It was a cold week. Nevertheless, I did not want to sit around huddled up at home. I dressed Hinckley appropriately for the cold weather: his regular clothes under a snap-up sleeper with his coat, a hat, mittens, and booties. His mittens only lasted for about one minute before he took them off. So aside from his hands, I don't think he felt the least bit cold as we ran our errands.
"Can't put my arms down!"
It was Greg's birthday on Saturday! He doesn't like parties, so I tried to make it special in other ways. I realized that when it comes to holidays and celebrations most traditions center around food. Food that we can't eat because of our WFPB diet. With that in mind, we did break our diet a little: Greg wanted eclair cake, as is his birthday tradition and there is no way to do that without dairy and sugar.
Eclair Cake = The Best Birthday Dish
The eclair cake felt great for the few moments it was in our mouth, but we paid the price in stomach pain for a few days. Of course, the quantity we ate could have contributed to that as much as anything...In celebration, I also made him breakfast (a rare occurrence). Then, I brought lunch and Jamba Juice to work and ate with him. That night we had yellow curry for dinner. (As you can see, most of the celebration was centered around food despite our dietary restrictions!) I gave him a set of drawing pencils and a shadow box full of his ticket stubs. It was a good birthday!
Greg's Birthday Morning
In other news, we finally got a crib for Hinckley. Up until this point he has been sleeping in his pack 'n play. We decided it was time to make the transition. He is very interested in it because he can hold on to the side rails to help him roll over. And he has already dropped his pacifier out of it like five times. Maybe we should have kept him in the pack 'n play...The crib sure does make his room look better, though!
Life is good! Maybe our trials have changed our attitude or maybe things really have gotten better. Either way, 2014 is already looking happy, bright, and beautiful! Greg LOVES his new job. The environment is great and he likes all of his co-workers. Plus, he gets to make films for work! As a media arts major, it is pretty hard to land a job with a steady paycheck right out of college. This one just kind of fell into Greg's lap. The stark contrast between his previous job as a teacher and this one is like night and day. And believe me, the ripple effect of this has spilled over into our home; it's like a breath of fresh air! Hinckley has been very active lately and is already starting to assert his independence. He is 17 1/2 pounds and 28 inches tall. He just discovered how much he loves rolling over, so he does it all the time now. I think he would like to be running and on the move if he only knew how to do it! He also loves food. So far he has only eaten rice cereal
Tomorrow is our baby's due date! We don't think he will come tomorrow, but one never knows. Here are some pics from this week. School is going pretty well for me, though I transition to writing/reading from doing math for the past two weeks so I am a little nervous about that. The view from the bus just before I get off and start teaching for the day. Usually I am barely awake at this point. Awesome panorama of our classroom. It has taken a lot of work to get all this stuff up, but it could still use lots more! Here is a view of the front of the classroom, along with our space ship behavior chart and so forth. I decided to see what would happen if I didn't shave during the week This was the result. Kas is feeling quite big, and ready for the man child to come out! This week Kas learned how to make homemade yogurt - or at least how to extend the yogurt you already have. The latest creative masterpiece from Kassie is this little elep
The final product of "make me a match" that I labored over exceedingly. I was actually sort of unhappy with it all not because of the performances of anyone but mainly just the story. We had to write all so quickly and the re-write it time after time and then storyboard it and really break it down. In all this rush I didn't realize till I was actually shooting it that I really didn't care much for the story as a whole and thus my motivation suffered greatly. I don't think I need to tell epic dramatic tales to care about them but I do want to have a strong point and also a specific conflict or issue that is approached and resolved. I am starting a screen writing class tomorrow and possibly I will gain some insights as to how to develop good stories. Ones that I care about. I don't know why I feel so interested in telling stories - particularly in that I haven't felt very confident with the stories I have come up with. It is extremely hard for me to come up
Oh, very good! I hadn't realized he was in a pack-n-play all this time! Thanks for sharing and making us happy!
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