October already?!?

October 4th, 2005

I don’t know where the last few weeks went.

Good news:

Alyson is starting to stand on her own for a few seconds at a time. She gives kisses 🙂 She eats almost only finger food.

Heartbreaking news:

Poor Christian and his best friend since Kindergarten Gabe had a falling out yesterday. He was really upset. Today they’re fine again LOL. But the poor kid yesterday afternoon wrote some sort of flame mail to Gabe and wanted to mail it.

Must see:

GO SEE SERENITY! Bill and I went and saw the movie Serenity on opening night last Friday. I laughed, I cried. It was a great movie. We both want to see it again. PLEASE go see it, and go see it soon! I want more people to talk about it with 🙂

More good news:

I got a call on Sunday from Brandon’s Sunday School teacher (I stayed home sick – yuck). She was just calling to tell me what a delight he was in class. He remembered his entire verse (God is patient, and he wants everyone to repent.) He remembered it all except for the 2 Peter 3:9 part. It was so nice to hear. Brandon can be such an uncontrollable powerhouse of energy, it’s nice to know he does well in class.

Silly kid:

Christian’s first ASB meeting was last week. It is held during lunch recess. He FORGOT to go at first. He said he RAN and he missed a lot, but he did get a treat. LOL.

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Alyson – 10 months!

September 18th, 2005

It’s been a challenging week. Everyone is sick in one way or another. Bill has the fever and no voice. I have the headaches. Christian is just sniffly. Brandon has the cough. Alyson has been fine, but it looks like she’s getting the runny nose.

Poor kid is just getting too mobile for her own good. It took FOREVER to get her to sleep last night (and I tried everything). She’s just so interested in climbing, she had a terrible time being still long enough to fall asleep!

So at 10 months, Alyson:

climbs stairs

can stand up in her crib and playpen

cruises back and forth along the coffee table

crawls super fast

eats 3 solid meals with us most days (and usually eats what we eat)

drinks about 2 bottles of formula a day, and has sippy cups of water everywhere

is beautiful 🙂

is very smiley when she wakes up in the morning and has a great sense of humor already

loves mommy, daddy, brothers, and kitties very very much

I think that’s about it for today – I’m sure there’s more and I’ll try to add to it later.

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Christian and First Grade

September 13th, 2005

Christian is full of surprises. It sounds like he and Audrey (we’ve never heard of Audrey, but I guess she’s one of his classmates) have been elected to the student council! Yay Christian!

He also said tonight he’s going to ask Abby to be his girlfriend. They had class together last year, but this year they only see each other at recess. Pretty cute 🙂

He’s getting awfully big.

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Talking about Survivor Story: 6-Year-Old Leads Five Toddlers, Baby To Safety – News – MSNBC.com

September 9th, 2005

This is THE most heart-wrenching story. Don’t click unless you have a box of Kleenex at hand. With a 6 year old that loves to carry his little sister, this story hits way too close to home.

Survivor Story: 6-Year-Old Leads Five Toddlers, Baby To Safety – News – MSNBC.com

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First day of school

September 6th, 2005

Well, Christian got off to his first day of 1st grade no problem. He was very excited to find out at the bus stop that Gabe is in his class again this year. I’m excited to hear how his day went when he gets home this afternoon.

I took the day off of work, but when contractors are around I don’t really get days off work, so Brandon and Alyson and I went in for an hour… poor Brandon was painfully shy. He didn’t even speak to Crystal! For some reason he did talk to Tamara a little bit though. Alyson studied everyone. Crystal and Lawrence got waves, but pretty much everyone else just got stared at.

We took Alyson for her blood draw at the hospital and it was great – they pricked her heel and she didn’t cry a single bit, even with the two little vials they filled. Amazing.

That’s it for now… hopefully more later when Christian gets home.

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Photo Album: August Kids

August 31st, 2005
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Alyson – 9 months!

August 30th, 2005

Alyson’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 🙂

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Another weekend flew by…

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 🙂

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Parenting is fun, right?

August 24th, 2005

Christian 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.

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Stupid people

August 17th, 2005

Ok, 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.

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