Audit season is ramping up. I figured if I didn't write now I wouldn't get another shot until the baby is born. :)
We've had a good couple of months. Jason is nearing the end of the semester. He's absolutely loving his computer classes and barely holding on with everything else. He studies his brains out, but apparently he's thinking on a different wavelength from the teachers because when he gets a paper back they keep telling him it wasn't what they asked for. (I read the prompt for one of them and actually helped him write the paper - did research & helped him build his thesis) he got a D on that one. Turns out he wasn't supposed to analyze the information in the articles he was supposed to analyze the writing style and support of the articles themselves. . . Yeah I didn't get that from the prompt.
Anyway, his computer classes are going great.
He also has an internship interview coming up but he recently had the impression not to take it if it's offered so basically this will just be good practice, and perhaps an opportunity later when the time is right. It's working for the LDS church headquarters in Salt Lake so every Thursday he would drive down and he would return Sunday night. I would then work Monday through Friday. . . and our son will be born in October. . . and it's audit season . . . and we do have a four year old already. . . we understood the prompting fairly quickly.
I finished writing my first attempt at a romance novel this week. I figured since all of my books have a love interest I may as well focus a little more on that and just give in to the fact that I like a good romance situation.
Alisabeth attended her first birthday party ever and dressed up like a princess and all of the little princesses sat and listened to a story from Rapunzel and then completed a few activities with her. Her comment, "Her hair doesn't glow anymore because she cut it." and "She's real." I am sooooooooooooooooo excited to take her to Disneyland in January.
She's such a big girl! Today we had an interesting talk. I gave her the ability to get a surprise if she went through her night routine without me having to say a word. She got distracted once but then did it all. When she came back upstairs she asked for her surprise so I went through the list: Brushed teeth? Yes, Showered? Yes, Washed hair? stare to the side and then look back at me, Yes.
It wasn't even completely wet.
"Alisabeth, please don't lie to me. Did you wash your hair?" "No" and she begins to cry and bury herself in my arms. I pulled her away gently.
"No, we need to talk about this" (it's been an increasing issue the last few weeks). "If you tell the truth you might get in trouble, but you might not. If you lie you will always get in trouble." Then we discussed the requirements of a shower and all that it entails. She happily (thinking we were done with the bad parts) asked about her surprise and I actually felt bad informing her that because she had lied she had lost that opportunity. She started to cry, but then she sucked it up and nodded and we went to bed/snuggle time.
I hope it sticks, but she's such a smart girl I think it will. It was cool though to have a conversation where she didn't immediately start whining and I wasn't yelling because she was whining. (Or her passive aggressive tendency to speak over top of someone when they're correcting her)
Kryton is doing well too. He rolls around, kicks and punches for most of the day but sleeps well though the night. He's an early riser like his daddy. He's definitely bigger, but my appointment on Friday measured him spot on where he should be.
That's our last two months in a nutshell.
