HE'S HERE!!!!!

Hi all,

I'm sure that most of you have heard by now that Jonathan was born of Friday morning at 7:47AM. He and mom are doing well. We came home on Saturday night and our trusty old Dell had the blue screen of death on it. I tried my best to fix it with no results. So, today we got a new notebook. I haven't had a chance to put any pics up yet... but our great friend Krista has! Her blog is linked on ours if you want to see the cute little guy. I will get some new pics up tomorrow after some rest! Thanks for all your love and support.

38 weeks

Here is the latest belly shot. Thomas made me turn all the way side ways so you can see me in all my huge glory. I started my maternity leave officially on Monday and it has been good. I am so glad that I have had this time to just rest and relax. It is really weird not to go to work when I know the kids are there... but they will survive without me. There are only 8 weeks left in school so it should go fast for them and the sub. SO far this week I have made dinners (with extras to freeze) I got my hair cut and a pedicure. I started working on catching up my scrap book until I left the pictures on the couch and Roxy thought I wanted them spread through the backyard, so I am going to walmart to pick up the new prints. grrrr. I went to a training at school for writing. I have taken naps and am about half way though a new book. I have written thank you cards and watched way too many episodes of baby story, bringing home baby, birth day... Hopefully I can get some pages done for Jonathan's book but we will see because I am not a very good "make the page and add the pictures later" kind of scrapper.

Baby Shower #3

The wonderful ladies that I work with gave me a very fun shower last week. Kindergarten teachers know how to throw a party! Everyone brought food to share, there was a color scheme and we even had adult height tables and chairs!! They worked so hard putting it all together and I had a great time seeing lots of people who I worked with last year but went to open the new school. Jeannie who was my neighbor came out from Arizona. I got soo many presents it was a little overwhelming but I definitely felt very loved! We laughed and ate and I opened presents! It was so fun because everyone was chatting and having a good time and I wasn't the center of attention... which is not really my favorite. SO thanks to my partner teacher Robin for such a great time!

Baby Shower #2

Unfourtunately I have no pictures from this baby shower because I forgot to take any... darn it! So if you are reading this and you have some send them my way so I can at least make a scrapbook page of this wonderful day! My aunts and cousins got together and threw me a very fun baby shower at my parent's house. We had a fabulous lunch with yummy cupcakes that were blue frosting with brown sprinkles, so cute! It was great for all of us to get together and talk and eat! Hopefully I will get some pictures to show soon!

A great Monday!!

I think I made the right decision... Today I went to work this morning, came home, had lunch took an hour and a half nap and started the marathon that is cleaning my house ( I am doing it in stages... kinda annoying but it will get done that way) . Tonight Thomas and I are gonna go to Target so we can get the rest of the essentials for Jonathan (at least what we think is essential today, I am sure I will have a new list next week ha ha) . When I am home all day long I usually end up watching a baby story or something like that on TV all morning.... and get nothing done. Then when Thomas comes home I have a million things I want to do. Today was great. I am still taking it one day at a time, we will see what tomorrow brings.

My friend Faith took some beautiful maternity shots they are from about 30 weeks:

Addicted to kindergarten

So yesterday I couldn't get over the fact that today would be my "last day" with the kindergarteners. It made me so sad to think that I wouldn't see them anymore until they were first graders. While I was super tired at the begining of the week, the end of the week were days that remind me of why I love to teach kindergarteners so much. Since I am such a planner and when exactly Jonathan decides to make his debut is not something I can plan. I have decided to keep working next week. Well... sort of. I am going to work in the mornings and then have a sub for the afternoon. AS long as I don't get too tired. It sounded like a good compromise. Like Kaitlyn says "you are no one's hero" I won't be working until the day he is born. Unless he decides to come early, then I might be. I thought it would be a good way to transition out of some of the responsibilities I have at work as well. So pray that this little plan works for me. :0)

Baby Shower #1

This past weekend Kathy, Robin and Marilyn hosted a wonderful shower for me. We had a yummy lunch and cupcakes for dessert. It was so fun to be with all my friends and family members from Thomas' side. Baby Jonathan and I were very spoiled with lots of fun gifts. I was very nervous for the shower because I hate being the center of attention but everyone chatted and had a good time. My mom had so much fun getting her baby fix. We played the "guess your belly size game" and the two winners cracked me up. Jen, who is like the skinniest person I know and Faith who is 20 weeks behind me and measured her own belly. It is one of the few times I have played that game and seen two people who were super close with their measurement. So Fun!! Grandma Wallerius gave me one of my favorite little onesies.... it says "I'm cute, my mom's cute and my dad's lucky." Some other things I loved at my shower were everyone amazed at the size of one month old Daniel, Dorthy coming (she has cut Thomas' hair since he was 13 and is a crack up!), Kasandra not in basketball shorts, Antonette telling me, your friends are so beautiful Leighann. Good times.....