Wow! It has been a long time since we updated our blog. Well, in the last year and a half, we have managed to expand our family by 1 more. Elise Christine was born on 4/9/10 and is just perfect. Now she is 9.5 months old and all over the place. She crawls fast and has even started to push things around walking behind them. She loves music and as soon as she hears it, she is shaking her bootie and her head. It's so cute :o) She loves to mimic her brother, especially if he coughs or sneezes. Brecken is pretty much her favorite person in the world. She absolutely lights up when she sees him. For the most part they get a long very well; however, she is starting to get into all his stuff which doesn't make him too happy.
Brecken is attending an early childhood program one night a week. He loves going to "school" and learning new things. He can write his name pretty well, and we are working on our number recognition. He is really starting to like playing games such as Go Fish, candyland, shutes and ladders, and memory. He actually understands them too! All last week we would have game time at night after Elise went to sleep. It was so nice for Rob and I to sit down with Brecken and have quality time with just him. Brecken is still obsessed with airplanes and jets (please know that there IS a difference between the two ;o) Over Christmas we discovered that his Great Grandpa Rester was in the airforce--flying airplanes, and his Great Grandpa McGlothin ("Poppy Ray") used to work for Boeing-- making airplanes. The love of airplanes is in his blood.
Rob is currently in his last semester of school. He has 16 weeks of student teaching. He just finished week 3 of 8 in a 5th grade class. Once that is finished, he will have 8 weeks in a 3rd grade class. So far he is enjoying the experience, but is excited to work with the 3rd graders (more his age range). Cross your fingers that he will be able to find a job come fall!
I am still working in the NICU at Mayo. I work pretty much every weekend. That gives me the week to be with the kids. We don't have any daycare, so there are days of very little sleep and some with hand off reports. Hopefully we will have some sort of daycare lined up in the next few months to help decrease our stress and increase our sleep!
well, that was 2010 in a nutshell. Maybe i can be a little better at updating this blog in 2011.
Till next time...........
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