A Few Recent Thoughts

...that I wish I had more time to explain.

Life, well, has been life. I'm loving it. We're staying ubber busy and I just haven't had the time to post anything that we've been doing. So here are a few updates and thoughts that I've wanted to post about. Forget the pictures, they may never make their internet debut.

Please, people...learn to park. I'm tired of people parking too close to me and having to send the carseat through the wrong side of the car to be buckled in. It's happened a couple times recently and is very annoying. Also, stop dinging my car because you've parked too close and can't get out! This seems to happen quite regularly. I park in the middle. It just makes sense.

AJ's firsts: Giggled for the first time on the evening of Saturday, Narch 20th, the day we left my grandparents' house. I was wishing they were there to hear it. Baby giggles are HEAVEN! Rolled over for the first time early yesterday morning- Shane was the only one to see it happen. He's been sooo close for so long. He rolled from his back to his belly. Go figure. He had to try the hard way first. We thought he would have rolled during spring break but he waited a couple more weeks. Ate food- baby oatmeal in breast milk to be exact. He ate several bites and really seemed to enjoy it. It was enough to take place of a regular meal- nursing. Later he got to play in his brand-new exersaucer (walker type thingy with lots of toys). He LOVED the toys and the fact that he was standing up. He loves to stand. When I took him out of that thing to feed him he finally realized that he was tired and hungry so he got fussy. Then he slept fitfully as usual. I'm working on that, can you tell? Eating food and lots of playing should make him tired enough to sleep for more than three hours in a row, right? If I remember correctly (it's been too long) I'm pretty sure the other two boys were sleeping through the night be now. In fact I know they were. I remember other people telling me how "lucky" I was. It wasn't luck- they were just very good babies. AJ is too. I just need more sleep!

This weekend Shane will be camping with scouts for the first time without Shaun in about a year. Tonight we will be having dinner with my friend, and mentor, Terrie. We're bringing her to HuHot Mongolian BBQ because she hasn't been there before and would have joined us a few weeks ago but had a class to teach that evening so we're getting to it now. She likes that type of place and of course we eat there almost weekly. Terrie and I are celebrating her receiving a teaching award, which she will be presented at my graduation. That will be a special day for both of us. Mark your calendars--- May 15th!

Tomorrow Shaun will be taking his insurance test in Topeka. We'll leaving here between 8 and 9, drive to Topeka, scope out the place he'll be testing at, go to Heather and Jeff's house to hang out, and Shaun will go back to town to take the test. He hasn't taken ANY tests since high school so he's been studying every day/evening for about a month or more now and he's been doing great at the online practice tests. According to his friends who have taken it if he's doing as well as he is on the practice exams he SHOULD easily pass. If he doesn't I'm going to blame it on his nerves. He's extremely nervous about this. He's done everything else perfectly: all the studying, training sessions, and practice tests. After his test we'll probably hang out a little longer, maybe go out to dinner, and then hit Sam's Club for our monthly/quarterly shopping. We've been there more recently this time so we don't need as much which is nice.

We had pictures taken in Texas at a JCPenny's. We weren't very happy with their service and the photos didn't turn out the best. In fact they even lost several photos of AJ due to a hardware malfunction. We weren't willing to wait another hour for photos to be taken again so we ordered a couple things and left. They arrived here a couple days ago and look better than I'd remembered. I wish I could take my own family photos! Too much work to be both in front and behind the camera... I'll post a link, if I remember to get around to it, sometime soon. I've been meaning to show those to everyone since mid-March.

I'm ALMOST into graduate school! I still need to take the Miller Analogy Test (MAT) and get a better score than the one practice test I've taken. I hope to do that later this month. I have to really. It's the only thing my admission's rep is needing from me now. After this month I won't be able to take the MAT but would have to take the GRE or some other horrible test. No thanks! I'll do the analogies test and hope for the best. My vocabulary is not as great as I thought it was... I will be studying the test-taking skills and some other materials for the next couple weeks. I still need to schedule the test too. That will help me organize my studies since I will have a set deadline.

Ok, that's already too much for today. You now have my permission to get back to whatever important things you should be doing. Thanks for reading! :) If I remember the other little items to post I will. But in shorter posts.