well Alice Jean is now 6 mos old and very different then just a few months ago.

We skype and I get to watch her do all her new things. It is fascinating to watch her grow. When I talk to Becky on the phone she is always talking, esp when she nurses. Last week I watched her play with her pacificer, she sits up by herself now and grabs and plays with things. I read a kids math boook last week that said if we grew as much in the first 9 months as we do invitro we would be as big as a mountain. I'm glad are growing is controlled.

Now we have sound out we are going to be grandmas again in Nov. Taylor and Nina are expecting, yahoo. we are all excited.

Who knows now that Ali is in love we may have more on the way. When the Mcleans start reproducing they dont know when to stop.

alice jean

lots has happened since the last blog, of course for the last week I have been trying to remember how to log in brain in vacation mode!

Alice Jean was born on 9-9-09 at 2:22pm to 2 very delighted and exhausted parents. It is amazing how the upcoming arrival of a new person certainly changes the world. I went to work but was not focused. Her auntie and nana stopped their world to be there for her arrival. the pictures taken by Nana defintely showed how much her father fell in love with her at first sight. It is amazing to see that pure look of love on his face. Of course everyone who looks at her gets that same grin, it is so easy to fall in love with a new baby. we all love the innocence.

new look for the back yard

We are having a wedding Friday night, T our son is getting married. Next year it will be a Bulgarian wedding. Then Sat afternoon we will have B's family baby shower. Now my bride promised me that we would not go overboard on fixing the house up. I will admit she did better only new curtains outside and no new furniture.
now if we could get the inside going...my craftroom awaits me

mothers day was quiet! I needed a rough 2 days at work. We took each other out and saw the play Hairspray. It was great fun. Today I found out I will be teaching 2nd grade next year. I didn't realize how stressed I was about it until today when we got our assignments. I feel like a heavy weight was taken off of me. Everyone says be grateful you have a job, yeah that's easy for them to say they knew their grade they were teaching (or so they thought) I am excited to be there. Let's wait and see how I feel in Sept!

peaches in their teen age years (not ready to be eaten but out where all can be seen ....TEASES) is this what all teenagers are like?

This is the tree I park next to at work. wanted to share the view.

friends

Yesterday we went to see the movie "The Soloist" with Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. It is not a feel good all over movie, but it is one that makes you think and get a better understanding of what some homeless are like. They are people not nameless faces. I am uncomfortable around the homeless, they take me out of my comfort zone. I don't make eye contact with them. This bothers me, I feel like I should be a better person than this.
another thing that bothered me is I saw behaviors in the main character that hopefully today a teacher would recognize as "different" and the system would be able to help him before the schizaphernia (Iknow it is misspelled) got out of control. We often think these kids are just a little off, but could we help them sooner. This character was not violent but so many are, again sometimes I think fear stops us from doing anything.
The real bottom line in the movie was sometimes all someone needs is a friend, not be saved, not to be rescued just someone to listen to them, to care about them to be a friend. I think that is the hardest thing to do, accept someone for who they are and be their friend.

yesterday, daddy's b'day

we celebrated the april b'days yesterday. The weather was beautiful, the food was good and we are all healthy. What else could we ask for? it was nice seeing Danny and Joann plus the regular California crowd. What was also nice was having my Joann there, for years she has always worked weekends.
On a sad note another in-law on Joanns side is dying. this has been a very rough year for her side of the family. I am hoping this is the last of them.