Stephen and Payton

Stephen is trying to impress his potential girlfriend, Payton . They had so much fun together at bible study. They are a little distracting.

Curious Stephen

Stephen has discovered Sadie over the last month. Sadie has no idea it is going to get worse after he starts crawling. Right now she just gets a little pat from Stephen if she gets close enough for the right amount of time. We have also started feeding Stephen rice cereal for his evening meal once a day a little over a week ago. It is going good I guess. He spits most of it out but I figure that is the first stage of rice cereal. We go to get his ears checked tomorrow since he had a double ear infection two weeks ago. I am looking forward to a good report.

As for Daniel and I we are enjoying our new church. We actually joined the church last Sunday night. We attended a 3 hour session on the vision of the church taught by the pastor Jeff Wells. We look forward to getting more involved soon. I think somethings just take time after you move and have a baby.

I am counting down 7 weeks left with my kindergarteners. It will be good to spend two months with Stephen at home. I plan on getting a small plastic pool to put in the back yard so Jamie, Stephen and I can cool off in the water. This will happen after we get the backyard fence built.

SICK

Stephen, Daniel and I have been coughing and congested for almost two weeks. I took Stephen to the doctor on Monday to find out he had a double ear infection. We started antibiotics and he seems to be getting better. He lost his voice on Sunday night and still does not have it back yet. It is sad because when he cries you can barely hear him. It breaks my heart. On a good note before he lost his voice he discovered that he can hear himself. He will randomly scream to the top of his lungs and crack up. It is hilarious. In the past week or so he discovered his little feet. They have not made it up to his mouth but he is getting there. Although he has been sick over the last few weeks he is still a happy baby boy.

THE BUMBO

Stephen is doing good in his bumbo but he is unsure about it.

Arkansas

We enjoyed our trip to Arkansas to visit Jared, Rachel and baby Judah.

Spring has sprung

The first day of spring is around March 20 or 21, depending on what day the vernal equinox occurs. This is when the sun sits directly above the equator on its apparent trip northward. Of course this sun isn’t moving; Earth is. As Earth revolves around the sun, the top half, called the Northern Hemisphere, becomes tilted more toward the sun as winter turns to spring.

It's fun teaching kindergartener's about new seasons. Some get it and some don't quite but that's ok.

Spring Break

Well, yes it is finally here. I am officially on spring break as of Friday at 3:20pm. I rushed home to Daniel and Stephen. Daniel stayed home Friday to keep Stephen since he was in Calgary all week. Stephen, Daniel and I celebrated by going to Chuy's, my favorite mexican restaurant. We went to our nephew, Hunter's 2nd birthday in Pearland on Saturday. I didn't stay outside long fearing my pale son would burn. On Sunday we went to church. Daniel played golf all afternoon with a friend from our bible study. I enjoyed my Sunday afternoon hanging out with Stephen. We had a blast. Monday I went to a doctor check up while Jamie kept SDS. Then I picked her up and we went window shopping at The Woodlands Mall. Stephen almost took pictures with the Easter bunny but then I realized it was too expensive for the amount of pictures you get. Today I had to go to the Lab Corp to get retested for diabetes. It is only 10 minutes from my house so I went and then came home for an hour and half before I went back to finish the test. I am hoping to get the results this week. Stephen and I then left to go and deal with the first daycare I enrolled him in August. I went in to see if we could get our money back that we lost. The daycare closed and moved locations but somehow they forgot to tell us. HA HA. So since I am off I researched and made a few phone calls and found their new location. I went in and spoke with the manager. After proving I paid a deposit and enrollment fee she assured me I would get reimbursed. Yea! I will be happy when we get that check in the mail. During all this poor Stephen was in tow. He just loves his carseat! Joke. I decided to go visit a daycare I have been researching. I am thinking of moving him to a new daycare in the fall. Tomorrow I am meeting with a few friends from college. We are going to meet at the mall (6 minutes) from my house. Then on Thursday morning at 9:20 AM we are flying out to Arkansas to visit Jared, Rachel and baby Judah. We will head back to Texas on Sunday. It will be interesting to fly with Stephen but I was not looking forward to a 8-10 drive on Thursday and then back on Sunday. The flight will be a little over an hour so hopefully it won't be too bad. I will let you know. Have a good rest of the week.