Pictures Picture Picture...

With so much going on between teaching and coaching varsity cheer at the school I teach at I have been extremely overwhelmed and when I haven't been at school or at some random cheer camp I've been keeping myself away from the computer so that I can spend more time with Khloe. Here are a few pictures from the past couple weeks.

These are my most fav Jammies she has

Waiting for her tumbling class to start

Her first time eatting ravioli, she LOVED it!

A few of the sugar cookies we made Sunday

We took Khloe to the fair so she could see the animals she

wasn't too sure about the at all

Making cupcakes showing off one of her new jammies for the fall weather that grandma picked up for us,

must be nice to have a job you can leave for lunch... where can I find me one of those.

Food for Baby...

Khloe is13 months and really isn't wanting to eat baby food anymore. Who could blame her, throw everything you can think of in a blender and go... not quite appetizing (although my mom appears to be a fan of Gerber's banana pudding). Lately I've been tryind desperately to find things I can cook for Kevin and I that Khlo can eat as well. Mac n' Cheese works lovely, hot dogs, grilled cheese etc, but one can only stand these basic things for so long. So I've taken to my favorite recipe site AllRecipes. Now I love many things from this site; my "famous" buffalo wing soup came from this site.

Since I have had such success with this site I was hoping they would have many things for my purpose. Great thing was they had a link for "kid friendly foods." What cracks me up is I went to the beef section, Khloe has an iron-deficiency and needs a ton of iron so beef is a great option, but they have nothing but meatloaf. Honestly, is the only thing made from beef that kids will like is meatloaf?!?!? I trully find that hard to believe... I'm thinking I'm going to need to pick up some kid cook books so we can find somethings. Anyone know of great things for kiddo's just beginning to eat I would love to hear about them, especially things high in iron!

I know I've been terrible with blogging and posting pictures, I have tons I promise and will post them this week!

Sorry...

I've been away from the blogging world for about a week now. I've been sick, tierd and well just lazy since my wonderful students blew up on me. Yes I said students, the next day a lovely girl decided to show me just how unlady-like she is.

I will be up a running in a few days.

This actually happened today!

Me: (to student sitting in hall who belonged in the classroom) Hey so since you're not with your group inside the classroom does this mean you want to take the test instead of do the project.


Student: What the hell, don't talk to me like a child.

stunned I say nothing because I can't believe this person actually has the guts to say that.

Student: yeah you have nothing to say

Me: no I'm silent because I'm replaying this situation in my head, because I know you didn't just talk to me like that. I hope you enjoy taking the exam tomorrow.

***later***

Crap student to another student: Did you hear me put that Bi*** in her place.

Not crap student: no I had no idea what was going on.

Me: Please stop standing there talking about the situation, it is only making this worse.

Student: G** D***, what the f*** is your f***ing problem! Get off my f***ing back you b****.

Me: (calmly) okay well...

Student: yeah Mrs. all high and mighty do what the b****says.

Me: You're only adding to the situation...

Crap student: F*** you!

Student walks out of my class...

Me: Well on top of everything else that's ditching my friend...

Okay so honestly parents out there what has happened that some of these kids think that this is acceptable. This isn't the first flip out in a classroom, and I dare say not the last. This was actually a first for me, and I must say I am beyond words to describe how this made me feel in the moment. I actually automatically went to blogging, but let myself cool realizing that: one, this isn't exactly a student that one gets so excited to have in class, and 2 although I love that there are some students that feel comfortable enough to sit down at my desk and hold what to them is "important" conversation, I'm not in this line of work to make friends with little teenagers. I love Literature and love the vacation time... So if I have to put up with a couple ignorant people who think unjustly treating a human being like trash and using the f-word every other word makes them feel empowered so that I can get through to some students who will find the joy in a great book, I'll take it. There is something unspeakable about having a redneck country boy come up to you and devulge that he really enjoyed reading Their Eyes Were Watching God...

Birthdays and Leotards

This past weekend Khloe had her first non-family birthday party. Millie, Khloe's friend, (Kevin's friends little girl) turned one this weekend and had a lovely (in case no one has noticed I adore using the term lovely, it reminds me of the Audrey Hepburn era which is well just lovely) party at a park in Lexington. Khloe was as always fearless! They had a bounce house set up on the pavement and my little diva made sure the big kids knew she was in charge, a majority of the time she ruled it all by herself.

Sitting with Millie

Daddy trying to hold her back
I've been telling Kevin for weeks now that we need to get Khloe into some sort of tumbling class, and Salem Gymnastics has a parent/tot class, but Kevin has had many reservations with putting her in the classes. After seeing her Sunday all his questions were laid to rest and we signed her up today!

While there, she tried her best to run right out into the thick of it all, everyone was blown away with how she was already set to jump in. We even had a lady creepily excited about her small size, she wickedly commented that Khloe may always be tiny... sorry lady I'm not a stage mommy who's going to push her little girl to win gold in 13 years!

Once we had the little one signed up we realized that we were going to find it difficult to find an itty leotard, as it is for her first class (this Wednesday!!!) she'll be wearing a swimsuit, poor baby! Luckily, I have found a site that has size 12 months. I will just have to get one of each and then take them in... geez this skinny thing will one day be a blessing for her, but right now it's quite a curse. Stay tuned for pictures of her first class on Thursday!

Fi and Mi

So this past week I blogged about my excitement regarding an online boutique - Fi and Me. Again I found this site in the round about way from a childhood friend's blog - The Aubut Family. I was certain that the clothing would be great, because of the wonderful review, but I knew nothing about the amazing service.

Before I purchased Khloe's new dress I had reservations on what size would be best for her - she is a whole 16 pounds, and 30 inches long. I emailed Ratna (owner, creator, extraordinaire) of Fi and Me and asked her about the sizing. I was responded to rather quickly, and immediately bought Khloe's dress. I picked a 6/9 because I thought maybe that was the size that was best, then I eagerly awaited the lovely dress. Saturday, to my delight we received a package from beautiful Eugene, Oregon ( ahhh I miss the West Coast). Upon opening the package, I found a lovely card with a nice note, saying that she had sent a different size based on Khloe's measurements, and that if she was wrong she would send the correct size out immediately. It was PERFECT! The smaller size is just wonderful on her.

Not quite sure which I am more thrilled about - the dress, or how wonderful they were! My husband is constantly telling me that I give people too much credit and that not everyone is considerate... I'm let down far too much. Then, there are situations like this that fill me with much joy and remember that some people really are just remarkable.

Everyone truly must check out Fi and Me! There's just something heart warming about receiving a product that is amazing, (the dress itself honestly is... fabric, stitching and all) with the complete knowledge that the person who crafted it genuinely cares about what they do. Passion and love being put into a product most definitely makes the end result breathe taking!

Khloe in her lovely dress!

Now if I could just choose between the Asian Abstract and Pick-Nick...

Loser!

Today marks the first time I will ever want to be an actual loser! The faculty at my school is having it's very own Biggest Loser competition. We had this last year and being in a small school, in a small town I had no desire to have my imperfections on display for all the town. Gossip is like breathing around here, and the adults treat it like it's there key to life. I sat on the sidelines and simply observed how it would work - would your actual weight be on display, would your inability to lose be out for everyone to know... I was quite surprised at how well the competition went last year. The only thing that was ever displayed was who the bigger losers of each week were, weights were never known only the losses.

So I have decided to step up and try my hand at this. Maybe this will be the thing that gives me that push to lose all this weight. Now I can't put all of it off on being "baby weight," before I became pregnant I want to lose ten pounds, but then 30 of it is what I have not lost since Khloe was born. Not that I want to make excuses, but I was doing so well with not putting a ton of weight on while pregnant. Then in the end it was strange it seemed as if no matter what I did I got bigger everywhere, but my stomach. I was growing, but she wasn't. This unfortunately is one of the many side effects of eclampsia... I do have to say I am proud of my self for not gaining anymore weight since then. I do know someone who has, they complain about it and then stuff their face with even more food - go figure.

My problem is this, I don't make time for myself. I tend to wake up shower go to school, devote myself to my classes, go to cheer practice 2 days a week, a game one. When I go home I'm all about Khloe and family. I always say that I'm going to walk on the treadmill, that is collecting dust in the basement, but then I begin to feel guilty that I'm going to take an hour away from Khloe. I say okay when she's asleep I will do it, then Kevin gets home and I for some strange reason I enjoy spending time with my husband - odd isn't. Essentially, I never make time to workout, I haven't even had a hair cut in over a year! It's clear I need to find time for myself!

The initial weigh in was today and I'm pretty excited.