Happy New Year!

Well Cody made a comment a few months back that made me laugh, it was something along the lines of "I'm surprised you haven't started a blog about Lil'un yet." At the time of course we had no idea we were having a boy, nor did we know what we'd call the little tyke. Well thankfully that's been taken care of and we do have a name for him! Cody and I decided on Jacob Mathis to go with Cody's family tradition of having boys with JMA initials. We go on Monday for the 4D sonogram, glucose testing and regular check up. I'm sure that this one will take an eternity, just like the last time we had a sonogram, but Cody and I are very excited (words really don't express my excitement) to see his face so here's hoping the kiddo cooperates! If he does I'll post pictures on Flickr for family and friends to see. So if you don't have a Flickr account get one! This is my Flickr URL to friend me: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tex_bap/ I upload pictures to this all the time, and once Jake is here I'm sure there will be daily updates of photos.

As for the kiddo and me, we're doing fine. He's decided that my lower right rib is an AWESOME spot to plant his heel and stretch to try and find a little more room. That's just about the most uncomfortable thing I've ever experienced so far during this journey. He also likes to kick at anything that puts weight on "his territory" as I've decided to call it. Cody has received a few knocks to the ear region when he puts his head down there. Also he doesn't like when I'm in one place for very long so sitting or laying down for hours is out of the question, he'll let his displeasure be known by hooking his heel in my rib or kicking the snot out of my insides. I can tell that he's going to be quite a handful when he finally arrives but am TOTALLY looking forward to it. So basically he's behaving like a boy and I'm pretty sure he's going to be exactly like Cody...God help us, from the stories I've heard we're in for it.

Cody's been fine, working his tail off like normal during this time of the year. Hopefully after this weekend things will wind down for him. He's being hard a work trying to get Jake's bedroom finished but has been having a hard time finding TIME to get it done. He and a friend put down the laminate wood flooring in the living room a few months back and I'm very much looking forward to having it in the bedrooms. It is ten times easier to keep clean than a carpet!

As for me and work? It's been an entertaining year so far! Middle school is entirely different from 9th grade and teaching 3 grades at once is quite a challenge (add in a pregnancy and it's enough to drive a person insane!) but manageable. I'm very much looking forward to next semester, 7th and 8th grade are doing Mythology (Greek/Roman and Egyptian) the 4th six weeks and 6th grade is going over World War II. The students are very sweet and I enjoy teaching them, the people I work with are amazing and I really enjoy it in Menard over working in Angelo.