The Jespersen Family

update

2011-08-05T20:09:00.000-07:00

I've been informed its time for an update. I dont really have a lot to say but figured I write a little to get into the habit of updating.

2 more weeks until school starts. It can't come soon enough because the kids are getting tired of each others company and are fighting over every little thing. I have all of Chandler's school shopping done. And I have been grabbing things here and there for Gwyn for her clothes. She doesn't need uniforms for preschool thankfully. I needed to get her new clothes anyway since she is moving into 4t.

34 weeks into the pregnancy now. So close but yet so far away. Some days it is very painful to move. I can't wait to see her. Things are finally starting to come together. I went to a Just Between Friends sale and got most everything I need. So other than small things like clothes, bottles, pacifiers, etc. we are set. We do need a pack and play but I dont want to buy a used one because I would like one with the changing table and basiinet feature. You usually cant find those used. We are going to need a crib but thats not until we move her and Gwyn into the office. That won't be for awhile.

I have also organized and prepared all the stuff I need to get done for Primary so the other ladies can have everything they need just in case of an early delivery. Right now I am getting together my hospital bag list and will be going out tomorrow to pick thigns up so I can have that ready to go. A bit early but you never know.

Mike completed the porch this week!! It looks amazing.. I will post pictures later. He did such a great job.. I'm so proud of him. =) Tomorrow he is starting his next project of replacing the air ducts and stuff. He has to replace the flooring under the water heater first though because its about to fall through the floor.

Anyway.. thats all for today.

2011-07-09T17:08:00.000-07:00

I can't believe I haven't updated this blog since 2009. I'm so lame. Let's try again.

Family updates:

Michael no longer works at Wellness Enterprises. Last year when the company went under him and a fellow co worker took over the website and clients and started their own company, Naturally Filtered. Though it is stressful to own your own company I can tell he is much happier and loves working for himself. David is also a nice guy and wonderful partner.

Recently Mike has found a love for cycling and loves to go down the trails and has even rode the whole Hawthrone Trail. He has also started playing racquetball with his friend Andy on Saturday mornings.

Presently he is doing some home repairs. Had a storm recently with brought down two trees one of which landed on the porch breaking part of it off. The porch was old and about to collapse anyway so it was actually doing us a favor. So he tore the rest down and has been working for the last few days building a new one. I am very excited to see the outcome.

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As for me, (the boring one lol) I am now 30 weeks preggers with our new little girl. Yes a name has been picked and no we won't share ^_^ I am definitely ready to be done. This has been a very emotional pregnancy. The beginning was very hard. I kept having negative feelings that something was wrong and was getting frequent panic attacks. I did get a blessing which did ease my fears a bit. I still worry on occasion but I am finally starting to relax. I am having a lot of issues with anger and being annoyed. I dislike being around people right now. I've always had social anxiety and have been afraid of people but now its just being annoyed at them all the time. Things are getting a lot harder for me. Cleaning especially. I get tired so easily and bending over constantly to pick things up wears me out and makes me short of breath. I also have a lot of hip and tailbone pain. Most mornings its really hard to get out of bed. On the positive she is moving around a lot more and other than when she uses my bladder as a trampoline, its the best feeling ever.

I have started going back to school for my anthropology/biology degrees. Its a slow process since right now I can only take one class at a time. I just finished my genetics/evolution class with a B =) Obviously I will have to take Fall semester off since the baby is due in September and plan on going back in the spring taking my math classes. Yuck. I have been loving going back. I struggle to get my good grades but the fact that the last two classes I've finished resulted in an A and a B I am so proud of myself. It's nice to have that one thing for me.

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Chandler is now done with Kindergarten. He starts 1st grade in August but at the end of July he has is IQ test because he has qualified for advanced classes. I hope it will bring his excitement for school back. The last couple months of Kindergarten he started getting very angry about having to go to school and we found out that he thought it was too easy. I talked to his teacher and she said that he was doing very well in everything and is the top of his class in Math. So he was tested and qualified.

Chandler has recently gotten into video games. When he isn't building with legos or drawing, he has his nose in his DS. He loves all the Lego games and scribblenauts, Harry potter. He recently learned Halo which is weird for me but whats done is done.

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Gwyn is now 4 and starting Pre-K this fall *tear* She is very excited not because she is going to school but because she gets to play soccer in the fall. She has been waiting so long to play and it finally gets to happen. In the spring she wants to play T-ball. This year she took a ballet class which she loved. She's my tomboy princess.

We are doing school in the mornings and she is learning how to read. SHe read her first few sentences awhile ago. She finished her K level math book as well.

Gwyn is a very very happy girl. Always laughing and smiling. She's up for anything and is definitely a mini Mike. She has a unique sense of style. Some outfits will make you shutter. She has a song for everything and is very opinionated.

So that is our family right now. I'll try to do better to stay updated.

yesterday is history and its never coming back

2009-06-05T21:42:00.000-07:00

I have alot floating around in my head right now so I came here to write it some of it down so excuse me if some thoughts are disconnected.

I have made it my goal this summer to do something fun with the kids every day, whether it be a day trip to the beach or trips to the museum or park, or just camping in the backyard or baking a cake together and letting them decorate it. Today we went to tot time at the Harn Art Museum where they were teaching the kida bout art and the difference and similarities between artists and their styles. Following that we went to CiCi's pizza and had much together. I was thinking this morning about why I made this commitment to myself and to my kids and why I felt it to be urgent that I do it. I've had this little pit of discomfort in my mind I guess you could say. And than it hit me sitting and watching my "babies" inside that pizza buffet. They aren't babies anymore.

Chandler will be 5 and starts preschool this fall. He is writing his name and is starting to read level 1 books. He's getting tall and lanky and his hair is starting to fall into place just like his Daddy's. He is getting his 4 1/2 going on 16 attitude. His Blue Jean teddy Nursery is morphing into a super heroes secret hideout with the Transformers and Spider man available avenge at a moments notice.

And than theres Gwyneth. My sweet little Gwynnie pop. The little girl I HAD to have just given birth too a few months ago. Theres no way its been 2 years. My sweet little baby who melted everyone heart with her toothless grin who now smiles with a full set of teeth as she poses with all the outfits she puts on every 5 minutes complete with her princess tiara and high heel shoes. She knows its not maybelline.. shes born with it! Theres nothing better than getting dressed up for Church on Sunday with her pretty princess dresses and bows in her hair. I look at her eating pizza in the chair cause she no longer needs a high chair and dont do anything for her cause she can DO IT HERSELF!

Sometimes I feel its going to fast for me. I feel like I have taken their time for granted. its so easy for me to get set into my routine of sitting at home, putting PBS kids on for them while I clean , read , check out the lifes of people on facebook. eh Chandlers only 4 theres not a whole for him to do anyway. well look now hes almost 5 and starting preschool.. next year he'll be in kindergarten and when You next blink they'll be in highschool and avoiding me like the plague and your still be sitting there on the internet wondering what the cool people are doing in their daily lifes. Thumbs down to me! Shame on me.. its sounds so cliche but time is short. I've always known this but somedays it hits me more than others but I do have the greatest kids ever.. why wouldn't I want to spend as much time with them as possible.

Sometimes I fear that I am not doing good enough. That I am not putting my kids on the right path. Am I doing anything that well screw my kids up forever? Maybe that a common mom fear. But I want my kids to look back and say " our parents were great and we had a great life. "
Anyway.. sorry for the rambling. I know my kids are doing great and that they've had a good life so far. Sometimes its just so overwhelming realizing how much time has gone by and how life can be taken away so quickly. I know I am only human but I hope that I never find myself taking their time for granted again.

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't
own it, but you can use it. You can't keep
it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it
you can never get it back.” Harvey MacKay

the kiddos =D

2009-03-04T13:59:00.000-08:00

A little bit of new info on the kiddos...

Chandler is still doing really well with his reading lessons. He read his first sentences the other day. Though he is starting to have trouble with some sounds. I and the TH sound is throwing him off a bit. he can never remember the I sound and he pronounces TH as a F. But I am sure he'll get it soon. He starts preschool in the fall! How crazy is that? I am trying to get him into a class but everything is so expensive! He is still really big into transformers and Star Wars. Other than that I don't think there is much to report with him.

Gwyneth is going to be 2 next month.. crazy. We just took the side off her crib and she will be going into a real bed next month. Its so not fair how fast they are growing up. She is talking up a storm and loves to do anything and everything Chandler does. She is also our little daredevil! She's not scared of anything. We took the kids to the park the other day and she climbed up the big slide by herself (I was behind her just in case) and slid down like it was nothing. Also I found out that she has incredible upper body strength.. I lifted her up to the highest bar on the monkey bars and she grabbed on and I decided to let her go and she just hung there! I wqas never able to do that! She's definitely going into Gymnastics when we can afford it. =)

5 year anniversary.. a bit late

2009-03-04T13:20:00.000-08:00

On valentines weekend Michael and I went to Williamsburg Virginia to celebrate our 5 year anniversary. Its somewhere I've always wanted to go so I am glad Mike was willing. I had a great time. history overload. We left on Thursday night and drove until probably midnight and slept in Georgia. Than we got up early and drove the next 7 hours all the way to Virginia. The place we stayed was beautiful! We stayed in the Martha Washington Suite. I have never stayed in a place that had a kitchen and a living room, whirlpool tub and washer and dryer! We went out to dinner that night and went back to our room since everything was closed for the night. The next day (our anniversary) we went to Colonial Williamsburg. Lots of walking around. We went into a court house to watch a reenactment of a trial and we were both selected to be on the high court with the "judge" and decided who was guilty and innocent. That was a lot of fun. Not a whole lot to describe. Basically just alot of walking and looking at old buildings. Than we went to dinner at Food For Thought which is said to be the best restaurant in Williamsburg. It was rather tasty. After dinner we went on a ghostwalk .. which was my favorite part of the whole weekend. But it was VERY cold.

The next day we went to Jamestown and Yorktown Battlefield.
After Yorktown we started driving home. We figureed we would drive till we both got tired and stop to sleep somewhere. After I drove Mike took over and I fell asleep. I don't know what got into him but he drove all the way home! We got home Monday morning at 5 AM! It was a lot of fun!

music selection

2009-01-22T15:31:00.000-08:00

I added a music player to my blog.. I am finally starting to figure things out here lol. But for some reason I wanted to give an explanation for the songs. Maybe I am just bored and looking for something to do.. anyway I am sure that the first song Come What May is obvious.. at least if you know us well its obvious. That is me and Michael's "song" . I would say it was the song we danced to at our wedding but it started skipping so we had to dance to another.

The Greatest Reward is my feelings toward my little family. It always makes me a little misty and reminds me of the love our family has and how much they have changed me for the better.

Beautiful Boy is my song for Chandler. the words and the music fit him so well. and I like to listen to it when we have a bad day cause even though me and Chandler can butt heads he will always be my beautiful boy.

A mothers prayer is for Gwyneth. I haven't quite found the perfect song for her but this one does talk about my hopes for her.

So there is your moment of useless information =D

I'm alive

2009-01-19T18:16:00.000-08:00

2009 resolution #3 - write on my blog everyday ...

today's date - January 19

Status: FAIL

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So... obviously I haven't done very well with that resolution. But I won't give up! Even if no one reads this blog I still have a story to tell. It might be the most boring story ever but its my story!

My story today starts off at 5:15Am. I got up, got dressed, brushed my teeth and stretched for a few minutes. Than I left for Jackie's House (my running buddy) It was creepy foggy this morning. I couldn't see a thing in front of me driving which is quite scary going down a small dirt road. I kept getting flashes of scenes from various Scary slasher films where the silhouette of a man appears with a freakishly large knife by his side. And knowing me.. I'd be that stupid that just stands there for a few minutes giving him a pretty decent headstart.

Anyway.. off my wild tangent. I get to Jackie's and we set out. It's crunch time this week! Our 5k is this Saturday.. running out of time. We usually run around the block and walk the cul-de-sac but this morning we skipped the cul-de-sac all together. We got 2 miles out in 36 mins which isn't to bad. I aren't really doing this for time as of yet. I am just a beginner and I am just doing it to prove to myself that I can. And that if I put my mind to something I can do it.

The rest of the day I was a complete zombie! I was soo tired. With a headache to boot. I think Gwyn is getting into her terrible two stage already. Its 4 months early! She was into everything all day and just a grump. Her new thing to say to me now when I tell her to put something down is "But I WANT it!" So I had about a 5 minute stand off with her but finally she gave up and but the stuff back. Such a stinker but she is still so stinkin cute.

Chandler started a new letter with his reading lessons today. EEE. He is doing very well and I couldn't be more proud of him. He is taking to these lessons very well.. so far we only had one bad day. But after a short break he wanted to come back and try again. I love watching his mind grow and absorb everything around him.

Michael and I went to Lake City again today.. unfortunately Susan was not there so we wasted a day =/ Oh well. We can't be upset because she probably tried to contact us but I have no phone! On the bright side it was a nice car ride and nice conversation between us.

I don't realy have much else to say about today. Made dinner, bathed the kids, put them to bed. Now I am writing this and about to go lay down and go to sleep. That beautiful bed that I have been longing for all day. Goodnite =D

I feel so.. icky!

2008-11-12T16:03:00.000-08:00

Some one out there has my information.. I got a letter from the University of Florida telling me that their security has been breached and that my information was part of the system stolen. They don't know if the intruder will use my information but they advised for me to take action to be safe. I put a alert on my credit accounts and will start the "process" to put a freeze on my accounts tomorrow. It shouldnt be so complicated to put a safety on my information! ugh this makes me feel so gross.. and paranoid! Someone has my address and my SS number.. as if I wasn't scared at night enough. gRRR

killing time

2008-11-10T09:45:00.000-08:00

ah relief! Chandler and I are feeling much better after a weekend of torture. Chandler seems a bit tired today but thats about it. Now its time to assess the damage of laying on the couch all weekend and clean house. blah. no bueno.

so Mike is out of town for the week on business in Vegas. I hate these long trips. Especially since I didnt really get to see him before he left since I was sick. I tend to get very insecure when he is gone and not getting to snuggle with him or say goodbye doesnt help ease those feelings. Just gotta keep myself busy.. thats the key. Luckily christmas is around the corner so i am using that as an excuse to keep busy.

so.. random thought of the day..

I think I want to try to train to run a half marathon. I can't imagine the feeling of accomplishment finishing something like that. but how to get the drive or motivation or discipline to train for that.. thats the real problem. any ideas?

well I can't think of anything else to write about. that killed about 5 mins.. *sigh*

bring me a bucket

2008-11-07T10:05:00.000-08:00

wow I am so ill right now. i can't keep anything down but the worse part is that my stomach hurts so bad. Actually the worse part is that this completely ruins my weekend. We were suppose to go watch a movie at a friends house tonight and than go early in the morning and go deep sea fishing. My husband is leaving for a week on a business trip so it was our chance to do something fun together. PLUS Sunday is Chandlers first primary program at church. He has a line and a song to sing.. hopefully I'll be better by than. Honestly I feel like I am dying.. blah. I have nothing to drink here and my jello is taking sooo long to well become jello. Sucks. pray for me *puppy eyes*

well crap

2008-11-05T06:32:00.000-08:00

So Obama is now president. President Barack Obama... *sigh* hmm.. what to say.. what to say...

I hope and pray that I am wrong with my feelings of mistrust of Obama and fear for the country.

I think I am going to take a huge sleeping pill and sleep until next election. Hopefully when I wake up the country wont be in shambles.

Its our duty.

2008-11-04T08:28:00.000-08:00

So last night after our tire fiasco, Michael and I sat down and looked at the sample ballot and discussed each issue and what they were all about. and also looked up all the candidates and discussed what each one was about. so we filled out the sample ballot and were pretty much set to vote in the morning. There were I believe two amendments that we didnt really know what they were about so we didnt vote on those and we didnt vote on the judges cause we couldn't find ANY information on them ANYWHERE.

I got up at 6:30 this morning, got dressed and drove (Mikes car) to the voting precinct. There were a few people in line but it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. There were alot of booths so it went rather quickly. i was talking to another lady and she said that she couldnt find any information on the judges either so she was voting for them. She didnt want to make a uninformed vote. So I felt better about that.

I went in a did my thing, got my sticker, and left. when I started the car the DJ's were talking about other places that were giving away free stuff like Starbucks, Krispy Kreme, and Ben and Jerry's. WHAT?! lame. Oh well.. at least I did my American Duty. On the way home, the whole path way there were Obama signs that simply said Change. CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE. all the way home. I couldnt help but think of Monty Pythons Spam song. I would like change, change, change, change, sausage, and change. I DONT LIKE CHANGE!!!!! lol. I dunno.. it really turns me off of a candidate that feels they need to campaign THAT much. Its insane. I believe I saw one.. maybe 2 McCain signs.

Anyway I hope everyone got the opportunity to vote today. and I hope and I pray ( I REALLY REALLY pray) that this country gets put into the right hands.

Stranded

2008-11-04T08:14:00.000-08:00

I had my appointment in Lake City yesterday at four as usual. Lake City is about 30 mins away from where I live by interstate. As I was coming home, I was behind this car and he did a really quick swerve out of the lane. It happened so quickly that I had no reaction time and I hit something.. a big something and it totally took out my back tire. At first I couldnt tell the tire was gone so I drove a bit but than it started getting out of my control .. but I tried the best I could to drive till I got to a call box which I did thankfully.
I pulled over and got out and looked at the tire.. or lack of.. totally gone. I pushed the button for the police and ran and jumped back into my car locked the doors and cried. Yes I know... I am a big baby. BUt I was alone of the side of the interstate in the middle of nowhere with no cellphone, no weapon of any kind.. in the pitch dark. One.. I am paranoid.. two.. I hate being alone.. and three I hate the dark.
But finally the officer came and she was kind enough to call my husband so he came to my rescue. We got the spare tire out and of course it was flat. *sigh* but it had enough air to put it on and drive to the next exit to get some air. SO we drove to a gas station put a dollar in the air machine and it broken.. GREEATT. Thats all the change we had. Luckily we were able to get home and had nice enough babysitters to watch the kids later than expected. But now I don't have a car cause we dont have the money to get new tires. Its my mission today to search the house for change (Wheres Obama with my promised change?) so I can put some air in the tire. So it was a fun night. But I was proud of my self for not letting in and destrying my whole night.

Trick or Treat

2008-11-04T07:45:00.000-08:00

Happy Halloween! (a couple of days late)

Its hard to believe there are only two months left in the year. 2008 just FLEW by.

So our Halloween went pretty well. The kids dressed up and got alot of candy which made them happy which is what its all about. Chandler went as Optimus Prime which if you don't know who that is, is a transformer. He was so excited to be a transformer although he orginally wanted to be bumblebee. But the only Bumblebee costume I found was for older kids. Here is his costume...

He was very polite at every house we went to. He told everyone Trick or treat and walked into their house grabbed the candy and said thank you and Happy halloween and left. LOL. Thats our boy.

Gwyneth was little Red Riding Hood this year. She was sooo freaking cute! We got alot of compliments on her costume and how cute she was which does a parents heart good.

It took her awhile but twoards the end she started figuring out what Trick or treating was all about.. CANDY!
all in all it was a good night. Two exhausted kids and parents.. candy.. I love the Holidays =)

7/23/08

2008-07-23T07:06:00.000-07:00

Nothing much to update today.. but I am sitting here sick and bored so I needed to do something.

Gwyn had her 15 month appointment last week. She is 22 pounds 30 inches tall. Happy and healthy. Got one shot. Was suppose to get alot more but We have made the decision not to get her shots till she is 2 years. It turns out that she is also getting her back molars. Not fun. Lots of drool. She is really getting into me reading her books. Her favorite is the Jungle Bus book. Though she gets a little impatient for the page turning.

Chandler is sick today too. Fun Fun. It makes for an even sassier Chandler. Sassier.. is that a word? I don't know.. don't care. Well there's not to say about Chandler right now. He is getting alot better at his letters. He is going through a little regression with his potty training for some reason. I have figured that one out yet. I am looking into putting him in a dance class. I think that wilkl be good for him. Get some of his energy out and he such a little performer. I think he might enjoy it.

I finished my ballet classes this week. Kinda sad. I was alot of fun. But she told us about an adult ballet class on Tuesday nights so she is going to send me some information on it. Hopefullyl it won't be too much.

We are starting to work on the house more.. Mike is working on the bathroom right now.. attempting to put a new light in that comes with a ventalation system in it. There's no fan in our bathrooms right now and the master bath is so small that it gets alot of mold. But it is proving to be alot harder than we thought to install. *sigh*

Anyway.. nothing else to report.

Jespersen Update

2008-07-06T18:46:00.000-07:00

Wow... I haven't updated this in a long time. I am horrible at these things so if you ever see that I haven't updated in awhile.. give me a kick in the rear. I want to get better at this. Anyway..

Whats new.. The kids.Gwyneth is getting bigger and impossibly cuter by the day. She is now 14 months. She's a little chatter box but not a whole lot of words yet. She has the sweetest little voice. Her favorite word is "NO" =) Other words shes says are Baby, Silly (see-lee), Ni- Ni (nite-nite), juice, and of course mama and dada. She is a huge Daddy's girl.. its amazing how much they look alike. She is getting more into her baby dolls but still loves outdoors and sports and playing with Chandler's cars and dinosaurs (when he's not looking of course) She is also still into her veggies.. first thing she eats on her plate. Unfortunately she got sick this week out of the blue. Was vomiting on Wednesday and got pretty dehydrated on Thursday. She refused to drink anything so I had to force liquids down her. And yesterday and this morning she was constipated.. lots of screaming. We gave her lots of apple juice and fruit and gave her a warm bath and she finally went and was a lot happier as was everyone else in the house. She has her 15 month appt on the 17th.. will update than.

Chandler is growing up way too fast. He is definitely not my little baby anymore. I came to the realization that he will be 4 in two months! 0.O Holy smokes! We are working on his ABC's right now. And he is picking up on it fairly quickly. He is starting to recognize his name when he sees it now and he can write the letters C, G, H, K, O, and W. He is such an amazingly creative and abstract little boy. I would love to spend a day in his mind. He is quite the little artist. For a 3 year old he puts so much detail into his work. Every little thing that he does amazes me. Here are some of his drawings.. they are older ones.. my camera is broken so I haven't been able to take any pictures.

We started putting on some preschool waiting lists for next year. Unfortunately the deadline for school is September 1st so he wasn't able to get in this year since his birthday is on September 18. Which also means of course that he wont be able to start kindergarten till he is 6. =/ But anyway *hopefully* he will be going to the Montessori school here in town. So anyway, we still have some things to work on with him.. he is still very headstrong, very controlling, and tends to get frustrated very easily but I am so proud of him. He is definitely the coolest kid ever.

I had my oral surgery this week.. on Tuesday to be precise. Things went really well actually. My surgeons name was Dr. Randall Canton. He is such a wonderful surgeon. I wasn't in any pain afterwards and I didn't swell at all. I do have a bruise along my jaw line and I am still having trouble eating but all is well. I did however get sick this week though. I thought it was because of the surgery but everyone else got other than Chandler. Doing better today.. just tired.

I started my ballet classes a few weeks ago. Its a lot harder than I thought it was. But I am carrying it through.. haven't given up yet which is an accomplishment. I'm looking forward to taking another dance class in the future whether another ballet or maybe tap =) I believe taking this class has opened my eyes to a lot of things and there are so many things that I want to learn to do now.. its amazing what doors that little bit of courage has opened up. I'll post more about that on a separate blog.

Mike is doing well with work. He hasn't been traveling which is nice. Working hard so we can fix up the house and move. He is getting really into Golf. He took a community beginners golf class and did pretty well and looking into personal professional lessons. It'll be nice for him to have something to do for himself every once in awhile. He is also looking into taking guitar lessons.. but that was just something mentioned in the breeze. I don't know if it's still something he wants to do.

Anyways that was a nice long update. Hopefully I do better =) Happy reading.

11/8/07

2007-11-08T07:47:00.000-08:00

I keep forgetting to update this blog.. *sigh*

Anyway.. updates. Here are some pictures of the kids halloween costumes. Chandler had alot of fun trick or treating.. he said trick or treat a few times but ainly he just old everyone happy halloween.. very cute.
Right now Chandler has a middle ear infection in both ears.. poor guy. the doctor said it was hte wrost he has seen this week. He has alot of pressure behind both ears and lots of fluid. He is on antibotics for 10 days. Then he will go back in to see if they have gotten any better.
I started homeschooling Chandler and his friend Suvi this week.. its going very well. Not perfect but they are only three and I haven't done this before, but its a learning process for all of us. Its nice to have special time for me and Chandler. He also loves having a play mate twice a week. Hopefully she will teach him alot.

Gwyn will be 7 months this month. She is scooting all over the place trying her best to crawl but all she can accomplish is about one step and than a face plant. hehe. She likes to straighten her legs all the way so I am thinking she might skip crawling all together and go straight to walking. But who knows. Two days ago she said her first word. Mike is thrilled cause it was dada. They are so cute together.

I am getting use to being a teacher. its fun but stressful at the same time. I haven't been going to the gym unfortunately. The last 2 1/2 weeks the kids have been sick *sigh* I guess I'll have to start going at night. Anyway.. thats all I have to report right now..

2007-10-23T08:17:00.000-07:00

Both kids had an appointment yesterday. Gwyn is now 16 lbs and 25 inches long. Everything is looking good and on schedule. She has been sick with a cold for the last three days though. Poor baby and since all children's cold meds have been recalled I can only sit and do nothing to make her feel better. She also now scooting. She can get up on all fours so I think the crawling is coming soon. She scoots differently than Chandler did. I remember Chandler did the wounded soldier scoot lol. Gwyn kind of looks like a sea lion =) She gets on all fours than kinda flings her self forward. Funny looking. No teeth yet but the nurse said yesterday that it looks like she is working on her bottom teeth. She is also all done with her yellow veggies and is now starting on peas. It doesn't seem like she cares for them much.
Chandler has not gained a single pound in a year. He is still at 32 lbs but he is getting taller 3'2. He is also doing well though she is kinda concerned about his eye. Apparently when she was looking at his eyes, when he was focusing on the light, his left eye would drift. But she couldn't quite tell so we have to keep an eye on it but it hard to get him to focus on anything. So if he does have this problem than he will have to see an eye doctor and go from there. Anyway.. we have ordered the joy school program for him and I just received it in the mail so when when I print out everything and get all the materials I need, I will start homeschooling him.
Mike and I are doing well. Nothing much to report. Mike is leaving tomorrow for California for a few days. I am still doing well at the gym though I haven't been able to go yet this week since Gwyn is sick. (can't take her to the kids club if she is sick) Saturday I did a charity walk for breast cancer. It was a lot of fun except for the fact that I didn't have anyone to walk with. Next time I will know to bring someone. It was a 3 mile walk 0.0 I didn't realize it was that long . My legs and ankles were so stiff the next morning. Anyway.. I can't think of anything else to say though I am sure there is more. =) Can you believe Gwyn is 6 months old?

just a little update

2007-10-07T06:32:00.000-07:00

Just a little update on how we are doing..

Chandler just recently turned three as you all know. Full of energy and alot of fun though sometimes that energy get him into trouble. No luck with the potty training. Haven't even attempted. I was always told to wait till they show an interest in the potty, which Chandler has not done. We are lucky if he even tells us that he has gone. Hopefully he will spark an interest soon cause pull ups aren't cheap when you have to buy baby diapers and formula.
I am looking into a Joy School program for him to start homeschooling him at home. I've look into some friends doing it with me but it might have be a one on one thing. Which is okay. I lack the confidence to teach him.. I definitely have no confidence teaching other kids.
He is very independent. Wants to do everything himself. He makes his own drinks and breakfast. And he makes his own sandwiches. Now if only he would do that with his diapers. =/

Gwyneth is about 6 months old now. She is in her own room now. .. no longer beside us. Yes I cried. =P She was doing well but for the last few days she has woken up to eat.. which is weird cause since she was about 2 weeks old, she has slept the entire night. I hope it's just a fluke.
She is getting so big and more beautiful by the day. She is trying to crawl but all she can accomplish right now is pushing herself up and rolling over. But she's going to get it soon. No teeth yet. She also has started foods. She gets oatmeal in the morning and rice cereal for dinner. And for lunch she gets carrots right now. She has been on carrots for about a week and no reaction so far, so next its squash.
Her and Chandler are getting along very well. Chandler loves to give her hugs and kisses and sings her twinkle twinkle little star from time to time. Very cute. He always wants to make her bottles and give them to her but he doesn't realize that she can't hold them yet and so he will put it in her mouth and than just walk away. He is learning that he can't lay down next to her. She Likes to get fist fulls of his hair. Lol.

I (Marissa) have been going to the gym 5 days a week. I have lost 5 lbs. YEY! All my clothes are now very loose so i walk around kinda frumpy all the time. Michael took me to go shopping on Thursday to buy clothes but we found nothing. Gainesville does not have very good stores. We are probably going to go to Orlando soon and hit all the strip malls there. Its hard to find modest clothing now a days. Other than that there isn't a whole lot going on with me.

Michael isn't traveling so much anymore. Its nice to have him back home. Work is going well.. though a little stressful. He is still doing well with his church calling (young men president) He bought a Xbox 360 the other day w/ Halo 3.. so he is a happy boy.

2007-10-06T21:55:00.000-07:00