Jess has been working for Boeing since the month before Elijah was born. Being a Change Specialist Level II Project Manager, it is very difficult to move up, until you can meet their job requirements as printed on paper. It didn't matter that he had been doing this job for quite some time already, his experience didn't meet the requirement, so no promotion. His fabulous boss decided to go ahead and submit him in form his promotion to the Skills Committee. THEY APPROVED IT! Jess is now a Level III - the youngest one in the Puget Sound area in his group by several years. My husband is the best! Congrats, babe. You rock.
As for me, I have been teaching at Hilltop for the last 4 years. My first year was in sixth grade, and I am currently in my 3rd year of teaching fourth grade. For the past several years, I have been contemplating moving districts. Driving 22 miles each way, every day, has been draining on both me and my family. I feel like I don't get to spend time with my handsome husband and son. SO, I finally applied in the Tahoma School District (Maple Valley - where we live) and I was just offered a position teaching 4th grade at Lake Wilderness Elementary. We can actually see the school from our backyard! How exciting is that. My commute will be going from 44 miles a day to roughly 2 (you have to add on a little because of taking Eli to day care in the morning) miles. I am excited to meet the new staff and continue my teaching career. Although, as excited as I am, I'm really sad that I'll be leaving my teaching friends at Hilltop. I work with a group of wonderful people, but know that we'll stay in touch and I'm going to get a couple of them to move out here. :) Yes, I will be stealing some Hilltop'ers to come out here if I can!
Elijah is getting so big. He's really trying to figure out the idea of running. Sometimes he isn't nearly as lucky as other times and can't keep his feet moving as quick as the rest of his body. He still loves to read books with both Mommy and Daddy as well as reading the books to us. He is such a smart little boy too. While we were reading one day I asked him if he could find anything red on the page, and he pointed to the red balloon. So I asked if there was anything else red on the page and he pointed to the red ball. YAY ELI! Of course at that point, as I was getting ready to ask about another color, he was off and running to something else.
I love this picture of Jess and Eli's feet. I don't know why, but they make me all fuzzy inside when I look at it.
He loves his easel. His favorite is the white board, although, we often have to hide the markers so save the furniture. Don't get me wrong, he doesn't intentionally color on the furniture, but inadvertently marks on things as he walks by. He also loves his new sandbox. For Mother's Day, I got a sandbox for my boy! It's the greatest thing. With the help of Grandma and Grandpa, we brought it home on Sunday, filled it with sand, then spent the next 4.5 hours playing in the backyard. SO CUTE!
Today we also moved Eli to the table for dinner. He's still sitting in his high chair, but we lowered it and scooted him up to the table. I think he really enjoyed being more of a part of our dinner routine. We had tacos and he ate like a champ - then again, he's usually a pretty good eater.
Sorry about the banana hanging out...he loves his bananas! My little monkey man
Ok, here are a couple pictures, just because I can!
Playing flight simulator with Daddy. Eli was really into this - he liked making the plane move. Silly Daddy.
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Mac does the same thing with markers. Except, he got the floor. We got him some of those Crayola Beginnings Markers and Paints (they're huge, and easy for toddlers to hold onto, and they work really well), and we made sure he didn't use them on the carpet. But then he used them on his hand, and smeared his hand all over the carpet.
I had to rent a Rug Doctor, just to get the red and blue out of the carpet. It was cute, though. He loves coloring himself just as much as the paper.
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