Job and kids

This week I started my "job" if you can call it that, I do get paid and it does take me away from home, tutoring. I am having fun.  So much less stress than the full time gig of teaching, though I really miss that at times too. This week was parent teacher conferences and I was not at all envious of the teachers. Thee weeks are the most tiring. But the kids are great and sweet!! I really miss my girls while I am gone, but it is probably good for them to be with someone else (grandparents) instead of me all the time.

So if we're friends on facebook you may have seen the video of Adalyn walking.  YAY!! I love when they start to walk, life changes a lot, but in a good way (at least to me). She rarely wants to crawl, so she hold onto whatever is in reach to get from place to place crawling if she must. 

I always thought Kayla was quite honoree, but Adalyn is out doing her in that department. About three weeks ago she decided that she was no longer going to eat baby food in the jars.  Only table food. Then she refuses to drink from a sippy cup. What a stinker. But today Adalyn finished all of Kayla's chocolate milk out of her cup. Hmmm....

I know what your thinking all she talks about is kids kids kids!! Well they are my life so...

Kayla is starting to really crack me up. She speaks so well and says things all the time that just make me laugh.  The other day she stood on the table and said "Mom do I look crazy standing on this table?" What? Just had to laugh. Then we were talking about her smoke alarm in her room and how it makes a loud sound, etc.. I was asking her if she was scared of it and she informed me she was not "freaked out." HAHAH! She really likes sharks right now. Her and daddy play sharks and get in boats to get away from them. Also, if the shark is not nice it goes in time out!! HAHA. At least I know she knows what time out is for.  She also has her smarty pants side. She is often in trouble for talking back and she's only 2 1/2. Example:  She won't eat her diner so I tell her to put he drink down and eat or else I will have to take it away so she'll finish eating. Her response would be. "I'm going to take your drink away," I often have to turn away she doesn't see me laugh.  She's a mess. I guess it's all part of the learning process, what's okay and what's not. I think at this stage she's just doing a lot of mimicking so a lot of what I say is being used against me. 

Drinking out of KAyla's cup

And again

Daddy and Kayla playing piano

1st birthday

So we just celebrated Adalyn's first birthday! My how they grow. I remember giving birth to her like it just happened. It's a scary (I'm about to be responsible for another life), yet awesome (I get to hold and snuggle this sweet brand new life) feeling. Soon she will be walking and we will hit a whole new phase. Aaron and I were discussing how you go through this all with the first one, but when you have the first one and then the second one is going through it, the phase changes a  bit due to the way you are experiencing it the second time.

I'm glad that we live right here with all of our closest family around. We get to share and experience it with them and they are always there to support us and help out. I love that!

Back to the birthday! So I woke up at 7:00, due to kids not my choice, and we did our normal morning routine, then I cleaned. I find it funny that we clean before company because you always have to clean again when they leave. Not to mention most people really don't pay to much attention to wether or not you have dust on your furniture or not. But I notice it I guess, so I cleaned and got all the stuff set out. We did simple sandwiches and cake and ice cream.  It was fun. Adalyn actually got messy with her cake, unlike Kayla who just cried on her first birthday when her hands got in it.  Talking and visiting with family is always fun.

So this next week I get to tutor kids after school at Parson Hills where I taught! I am super excited about this. It's a paying gig so that makes it just that much better, but I really love teaching and get lots of urges to be in a classroom.  To keep my teaching license valid I still have to do 60 hours of professional development a year. This is hard when your not associated with a school. Usually they have things going that help you get a lot of those hours, mine are all on my own.  BUT, the state has an online program that is great. Anyways, while I am doing that professional development, I always get ideas and find neat things that I want to put to use. So hopefully this will satisfy some of that longing. It's only three days a week for a couple of hours, so I wont miss to much time with my girls either. WIN-WIN.

                                                                    Before the party

                                 The spread. The picture is an autograph mat everyone signs for her

                                                                     Cake!

                                                               About to open gifts

autograph matte

the after party

LOts of pics!!!