Cutest Little Cougar EVER

He's our child. He is the cutest little Cougar EVER. Win or lose, he's still freaking adorable.

You're jealous, you know it. :)

What a beautiful family - at least I think so

Like I've said before, we had pictures taken on the 13th, hoping to capture some great shots of our family. Of course, Eli wasn't very interested in the idea of pictures that morning, but we did end up with a few good ones. At the time of the pictures he was just shy of being 1 year, 9 months (21 month for those of you counting that way).

Here we are.
One of us isn't very excited to be taking a picture.
Guess who.

My wonderful family

Me and my little guy
who happens to be not so little anymore

I love this picture.
Eli and Daddy

I love that face very, VERY much.

This is what he really wanted to do.
Run and play.

Me, Eli, Dusti, and Liam

One of our favorite past times: reading a good book

Hey look! It's the Disney airplane!
Really, it was flying overhead.

He sure can fool you!
He was not very pleased to take pictures.

Deena did a great job capturing the few smiles we had during our session.

And here we are with our fabulous neighbors. I'm behind Eli! haha
Jess, Me, Eli, Dusti, Liam, and Gordon

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Oh and on a side note, the chances of Naples are slowly dwindling. They are still insisting no families. Sad. Still, time will tell.

Hmmm...

Well, as of right now, it doesn't look like we're going to be venturing on with this job opportunity. The possibility is still there though. The uppity-ups keep insisting they will not pay for families, however his immediate boss still thinks they'll offer him something. And as he (his boss) put it, everything is negotiable. At this point, it would be an incredible experience, but if it truly happens will come to play. If it is meant to be, then someday in the not so far off future we would have the biggest move of our lives in store. As for right now, we'll just play it out and see where the road leads.

And just because I know you are totally curious and are dying to know, here's a hint:

*****EDIT******
The large mountain (also known for its volcanic episodes) directly across the bay just happens to be Mt. Vesuvius.

Today's the day

We find out more information today about an incredible possible job opportunity. We'll see what happens. Cross your fingers. Jess is probably just sitting down with them right now!

GO JESS!!!!

High Times and High Spirits

I am really enjoying my class!!!!

....thought you might like to know....


Tomorrow is Curriculum Night, I have to talk about our curriculum when I really don't know very much about it. Thankfully my principal is extremely understanding and she said to keep things short and sweet. Get the parents in and out and be done. I actually have an eleven slide Powe.r Point presentation on various aspects of things. Now, I just have to copy the handouts for parents and tidy things up in my classroom in order to finish prepping. Good thing I have lots of time on my hands tomorrow: library, music, math unit 1 test (already! wow).

Side news, we had pictures taken on Saturday, hopefully they'll turn out. They were outside at Seattle University, of course, it being a new environment for Eli, all he wanted to do was run and explore. Oh, and the photographer? Forget about it. He wanted nothing, nothing, to do with her. She was great, but he didn't know her and really did not appreciate having her aim that big, black box at him in any way, shape, or form. Hopefully we get some good shots out of it.

More about possible job opportunities to come.........................


Ok, I just realized how BORING my posts are. I need to come up with something more exciting to post about...or at least post it in a more exciting manner. Maybe if I come up with an exciting title for it, it would seem more exciting. There's an idea. My "Work, Pics, Update" needs to have a little spice. There I came up with something different but still not quite what I'm looking for. Some day I'll get there....maybe I just don't blog enough. Hmmmmm, another thought....

My Boy Shares!

Unfortunately, he has shared what I would have preferred disappear after he was finished with it. I spent the day at home, in bed - except when I would go running for the bathroom. My boy shared his flu with me. I crawled out of bed at 1:00, ventured to the couch, and tried to have something to eat. I thought all was well, but I was wrong. I made my way back to bed at 3:30 when my snack came back to visit. We don't have much in terms of flu food, so I had some water and a few bites of applesauce. Yeah, not so good.

I'm contemplating staying home tomorrow, too. Depends on how the next 12 hours go and whether or not I can eat.

A New Parenting Experience

First of all, yes I really am posting TWO DAYS IN A ROW! It really is a miracle, I know....


Anyway, last night we experienced a whole new parenting adventure. Our poor guy woke up screaming. I snuck into his room to cover him again which is what his problem generally is in the middle of the night. He manages to wiggle out from under his blankets but hasn't quite figured out how to pull them back up. This time when I went in and was feeling for his little body, I instead reached right into a very wet and nasty mess. Poor Eli had thrown up in his bed!

I retreated from his room, with the "Honey, I'm going to need your help with this one" response. I grabbed Eli and headed for the bathroom. While I washed his hair and changed his clothes, Jess changed his sheets and got some water for our bug. It wasn't long before he was at it again, but this time we at least aimed him toward the bathtub. We cleaned everything up and decided to hang out watching tv for a little bit. We sat on our bed for a bit. About 20 minutes later, our third adventure had begun. This time I took Eli straight to a bath (yes, the tub had been thoroughly cleaned) and new clothes for all while someone else changed another set of sheets. After a complete bath, a few sips of water, and a third set of jammies Eli went back to bed. He managed to make it through the night and has been in a great mood today. He is taking quite the nap right now though, making up for that hour and a half we were up last night while he didn't feel good. Poor munchkin!

At any rate, it's pretty amazing that we've made it 20 1/2 months without this happening. There was one minor occurrence when he was still in his crib, but it was NOTHING compared to last night. I am not someone who can generally take the odor or sight of vomit, however, it didn't phase me at all. There's something about your own child not feeling well that takes over all natural reflexes. Today has been filled with laundry though. Sheets, comforters, jammies, towels, you name it! Thank goodness he's feeling better!