The First Day of School

I am so blessed to have landed my dream job as a half day kindergarten teacher! Last spring I was hired at Hoover Elementary as a permanent employee, which was great because I had all summer to plan for my perfect classroom. I have put in so many hours preparing for students to come and to make sure that they have an inspiring environment to work in where they will learn everything that they need to in order to be successful. Since we have a Soft Start for kindergarten I was able to meet each family individually on the first week of school. This was great because I felt like I already knew so much about my students on their first day. I have a great class of five year olds who are so excited to learn. I started out with 26 students in my class and there were even more in the other two classes so we hired another afternoon teacher. I was so thankful that the principal took my suggestion and hired a great friend of mine that I went to school with. I share my room with her and we have had a blast experiencing our first year of teaching together. Planning is so much more fun this way and we are able to break up the work load a bit! I will post pics of my room at some point. Here I am all ready to go on my first day of kindergarten!

Emergency Surgery=No Fun

The day after Breckin started walking I ended up being rushed in for emergency surgery, blah! I had been experiencing some abdominal pain and so my doctor ordered an ultrasound to check it out. Turns out that I had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy and that I was bleeding internally. My doctor bumped me ahead of all of the other surgeries for the day and operated on me. She was able to save my tube and removed a blood clot about the size of a dinner plate, she took pictures that are great conversation starters! Since I had been internally bleeding she had to make a pretty large incision rather than doing the surgery laproscopically (sp?) and the recovery time was pretty brutal. I couldn't lift anything or move very well for a couple weeks. Unfortunately the Monday after this happened I was supposed to start work. I was able to start and just take it easy but there was so much that I needed to do that this was hard. I have now healed up nicely and don't wish to go through something like that again, although I have a 30% chance of it happening again, so it is a little unnerving!

And He's Off!

Breckin had been on the verge of walking for over a month but you could tell that he wanted to be really steady before he really took off. On August 24th we were at the water park in Jacksonville when he decided he was ready to walk on his own. Rob had been holding his hand, walking through the water when Breckin decided he wanted to go a different direction so he let go of Rob's hand and has never looked back! It was such great timing, as we actually had the video camera with us and got some great footage. Here are the only good snapshots I got.