Wednesday, October 24, 2012
pumpkin patch
These pictures bring up some very mixed memories- it was a very fun, if freezing cold morning at the pumpkin patch. However, I spent the afternoon in the hospital trying to stop contractions and being threatened with a transfer to a bigger hospital in Topeka. Regardless! That ended well so we'll just focus on the better part of the day.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
four year old in the house
We continue in the vein of all things girly... with a birthday themed in pink, Fancy Nancy, ballet, My Little Pony, and princesses. I think she will hold up her end against three brothers!
Thursday, October 18, 2012
eek
Somehow I did not anticipate just how busy things were going to get!
We have Tim teaching his first class- meaning that every night when the kids are in bed, he has to flip open his laptop, write up his next lecture, and answer about 400 emails from students wanting extensions on their homework. I don't mean "every night" as in "a whole lot," I mean "every night" as in "every. single. night."
We have George in kindergarten. Apparently kindergarten now includes homework (!?). Actually it's not a big problem because it is reading, which he does constantly anyway. In the mornings, I regularly find him trying to pull up his pants while reading a book propped open on the floor. New obsession: human anatomy. I've been grilled several times on the subject of synaptic transmission. Mommy, he says, how do you know so much about the brain? Ha.
We have Helen in preschool, and ballet. This girl loves her dance class. She was positively beaming the day they learned to plie- she knows she's a real ballerina now.
Thomas is just Thomas. Busy, smiling, naughty. The things that have been broken, lost, or colored all over lately!
And last but not least- me. I'm now 32 weeks along and this is where things traditionally get hairy. I'm on weekly injections to try to prevent preterm labor but I've already wound up in the hospital once. Fortunately they were able to stop the contractions with some medication, and I'm not quite on bedrest although I'm also not allowed to do, basically, anything. You would think that not being allowed to do anything would leave you with lots of time on your hands- but somehow it does the opposite. There's a physics dissertation in that somewhere!
We have Tim teaching his first class- meaning that every night when the kids are in bed, he has to flip open his laptop, write up his next lecture, and answer about 400 emails from students wanting extensions on their homework. I don't mean "every night" as in "a whole lot," I mean "every night" as in "every. single. night."
We have George in kindergarten. Apparently kindergarten now includes homework (!?). Actually it's not a big problem because it is reading, which he does constantly anyway. In the mornings, I regularly find him trying to pull up his pants while reading a book propped open on the floor. New obsession: human anatomy. I've been grilled several times on the subject of synaptic transmission. Mommy, he says, how do you know so much about the brain? Ha.
We have Helen in preschool, and ballet. This girl loves her dance class. She was positively beaming the day they learned to plie- she knows she's a real ballerina now.
Thomas is just Thomas. Busy, smiling, naughty. The things that have been broken, lost, or colored all over lately!
And last but not least- me. I'm now 32 weeks along and this is where things traditionally get hairy. I'm on weekly injections to try to prevent preterm labor but I've already wound up in the hospital once. Fortunately they were able to stop the contractions with some medication, and I'm not quite on bedrest although I'm also not allowed to do, basically, anything. You would think that not being allowed to do anything would leave you with lots of time on your hands- but somehow it does the opposite. There's a physics dissertation in that somewhere!
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