Erk, Mrk, Grk & Rrk

Gordon loves taking baths at his Bobbi's house.  He can't stop laughing and smiling when Bobbi gives Gordon his baths.  In addition, Gordon loves playing with her fish bath toys.  We love being at Bobbi's house!!!

I woke up yesterday not feeling 100% but I seriously can't remember the last time I had the flu.  In the morning I poured myself a bowl of cereal and ate only 2 bites and decided I couldn't possibly eat another bite.  Not thinking that I could possibly be sick (just thinking it's something pregnancy related) I dropped Gordon off at Kathy's house and then hurried to work.  When I got to work I continued to feel worse and worse.  At one point I'm at my desk sweating and then the next I'm shivering and my nails are turning blue (a great trait I inherited from my dad!).

At any rate about 30 minutes later I actually felt like I was going to throw up so I had a colleague watch my class as I ran down the hall to use the bathroom.  As soon as I got there I was fine, so I walked back to class.  However, as soon as I got back to class it struck like a 100 pounds of bricks.  I quickly ran and got the garbage can in my classroom and placed it behind my desk and ducked in the corner.  It was horrible, I couldn't stop throwing up.  Luckily the class was engaged in a fun activity and Christmas music was playing so I'm hoping too many of them didn't notice.  Also, lucky for me too the bell rang for the kids to go out for lunch about 5 minutes after that.  Oh it was the longest day of my life.  I'm thankful to be feeling a bit better today and I'm praying Gordon and Eric don't get it! Tis the season!

While we were home for Thanksgiving we went to Mrs. Grossman's sticker factory in Petaluma.  You go on a little tour of the factory and collect stickers on the way.  At the end of the tour you get to make a little art project with the stickers.  It's a fun thing to take children on (minus the fact that Gordon just wanted to frolic about and not stay with the group, that was the only hard part.)  He liked the project and liked all the stickers his Bobbi bought him at the end.  Thanks mom for the fun event!

"Mrs. K. what is your doctors appointment for?"
Me: (I glance at my enormous tummy and say) "Any guesses boys and girls?"
Class: (All 30 students staring at me blankly).
Me.: "Well, Gordon is going to have a baby sister named Ruby soon. I'm having a baby."
Class: (Cheering and clapping)
Boy who asked the question: "Mrs. K. Does anyone else know about this or are we the first to know?  Oh the other teachers will be so surprised, I can't believe you are having a baby, I had no idea!"

I have to say, whenever you need a little self esteem boost, hang out with 30 3rd graders and you'll feel like a million bucks.  Daily I'm telling Eric how uncomfortable I'm feeling and how even my MATERNITY clothes are too small.  I'm so much bigger with this pregnancy than I was with Gordon.  So it was nice to know my students didn't seem to mind or notice my growing stomach.  I do love teaching!

Eric and I watched this Friday night for date night and man it sure never gets old year after year.  For some good laughs give it a watch (although warning... we forgot about some of the colorful language and a few parts we had to fast forward.)

I really like the website LDS Living.  Today I found this post that had 25 Days of Christmas memories.  Some we have already started and some I can't wait to adopt.

We started this new little Christmas Tradition in our family and let me tell you it's a hit!  We are only about a week into it (yes we started in November... but I did start listening to Christmas music November 2nd, so I figured it was time to get the Christmas spirit started early in our house as wel).  Anyway "Elf" of "Mr. Elf" has hid in several spots around the house and the first thing Gordon says when he wakes up is, "Where my Elf" and "Where my Christmas tree."  Gordon loves that the Elf plays hide and seek and can't wait to find his new hiding spot.

Aunt Hanni gave Gordon some darling little Santa PJ's and Gordon does not want to take them off now.  In fact he decided to wear them to Kathy's house today, oh that cutie!  Speaking of Santa Gordon, he LOVES, LOVES, LOVES, his Christmas tree.  We put up our little Charlie Brown Christmas tree over the weekend and Gordon enjoys just standing in front of it and looks at all of his ornaments.  So happy Christmas is here.  More on Christmas, Trees, Ornaments, and Baby Jesus to come.

I find it so precious when Gordon wants me to hold him he says, "Mommy hold jew me please!"

Gordon loves going to the store to play with trains and cars.  In fact, Eric and I spend our date night there last Friday night.  It was actually pretty hilarious.  Eric found us both stools and we sat and watched Gordon play for sometime.  He was in heaven and we were loving getting to talk and catch up on our day.  Seriously the things we do for our kids, it's great and I wouldn't change it for anything!

 Gordon is telling me what kind of candy he wants to have, he chose the Lifesaver gummies and ate about 3 of them.

To preface this, Gordon was running around the kitchen and he ran into the cupboards and skinned his elbow on the side of the cupboard.  He didn't cry but was upset.  He told Eric what had happened and Eric gave him a little kiss to make it better.  Gordon ran to me to report what had happened.

"Mommy!! Mommy!! Daddy kissed my Elmo and made it all better!"

While we were visiting the temple we had to head to La Jolla Cove to enjoy the sea lions, fresh salt air, and the crisp water.  It was great!