Yesterday there was an honor’s assembly at Audrey’s school and she was awarded the “Best of [her school] award.” Each kindergarten teacher could choose three students to award. Audrey was the first one they called up. As soon as the other two from her class were up there, it was clear that Audrey has taken after her parents with the height genes. She sits right next to the boy who is in the picture in class and her teacher said it is so funny to watch little Audrey teach this tall boy how to read. We were so proud of Audrey and she was so excited to see us there. After the assembly, her teacher gave us her certificate and told us that she wishes she could clone Audrey. What an awesome girl she is!
The assembly was in the morning, so the whole family went to drop Audrey off at school…which means Kate had to wake up way too early. She was a very cranky girl for most of the morning. After trying to entertain her for a couple of hours, I decided we needed to get out of the house, so I loaded her into the jog stroller and took her running. She threw tantrums for the first ten minutes of the run and then pulled her hat down turned her head and zonked out. It was a very enjoyable run after that. These kinds of things just don’t happen any more.
Okay, I just have to toot my own horn here for a couple of things in these pictures. First of all, that sweater Kate is wearing – pretty darn cute, I’d say. I knitted it for her for Christmas. Poor Audrey; I’m still working on hers. She was given a ball of yarn for Christmas with a note saying it was going to be a sweater too. She got really excited and said, “Are you going to teach me how to knit?” It’s amazing what little things will excite your kids when you do a homemade Christmas.
Now the second thing I have to toot my horn about is I went running being just two days shy of 37 weeks. That’s longer than I’ve ever continued running with the other pregnancies. Just to qualify things – my running consists of a run/walk combination with the run part being extremely slow…but still.
Okay, one more picture to add. Since you can’t see my belly very good in that picture and I try to avoid belly shots for the most part, I decided I should at least have one picture documenting my hugeness.
Considering I avoid pictures, it’s amazing that I agreed to be the front prego for this yoga add. Jamie found out about a fitness place opening that needed models for some adds. She got picked and then told them that she had a friend who teaches yoga and is pregnant and asked if they wanted me too. Then later, Brenna also got added in. So here we are in all of our glory. We still haven’t seen Jamie’s pictures though.
Since I’ve already gone off on quite a tangent from what this post first started as, let me continue on just a little bit longer. Just FYI, it’s okay for pregnant people to call themselves huge. It is not etiquette however for someone to say something like, “When’s the baby due or should I say babies?” It’s also not okay to say, “I don’t know much about pregnancies, but when I saw you, I thought, man is she having twins?” It’s also not okay to say, “Do you have twins or triplets in there?” Yes. All of these things have been said to me. My brother, Brad told me that the proper reply to all of this is to say, “What are you talking about? I’m not pregnant,” and then walk off. I’ll try that next time.
