Back to normal

So I am sitting down stair and everything that was put away all clean and tidy is no longer in that state..but rather strewn around the house like a tornado hit.. hmmm korbin must be home...
but i am ignoring the massive mess in effort on gettign a good start on my senior project for school (yea right).. russell took korbin upstairs for some male bonding.. and through the walls i can hear him talking to his son. ( from what i can tell they are playing a combination of cars (based off of the sound effects) and "where is your nose?"
Korbin is getting so big- he is talking SO much..it hit me the other day that is no longer a baby-- he is a toddler-- a walking-talking-MIND OF HIS OWN toddler-- lucky me eh:)
I love the fact russell is os good with him bc there are some days when i am not so good with him- i have loved wathcing russell over the past 18 months transform into a better husband by being the perfect father to korbin. It is one of my favorite things to see korbin shriek with excitement when he knows "daddy" has just pulled up from work. He loves his dad-- and so do i for that matter :)

Then there were two....

So.. I had the ingenious idea of shipping korbin down to my mom's house for the week bc she was up here for my little bro's state swim meet this weekend (which he was one of the ONLY ones to drop time on his team and KICKED butt!) and then coming back up next weekend for my aunts and uncle wedding (temple version).... so i figured she would have fun playing grandma for a week while i got caught up (ahead if i am lucky) on house cleaning/school work)....

well ... my house is so freaking quiet! I AM GOING CRAZY! it is weird how much my life really does revolve around korbin.. everything i do is done with him in mind.. and now that he is gone.. I am so....i don't know -- cheesy to say--but lonely..... it has been one day and i already miss his babbling and his contagious laugh... it is going to be a long week... dont know how russell does this for a week EVERY month---

I called my mom this morning to see how the night went.. and she said good-- but this morning when he got up he wandered the entire house calling out my name... poor kid.. she put him on the phone and he got so excited to hear me call his name...glad to know i am missed...

but on a plus side... it was the first time in a LONG time russell and i made it through not one but TWO entire episodes of HOUSE without having to pause it to get korbin out of some type of no good....
..this picture is old..but i love how blue is eyes are...

OH and i almost forgot! russell as joined/sucke into the world of blogging so GO READ http://russiferandfam.blogspot.com/

Rip off and why i went to school today

So i am in the process of registering for graduation... and i have become extremely bitter about the fact that i have to PAY for the certificate that says i graduated.. have i not paid enough already the last 5 years of my life? i mean i am paying 2 grand just this semester alone (keep in mind i am spending the LARGE majority of that semester not even at the actual college but at an elementary school...) where is my money going???? to the evaluator that said i say "good job" too much and need to google other ways of speaking praise to students.......

on a less irritated note.....
today at school i was grading the DAR (fancy name for reading test that i don't really know what it stand for) anyways this one kid.. we will call him Herbert.... is extremely "special" .. they had to write a summary of the story that they read (about a girl who makes movies using her guinea pigs and one of the movies was titled "carrot wars" and played off of the whole star wars theme.... so in his summary that was one page long he had three lines fill with "duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh.......more duh's.... and the carrot wars.... and then more words pertaining to the summary.. " confused i asked him to come and explain what he did and wanted to give him another chance at a higher score.. he said he did summarize it and didn't want to change it bc the "duhs" were the theme song for the movie... ( say "duh" to the beat of the star wars song and it will make sense..)... really it took all i had not to laugh, but i refrained and told him he was being very creative and to return back to his desk........ some days i LOVE my life...

oh and on a " reasons why i know i have entered into true motherhood stage in my life"
this afternoon when i got home i left Korbin downstairs while i ran to use the restroom upstairs(teachers don't get a time to use the bathroom) when i came back he had his pants AND diaper off AND was PLAYING with the continents of the diaper........... ........ some days i DON'T love my life....

So Far away......

So... i have attempted to capture the face that korbin is now "in" to making on a regular basis... and is usually followed by a "Woooow" or a "dat".......

At this present moment i am slacking on my duties as a mom so i can make this blog.. i am letting korbin feed himself..... applesauce.. which is really just him playing and making a MASSIVE gooey mess that i will not have the desire or motivation to clean up..but will do anyways bc that gooey mess would then turn into nasty crusty mess.. and i am sure will somehow end up all over something that it is not supposed to.. like the dog or the lap top........

Love ya babe wish you were here... see you on Friday... (5 more days)... GOOD luck this week!

Please dont run.. on the ice that is....

So for the last X amount of years i have worked at a pool and one of the most commonly said things is "NO RUNNING"... maybe this is why i becoming a teacher...

Today i got the privilege (all week long) of having the glorified job of recess duty.... and all recess long( 15 min ish by the time i get out there) I get to say NO RUNNING.. on the ice the ice that is... it is lots of fun, but you would assume that children would have the common sense of if they ate it going one way on the ice they would sure as hec eat it again going the other way... ... BUT the major plus side is i have been teaching for only y 3 days and i have learned the true value HAND WARMERS!!! one of my teachers husband's got her some for Christmas and she gave me one today to help with the below zero temperatures one faces with recess duty... and it was AWESOME and stayed AWESOME all say.. in fact it is still awesomely warm in my pocket (they last 10 hours! i think they will be come my next investment for sure

i now officially have 47 more days left of my student teaching..and i TOTALLY love it! The kids are super fun (chatty but fun :) ) My two cooperating teachers have been AMAZING so far and i am so lucky to get the good ones out there ( i have heard a few horror stories...)

So now the real test is to make it through the next 47 more days without getting sick, or wanting to stab my brains out with a fork.... (oh ps Russell AND korbin stayed home sick today with the FLU..) Odds are it is heading my way....

(ps .. korbin has decided that wondering aroudn the house saying "oshe" which we can only assume means "shoes".... )

Some day he will make me rich...

So lately korbin has been EXTRA into drawing... He carries this little note book (my index book of recipes) and sits and doodles.. yes his pictures look like massive hair balls..but non the less they are artwork. This new interest is a plus for me and Russell since we recently discovered the world of the TV show HOUSE can i just say how much I LOVE this show.. i think it is a new fav.. the guy on there is SO funny... i highly recommend this to ANYONE with a sense of humor.

The other picture is from when we went down to Cedar for Christmas and Korbin got to play on the Harley with my dad.. he LOVED it... hopefully that is not a sign of things to come........

My life is officially booked for the next three months.. student teaching starts Monday at 7 in the AM.. i am excited but the same time a little weary of the amount of work that will come... i just Hope i can keep up with it all and stay on top of being a mother and a good wife.

I take the praxis again on Saturday.. (i failed it by 3 flippin points the first time.. ever heard of rounding up?!?!) I have attempted to study for it but all the information i find to study is stuff that was NOT on the last test... LAME.... so for a shot of hope i have NOT signed up for the next test if i fail (really because we lack money .. not because i am confident i am passing, but who knows we will see maybe i will get lucky!)

ODE to my ONE true-real life eternal and all things mushy love

So i have been transferring pictures from my OLD laptop to my NEW laptop so we can give my OLD laptop to my little bro.. while i have been doing this i have found that we have taking a CRAP load of pictures of korbin.. and the switching pictures over process may have been two hours shorter if i didnt take a trip down memory lane at each folder... so yes.. you guessed it russell... baby number two????? yes??? we do make cute babies.. why not make another one????

.... just a thought???

LUFF YOU!!