A Week At A Time

So, here is my promised update on the baby. Unfortunately, I don't have much to tell you. The doctor says that he thinks I still have a few weeks, but that could change at any time. For the time being, I am allowed to go about life as normal (except no traveling very far and no lifting anything really heavy). I will continue going to school and doing all that. However, all this can still change at pretty much any moment. I am living my life on a week to week basis. It's kind of like being a week away from my due date...except that week is going to last two months. We'll see how this goes. I might be crazy by the time the baby gets here.

My Favorite Things

Emily has turned into quite the opinionated young lady lately, so I thought I would record some of her favorite things.

1. Not wearing pants

2. Wearing Mom's shoes (especially wedges and slippers)

3. Her Halloween bucket

4. Bubbles (I have a cute video of this that will be posted later if I can get blogspot to work.)

5. Reading books, any book will do. She does have her favorites, but even Mom and Dad's books that don't have pictures work for her.

6. Tinker Bell (It's more of an obsession, really)

7. My Friend's Tigger & Pooh (There are not nearly enough episodes On Demand, I've seen them all too many times.)

8. Her baby

9. Blankie

10. The Christmas tree (She's slowing learning to leave it alone.)

11. Fruit snacks (especially the Tinker Bell ones)

12. Princesses

13. Yogurt

Baby Update

This week has been an interesting one, a little bit ridiculous actually. I did not feel well on Tuesday and then on Wednesday started having contractions that seem to be brought on by physical activity (by which I mean, walking around school or the library). It left me very tired and what I felt to be abnormally sore. So, I paid a visit to the doctor on Thursday. I do have a bit of an infection that explains some of the exhaustion and soreness, it does not explain the contractions though. They did do a test which indicates that chances are very high that the baby won't come in the next 2 weeks. They can't really predict any further than that. The good news is that the baby's heartbeat and all that is fine and as long as I make it at least 2 more weeks there won't be a lot of cause for concern.

Really what I'm saying is, we know nothing. I'll go back to the doctor in a week and we'll probably be able to tell a little more by then. I could be having this baby a little earlier than planned or I could still go full term. The other part of the good news is, it seems like BYU is going to be really cooperative. My professor said that as long as I can make it through Thanksgiving, they should just let me graduate. We're going to do my exit interview and final evaluation next Friday, just in case. So, all things considered, this could be much worse! I will let you know when I know more.

Blogging Month

I just learned from a friends' blog that November is blogging month. She has set the amazing goal of blogging daily, I think I will just go for twice a week. However, if I even met my goal of weekly that would be an improvement.

Today my post will be about the fact that I am awake. I have been awake since 4. Yesterday I woke up at 6. What's the point of the weekend anyway? Yesterday was my fault, today is completely Emily's. We attempted the toddler bed again last night and so she wandered into our room at 4 and wouldn't go back to sleep. Going to sleep in the toddler bed didn't work so well last night, so it had no chance this morning. Really, I don't understand her. When I put her in the toddler bed she screams like she's dying. She then gets up and walks to the end of the hall. She calmly stands there until I come and then walks back to her bed, perfectly willingly. I put her back in bed, walk out and we start the cycle again. After doing this about 15 times last night, I sat in her rocking chair until she went to sleep since she was almost there anyway. I seriously do not understand.

Redoing

In lieu of planning my lessons this week, we've been having fun redecorating the house. Jacob read an article that said that every home should have a picture of the Savior and a picture of the temple. We've had the first one covered since we got married, but we've kind of been counting our wedding picture as a picture of the temple. As you can see below, you can't even tell it's the temple. So, we moved all our family pictures to accommodate for a lovely picture of the temple and one of the First Presidency. I really love how it turned out.

Yes one of the frames is empty, it will be the new baby when he gets here!

This picture, which didn't turn out well in the photograph, we just got today and will be hung in the nursery. We went to Costco for chicken and Greg Olsen was there! The picture was only $20 and someone at Costco got smart and put picture frames on sale. So, we got it signed and are very excited to hang it in the nursery tomorrow.

I also did some redoing on my look this week. Alright, not much of a change, but I did get new glasses! Surprisingly, after having not seen an eye doctor in 5 years, my prescription was only worse by .25 in each eye (Jacob will tell me how to say that correctly later.) It's nice to have glasses that I can see out of and that stay on my face!

On a random side note (I know, I need to learn to stick to one topic per post) Emily is turning into such a big girl. Tonight she didn't want to sit on my lap as we read stories and sang songs, she had to sit next me. It didn't work well in the rocking chair and felt very strange to be singing primary songs without a little girl on my lap.

Halloween Fun

Halloween was a fun time this year, especially since Emily was old enough to be excited about the candy!

Our beautiful pumpkins that Jacob carved. I cleaned them out. I also made some tombstones that fell over and broke at the slightest breeze....that was kind of lame.

Emily dressed as Abby Cadabby. She loved her costume and even left her pigtails in all night! I tried again for church today and it lasted the normal 2 minutes. I guess Halloween is magic.

Emily and Jacob at the ward trunk-or-treat. Emily actually has an ear infection right now, so we just did this instead of normal trick-or-treating, she gets pretty crabby in the evenings. She got more candy than any 18 month old needs anyway.

Jacob and I just wore scrubs for our costumes. He was supposed to have his stethoscope, making him a doctor and I was supposed to have a witches hat, making me a witch doctor, but we forgot our accessories. Two of our friends were also wearing scrubs, so we just decided that we had dressed up as Reed and Jyll for Halloween. They were a paradox or "pair-of-docs".

She dug right into her stash the minute we got home. Normally her shoes have to come off first thing, but she was so excited about the candy that we were able to get a few more pictures of her in her costume.

Starting Again

It has been a crazy weekend, but a lot of craziness in my life has come to an end. All semester I've been working away at my teacher work sample. For those who haven't already heard me complain about it, it's basically my senior project. It really wasn't as bad as I expected, just extremely time consuming. Many other things have fallen by the wayside in the past few weeks as I've tried to get it done. However, it is now complete and will be turned in on Monday!

Along with turning that monster in, I will also be starting at a new school on Monday. BYU has us teach at two different schools during our student teaching, once in a lower grade and once in an upper grade. I have to say that while I'm sad to leave the school I was at, I'm so glad to be going to an older grade. I'm still not positive, but I'm starting to think that I'm not cut out to teach the younger grades. I just can't handle how sensitive they are! I also feel like half of what I say goes right over their heads some days. So, I'll be trying my hand at 5th grade again. We shall see how it goes. Right now, I'm mostly just excited that I get to spend the next little while observing, which will mean that after school will be my time and I'll be able to catch up on some things....hopefully. Being pregnant is dang exhausting, so right now I'm tempted to just catch up on my sleep. Unfortunately, work and house cleaning are calling my name.

PS - Does anyone have any good costume suggestions? I really did not want to dress up for Halloween as I don't have money to spend on a costume or time to make one, however I will probably have to wear something to school on Friday. Being pregnant also makes this more difficult. So, I am open to any and all suggestions! Emily is going to be Abby Cadabby (a fairy in training from Sesame Street), but I can't think of a Sesame Street character I can be, so I can't really go for the family theme.