Happy Easter Pics

Wait, that's my newest nephew, not Easter! Cherry graduated on Friday, she went across the stage carrying her little guy - three days old. So tiny at 6 lbs 15 oz.



Notice the yellow and blue fingers - evidence of a good time dying eggs. At one point he said, "I dye them" and "I touch them." He hardly talks, and then he will say something like that. This week he finally learned to wave - and grandma and grandpa were the first people he waved to.

Something was wrong with the pink color, making it all speckled, so I turned this egg purple, and the speckles look really cool.

Hope you all had a great Easter!

Congrats to Cherry and Zinx! (and some others)

All these babies! Cherry and Zinx had their baby on Tuesday morning. Werty called me at work to tell me the good news. Once she got to the hospital, her labor went really fast. Mommy and baby are doing well.

My other little nephews - 6 months old and one month old are darling and growing well. We got to see them last week when we hosted FHE at our house. I was trying to get living room furniture before FHE, but in the end it was good that we didn't have any. With additional cousins from NE, we FILLED the whole room. Adults sat on chairs along the perimeter while all the kids sat on the floor in the middle. Next time, we will probably have FHE outside in the backyard.

Congrats to my nephew G who was baptized last weekend. He is a sensitive kid - it was touching to see how happy he was to get baptized and how choked up he got during the concluding song, "Families can be together forever," as he was surrounded by a room packed with people who love him.

Congrats also to my friends in Hawaii who just had baby #3. It's a little sobering for me, since their baby#2 is the same age as BooBear.

Also, congrats to my college roomie Ali - she is working on her PhD at Johns Hopkins. Yeah. Wow. Once upon a time she was the 17 year old freshman who had never been outside Utah before. Now she travels the world studying and solving health problems.

Conference Snow!

After a few days of nice, sunny weather, we woke up to 2 inches of snow. Between conference sessions, Werty and BooBear went outside to enjoy it.

Notice the snow ball in his hand - he made it himself!

Our first snowman at our new house!



Just for comparison, this was taken just a few days ago when the weather was warm. BooBear helping Werty rake up leaves.

Birthday!

My students sang to me today. The ESL kids and their cha-cha-cha version of the birthday song was classic!

Then my IB students decided to get me P@nda Ex for lunch - each group of students ended up getting me some, so I had two lunches. It was okay because that meant I could share with the rest of the class. So, everyone had at least a taste! And then I brought C0stc0 cookies for all of my students today. (Good thing I had my smaller classes.)

Too busy!

Wow! 300 posts? Really?

My intention to record each day the new adventures of the house went away in the face of not having a computer with internet at home and having WAY too much going on. The busy time of the year hit a little early. I have homework for graduate credit to complete this week, IB IAs to grade and submit to IBO, laundry that must be washed at other people's houses, NHS stuff (they scheduled an activity for my birthday - guess who doesn't get to celebrate, but instead must be at work for 14+ hours?) Last week it was term 3 grades. I have so much on my plate that it seems every week there is something I forget or don't have time to do. Many things only hurt myself - like not having time to buy my face wash or get my eyes checked because I can't see and I am wearing glasses to work because my contacts are too old and hurt too much. But sometimes it is forgetting a meeting at work or forgetting that it was the RS broadcast, even though I couldn't go if I wanted to and I don't have a TV, so I wouldn't have been able to watch it anyway.

Did I mention that I got a new nephew? Once I get the internet going at home, I will post a pic.

It's 4:00pm and I got turned into a cow...can I go home?

#18-#16

#18 Monday - BooBear had a really rough night. I cut his hair using the clippers, which he thought was traumatic. Everything is more traumatic when you aren't feeling well, after all. Into the bath to wash off the hair now that he has itched a red collar around his neck and shoulders. Yay, a bath, he's so happy...skip ahead 3 minutes when he slipped in the tub and he doesn't want mommy because she is the mean person that cut his hair and put him in the bath in the first place. Meanwhile, Werty is cutting holes in the cabinets in his attempts to install the dishwasher. The load noise of the saw sends BooBear into more hysterics. So, the ugly irregular holes in the cabinets have been replaced with larger, neat, square holes. Twice as many of them.

#17 Tuesday - Werty works all evening and gets the dishwasher finally installed! He had to cut another hole bigger than all the other ones, but its done. We weighed the pros and the cons of where to set up his work space and the washer and dryer.

#16 Wednesday - 7am sped meeting, 9:30 sped meeting where I talk to parents for 45 minutes about behavior problems, only to be told by the other teacher that if I yelled at him more or took him to the office more, he would behave better. 3:30-5:00pm was district ESOL meeting. 7-8:30pm choir concert, BooBear attended his first musical concert. Picked up dinner on the way home. Wrote a test the rest of the evening. Ran first load of dishes!

Stories with Holes

Did you ever do stories with holes? I start off my 8th grade class by allowing one student each time to share one. Today the result was: "If you want to commit suicide, I will bring you a duck."