Good morning all!
This is a short entry as I need to be at school early today - we're meeting with the superintendent of the district - big stuff :)
I'm sure there are times when this baby thinks, what is going on out there? And I"m positive this baby will count be able to count to five at a super early-genius like age :) Baby hears me count to five probably 30 times a day! (It's the school wide 'time to be quiet' trick)
Other than that, being born into this family will certainly be an adventure! This baby has no idea what he or she is in for, and neither do we!!
Have a great day everyone :)
Love
Laura
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Last Week Before Spring Break :)
Good morning, all!
I actually slept like a 'normal' person last night! It was great!! :) So let's hope that continues at least for a little while :)
Yesterday while I was enjoying a nice little Sunday afternoon nap, I woke up to the baby kicking a little bit - Well, I thought Baby was kicking rather hard, and then out of the corner of my eye, I also thought that I saw my sweater move! Sure enough, the baby was kicking so hard that I saw about three little pulses come come from my belly, through the sweater! Crazy stuff, I tell ya :) And yet... we are STILL have trouble when it comes to letting Ian feel the kicks - It's like this baby knows when we are trying to play with it! :) oh well....
This Thursday will be 6 months already - which is awesome and exciting and scary all at once! We're picking up the crib and changing table from my mom this weekend (Thanks, Mom!) and we have a bassinet, so we are getting ready for this baby!!! :)
One more week of school - and a principal observation on Wednesday. And... Friday the superintendent of our district let the principal know he is going to recommend to keep our school open next year - so that is GREAT news! Means Laura will probably have a job :) Now... the board just needs to vote the same way....
Have a great week, everyone!
Love
Laura
I actually slept like a 'normal' person last night! It was great!! :) So let's hope that continues at least for a little while :)
Yesterday while I was enjoying a nice little Sunday afternoon nap, I woke up to the baby kicking a little bit - Well, I thought Baby was kicking rather hard, and then out of the corner of my eye, I also thought that I saw my sweater move! Sure enough, the baby was kicking so hard that I saw about three little pulses come come from my belly, through the sweater! Crazy stuff, I tell ya :) And yet... we are STILL have trouble when it comes to letting Ian feel the kicks - It's like this baby knows when we are trying to play with it! :) oh well....
This Thursday will be 6 months already - which is awesome and exciting and scary all at once! We're picking up the crib and changing table from my mom this weekend (Thanks, Mom!) and we have a bassinet, so we are getting ready for this baby!!! :)
One more week of school - and a principal observation on Wednesday. And... Friday the superintendent of our district let the principal know he is going to recommend to keep our school open next year - so that is GREAT news! Means Laura will probably have a job :) Now... the board just needs to vote the same way....
Have a great week, everyone!
Love
Laura
Friday, March 27, 2009
Happy Friday :)
Thanks for the comments, everyone :) I love hearing from you! As Aunt Barb mentioned in her last comment - I'm nearing the home stretch - so that was fun to read!!
Today we have PT conferences in the morning, and then we teachers are dismissed at noon - so that's nice!
Sleeping is about the same - we have one of those Sleep Number beds, so this morning when Ian and I were both awake (Around 5) I deflated my side so that the sleep number is probably about 20 - very cushiony! I'm hoping that if my body just sinks into something it will be more comfortable - we'll see - the side sleeping thing is just getting really tough!!!
I'm headed to Dunkin' Donuts this morning for a decaf coffee with cream and sugar - yum! It will do nothing except fill me up with empty calories but i SO miss dunkin' donuts coffee! So it's a little Friday treat for me :)
One week until we go to Galveston with Mom and Mary - so I am really looking forward to that!! I wonder how the baby will react in the plane? I suppose I need to enjoy flying with the baby with no chance of him or her crying :) :)
Have a great day everyone!! I'm heading to the library this weekend for some grown up (i.e. non-baby or parenting) books - if you have any suggestions on good things you've read recently, send them my way!
Love you! Have a great weekend!!!
Today we have PT conferences in the morning, and then we teachers are dismissed at noon - so that's nice!
Sleeping is about the same - we have one of those Sleep Number beds, so this morning when Ian and I were both awake (Around 5) I deflated my side so that the sleep number is probably about 20 - very cushiony! I'm hoping that if my body just sinks into something it will be more comfortable - we'll see - the side sleeping thing is just getting really tough!!!
I'm headed to Dunkin' Donuts this morning for a decaf coffee with cream and sugar - yum! It will do nothing except fill me up with empty calories but i SO miss dunkin' donuts coffee! So it's a little Friday treat for me :)
One week until we go to Galveston with Mom and Mary - so I am really looking forward to that!! I wonder how the baby will react in the plane? I suppose I need to enjoy flying with the baby with no chance of him or her crying :) :)
Have a great day everyone!! I'm heading to the library this weekend for some grown up (i.e. non-baby or parenting) books - if you have any suggestions on good things you've read recently, send them my way!
Love you! Have a great weekend!!!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Ode to Sleep....
First off, Happy 26 weeks to Baby Bally!! I can hardly believe how fast these weeks go by - 28 weeks is the start of the 3rd trimester, so we are definitely getting there :)
This isn't really going to be an 'ode' to sleep - more of just sharing with you that I think pregnancy might just try and prepare us for motherhood a little bit... specifically in the category of sleep. It is now officially getting very difficult to find a sleeping position that's comfortable, so this momma-to-be wakes up with a sore back every night! Not to mention, my dreams are out of control, and this morning I woke up at 3:15am and couldn't really get back to sleep until about 5ish - yuck!!! I know it will become much more difficult when the baby comes, but I thought I would maybe get a few good last months of sleep :( Oh well... small price to pay, I suppose!
P/T conferences tonight and then tomorrow am - then we have the afternoon off - so that's nice! Also, P/T conferences for the art teacher usually involve cleaning the room - so it's not so bad!
Have a great day everyone - hope you're getting better sleep than I am!
Love
Laura
This isn't really going to be an 'ode' to sleep - more of just sharing with you that I think pregnancy might just try and prepare us for motherhood a little bit... specifically in the category of sleep. It is now officially getting very difficult to find a sleeping position that's comfortable, so this momma-to-be wakes up with a sore back every night! Not to mention, my dreams are out of control, and this morning I woke up at 3:15am and couldn't really get back to sleep until about 5ish - yuck!!! I know it will become much more difficult when the baby comes, but I thought I would maybe get a few good last months of sleep :( Oh well... small price to pay, I suppose!
P/T conferences tonight and then tomorrow am - then we have the afternoon off - so that's nice! Also, P/T conferences for the art teacher usually involve cleaning the room - so it's not so bad!
Have a great day everyone - hope you're getting better sleep than I am!
Love
Laura
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Strawberry Caper
Good morning :)
Last night the baby got to enjoy two pints of strawberries with me! The first box were fresh from the store, yum!! And then I figured - I still had one in the fridge so I might as well have those with the sugar on them - double yum! I actually didn't intend on eating two boxes of strawberries - but... I suppose it's better than two pints of ice cream :) Plus, it was spread out over a few hours.. so that makes it a little better, I suppose!
Ian said the baby will come out either really liking fruit - or really tired of it since Mom ate so much! :)
I've just been marveling lately at this whole process - I mean, I've been pregnant since October! We made it through fall, an entire winter, now we have more entire season-Spring! And then early in summer we'll meet little guy or girl :) Just amazing that this baby now is pretty much developed inside me and just putting on that wonderful baby fat now!
Two more days of school this week (today and Thursday) and then P/T conferences Friday - so two more high energy days to go! I was SO tired yesterday - I came home, did some homework for grad school, slept on the couch from 7-9pm and then went to bed at 10:30!!
Anyhow, have a great day everyone :)
Love
Laura
Last night the baby got to enjoy two pints of strawberries with me! The first box were fresh from the store, yum!! And then I figured - I still had one in the fridge so I might as well have those with the sugar on them - double yum! I actually didn't intend on eating two boxes of strawberries - but... I suppose it's better than two pints of ice cream :) Plus, it was spread out over a few hours.. so that makes it a little better, I suppose!
Ian said the baby will come out either really liking fruit - or really tired of it since Mom ate so much! :)
I've just been marveling lately at this whole process - I mean, I've been pregnant since October! We made it through fall, an entire winter, now we have more entire season-Spring! And then early in summer we'll meet little guy or girl :) Just amazing that this baby now is pretty much developed inside me and just putting on that wonderful baby fat now!
Two more days of school this week (today and Thursday) and then P/T conferences Friday - so two more high energy days to go! I was SO tired yesterday - I came home, did some homework for grad school, slept on the couch from 7-9pm and then went to bed at 10:30!!
Anyhow, have a great day everyone :)
Love
Laura
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
100 days to go!
Wow, it seems like as I've been watching this blog, numbers have been so high! First in the 200's, then alllll the way down to the 100 mark - now we're finally in the 2-digit numbers :) Not that I'm completely ready to be a mom, I still have no idea what to do! But I am excited and looking forward to it :)
It's so refreshing to look out the window as I type this and see shrubs about 50 feet away with little buds on them! The past couple of days I've have to get close-up to plants to notice the green, but it's SO nice that I"m able to notice it now from the house!
Our friend Nate came to Irving yesterday to observe/shadow my principal, and so Ian and I got a chance to visit with him after school at our house (and he brought us a bassinet for the baby - thanks Nate and Alli!) - He has a 5 month old boy, and it was just so nice to get his perspective on things! And like I said to Nate, it was nice to see that he was still a functioning person, same personality and all :) Just a little more tired, I suppose... There's hope for me and Ian yet!
Today it's rainy and windy here - but I think it's safe to say that winter if officially over :) And I could not be happier about that!
Have a great day, everyone!
Laura
It's so refreshing to look out the window as I type this and see shrubs about 50 feet away with little buds on them! The past couple of days I've have to get close-up to plants to notice the green, but it's SO nice that I"m able to notice it now from the house!
Our friend Nate came to Irving yesterday to observe/shadow my principal, and so Ian and I got a chance to visit with him after school at our house (and he brought us a bassinet for the baby - thanks Nate and Alli!) - He has a 5 month old boy, and it was just so nice to get his perspective on things! And like I said to Nate, it was nice to see that he was still a functioning person, same personality and all :) Just a little more tired, I suppose... There's hope for me and Ian yet!
Today it's rainy and windy here - but I think it's safe to say that winter if officially over :) And I could not be happier about that!
Have a great day, everyone!
Laura
Monday, March 23, 2009
Start of a new week :)
Well, it seems like Spring is officially here! And that makes me very happy! We have plants coming up in the yard - and the 10 day forecast has temps in the 50s and above - which is way nice compared to those winter temps!
In the baby arena :) I traveled to Springfield to watch the Tri-Valley 8th grade girls play in their State tournament (Students from last year) and the baby kicked nearly the whole drive there and back! Baby either really likes driving, or wanted me to not be sitting anymore! Actually... speaking of kicking, I think the baby really only kicks in large amounts when I'm sitting down - I wonder if I'm squishing the little guy? It's frustrating though, because baby will be kicking, then I'll stand up real quick and say "Ian!! Feel this!".... and the baby stops kicking... sigh! It's happened to us about 10 times now!
Anyhow, other than that, things are still going really well!
Have a great Monday everyone!
Love
Laura
In the baby arena :) I traveled to Springfield to watch the Tri-Valley 8th grade girls play in their State tournament (Students from last year) and the baby kicked nearly the whole drive there and back! Baby either really likes driving, or wanted me to not be sitting anymore! Actually... speaking of kicking, I think the baby really only kicks in large amounts when I'm sitting down - I wonder if I'm squishing the little guy? It's frustrating though, because baby will be kicking, then I'll stand up real quick and say "Ian!! Feel this!".... and the baby stops kicking... sigh! It's happened to us about 10 times now!
Anyhow, other than that, things are still going really well!
Have a great Monday everyone!
Love
Laura
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
