That's right folks, we are into single digit numbers before we meet the baby! Unless, of course, he or she decides to be fashionably late :) But wow... 31 weeks down, 9 to go until the due date! Happy 31 week birthday, Baby :)
Tonight is the Can Do Fundraiser for my school - where about 20 pieces of artwork get auctioned/sold for about $100-$200 a pop - it's all for a good cause though. The proceeds go towards a $1000 scholarship for every 4th grade student at my school once they graduate high school - and the money is to be used for higher education of some form. So it's a good thing! We'll be bringing 20 kids to auction to talk about their artwork, so I'm excited!
The doctor's appt went really well yesterday - everything has been smooth sailing so far! (knock on wood) but I'm just really blessed with a good pregnancy! Hopefully, the baby will be just as good when he or she is outta there :)
Have a great day everyone!
Love
Laura
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Sleep and questions
Good morning, all!
The interview on WEEK 25 went really well - I didn't trip over words or anything! Which is what I was nervous about ... we'll see though, I suppose! I didn't record it, and I thought it would be online but wasn't... soo, I contacted the news channel to see if I could purchase a copy of the segment or newscast. Hopefully I'll be able to! (Although part of me thinks maybe I don't want to see it? :) )
Good news is that Ian is sleeping better lately - no reason that both of us should have to suffer! And of course, I tend to sleep the best after my alarm goes off for some reason.. grr... maybe I should start setting my alarm for 1 in the morning or something??
There are some interesting student questions popping up about how the baby is going to come out of Mrs. Bally - A student asked, "Do they cut your stomach open?" I said... "Sometimes" And then went on teaching... I think my next answer to how the baby comes out will be, "Ask you mom and dad how you came out..." :) That's my safest bet for sure!
Doctors appt today at 3:50pm! So I'll be hearing heartbeat of this little one :) Always exciting!
Have a great day, everyone!
Love you all
Laura
The interview on WEEK 25 went really well - I didn't trip over words or anything! Which is what I was nervous about ... we'll see though, I suppose! I didn't record it, and I thought it would be online but wasn't... soo, I contacted the news channel to see if I could purchase a copy of the segment or newscast. Hopefully I'll be able to! (Although part of me thinks maybe I don't want to see it? :) )
Good news is that Ian is sleeping better lately - no reason that both of us should have to suffer! And of course, I tend to sleep the best after my alarm goes off for some reason.. grr... maybe I should start setting my alarm for 1 in the morning or something??
There are some interesting student questions popping up about how the baby is going to come out of Mrs. Bally - A student asked, "Do they cut your stomach open?" I said... "Sometimes" And then went on teaching... I think my next answer to how the baby comes out will be, "Ask you mom and dad how you came out..." :) That's my safest bet for sure!
Doctors appt today at 3:50pm! So I'll be hearing heartbeat of this little one :) Always exciting!
Have a great day, everyone!
Love you all
Laura
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Almost to the couch...
Well, I almost sent my husband to the couch last night - but not for what you think!!! When I got home from school yesterday, he told me that he thinks he might have to start sleeping on the couch because I make too much of a commotion when I try to sleep.. (not in those words). I understood, but that made me sad!! Then I got all crazy and suggested that we set up our air mattress in the room next to the bed, and then we could hold hands across the mattresses - well, I realize now that's a little ridiculous, and he called me on that yesterday too :) Plus, logistically, there's not much room for that second bed in the room....
Anyhow, much to my happiness, he didn't sleep on the couch last night, and we were both able to get a good nights sleep. Or at least I was just VERY careful as I tossed and turned :)
Today I'm going to be on the Peoria news at noon - so that's pretty exciting! I'll be promoting a fundraiser/art auction for our school - then I'll be famous of course because I'll have my two minutes of fame :) hehe Should be interesting though because I'll be going to the studio and sitting on their little interview set and everything!
Anyhow, hope everyone has a good day!
Love you
Laura
Anyhow, much to my happiness, he didn't sleep on the couch last night, and we were both able to get a good nights sleep. Or at least I was just VERY careful as I tossed and turned :)
Today I'm going to be on the Peoria news at noon - so that's pretty exciting! I'll be promoting a fundraiser/art auction for our school - then I'll be famous of course because I'll have my two minutes of fame :) hehe Should be interesting though because I'll be going to the studio and sitting on their little interview set and everything!
Anyhow, hope everyone has a good day!
Love you
Laura
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sleepy....
Good morning, everyone :)
Well, unfortunately, this weekend was one of those wear I was literally tossing and turning pretty much all night. Yuck! It's just no fun to wake up tired, and unfortunately, my crazy sleep habits affected my husband last night, too.... sorry, Ian!!
I just finished my last final project for grad school for more than a year now - I've decided to postpone the thesis year because I'm going to be a new mom! Yay! So I will start classes back up when the baby is about one - wow, that's a little cray to think about!! It will be nice to focus on things other than grad school for a while though (Right, Mary?!) I've been in college/grad school since 1998 (with one semester off) - Oh my!!!
I see on the countdown we're down to 66 days - wow!! It feels like we were just on Spring Break, which was the beginning of April, now it's almost May!
Have a great Monday everyone - hope you had a great weekend, too!
Love
Laura
Well, unfortunately, this weekend was one of those wear I was literally tossing and turning pretty much all night. Yuck! It's just no fun to wake up tired, and unfortunately, my crazy sleep habits affected my husband last night, too.... sorry, Ian!!
I just finished my last final project for grad school for more than a year now - I've decided to postpone the thesis year because I'm going to be a new mom! Yay! So I will start classes back up when the baby is about one - wow, that's a little cray to think about!! It will be nice to focus on things other than grad school for a while though (Right, Mary?!) I've been in college/grad school since 1998 (with one semester off) - Oh my!!!
I see on the countdown we're down to 66 days - wow!! It feels like we were just on Spring Break, which was the beginning of April, now it's almost May!
Have a great Monday everyone - hope you had a great weekend, too!
Love
Laura
Friday, April 24, 2009
Can I Blame Things on the Baby Yet? ;)
This morning I woke up late! So I've been all frazzled trying to get ready - but still posting :) Anyhow, for some reason, my snooze button was 'disabled' and so when I thought I was snoozing there wasn't a chance my phone was going to wake me up again! So my question is... can I blame that one on the babe? :)
I know there will definitely be some times when I'm running 30 minutes late or so - when I can say some reason, that as of right now, I don't even know EXISTS - but that will be related to the baby :)
I'm afraid today I'm on my own - but good practice for when I need to rush around frantically in the morning!!
It's Friday, and it's going to be 80 degrees and BEAUTIFUL! Yay! :)
Love you all
Laura
I know there will definitely be some times when I'm running 30 minutes late or so - when I can say some reason, that as of right now, I don't even know EXISTS - but that will be related to the baby :)
I'm afraid today I'm on my own - but good practice for when I need to rush around frantically in the morning!!
It's Friday, and it's going to be 80 degrees and BEAUTIFUL! Yay! :)
Love you all
Laura
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Happy Mini-Birthday! :)
Happy 30 weeks, Baby Bally!! :) Wow, we are in to the final 10 weeks until the due date - 10 weeks!!!
In a smaller view, I LOVE it when something I am looking forward to enters the '10-day weather forecast' (I know, that is nerdy!!) or just when there's a countdown of 10 to about anything!
Wow... I also entered in all of my OB appointments and lamaze classes, and they really do a number on filling up our May!! We start lamaze/childbirth classes on May 13th, and then I have a doctor's appointment every two weeks until week 36, then it's every week until the little baby gets here!
On a school note, I'm needing to start and finish one big project with the kids before the end of the year - a placemat for a fancy fundraiser - and I have high standards :) So, in the next 6 weeks, I will be trying to get those done!! (Takes a while with the kids since I only see most of them once a week for 45 minutes)
Anyhow - I've been looking forward to this countdown day for a while! 10 more weeks!!! :)
Love
Laura
In a smaller view, I LOVE it when something I am looking forward to enters the '10-day weather forecast' (I know, that is nerdy!!) or just when there's a countdown of 10 to about anything!
Wow... I also entered in all of my OB appointments and lamaze classes, and they really do a number on filling up our May!! We start lamaze/childbirth classes on May 13th, and then I have a doctor's appointment every two weeks until week 36, then it's every week until the little baby gets here!
On a school note, I'm needing to start and finish one big project with the kids before the end of the year - a placemat for a fancy fundraiser - and I have high standards :) So, in the next 6 weeks, I will be trying to get those done!! (Takes a while with the kids since I only see most of them once a week for 45 minutes)
Anyhow - I've been looking forward to this countdown day for a while! 10 more weeks!!! :)
Love
Laura
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Blueberries
Good morning, everyone :)
Some trees across the street from us are now starting to show some green! I think part of me may have forgotten how awesome it is to see everything growing :) (I could also insert some comment here about my stomach continually growing.... !!)
So, yesterday, I had a class of 5th graders - 10 years old. There were two boys who were already going to be written up for being disrespectful, then I heard 'grumble, grumble, blueberry'. Well! I was wearing a blue shirt, and so i had a feeling they were talking about me! I kept them after class, and I was indeed correct - the student honestly said, "Well, I was just telling him that your stomach looked like a giant blueberry!". I was laughing a little bit on the inside, so I just said something like, "I know it's getting bigger, but it's really not appropriate to talk about your teacher that way during class". And they still got written up for other offenses.
On a related note, my husband thought it was a pretty good analogy.... boys!!! It's okay though - it is just getting so big!
The baby is not so much kicking anymore as just kind of moving around in there - but in ways that I can definitely feel it!! The most active time for baby was of course last night when I was going to sleep - I sure hope baby's days and nights aren't mixed up!!
Have a great day everyone - Happy Earth Day!
Love
Laura
Some trees across the street from us are now starting to show some green! I think part of me may have forgotten how awesome it is to see everything growing :) (I could also insert some comment here about my stomach continually growing.... !!)
So, yesterday, I had a class of 5th graders - 10 years old. There were two boys who were already going to be written up for being disrespectful, then I heard 'grumble, grumble, blueberry'. Well! I was wearing a blue shirt, and so i had a feeling they were talking about me! I kept them after class, and I was indeed correct - the student honestly said, "Well, I was just telling him that your stomach looked like a giant blueberry!". I was laughing a little bit on the inside, so I just said something like, "I know it's getting bigger, but it's really not appropriate to talk about your teacher that way during class". And they still got written up for other offenses.
On a related note, my husband thought it was a pretty good analogy.... boys!!! It's okay though - it is just getting so big!
The baby is not so much kicking anymore as just kind of moving around in there - but in ways that I can definitely feel it!! The most active time for baby was of course last night when I was going to sleep - I sure hope baby's days and nights aren't mixed up!!
Have a great day everyone - Happy Earth Day!
Love
Laura
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