Spring Storm

(Didn't I Post Similar Photos Last Year At This Time??)

Colorado Spring is here again! We are set to get 6-12 inches tonight. Yay!! Maybe we'll actually have a snow day tomorrow!

Pretty purple flowers hopefully hold up.

This was at about 5:30pm

This is an hour later!

(And that's Blake--not Peter!)


Blake and Ella coloring--trying out the new Tinkerbell table!



Heellloooo Nurse.

She likes to play Peek-A-Boo with her fav bwankie.

Filling up her cup for bathtime.

FINALLY! She has learned to enjoy bathtime!!! Yay!!!

A few quick updates:

On th job front: I have had two phone interviews over the past two weeks and am waiting to hear back from the managers. One is a position at University Physicians which would back on my old stomping ground-the Fitzsimons campus. The title is Education Coordinator, which is a fancy term for clerical work that keeps the training department running, also it sounds like some upkeep of their website for providers...something like that. It would be quite a bit less than what I was making at the credit union. The other job is for a Senior Accountant at Credit Union of Colorado. This is definitely more up my alley. The only downside is that it is located downtown. Keep your fingers crossed for me!!

I am on Spring Break next week...finally. And last minute I scheduled a trip to San Diego to see Whitney and Lorelei!!! I can't wait. It's just me and Ella so I'm a a bit nervous about the flight, but am thinking she'll just sleep anyway so it shouldn't be too bad. We'll see.

On the kid front: Blake starts baseball this week. Yuck in this weather, but what can ya do?! He just wrapped up CSAP testing a few weeks ago and has been off track for March. He just got back from a trip to Texas with BooBoo. We're glad he's back! He heads back to school next week and then will be taking a short trip to Toronto with BooBoo. This kid has been far more places then I will probably ever go!!! Lucky! He and I have both read the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series (which I highly recommend) and the movie just came out last week so we plan to go see it ASAP!! It looks hilarious!

Ella is growing and learning faster than we can keep up. It's crazy. Every day her words get easier to understand and she adds multiple new ones a day. It's so much fun. She still is weird with her sleeping in that she gets up and wants to go sleep on the couch. I'm not going to worry about it. When she's old enough to understand I will start explaining that normal people sleep in their beds allllll night. heheheh.

My goal is to have her sleeping in the bed and potty trained by the time we have the next one.

What!? Next one!!?? Yep....I've had baby brain for the past few months and can't stop thinking about little ittty bitty babies. I was driving somewhere the other day and a sign said "Got programs?" And I swear I thought it said "Get pregnant?" It was so weird! Anyway, sometime this year hopefully we'll jump on the baby train....we'll see.

Anyway, those are the updates. I'll be in touch after our trip to San Diego....70 degrees and sunny--here we come!!!!

Can't Wait for Spring...Break

Happy March everyone. Again not too much going on in our end of the pond, but thought I should put a few pics up.

I'm a few months in to my new job and have to say that it has been quite the eye-opener. The way schools are run is something I am not used to at all. The good things come in the way of having less oversight when it comes to daily duties. I don't feel like I am being watched like a hawk. The bad things come in the way of having to deal with pre-teens who have no respect for adults. It's disheartening. The nice thing though is that its a K-8 school so when I want to kill the 7th and 8th graders I can turn around and get a huge lovey hug from a 1st grader who still likes me!

All in all I have enjoyed my experience. And at this point it is going to be a pretty brief experience. The district has to make a 20 million dollar budget cut for next year and so I (along with most of the paraeducators) are on the chopping block. I'm bummed that I won't be able to keep my foot in the door for future prospects, but am not going to fret because I know many more people have it worse than I do. Our principal has been nice enough to keep us abreast of the situation so I have already started applying for other jobs. I am under contract and will paid through July, but I would rather find something now and not have to take Ella out of daycare and then put her back, so keep your fingers crossed for me that I find something before the end of May!

Peter is out of town now. He has traveled twice in the past two months for work. It has only been for a couple of days though so it hasn't been too bad.

Blake finished up an excellent basketball season a few weeks ago. He seemed to really enjoy it. It was fun to watch him play and improve throughout the season. He starts baseball here in the next few weeks. ( I personally think it is far too cold to be thinking about baseball just yet!)

Ella is a talker (like her mama). And she's bossy (like her mama). She like to tell you to sit down and if you don't hear her or ignore her, she yells, "Siiit down!" It's so funny. She also likes to name everything. If there's a bunch of us in the room she will go around and point and say, "Daddy, Mommy, Koa, Bwake, Daddy, Mommy, Koa, Bwake" and just keep going. Or if she is looking at a book, she likes to name everything on the page, she is getting really good at remembering what things are called after I have told her once or twice. She has a few Sesame Street books and she picked up "Big Bird" after only telling her a few times. She's also starting to distinguish between different drinks. Before, all drinks were "Milk", but now she knows, "milk", "water", and "jui" (juice). She still a fruit fiend. And everything is affle (apple), she calls bananas and oranges, "affles", but for some reason she knows blueberries are "bluebers". Weird.

Anyway, here are some recent photos. Take care, and love you!

She says "cheeeeese" now!

I was trying to show how long her hair is now.

Got the pillow and the cell phone, got her legs crossed. Ya know, just chillin'



Perhaps the biggest news! Ella's new big girl bed! Yay! For the most part she sleeps in it all night. For some reason she wakes up at about 5:30 and wants to go sleep on the couch. Whatever....
The pic above-she likes to "pretend". She crawls in the bed pulls the covers up, demands her "bwankie", lays her head on the pillow and says, "Sweep?"