Update
I’ve been feeling a bit overwhelmed today. Just got soooooo much going on all the time it seems. With the business and Jack working tons of overtime, school projects, and household stuff.
Cody has been going through an intellectual growth spurt. He talks in complete sentences and will hold conversations with us. Some of the stuff he says is hilarious. He’s also working on potty training himself. Without a single word from us or anyone, he’s started taking his diaper off to go. It shocked me the first time I saw him do it. He never said a word to any of us and none of us have even started asking him about going… he is just experimenting and learning on his own. Sometimes when he gets out of the bath, he’ll let us know he has to go. It’s cute. We’ll continue to let him work this out on his own.
Yesterday we had a guy come out and give us an estimate on replacing all of our windows with vinyl windows. And the phone guy came out to figure out why there was a phone line just draped over the entire length of our fence. (He says they must’ve been busy when they ran the line to the house behind and diagnal from us and “forgot” to bury the line… um, ok). Now they will be calling me to bury the line. I guess the phone box for the six houses around us is in our backyard. Neato.
Casey and I worked on two of his homework projects this morning. Let me tell ya, his kindergarten teacher is big on these “projects”. From fancy “about me pages” to cutting out leaves to decorate. It’s supposed to be fun for us to work on together and while I always enjoy doing fun stuff with my kids, I find these projects more of a chore. We don’t exactly have all the “suggested materials” just lying around (like glitter and sequins, lol) and Casey’s very particular about how he wants things done. I probably wouldn’t mind so much if this teacher didn’t make it sound like everything has to be very fancy and detailed. The examples she gives are very elaborate. Like the “about me page” example is basically a very fancy (but much larger) scrapbook type page we’re supposed to do. We’re still working on that one. I think it’s a bit much for a kindergartener.
Jack has been working an insane amount of overtime lately. There’s been a big project at work and the people who were supposed to iron out the kinks before the project went live didn’t do their homework, so Jack and his co-workers were left to deal with it all weekend long. And he got a bit of what could be scary news yesterday as well. The new president of the hospital is going to phase out the IS department of the hospital and out-source it. Supposedly the company they hire to become their IS team will be hiring the current hospital IS employees…. The president claims the company would have better benefits and a bunch of stuff that would be better for the current employees, but it’s still kinda scary to me. There’s a lot of unanswered questions (like can this company just lay off hospital employees down the road after they take over???) It supposedly won’t happen for another 6 months to a year but Jack is going to be working on his resume just in case. Not that it matters TOO much. He has a job with another company anytime he says the word. (They have been trying to steal him from the hospital for a while now…)
