1 year ago....

Jessica you can stop holding your breath, here's the blog :) ...... 1 year ago today Lindsay came home from the hospital after being in the NICU for 87 days since birth. These pictures were taken that day. When she was born she weighed 1 pound 12 ounces and when she left the hospital she weighed 5 pounds 4 ounces. One year later she now weighs 20 pounds! I remember this much anticipated day like it was yesterday and how excited yet nervous I was. Brian drove the car home as I sat in the back with Lindsay and I kept putting my ear to her to check if she was still breathing. I am sure you can only imagine how the first night went. :) She has been through so much in the past year, she had anesthesia 4 times since she has been home (6 times since she was born) but I am thankful to say that now she is very healthy and quickly catching up devlopmentally to where she should be!!

Do you see what I see?

Lindsay finally gets to see what I see when we are in the car. Today was her first day in a forward-facing carseat and she loved it! Now she also gets to watch Baby Einstein in Brian's truck, as if she doesn't get enough of it already at home.

On another note...today I felt like Michelle Pfeifer in Dangerous Minds. I had to cover my friend's class today since she was running late to work and I had prep first period. Her class was Algebra 1, but not just any Algebra 1 - it was for juniors and seniors who are taking it for their 3rd or 4th time. They were nice kids, well except for the one girl who kept giving me dirty looks, but other than that they were very comical. However, they were supposed to be taking their final exam. What a task that was! It took us 20 minutes for everyone to finally get a pencil. I had one student during the test tell me the difference between a mongoose and mongeese. (Remember, this is a math class.) Well, I could go on but I think you get the idea of what my first 45 minutes we like at work today. I guess that is what I like about my job, no two days are alike and you never know what suprises the day will bring!

Stay tuned Thursday for a "1 year ago" blog.....

Valentine's Day Cards

Here are actual cards I had to choose from at Hallmark. Which one would you of chosen for your significant other?

#1 Front: A picture of a boy and girl with the night sky behind them.
Inside: "To the man I want beside me every night for the rest of forever."

#2 Front: A heart shaped pizza
Inside: " I love you to pizzas."

#3 Front: "To my husband: Just a little Valentine's Day love note..."
Inside: "...to remind you how much I need you, how much I appreciate you, and how
very, very much I love you."

50 Sit-Ups

In case you didn't know, I enrolled in a workout group on campus after work. There are 7 of us and a personal trainer meets with us for an hour twice a week. She is from brickhouse training (go to the link and you will see a picture of my trainer - she's really nice but works us so hard, which I guess is what I need if I want results). So the other day we had to do 50 sit-ups. Not 50 crunches, which I mistakenly started doing, but 50 sit-ups. That means your chest has to touch your knees and your shoulders come back to the ground, roll up and roll down as my trainer says. The first 25 are a piece of cake, however, the last 25 were quite a struggle. If you have time tonight I challenge you to try 50 sit-ups just so you can feel what I felt and you can workout your abs too! :) (Jessica, you are excused from this assignment for another couple of weeks) Now no cheating, don't grab the back of your legs as you are coming up or grab anything for that matter, use only your abs. You also might want to tuck your feet under something as I had someone standing on mine. Okay, enough of me telling you what to do (its the teacher in me I guess). Let me know how you did! :)

The Little Gym

Yesterday I signed Lindsay and I up for out first mommy and me class at The Little Gym. We start Sat. Jan. 27th and I am so excited. It is a 45 minute class for infants 10 months - 18 months and it meets once a week for 20 weeks. The class is made up of motor development activities that include aerobics, elementary gymnastics skills, stretching, rhythm, songs, group activities, ball play and bubbles! I am sure I will have a lot to write about after these classes so stay tuned! :)

I was so annoyed....

Today I took Lindsay to get her pictures taken for the 2nd time. The first time was in October for her 1 year and she would not crack a smile. We got some cute pictures but she was Miss Serious in all of them. So I thought since she is a couple months older, more animated, talkative (well, not saying actual words but baby talk) I thought maybe, just maybe, she would take some great pictures, smiling and showing off her 4 teeth. I was wrong! As soon as she sat down for the picture, Miss Serious took over. But everytime I picked her up so they could change the props, she laughed and smiled until I sat her back down. AND to make matters worse, and more frustrating, the girl taking the pictures was soooo annoying! The girl was pretending to sneeze, exaggerating the sneezes beyond belief and Lindsay just looked at her like she was some kind of freak. You would think that after the 20th sneeze and Lindsay not laughing the girl would try something else but no, sadly she didn't. So here are the pictures for your viewing pleasure. Sorry the pictures are so small, if I make them bigger they get blurry. Yes, I know Valentine's Day is a month away but I had the day off and thought it wouldn't be as crowded. I think way too ahead, I know.

Famous Daughters

I went to a baby shower this weekend for a friend from work. She is having a girl so we played a game where we had to guess the names of celebrity daughters. Thought I would post some of them for you so you can try to see how many you know....Have fun!

Guess the name of each of these celebrities' daughters...
1. Jennifer Garner
2. Madonna
3. Angelina Jolie(2)
4. Gwenyth Paltrow
5. Courteney Cox
6. Katie Holmes
7. Sharon Osbourne(2)
8. Julia Roberts
9. Michelle Williams
10. Judy Garland
11. Goldie Hawn
12. Denise Richards(2)
13. Brooke Shields
14. Demi Moore(3)
15. Courtney Love
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Answers:
1. Violet
2. Lourdes
3. Zahara & Shilo
4. Apple
5. Coco
6. Suri
7. Amy & Kelly
8. Hazel
9. Matilda
10. Liza Minnelli
11. Kate Hudson
12. Sam & Lola
13. Grier
14. Scout, Rumer, & Tallulah
15. Frances


How many did you get right?

Here's another one...

1. GRAB A CALCULATOR. (YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO DO THIS ONE IN YOUR HEAD)
2. KEY IN THE FIRST THREE DIGITS OF YOUR PHONE NUMBER (NOT THE AREA CODE)
3. MULTIPLY BY 80
4. ADD 1
5. MULTIPLY BY 250
6. ADD THE LAST 4 DIGITS OF YOUR PHONE NUMBER
7. ADD THE LAST 4 DIGITS OF YOUR PHONE NUMBER AGAIN.
8. SUBTRACT 250
9. DIVIDE NUMBER BY 2
DO YOU RECOGNIZE THE ANSWER?

Are you having fun yet?!

Isn't math awesome?!

You will need a calculator for this.....
Take the number of the month you were born (ex. September would be 9) and multiply by 5
Add 6
Multiply by 4
Add 9
Multiply by 5
Add the day you were born
Subtract 165

You should see on your calculator the month and day you were born.

Pictures

Two posts in 1 day! I'm on a roll!! Here are some pictures taken last night when we went to dinner for my dad's 51st birthday. It was also my brother's 29th birthday yesterday, we are getting together again Sunday for him since he couldn't make it last night. So if you are lucky I might post again on Sunday night!! :)

Whoops....

Okay so I deleted my account because the pressure was just too much for me to handle and expexctations were set too high, or so I thought. Okay, here's the story. Last night was my dad's 51st birthday so we all went out to dinner which was a lot of fun. So Allison (my brother's girlfriend) informed me that I was taken off of her friends list since I hadn't posted a blog in a long time. I was heartbroken! Well not really, but close and it got me thinking that maybe I am letting down other people who check my blog daily and don't see anything new. So I decided this morning to delete my account since I was really stressing out about the situation knowing that I wouldn't be able to get on the computer and post a new blog daily and I don't want to dissapoint anyone. Having a 1 year old, a full-time job, a needy husband, a dog that needs attention and nevers gets it, AND the slowest computer known to man on the face of this Earth, blogging daily is just not going to happen for me. So...then I was reading other people's blogs and I felt like I was missing out not having a page so I concluded that I can do this and it might not be every day or every other but when I do post a blog everyone will be so excited! :) Now my problem is that when I tried to get the same URL that I had, it said it wasn't available when I already deleted it so it should be available, so that is why I have a new one! So Alli Hibb bear with me and pictures will be on here soon..... I love you Allison!!!! :)