Open House at Kaleb's School

Today was open house at Kaleb's school. Tyrone was able to get off work for a little while to be able to go, and so it was a whole family thing. Kaleb was so excited! They had the kids bring all their supplies in and their bookbags so that they could get a feel for what they were really going to be doing. We found Kaleb's desk, put his supplies in it, and found his cubby, where his blanket for nap time goes. Then, we explored the classroom, getting him used to where everything was in there.

His teacher, Ms. Marshall, seems very nice, and excited to meet her new students, which I took as a good sign! Also, it is a nice small class with only about 12 students, so I know Kaleb will be able to get plenty of attention. Ms. Marshall told us about some of her plans for the year, including raising a caterpillar to a butterfly, which made Kaleb very happy!

Kaleb even got some presents! Ms. Marshall had balloons for everybody, and there were huge packs of magnetic letters for the kids to work on their alphabets at home. Plus, there was also a coupon for free ice cream from one of the local places. You would have thought from Kaleb's reaction that it was Christmas!

As if all of that weren't enough, then there was cake! After doing all of that in the classroom, we went to the cafeteria. The principal was there to meet everybody, and they had the largest cake I have ever seen in my life! It all went very well, and Kaleb can't wait for school to start. He is going to ask me approximately 4,387,209 times by next Wed. (the 1st day) when he gets to go to school!

The picture is one Kaleb is very proud of. He is wearing his bookbag, just walking out the front door on his way to school, like the big boy he now is!

Crazy Belly!

Here's a video I took a couple of days ago of the baby "dancing". I thought it was so funny!!

My Latte personality!

What can I say? I'm bored, Tyrone's pulling 24 hour staff duty again. But how did a quiz know about my secret caffeine addiction?

What Your Latte Says About You

You are easygoing and pretty simple to please. You don't put up a fuss... ever. You can be quite silly at times, but you know when to buckle down and be serious. Intense and energetic, you aren't completely happy unless you are bouncing off the walls. You're addicted to caffeine. There's no denying it. You are a child at heart, and you don't ever miss the opportunity to do something playful. You are sophisticated and daring, but you are never snobby.

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Happy Days

Got him!

Sleepy puppy

Is this really a nap, Gabe?

I am amazed....

I know that I just posted pregnant pics of me on Sunday afternoon, but that night, the baby dropped. I can not remember being so aware of exactly when it happened with either of the boys, and it was definately not so visually obvious! Normally I am not very fond of pictures of myself, but I am just amazed at the change. And yes, I am in my mismatched PJs, but they are just so darn comfortable!

Kaleb is taking all of this pregnancy stuff quite in stride, he seems to have some vague memories of doing all of this before when I was pregnant with Gabe. I am happy that he is so unconcerned, besides, he starts school 2 weeks from tomorrow. He is beside himself with excitement. We went to register him yesterday, and it is all he can talk about!

Gabe, on the other hand, is quite curious about Mommy's changing tummy. I explained to him early on that it was a good thing that my tummy was getting bigger, that this meant that his sister was growing. So pretty much everyday now, Gabe comes to me and tells me very seriously that he needs to look at my tummy. I will pull my shirt up so that he can, and he will put his hands on it, be very still for a moment, and then smile broadly and say "Your tummy's growing up Mommy! Good!" I wonder if he'll be disturbed when it starts getting smaller??

37 Weeks!

Well, I am 37 weeks pregnant as of today! It seems to have snuck up on me a little....doesn't seem like very long ago that I had all the time in the world to do stuff that needed to be done...and now this baby will be here SOON! As none of my pregnancies have gone to 40 weeks, I'm really not expecting this one to. I am thinking probably sometime next week (but I could be so far off....it could be tonight or the second week in Sept. for all I know!) and Mom is voting for Sept. 1st. She thinks that it would be neat, since Gabe's birthday is July 1st, and mine is August 1st.

I am going to the doctor every week now, I had my 36 week appt. last Thursday, and everything seemed very well. The baby's heart rate is in the right place, and she is measuring perfectly. All the tests and such from my hospital stay came back looking like they should, and it would seem that all of that is behind me, for which I am grateful. I go back to the doctor on Thursday, assuming that I'm still pregnant (I really don't think she is coming THAT soon....but it makes me a little giddy to think of her being here.)

The only other interesting pregnancy related thing is that there seems to be a cruel joke being played on me. My hearts greatest desire at this exact moment in time is to clean everything that I see....but just walking around for a few minutes leaves me in need of a nap! {sigh} Such is life.

Mandatory Fun!

Today was a "mandatory fun day" for Tyrone's Battalion. We always do have fun at these things, but it cracks me up that they basically say "You will show up and you will have fun!" Mostly, there's alot of playing and free food (which is wonderful with 2 growing boys!). I didn't get as many pictures as I should have, because I am getting tired so easily, and spent most of the time sitting in the shade with Tyrone's Sgt.'s wife.

The boys spent most of their time jumping in the bouncy hut, blowing bubbles (bubbles for the kids was Tyrone's platoon's project), and eating snow cones. Tyrone also played a rowdy game of flag football, but there were too many people to get good pictures of that. All in all, it was a pretty good day.

First to try out the bubbles!

Those bouncy huts are tricky! They'll throw you right out!

More bubbles!

Snow Cone Face!