Time to play catch up....

Let's see - what all has happened since my last blog? I had a doctor's appointment on the 20th - just my usual monthly appointment. Everything must be ok! The doctor is in the room with us for about 2 1/2 minutes which I admit is frustrating to me. We don't really have any questions or anything for her and I'm sure if we did that she'd stay and answer them, but I'm so use to the doctor I had when I was pregnant with Lexi & Kiegan. Dr. Hable would spend so much time asking me about how I was feeling or if this was ok or that was ok and it didn't matter to him if he had other patients waiting because he wanted everyone to have that personal attention from him. I also felt like he took time to check me and the baby over - the doctor I'm seeing now hasn't even started measuring my stomach or anything. All she does is listen to the heartbeat for about 30 seconds and says "Have any questions? No? Ok - see you in a month!" Oh well - I know she's good at what she does and I suppose that's all that matters. Fancy doctors are just very different from small town docs. Oh - I did have Lexi take a picture of me at 21 weeks so I'll try to post that picture soon!

Travis & I leave for Ohio early Sunday morning - we're ready for some time away! We're staying for a whole week this year. I've got our menu planned out and everything (I needed to make sure that I was going to be able to eat good!). Most of the food I'm going to make Friday night to cut back on preparation while we're out there. I think we're taking the camper to the Fairbury race track either Friday night or early Saturday morning and camping there all day/night Saturday for the Prairie Dirt Classic and then we'll pull out of there bright and early Sunday morning to head to Eldora Speedway in Ohio. It'll be nice to be able to just sit and relax for a few days without having to wait on people hand and foot! :o)

Our kids have all started school by now and they seem to be doing well so far. Patrick doesn't have a whole lot to say about 1st grade and somehow he still never remembers what he's learning when I ask him about it! :o) We're just really hoping that the new teacher this year will help 1st grade be a better experience for him than Kindergarten was (we don't want him visiting the principal's office as much). Lexi & Kiegan of course had homework when they came home on the first day of school, but I told them that once you get up into the higher grades (Lexi - 5th and Kiegan - 3rd) that you can probably expect to have more homework! So far they've both been great about sitting down and getting it done with no fussing - hopefully that will last. :o)

My daycare is really booming! I finally broke down and put an ad in the paper for a part-time (eventually going to full-time) assistant and holy cow - the response has been unbelieveable! My ad started last Thursday and since then I have received over 25 phone calls which is GREAT, but it is somewhat overwhelming at the same time. So I interview someone every night this week and every night the week we return from vacation. AND to top all of that off, one of my daycare moms works at the hospital and she said that just about every day for the past week and a half she's had people at the hospital ask if I had any openings (which I don't) and just yesterday she had FIVE new people ask her about my daycare. Oh and I've got 2 families "on standby" for me to hire an assistant so that they can start bringing their children here. So Travis and I are excited about the prospects of all of this interest in my daycare and are looking into possible options in the future to expand my business!