Here is a page I did of Macy at 6 weeks (she is 10 weeks now).

Well, school is out for summer-WOOHOOO! Many of my students gave me gifts-plants, coffee, mugs, clothes for Macy, etc. It was pretty sweet. The last day I spent signing yearbooks and cleaning my room. Today, our team +PE went out for breakfast before heading into school to finish packing up. I finally went through my drawers and files-now I don't have to dread that when I come back in August.

I got my paycheck to for the entire summer. Going to have to budget that so we don't spend it all the first week. I bought some DVD's and some books for myself as a "congratulation" present. The only thing left to buy is a pair of workout shoes and then I am done spending...until I get my disability check hehe.

Macy is doing well. Linda caught her smiling and was able to get a picture of her. I can't wait to scrap it. She is smiling a little more now, and cooing alot. She likes looking at colors now I think-that seems to make her coo the most. It is so cute.

Chris is away in Spokane this weekend, so its a girls weekend here at home. We are just going to hang out I think (I feel a cold coming on) and watch movies all weekend long-and play of course.

Macy has a doctor appt. on Tuesday-her 2 month well check. Everything should go well-even the cradle cap seems to have gone away for the most part. After that, we are going to have her pictures taken again-it should be a better experience then Pennys.

With that-I am going to head to bed!

Back to Work

So I am back to school now for the last two weeks of the school year. I came back during teacher appreciation week, so I received gifts when I came back! Some of my students gave me baby stuff (lotion, t-shirts, bibs, picture frames)-I got some gingerbread, some chocolate mint candies, and the PTA at school gave us treats all week. The 7th grade team played a poker game and I won with a pair of queens-so I got the grand prize-which was a huge gift basket full of summer stuff-plus an icecream maker! Chris and I have only made homemade icecream once when we first moved into the house. We had a peach tree in the backyard, so we picked the peaches and made sugar free peach ice cream. It was excellent! But, the peach tree is gone now, and we haven't made anything since. Hopefully this summer I will feel motivated to make some.

I am planned for the rest of the year, which is nice. I am looking forward to revising my lesson plans for next year. I would like to get rid of the boring ones (obviously). Many of my students have asked me to move up to 8th grade, which I think is great! But, I am going to stay in 7th, as long as my team does, and work on improving my lessons-it will be the first time in 8 years that I will have taught the same grade level in a row.

I have been asked to be the social studies department chair at school. I am going to do it. It will mean more work from me, but I think it is a step up for doing curriculum development at the district level. I am also going to attend a district level standards conference this summer for 7th and 8th grade, so that should be good (and its paid, which helps).

Things on the homefront are good. Macy sleeps between 8-9 hours at night now with one feeding. That should increase a little as time passes. She is 7 weeks old now-time is flying by. We videotaped her in the bath the other day-it is so cute to watch! Chris wants to video tape her taking a poo poo, but we shall see. He wants to get some toys and stuff for the bathtub-he has vowed NOT to have playtime in the bathtub, but, that doesn't seem to be working out LOL.

Trying to get a lot of digi-scrapping done. I need to teach myself new techniques, but it is hard to balance that with wanting to finish pages.

We made it 6 weeks!

Chris and I made it through the first six weeks with Macy! It was almost to the day that she has begun sleeping 5-6 hours straight at night. The book that Audra gave me Healthy Sleep Habits, Healthy Child seems to be right on the money so far! Here is the clinic's webpage.

Macy is doing well, although she has cradle cap (we call it cradle crap). We wash her with special adult shampoo and lotion that unfortunately does not smell like baby. But, it slowly seems to be working.

She also seems to have inconsistent bowel movements. It is kinda fun to watch her try and poop--she scrunches up and grunts and makes all sorts of entertaining noises. Believe it, but we are actually happy when she poops, because then we know her digestive system is working okay. I am still going to mention it at the next doctor appt.

Because she was in the NICU at Arrowhead for a few days, we were able to sign up for this developmental program through the state of Arizona. They provide all sorts of services for free-in fact, a nurse is coming out to the house on Tuesday to meet Macy, so I plan on mentioning the constipation and the cradle cap to her to see what she says.

As for Chris and I, we have had our first semi-relaxing weekend in six weeks. Today, Macy slept really well, so we were able to play civilization at least 4 hours today. Chris took a nap, and I did some scrapbooking. FINALL Y.

Linda and John have offered to pay for countertops for the house. We went to some counter place the other day to pick up some samples, and we have chosen one-the contractor will be coming out next week sometime.

Next week I go back to work-ugh. I had a dream about going back last night-I dreamed I went back a week early and was totally unprepared. I am looking forward to it-it will be a nice two week break before summer. Don't get me wrong-I love spending time with Macy, yet, I do want to a little change during the daytime for a bit.