19 Weeks

Today is 19 weeks, that means I am almost halfway there! Khloe is as large as an heirloom tomato in size (6 inches) and about 8 1/2 oz. long. That is a big tomato. Her brain is designing specialized areas for her 5 senses, her arms and legs are now in proportion, and her hair is starting to sprout. I bet it will be blond like Eric and mine when we were young.

This past week has been exciting. On Thursday, I had an orientation meeting for substitute teaching, and to make a long story short, on Friday, I had my first sub job. After all my talk that I would like to start with elementary classes, and ease my way into trying high school, me first day was in an high school English class. Yikes! I had two classes of freshmen and three of sophomores. Over all, I had a good experience, nothing traumatic happened, like tacks on my chair or me cowering under the teacher's desk in tears. I only had one problem student, and he was mad at me because I caught him cheating on a test, so for the remainder of his class period was challenging. I did not have to mean and hard on everyone, although some students required more constant reminders and urging to complete the assignment.

I am glad that I did my worst nightmare first, and so now I am lined up for two more jobs already, both elementary, kindergarten and second grade. I am not as nervous now that I know I can handle high school classes, and my two least favorite grades at that. Yeah! Anyways, I am excited to have jobs lined up, and a good excuse for not wanting to do house work. Before I was just lazy, now I have a job and I will be busy. Just kidding. I am still not that busy, just bored of housework.

Next week, on the day of grinvasion (for more info, see www.grinline.com), mom and I will be going to Sacramento, so no work for me! Yahoo...I worked one day and I am ready for a vacation. Well, actually we are going in preparation for my Granddad Blachly's 90th birthday. I am excited to get to see everyone up there, since I have not gotten to go visit since we moved. Yahoo.

I hope everyone is doing great, and I hope to see many of you soon.

18 Weeks

Here she is! Khloe is as big as a bell pepper. There is not too much to say about this week. I am feeling pretty lazy today, so this post will probably not be too exciting. People are starting to say that I look pregnant now, which I think is good news. I want to look pregnant and not just like I am packing on a big belly. I don't really know if I can feel her moving yet. I have felt some weird thing things, but I would not describe the movements as butterflies, goldfish swimming, or popcorn popping, so I don't know. Everyone says that when you feel your baby move, you KNOW what it is, so who knows if what I think is a baby actually is a baby. Time will tell. I hope things are well for everyone.

The Big Event

Yesterday, on the way home from my parents house, a major event took place. The odometer on my car flipped over to 100,000 miles. There is something fun about hitting the major numbers on the odometers. Eric had been driving my car to work all week, and I new the odometer was getting close to flipping, but it was at 99,998 mi. when I got in to drive it. We ended in our driveway with exactly 100,000 miles. Yahoo!

What is amazing is that when I bought the car, it has 36,000 mi, so in 3 years, I have really racked up the miles. I try not to calculate how much gad that amounts to. I like to just enjoy the fun of all those zeros.

National Toasted Marshmallow Day

As a side note for everyone, today is the perfect day for toasting marshmallows. Who knows where this holiday came from, but it will be a nice treat tonight to roast a marshmallow or make some s'mores!

In our family, everyone likes their marshmallows done a little differently. Some like them barely warmed, others medium and toasty, and some like to set them on fire and blow them out just before they are totally charred.

It has been a while since we've gotten to vote on any thing...time for another poll! How do you like your marshmallows done?

17 Weeks...who even likes turnips?

17 weeks today, Khloe weighs as much a turnip, which is 5 ounces for those of us who might not have seen an actual turnip lately. She is about 5 inches long.

Her cartilage is beginning to get harder to be like bones. She can move her joints and her sweat glands are beginning to develop. Every little girl needs sweat glands.

I think it is pretty amazing that it is possible to know exactly what parts of a child are developing and when.


Not much else is going one for us. Eric is working this week, and Dad and Mom went to New York to visit Chris and celebrate their 36 year anniversary. They had to top our road trip by getting to go to New York City and see a Yankees ball game today. The forecast is calling for showers today in NYC, so please pray that they don't get rained out. That would be really sad.
They are also staying at a Doubletree Hotel, and I believe they are excited about free cookies. It is the little things in life that make our family happy. Fun times.

I am watching their two old dogs while they are gone, so Schooner is happy to have his friends over. I am happy to have them, but not so happy when they all want to get u a 5:30am...Yikes. It is not so bad. I am able to get a lot of stuff done in the day when I get up so early.

I hope everyone else is doing well.