Trevin is off to his first day of 6th grade. Which means that next year I will have a jr higher. And a kindergartner. And a preschooler, and a 1 year old. I'm just mapping out my insanity plea now in case you are wondering.
I'm very proud of Trevin's educational journey. He has always been a good student and gotten good grades. He's only had minor behavioral issues (like getting too excited to participate and forgetting to raise his hand first). I've had very little trouble dealing with the boy in the academic world. That doesn't mean that I'm not worried about his future. Jr high is a totally different beast as anyone who has lived through it understands. I'm just hoping he continues to improve or at least stay steady.
His teacher this year I am impressed with, just from the one meeting. She is very atune to the fact that her kids will be in jr high next year and she wants them to be ready. She doesn't assign homework. She simply assigns the work for the day and if you use your time to get it done, then wallah! no homework. If you don't time manage, then you'll probably have homework. She also believes very strongly in the fact that these "kids" need to be the ones in charge of their work and the communication that needs to happen between parents and teachers. She spoke of how this is how it is in upcoming schooling and work environments so getting them ready now is the best approach. I couldn't agree more. I hope Trevin really catches on so he has this little advantage and has a certain skill set in place by the time the nightmare and scare of jr high begins.
I am apparently lacking as a parent though as I did not get a picture of him this morning. I think I have pictures of his first day of preschool (with Miss Gina), kindergarten (Eaglecrest) and first grade (Fox Hollow), but beyond that, I've slacked. I just use school pictures. I will, however, post pictures soon of his chipped tooth before and after. It was the mark in my head of the beginning of school. Me getting him into the dentist in enough time that he wasn't known in his 6th grade class as "dumb and dumber". The chip was repaired and I can look at his smile without wincing anymore. Onward and Upward!
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Friday, July 29, 2011
i'm sick
This is newsworthy. I don't get sick often. I have a pretty hearty immune system thanks to my mom. I don't deal well when sick because it happens so rarely.
I can handle anyone else being sick, I prefer it that way. I can accommodate. But when my body takes a detour, I just can't cope. Even with the good Kleenex, cough drops and kids who still nap everyday. I hate being sick.
I blame California.
We had my brother and sister-in-law and their clan here for a while. It was great, but they had spent a few weeks in Cali with other family previously and those evil germs in California must have made the road trip with them. You just can't have that many carrier monkeys...i mean kids about without someone getting something. I just happened to be the lucky winner this time.
It's a head cold. Which may be completely managable for someone who was not incubating an already very opinionated fetus. You see, this pregnancy has sucked. And this is just the latest sucktastic thing to pile on. I got sick the other night when someone opened a bag of licorice...i mean, come on! This child inside has very particular tastes and when I do not obey those directions, I pay dearly.
This is where you feel bad for me. Because I've never been sick with pregnancy before, and I don't get sick regularly either. So here I am SICKLY pregnant and SICK. I'll wait while you all wipe the tears to continue reading.
The little things that we as mom's do daily are not getting done here. Like cooking, or cleaning up, or showering.... I suddenly have a deep appreciation for that scripture which says that cleanliness is next to Godliness because none of that is here in this house.
Joe has missed several days of work because of his useless wife and it's not exactly luxurious here. Listening to me moan, cough and generally mucus up the house is what is happening here. That and a lot of Phineas and Ferb. Because I can't actually get off the couch.
I think I am through the worst of it but I'm still exceptionally exhausted and with my little bits of energy I can only get so much done. I did get the toys in the toy box today and then ventured into the room that should be the kitchen but has now just turned into storage for dirty dishes. I was totally planning on unloading the dishwasher and getting all those dirty dishes into the dishwasher until I came upon a sippy cup of chocolate milk that had been lost and forgotten for a few days apparently and when I opened it to rinse it out the blob that came out followed by the serious odor was just enough to send me sprinting to the bathroom. I figured having vomit covering all the dirty dishes would be even too much for Joe to handle. Once I returned to the "kitchen" I ran the hot water and disposal for about 10 minutes and turned on the scentsy. Which should cover all that grossness in a lovely lavendar scent. I know what you are thinking and you are right...Joe is a lucky guy!
I can handle anyone else being sick, I prefer it that way. I can accommodate. But when my body takes a detour, I just can't cope. Even with the good Kleenex, cough drops and kids who still nap everyday. I hate being sick.
I blame California.
We had my brother and sister-in-law and their clan here for a while. It was great, but they had spent a few weeks in Cali with other family previously and those evil germs in California must have made the road trip with them. You just can't have that many carrier monkeys...i mean kids about without someone getting something. I just happened to be the lucky winner this time.
It's a head cold. Which may be completely managable for someone who was not incubating an already very opinionated fetus. You see, this pregnancy has sucked. And this is just the latest sucktastic thing to pile on. I got sick the other night when someone opened a bag of licorice...i mean, come on! This child inside has very particular tastes and when I do not obey those directions, I pay dearly.
This is where you feel bad for me. Because I've never been sick with pregnancy before, and I don't get sick regularly either. So here I am SICKLY pregnant and SICK. I'll wait while you all wipe the tears to continue reading.
The little things that we as mom's do daily are not getting done here. Like cooking, or cleaning up, or showering.... I suddenly have a deep appreciation for that scripture which says that cleanliness is next to Godliness because none of that is here in this house.
Joe has missed several days of work because of his useless wife and it's not exactly luxurious here. Listening to me moan, cough and generally mucus up the house is what is happening here. That and a lot of Phineas and Ferb. Because I can't actually get off the couch.
I think I am through the worst of it but I'm still exceptionally exhausted and with my little bits of energy I can only get so much done. I did get the toys in the toy box today and then ventured into the room that should be the kitchen but has now just turned into storage for dirty dishes. I was totally planning on unloading the dishwasher and getting all those dirty dishes into the dishwasher until I came upon a sippy cup of chocolate milk that had been lost and forgotten for a few days apparently and when I opened it to rinse it out the blob that came out followed by the serious odor was just enough to send me sprinting to the bathroom. I figured having vomit covering all the dirty dishes would be even too much for Joe to handle. Once I returned to the "kitchen" I ran the hot water and disposal for about 10 minutes and turned on the scentsy. Which should cover all that grossness in a lovely lavendar scent. I know what you are thinking and you are right...Joe is a lucky guy!
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Family and such
We had the great opportunity to house some extra family for the last little while. It was one of the main reasons for buying a house of this magnitude that I could have an extra 14 or so people staying with us, and no one was really cramped. It's awesome. Until I have to clean it.
It was great to see everyone and I am sick and seriously sleep deprived from it, but totally worth it.
From these late nights came some very interesting conversations amid all the games and I promised those invovled that I would blog some of the more memorable quotes of the evenings. Feel free to add if I forgot any because hey...I was up until 2 am or so most mornings....haven't done that in YEARS.
"You know what I like about the ______ family"..."not that I don't like everything else..."
"Justin is only so good with math" "Yeah, since I only use it every day for every facet of my job"
"You know how Joe is a player"
"what happens on Thursday nights, stays on Thursday nights"
"Dueces are wild" "right, what's a duece?"
"Did Justin win?" "Yeah" "Then it doesn't count"
"It's ok, because he didn't look"
Along with many others that I can't think of right now. I also want to give a big shout out to my little sister who shared with us her wisdom of "floating" and "gazing". Believe me, if you don't know, you don't want to.
It was great to see everyone and I am sick and seriously sleep deprived from it, but totally worth it.
From these late nights came some very interesting conversations amid all the games and I promised those invovled that I would blog some of the more memorable quotes of the evenings. Feel free to add if I forgot any because hey...I was up until 2 am or so most mornings....haven't done that in YEARS.
"You know what I like about the ______ family"..."not that I don't like everything else..."
"Justin is only so good with math" "Yeah, since I only use it every day for every facet of my job"
"You know how Joe is a player"
"what happens on Thursday nights, stays on Thursday nights"
"Dueces are wild" "right, what's a duece?"
"Did Justin win?" "Yeah" "Then it doesn't count"
"It's ok, because he didn't look"
Along with many others that I can't think of right now. I also want to give a big shout out to my little sister who shared with us her wisdom of "floating" and "gazing". Believe me, if you don't know, you don't want to.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Christmas come early....
I'm having issues with getting the pic big enough and posting correctly so this is what i can produce right now. Due Dec 1st!
(we don't know the sex)
(we don't know the sex)
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Out and Over
She has broken out.
None of my kids have had cribs. I saw them as a big pain so mine have always been in a pack n'plays for ease. Trevin was out of his around a year. Garrin made it to 18 months. Kiya almost made it 2 years. Last night we put her to bed as usual and came back down to finish watching a show. A few minutes later we hear a door open and some footsteps down the stairs. Joe and I both assumed it was Garrin, since he is the one that opens his door and comes out. We look up and see our little girl dragging her blanky behind. After we got over the shock and a few giggles we realized it would be an exhausting night/few days.
We had bought a "big girl" bed for her almost a year ago anticipating this very night. Luckily she did take to the idea of sleeping in her big bed and it only took us 3 more tries to get her down.
She did wake up around 2:30am and came into our room. LUCKILY, I have trained my kids well and she just walked in and said, "Daddy..." ha. That means I get to stay in bed while he takes her up. She stayed in bed until about 7am and then called for me to come and get her out. Which was nice. It took a few times this afternoon to get her settled, but hopefully she will get the idea quickly.
I've been very blessed with good sleepers and plan to ride the train as long as I can.
Now if I can just get her to keep her pants on....
None of my kids have had cribs. I saw them as a big pain so mine have always been in a pack n'plays for ease. Trevin was out of his around a year. Garrin made it to 18 months. Kiya almost made it 2 years. Last night we put her to bed as usual and came back down to finish watching a show. A few minutes later we hear a door open and some footsteps down the stairs. Joe and I both assumed it was Garrin, since he is the one that opens his door and comes out. We look up and see our little girl dragging her blanky behind. After we got over the shock and a few giggles we realized it would be an exhausting night/few days.
We had bought a "big girl" bed for her almost a year ago anticipating this very night. Luckily she did take to the idea of sleeping in her big bed and it only took us 3 more tries to get her down.
She did wake up around 2:30am and came into our room. LUCKILY, I have trained my kids well and she just walked in and said, "Daddy..." ha. That means I get to stay in bed while he takes her up. She stayed in bed until about 7am and then called for me to come and get her out. Which was nice. It took a few times this afternoon to get her settled, but hopefully she will get the idea quickly.
I've been very blessed with good sleepers and plan to ride the train as long as I can.
Now if I can just get her to keep her pants on....
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Wanna Know?
So, you wanna know how to let everyone know that you have arrived in a new neighborhood? You attend church and during sacrament meeting have your 3 year old yell out to the congregation that "HIS PENIS IS BIG AND HE DOESN'T LIKE IT!!!" Yep. About 3 times. That's right folks. Garrin announced us properly and let everyone know several things about our family right off. That his mother teaches him the correct names of body parts and he has no issue with letting you know what is happening with each and every correctly named body part. You will also see that the other menfolk of the family are useless when penis jokes abound. Joe went RED from laughing so hard and Trevin had to bury his head under Joe so he didn't make anymore noises. I, of course, simply kept my head up and my composure as everyone took it the fact that this little family is just bringing some class into the neighborhood. I'm sure they'll all thank me later.
MOVED IN
Ok, we are in a new home! I am SO in love with having my own house. This thing is a monster though and everytime I have to clean it I regret getting so much sqaure footage. (poor me, i know) We are all civilized now with TV, internet and phone so I feel connected again. We have not moved our computer over that has all our pictures so I can't post anything with pics yet, but I invite you all over for the 5 cent tour. I have no problem showing off my new place that will not be "done" for months I'm sure. The home decore is the last thing on my list so the place is just functional, not pretty. At least not yet. I'll get it there eventually.
I quit my job as soon as we moved in too so I am the newest member of the stay-at-home clan and most days feel relatively sane about it. most days. Which is why I need lots of visitors to distract me. The kids have adjusted perfectly. Trevin has lots of friends already and the little ones have loved all the space in the house and outside.
Joe is uber busy with work and schooling but we both feel so blessed to be so adult right now. Lets hope we can keep it up!
So hit me up here or on my phone for the address and come see the new digs!
I quit my job as soon as we moved in too so I am the newest member of the stay-at-home clan and most days feel relatively sane about it. most days. Which is why I need lots of visitors to distract me. The kids have adjusted perfectly. Trevin has lots of friends already and the little ones have loved all the space in the house and outside.
Joe is uber busy with work and schooling but we both feel so blessed to be so adult right now. Lets hope we can keep it up!
So hit me up here or on my phone for the address and come see the new digs!
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