Boring 411

I haven’t blogged in 10 months!!!! Wowzers that’s a long time and so much has happened =-) I guess I will start with miss Olivia. In the last 10 months Olivia has become a walking, talking, acrobatic toddler. She is 15 months and obsessed with books and coloring. She loves sitting on the quads and bikes and going for rides (on the quad) whenever she gets a chance. She thinks dogs and cats are the greatest things ever and screams pretty much anytime one of the dogs comes in the room. Turns out, Olivia is allergic to apples. Took a while to figure out what was causing her hives but since cutting apples out of her diet not only are the hives gone but the seemingly random diaper rashes and very irregular poopy diapers seemed to have sorted themselves out. She is taking swim lessons which is cool. Kind of lame but I know I wouldn’t put her in a pool without them. Swimming just isn’t my thing so having an actual reason (like paying for swim lessons) has been a great way to force the two of us into a pool.

Since my last blog Chris has gone back to graveyard, Dell has taken over and he managed to tear his meniscus and missed two months of work. It would have been nice having him home but after surgery I had to take care of Olivia who thankfully had just started walking, Chris who couldn’t do much of anything for a while (no walking for what seemed like an eternity) and myself who was babysitting a 4 year old, taking a class and had just found out I was pregnant and dealing with lovely morning sickness. Now back to my lovely husband… We still don’t understand how Chris hurt his knee. We were hanging out in bed during Olivia’s naptime and Chris went to stand up and next thing I know he was keeled over in pain. Unfortunately I have this horrible reaction when people seriously injure themselves…I laugh. Once I realized it wasn’t a leg cramp I started to feel bad. We went to the walk in where we were told he pulled his hamstring. Then on Monday we went to a regular dr who said it sounded more like a meniscus issue and sent him to an MRI. Two weeks after injuring his knee he finally went in for surgery. At 24yrs old Chris had to have about 75% of his left lateral meniscus removed. The Dr. could tell it was an old tear because he had a lot of cartilage damage (just what an active young guy wants to hear). Four months after surgery and he has been on some pretty intense off road trails on his bike and has done a bit of hiking. No more running (unless on an elliptical).

Not too much new for me. I am super close to being done with school. I have one 3 credit class and student teaching and I will be a certified teacher! I am planning on taking a class winter quarter that is supposed to prep me for student teaching which will be super exciting. I have been on summer break for about two weeks and I am loving getting to spend time with Olivia and actually getting to focus on her when I am around. I just finished a super awesome trilogy THE MAZE RUNNER. If you liked/loved THE HUNGER GAMES you will love this trilogy. It’s geared for grades 5-8. There is also a prequel that just came out that I am going to start reading any day now.

I am currently 32 weeks (8months) pregnant with a baby boy. In comparison to my last pregnancy (which wasn’t very long ago!) this has been pretty easy. Not that I would ever say pregnancy is easy for anyone but I haven’t had any of the complications that I had with Olivia. With only 8 weeks left I am still hive free and praying that it stays that way! I was dealing with extreme exhaustion and migraines and a few other random things and then I got some blood work results that said I had low iron. I have been on a double dose of iron for about a week and a half and am feeling so much better!

Feeling like this is a pretty boring blog but I had to catch everyone up! I am ready for bed so this is all you get for now!