My cabbage patch

When I was little, I think I got the hand-me-down cabbage patch dolls from my older brother and sister. But guess what? I have one of my very own now!


They're practically twins


Hey, look Shel, she isn't crying! HAHAHA




What's this you ask? Well it's my cucumber. I grew it from a seed! It's my only one, but I sure was proud of it! LOL


Anyone know what this animal is?


Shel, this one is for you, tears and all!


And a smile!


and a HOOOO

So as for me and my world- I'm describing it as running around with my head cut off. I wake up at 5am to leave the house by 7am. I pick up Ellie by 3:30, feed her, get her down for a nap, fix dinner, feed her, bathe me, bathe baby, feed her, go to sleep by 9 or 10pm, and do it all over again. Like I said; running around with my head cut off, and I am absolutely exhausted.

We had meetings 2 of the 4 days this week that left me with very little prep time, so I have been pulling stuff together last minute, which I hate- especially at the beginning of the year. Thankfully I made it, and it was a good week. I like how I have learned to be extremely strict for the first little while and won't put up with any guff from the kids so that later I can be a lot more lenient.

Hopefully once I get things in order in the class, and with prep work, I can calm down a bit, but it's definitely going to be a few weeks. If I had known I was doing 2nd grade even a week or two longer than I had, it would be a completely different story.

As for milestones that the wee one has mastered, she has figured out where her eyes are today and has been rubbing them when the sun gets in her eyes, or when she's tired. It is absolutely adorable! She can hold her head up pretty high while on her tummy but hasn't figured out how to roll herself over since all she does is scream like a raptor. Oh well, someday!

Drew's grandpa passed away this week. He lived down in Albany (OR), so we have to head down there tomorrow morning for the services. It's going to be a loooonnnngggg day. Thank goodness for Stake Conference on Sunday!

oh so fast

man, just when I get through cleaning out email and ready to post a blog, Ellie wakes up and starts crying. So since I'm typing one handed, I'll just post some pictures.

School started this week. I have an interesting class, but all is well.


playing with hunter dog


Happy first day of school!


my mini Drew in pink


morning giggles


do not want!!!!!!!!!!

A few of my favorite things

I love whales and tongues


I love french fries


I love hand-mouth coordination


I love O RLY!? faces


I love stretches after a long walk!

While the baby sleeps!

I wanted to post some more pictures while Ellie was sleeping. Not a whole lot is going on. I had grand plans for my classroom today, but instead, I got a crying baby that won't take longer than a 15 minute nap. Soooooo, I've been hanging out at home more than I had anticipated.

Oh, there goes the crying again! I guess this will be a short post :) Enjoy the pictures!







So picked on!


And another picked on!


Tasting her clothes and other's clothes is a favorite past time!


We don't know how she was able to sleep like this

Shots and Furniture

Princess Unicorn Rainbow went to the doctor on Friday for her 2 month old shots. I think she handled it like a champ, and I think I did, too! I was getting a bit upset there at the end, but consoling her calmed her down quickly, so it made me feel better. Next time I'll take the doctor's advice and drug her up before we come in ;)

Friday was also her 2 month old birthday! So we had to take a picture with Blaire, the hippo for comparisons later. She has definitely gotten bigger, longer, and less wrinkled. Speaking of bigger and longer, she was 23.5" long, and 12 lbs. 11 ounces. Both of which were in the 90th percentile. Her brains were off the charts on smarts. LOL :) She's smiling tons for us, and coos all the time- I am loving it!


2 months old with Blaire, the hippo :)

As some of you know, there's been some minor complications when it comes to Drew's job that haven't been in our favor. This had led us to some searching and praying to figure out what to do. On Thursday, I was given the opportunity to go back to work full time. I didn't give them an answer right away and ended up calling up Drew, bawling the whole time about it. In the end, I have decided to take the position even though it was the VERY last thing I expected. It is the right thing to do, even if I don't want to do it.

The problem with this position is that at the end of this last school year, I was expecting (if anything) to come back part-time. This allowed me to be fairly lenient with the furniture I had accumulated over the last couple of years. I try not to be attached to things and was OK seeing it go. Once I got called back to part-time status, I got a few pieces of furniture that were deemed "mine" from other teachers that had stuck their claim on them. I was pretty happy with the way things were going. Now that I'm going full time, there seems to be a short supply of furniture. I can't take everything that was mine out of my former co-teacher's classroom- that would be absolutely cruel to leave someone else with nothing. But I also don't even have a full set of desks in my classroom for students. I spent several hours on Friday trying to hunt down furniture and came up with a teaching desk from one of the schools. I still don't have enough desks for students nor chairs. I don't have any tables for them to sit at during literacy and math groups. I don't have any bookcases for teaching books OR for student books. I have no tables for computers. I have no student computers (I don't have a teaching computer, but I know where to get that). I don't even have a filing cabinet OR any curriculum. This my friends, is WORSE than a teaching starting out their first year. This is just a disaster.

AND to top it all off- I took Drew with me to move boxes from the dungeon room to the other side of the school and the door to my old room was locked. I decided to go and put up paper over the ugly chalk boards in my new classroom and my keys didn't work!!! I ended up crying the whole way home. I sure hope Monday goes better than today did, otherwise, I might have a breakdown, and no one wants to see that.

On the plus side, I have a happy, healthy baby that I love dearly!


We scared her to try to get a picture of her picture perfect frowny- this picture doesn't even do it justice.


She was SO happy!


Fell asleep screaming, so I left her!


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