Pictures

Just some cute pictures...

Aidan staring at my camera (no, it's not upside down - that's the direction I took the shot!)

Smiling in his car seat... we put that cute little hat on him at night to help keep him warm. (I don't remember why he's in his car seat... he wasn't sleeping in there!)

Like Grandpa, like grandson... look closely at the tongue!

For some reason, he looks so OLD to me in these last 2 pictures... maybe because his hair is starting to grow in enough to see it from a distance.

Check out those chunky thighs - so fun to pinch! (We stripped his bottom half while waiting for the suppository to work its magic - didn't want to ruin the pants!)

School

I was cleaning out the last of my school stuff. I had 2 boxes of keepsake-type things: letters from students or parents, pictures, plan books, evaluations, etc. I think I did pretty well - I went from 2 boxes down to this:

But in the process of cleaning, I discovered that I was missing a class composite picture from last year. I called the photo company... they don't keep them. But they DID give me a permission form to copy it if I could find someone else's. My school had a copy, and I had promised to go visit sometime with Aidan, so I went out to get the picture and see my old students.

It's fun to see how they grow up. Do you realize that my first class of 3rd graders are now sophomores?! And the 4th graders I taught as a long-term sub are now seniors?! That sure makes me feel old!

The Stats

Well, Aidan had his 4 month well child visit on Monday. (Wow, that went by quickly!) He is very healthy; even his hernia has disappeared. And the stats are:

Weight: 17 lbs 15 oz - 95-97th percentile band (Only 4 more pounds until we have to get a new car seat...)


Height: 28 inches - ABOVE the 99th percentile band (I made her double check that because it seemed SO long, but she got the same measurement both times!) (Only ONE more inch before we have to get a new car seat based on height!)

My child is a monster! (In a totally adorable way, of course.) We had four babies born in our ward this summer, and one ward member put it like this: "Aidan looks like the ENFORCER of the babies!" I'm so grateful that he's healthy!

This is a very typical pose for him - he is CONSTANTLY sucking on as much of his hand as he can get in there. In fact, the doctor said he is already teething. (And I say, "NO! I want that adorable toothless grin for a while longer still!" Oh, well.)

(I must confess: my mommy pride is also grateful that he's adorable!)

Another ACT question

This one's for all you math geeks out there. It took us a while to figure this out during my ACT math class, although the reason why was a typo in the book rather than not knowing how to do the math. Try it before you look at the comments.

If [2x-2] > 2 (pretend that the [brackets] are absolute value signs - I don't know how to type those), what is the range of x?

a. x <4> -4
b. x <> -2
c. x < 2 or x > -2
d. x < 0 or x > 2
e. x <> 2

Good luck! :)

:(

I woke up this morning and the house was only 64 degrees. I had to pull out the slippers again. :(

I wore these in the hospital when I had Aidan, who will be 4 months old on Friday. That means we only had 4 months of weather where my feet wouldn't freeze! Grrr.... I need to move to Arizona.

"Do You Miss It?"

That's what many people have asked me about teaching. And the answer?

Well... from day to day, not really. I don't find myself wishing that I could get up to go to school. I am very happy to be home with my darling little boy.

But I must confess - last night I dreamed that I was teaching kindergarten. Now, anyone who knows me well knows that I can't imagine ever teaching younger than 3rd grade because they are just TOO YOUNG. And kindergarten?! No way. But in my dream, it wasn't so bad. In fact, it was maybe even a little bit fun. And when I hear a teacher talk about things like the math series I worked with for the last few years, or organizing their classroom, I must confess that the teacher side of me wakes up and could talk all day.

Do I miss it? Not intensely. But could I see myself wanting to go back sometime? Yeah, maybe I could... To everything there is a season!

Just Do It

So you know that chore that's undone at your house and nagging at a corner of your brain? Maybe the cobweb you saw in the corner? The streak you saw in the toilet bowl? The yucky white gunk that always collects under the gallon of milk in your refrigerator? The paper that's out because you have to call the insurance company before you put it away? The baby toys you were given that need to be washed before you give them to your kid?

No? You don't have those?

Oh, yeah. Those are mine.

So if I were amazing (like my mother-in-law), I would fix those kinds of things every day as soon as I saw them. As the post title says, I would just do them!

And instead, I'm not. I seem to always find myself with a list of things to do, but time creeps on and I don't do them. Honestly, I know that each of those things couldn't take more than 5 minutes, tops. It should be so easy to take care of them! And they sit undone.

Well, today I resolve to just do it! Mike and I got the cobwebs over the weekend, and I cleaned the fridge. I mailed one paper this morning. Today, I will call the insurance so I can put the paper away. I will take the 5 minutes to clean those toys. I will eliminate the streak in the toilet. I will call the doctor to set up an appointment. I will email the lady I visit teach. And at the end of the day, I will feel like superwoman... or at least a little bit more on top of things!

What will YOU "just do" today?