I swear time did not go this fast when I was pregnant with Alisabeth! I'm already at the 4 month mark! Our due date remains October 9th but I still think they're wrong somehow. This child is much bigger than Alisabeth was. (Or my body is more willing to pooch out, whatever the case).
I've already got a nice baby belly though it remains small enough to hide behind most of my work clothes. :)
We survived tax season (it was actually not bad at all, but that could have been because they were being gentle with me) and the very next day Jason started classes.
He's loving them. He's taking 3 upper level (300-400 level) computer classes and all of them are hands on. He's going to be building things and he's already created 5 virtual servers for one class. (For those who don't know a normal server is basically a computer which is set up to allow access and information to pass through it to other computers. A virtual server does the same thing, however it isn't a whole computer it's simply a portion of a computer set aside to fulfill that function thus one computer can have 200 virtual servers running on it at the same time). If that was too thick then just smile and nod at him like I do :)
Anyway the final project in the virtual server class is to hack into the teacher's server and to hack into another student's server (and to defend your own against attacks). Needless to say that is the project that has me excited. I love that kind of stuff.
Oh and as a disclaimer this is a network security class so they spend the entire semester learning to defend their computers and then the final puts that to the test for everyone in the class.
So far he's doing great. He's even provided help to several other students (one of which was his mentor in several lower level classes, so it's cool to see the roles reverse).
Alisabeth started preschool again and she's loving it. She was in Miss L's class and then she was moved to Mrs. Andrea's class. When it happened she told me it was because Jayden was in Mrs. Andrea's class and she wanted to be with Jayden but I didn't really think too much about it. Turns out that's pretty much how it happened. Mrs. Andrea could see that the two girls really loved to be together and to play together so she talked to management and had Alisabeth moved into her class. Alisabeth is really enjoying it. She doesn't appreciate the fact that they do "paperwork" all day long, but she's learning a lot and she loves to show us everything she's done so I think that's helped.
The cutest thing happened on Sunday too. Jason and I were both just not in the playing mood so we both sat down with books and invited her to sit with us and read too. She looked at her book for a few minutes but she didn't want to sound out the words so she gave up and then started bouncing around a little bit. We offered several suggestions for things she could do while we were reading and finally she gave up, sat down on a different chair and pulled out her children's bible and started flipping through looking at the pictures. She kept this up until our guests arrived about ten minutes later. I was quite impressed both with her decision and with the time she spent.
That's about the gist of our excitement.
I'm taking to studying for my next CPA exam in 6 days (this is a break) and gearing up for audit season to start. I'll be in-charge on two upcoming audits which should be a good learning experience (I have informally in-charged before, but this time it will be the real deal with full responsibility).
Oh and because I'm sitting on the technology committee for my work I was sent an Ipad. I'm supposed to use it to "change the way we work" yeesh! So far it's sitting across the room from me waiting for me to even flip it on for the first time. Supposedly I can get my CPA study materials on it but again. . . that would require time and effort. :( I guess I'll have to get around to it sooner or later. If you know of any business-related aps let me know. So far all I've seen that seems useful are research tools which I can get just as easily on my desktop. (No I'm not anti-technology, I'm just anti-spend-a-lot-of-money-on-excess-technology.)
As for Kryton (the baby who I've decided is a boy due to lack of sickness and larger size), he's doing well. I've felt a couple of flutters recently, but I'm not sure if they're baby or guts. Time will tell. He's already got me in the midnight bathroom break routine and I can now eat as much or less than my four year old at one sitting. I also can't handle excess sweets (mostly chocolate) and pre-prepared or greasy foods are a NO! The closest I can get is boxed pasta. Everything else has to be fresh ingredients. On the flip side my tolerance for onions, peppers and similar vegis has decreased to the point where I couldn't even eat five bites of my home-made quiche (which I had been craving for three days). All in all I'm a little frustrated with him. Who wants a healthy baby during the one time when eating anything you want is acceptable and even encouraged?? Seriously kid.
