling really fast and standing at the coffee table for a long time). She must be going through a growth spurt too, she was up all night. I still have to take her in for a blood draw at the hospital sometime in the next few months, but she’s perfectly fine. She’s such a happy baby 🙂
Another weekend flew by…
Sunday, August 28th, 2005
Monday is almost upon me again already. Two days just isn’t a long enough weekend.
I’m so excited I finally finished my certification course for Quickbooks. It took me two months to get through it. I’m officially a Certified Quickbooks ProAdvisor. Pretty cool. I really learned a lot. Now I just need clients 🙂
We had a lot of fun today after church. We went to see Christian’s friend Katie (also age 6) race. Check out http://www.wqma.com/. It’s pretty amazing to see those little kids zooming around the track. I really found it amazing to watch the kids arrange themselves in numerical order so the races could start. I could definitely see why they have to pass a training and safety course before they can race. Driving in reminded me of horse shows… kids running around everywhere, motor homes, trailers (although a different kind, of course), equipment, activity, organization. It was really fun. I look forward to going to another race next season. For this year, they only have one more race, but it’s Sept 11, the same day as Sunday School Rally Day (there will be a picnic after church).
Well, I’m supposed to be preparing for training that starts tomorrow. But it’s more fun preparing for the quickly approaching tax season (and praying that it goes really really well). I think I’ll go figure out how to put my new Quickbooks ProAdvisor symbol on my website 🙂
Parenting is fun, right?
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005Christian is very excited to go to 1st grade. He got a letter from his new teacher last weekend, welcoming him to first grade. He starts back to school on the 6th. Christian’s favorite part of Kindergarten was recess, so I know he’s looking forward to seeing his friends more than anything. He’s been doing well with his reading over the summer. His Kindergarten teacher sent home a workbook he was working through and suggested he finish it before 1st grade. He only has one page left, and he’s done great. I think I’ll make sure he has something like that to work on next summer too… it’s been a great way to keep his mind working in positive ways 🙂
It will be weird for us to send him to school without meeting his teacher first… I guess his school only does orientation for Kindergarten parents. The rest of the grades have a curriculum night on the 22nd of September. I’m looking forward to that. I hope it will be a fun school year for him.
Alyson has learned to pull herself up this week and she has started cruising a little bit… my oh my is she ever busy now 🙂 Monday is her next doctor’s appointment. I’ll be interested to find out what she weighs now.
Hopefully we’ll get our annual family portraits done in a couple of weeks… I definitely don’t want to wait until December this year!
I think that’s it for now… I’m not even going to start ranting about work (at least tonight).
Jesica
Mommy to 1st grader Christian, 6, troublemaker* Brandon, 3.5, and mobile Alyson, 9 months
*My darling Brandon climbed up on the bathroom counter and unscrewed the burned out lightbulbs this evening… only 1 of 2 broke, but glass was everywhere.
Stupid people
Wednesday, August 17th, 2005Ok, I just have to rant about this quickly before I go to bed. We just got a phone call. At 9:45 pm. I looked at the caller ID and thought the name sounded vaguely familiar, but not familiar enough to answer. Then I realized who this woman was. She’s the one that had this phone number before we did. Her creditors have been calling us for over a year now. Then I checked the voicemail. She left this laughing message that made absolutely no sense. Really bright. We’ll be more than happy to give all of her creditors her current phone number.
What a week…
Friday, August 12th, 2005
It has been quite a week. Last Saturday was terrible. It was one of those days that you wonder why God would trust me with children, particularly infants. I am encouraged that the boys have survived so far. It started early in the afternoon, when I was working on something in my office. I saw Alyson crawl in out of the corner of my eye. I felt her crawl under my chair. I didn’t think much of it until I heard her scream. I’m sure you can imagine my horror when I realized she had a cord in her hand. Not just any cord, of course. No. The shredder cord. The shredder cord that was plugged into the wall, but not into the shredder. Yep, she got a shock. Thankfully, dh could reassure me that there was very little voltage.
But wait! There’s more! Of course there is. Later the very same afternoon, I carried Alyson out to get the mail. I do this every afternoon. This particular beautiful afternoon, I slipped or something and the ground rushed up at me. I don’t think I’ve ever been so scared. When I picked myself up, Alyson was about a foot away, crying. Got her back inside and she was fine. She had a little bump on her head, but it was gone the next day.
Just to prove that she’s perfectly fine, she’s now suddenly climbing stairs, waving, and standing at every opportunity. It’s just me that should have a ton of gray hair by now!
Almost my birthday
Monday, August 1st, 2005
I’m excited for my birthday tomorrow. I took the day off of work. My plan? To sleep in. To enjoy breakfast with the kids. To take the boys to the Children’s Museum in Everett. To drop them off and go swimming by myself. To pick them all up and take the boys to their swimming class. And to go out to dinner at Claim Jumper and order whatever I want :). I just got some new clothes from LLBean today, and my raise showed up on my paycheck on Friday, so life is really good right now. Oh, and one of my coworkers said she’d refer a few tax clients my way. I’m not sure if I should be eternally grateful and honored or just terrified. She somehow attracts clients with the most complicated, convoluted tax situations. Regardless, I do feel honored. A little scared, too, though because I don’t have enough practical experience doing bookkeeping. But I guess we all have to start somewhere.
Christian wrote, “I cant wat for skool” on the whiteboard tonight… clever kid. Brandon is trying to not wet the bed tonight… I pray for him to stay dry! Alyson is such a joy. She is always smiling and giggling. If I could just capture that somehow and hold it close to my heart forever, I would.
