It has been so long since I updated...life has been busy. Basketball season will be in full swing this week. Practice has been going on for the last 2 weeks but the first game of the season if tomorrow. I am really excited to go to the games. I have sent out my prayers to the basketball referees for an easy season. Seeing as I am already 20 weeks along the added stress of games in my seventh and eighth months of pregnancy would not be good. For those of you who know me or have seen me during an intense game know that it isn't pretty. I can get pretty fired up sometimes...Tim has told me not to worry about it and just relax but that competitive spirit can't help but come out.
We find out on Friday whether this little one is a boy or a girl. I can't wait. I have an inkling but we'll see what happens. Then we can get to the task of picking out some names...Annika has decided it is a girl named Coco...it may be a girl but her name will NOT be Coco...we'll fight that battle when we get there.
Annika was at home with Grandpa and Grandma for the past 2 weeks. Although I know they love her a ton it was probably nice for her to go back to daycare this morning. She was very excited to see her friends.
She has been a busy girl. She spent last night and this monring putting the Christmas "instruments" on the tree. Marilyn and I will have to od some rearranging to move some of the ornaments to the top of the tree but just like her Mama she loves this decorating thing. She has added some interesting new phrases to her vocabulary these past few weeks. Some of my favorites are "it's a mystery," "duuhh," "whatever," and "you happy now mama?" Another one that hopefully we have eliminated was completely my fault. Annika loves animated shows and wanted to watch one right before bedtime...seeing as nothing was on I made the mistake of turing on South Park. Well Annika apparently listened very well when Cartman was talking. That night in her crib she yelled out "somebody bring me some cheese dammit!" This weekend it was "Dammit I can't get my bubble wand out." The fact that she was using it in the right context is amazing to me...she is too smart.
Things with the house are now in full swing. The basement was dug last Monday, foundation poured on Tuesday and now we wait 2 weeks until framing starts. It is so exciting to know it has been started and I can't wait to watch it go up.
I guess that's all for now. If anyone has gift ideas for my Mom, Dad and sister they would be much appreciated!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Adventures in Potty Training
OK so how lucky are we? My daycare lady (bless her heart) asked if she could potty train Annika this week. They started yesterday. We got Annika all hyped up to be wearing big girl underwear just like the other girls at daycare. The first day went well...she wet through of her 7 outfits but only 2 were major wets and the others were just dribbles where she knew and then tried to hold it til she got to the potty. Well now our problem is that she is obsessed with these underwear and has some trouble keeping the same pair on. She wants to put on a new pair everytime she goes to the potty, wet or not. Oh well, minor problem I"m guessing in the grand scheme of the whole thing.
The past few weeks have been busy. We made a trip up to Duluth and then Thunder Bay over MEA break. Annika loved the hotel and the waterpark...I couldnt believe how cold the water was. She also loved the BOO Barn at the Pumpkin Patch we went to. Now as the daughter of Tim and I who are both afraid of haunted houses and creepy stuff in general you wouldn't think that our daughter would want to tour this "haunted" barn (pitch black, creepy music, creepy decorations you get the point) not once, not twice but four times before we had to physicaly leave the pumpkin patch. She is still talking about the Old Rocking Lady!
She has also had quite a bad cough for the past few weeks. Tip for all of you out there who are seeking a flu shot but have been put on a waiting list. Apparently the trick is to get yourself in for an appointment. Both Annika and I were able to get ours this way. The clinics have the flu shots there but ar enot taking appointments specifically to get the shot but will give it to you if you are there for another reason...my advice make something up and go in. I couldn't believe that as a pregnant women who works in the schools I had such a hard time getting a flu shot...for all the talk about high risk blah blah blah they certainly haven't been very accommodating. Anyway back to the cough...cough syrup with codeine is not even doing the trick...poor baby, hopefully it's gone soon.
Things with the new house are in full swing. We have chosen a model, put down our money, made all of our interior/exterior selecetions and are now waiting for the city to approve the permit. We should be in by February or March...depending on the weather. As long as we're in before baby comes I"ll be a happy woman.
Tim is gearing up for the start of basketball season. He has also taken on an increased role with the Fury. He is excited and nervous all at once as he has a lot on his plate and life is about to get very busy once season starts. I am hoping the Spartans have a good season and that I will be able to keep myself under control so as not to induce labor by my craziness during the games. I am sure his Fury team will have another great season as well but that is a ways off so we focus on the Spartans for now. Go Simley!!!
Anyways I guess thats all for now. I will try and post sme pics when I have time to figure this all out!
The past few weeks have been busy. We made a trip up to Duluth and then Thunder Bay over MEA break. Annika loved the hotel and the waterpark...I couldnt believe how cold the water was. She also loved the BOO Barn at the Pumpkin Patch we went to. Now as the daughter of Tim and I who are both afraid of haunted houses and creepy stuff in general you wouldn't think that our daughter would want to tour this "haunted" barn (pitch black, creepy music, creepy decorations you get the point) not once, not twice but four times before we had to physicaly leave the pumpkin patch. She is still talking about the Old Rocking Lady!
She has also had quite a bad cough for the past few weeks. Tip for all of you out there who are seeking a flu shot but have been put on a waiting list. Apparently the trick is to get yourself in for an appointment. Both Annika and I were able to get ours this way. The clinics have the flu shots there but ar enot taking appointments specifically to get the shot but will give it to you if you are there for another reason...my advice make something up and go in. I couldn't believe that as a pregnant women who works in the schools I had such a hard time getting a flu shot...for all the talk about high risk blah blah blah they certainly haven't been very accommodating. Anyway back to the cough...cough syrup with codeine is not even doing the trick...poor baby, hopefully it's gone soon.
Things with the new house are in full swing. We have chosen a model, put down our money, made all of our interior/exterior selecetions and are now waiting for the city to approve the permit. We should be in by February or March...depending on the weather. As long as we're in before baby comes I"ll be a happy woman.
Tim is gearing up for the start of basketball season. He has also taken on an increased role with the Fury. He is excited and nervous all at once as he has a lot on his plate and life is about to get very busy once season starts. I am hoping the Spartans have a good season and that I will be able to keep myself under control so as not to induce labor by my craziness during the games. I am sure his Fury team will have another great season as well but that is a ways off so we focus on the Spartans for now. Go Simley!!!
Anyways I guess thats all for now. I will try and post sme pics when I have time to figure this all out!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Baby #2
Well the Peper family is going to be growing once again. Baby #2 is due April 18th. I made it through my first trimester amidst a lot of chaos...I think it actually helped to make it go by more quickly. I have had 2 ultrasounds so far and everything looks great! We are very excited and the timing couldn't be better. The exact due date puts me 7 weeks out from the end of school...still not sure if I'll go out for the whole year or come back for a week.
Our other big news is that we are building a house! We will be in a neighbourhood in Woodbury which will put Tim A LOT closer to work. The neighbourhood has a community center, pool, park and some good friends who are already living there. We are very excited about this too. They say it will be done in February or March so we'll be in just in time for baby.
I have to say I cannot believe it is already MEA break. For those of you who don't know what that is, here in MN teachers get 2 days off in October to go to "conferences." We use this time to do fun stuff. We are leaving Wednesday right after work to go up to Duluth to stay at The Edge, a waterpark hotel for the night. Annika is SO excited..."only 2 more daycares." Thursday we will get up and make our way to T. Bay for the weekend. It will be a short visit and I"m feeling a little under the weather so we won't be venturing out a lot but we will have some quality time at home with Grammy, Grandpa Hoho, Auntie Liisa and Uncle Rob. I am just so happy to have a short week.
Last weekend was very busy but very fun. I travelled to St. Cloud on Saturday to meet Elise and Noelle (both beautiful baby girls). It is always so nice to see the grad school group and to catch up, it's amazing how things have changed! On Sunday Annika and I headed down to Prior Lake to hang out with the other grad school girls. I just love seeing everyone and their kids...what beautiful babies we all have! Who would have thought that in less than 5 years we's be hanging around watching our kids play with each other?
Hopefully I can kick this sinus thing with a little advice from the doctor as to how I can baby safely relieve this pain. I am also very hopeful that I can avoid the H1N1...5% of the student population at 1 of my schools is out with flu like symptoms which mandates reports to the state...scary!
A funny preggo brain moment to finish things up:
Our principal sent out an email yesterday to inform us that 5% were out with flu. I forwarded that on to Tim saying "Read this...lovely...the dr was out of flu shots...love you" About 5 minutes later I received this response "Allison-either we are closer than I thought or this was supposed to go to someone else. I'm sorry your dr was out of flu shots. Take care...signed you principal" Opps...I hit reply instead of forward and told my new principal of less than 2 months that I loved him...so embarrased...at least he had a good sense of humor about it!!!
Have a great week and for you MN educators out there...enjoy MEA!
Our other big news is that we are building a house! We will be in a neighbourhood in Woodbury which will put Tim A LOT closer to work. The neighbourhood has a community center, pool, park and some good friends who are already living there. We are very excited about this too. They say it will be done in February or March so we'll be in just in time for baby.
I have to say I cannot believe it is already MEA break. For those of you who don't know what that is, here in MN teachers get 2 days off in October to go to "conferences." We use this time to do fun stuff. We are leaving Wednesday right after work to go up to Duluth to stay at The Edge, a waterpark hotel for the night. Annika is SO excited..."only 2 more daycares." Thursday we will get up and make our way to T. Bay for the weekend. It will be a short visit and I"m feeling a little under the weather so we won't be venturing out a lot but we will have some quality time at home with Grammy, Grandpa Hoho, Auntie Liisa and Uncle Rob. I am just so happy to have a short week.
Last weekend was very busy but very fun. I travelled to St. Cloud on Saturday to meet Elise and Noelle (both beautiful baby girls). It is always so nice to see the grad school group and to catch up, it's amazing how things have changed! On Sunday Annika and I headed down to Prior Lake to hang out with the other grad school girls. I just love seeing everyone and their kids...what beautiful babies we all have! Who would have thought that in less than 5 years we's be hanging around watching our kids play with each other?
Hopefully I can kick this sinus thing with a little advice from the doctor as to how I can baby safely relieve this pain. I am also very hopeful that I can avoid the H1N1...5% of the student population at 1 of my schools is out with flu like symptoms which mandates reports to the state...scary!
A funny preggo brain moment to finish things up:
Our principal sent out an email yesterday to inform us that 5% were out with flu. I forwarded that on to Tim saying "Read this...lovely...the dr was out of flu shots...love you" About 5 minutes later I received this response "Allison-either we are closer than I thought or this was supposed to go to someone else. I'm sorry your dr was out of flu shots. Take care...signed you principal" Opps...I hit reply instead of forward and told my new principal of less than 2 months that I loved him...so embarrased...at least he had a good sense of humor about it!!!
Have a great week and for you MN educators out there...enjoy MEA!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
We Need To Get Better
Last week was crazy! I don't know where the time went. Between meetings for just about everything we somehow made it through the week.
Tim finished the week off with a trip to Chicago. He and Rick (his assistant coach) drove down for a coaches clinic. I have to admit I was a little envious. The last time I was in Chicago was for ASHA and you grad school girls remember how much we loved it there!
Annika came down with a cold over the weekend...caught it from daycare I'm sure and by Sunday I ended up with it. The worst of it was yesterday but I toughed it out and made it through the day feeling like I'd been punched repeatedly in the head! As I was helping Annika blow her nose on Sunday night she told me that "we need to get better." I agree honey, 100%!!!
She was a little stinker at the cabin this weekend. I mentioned last time how she is hanging out in bed for at least an hour. Well at the cabin Annika has a big girl bed. Mom forgot the nightlight and she is terrified of the dark. So... I put her down at 8...went through the whole routine. Left her with the overhead light on in our bedroom. I went in there a number of times to let her know she needed to go to sleep. Well at 11:30, after a rousing few hours of cribbage in which I officially lost every single game we played, I went in to go to bed to find my daughter still awake with the radio on chatting away to herself. Then she decided she wanted a popsicle to which I gave in simply to avoid a total meltdown and the awakening of every one else present. So around midnight we went to bed...new lamp in the room with dish towels over the top to dim the lights for my benefit, KDWB turned up mighty loud to satisfy yet another demand of my 2 year old, and myself and my little Moo-Moos cuddled up in MY bed together. Don;t get me wrong I love to sleep/cuddle with her whenever I get the chance but this was a little ridiculous. She slept the whole night with me, horizontally spread out over about three quarters of the bed with me waking up to every turn she made, fearful she would fall out of bed. Poor thing was even snoring from being so stuffed up. Well she slept until about 9:30 and woke up happy as could be...what I wouldn't give to be that happy in the morning.
Tim and I definitely did an excellent job of bringing quite possibly the most stubborn child on earth into this world. Granted with the 2 of us combined she was doomed form the start but the poor little thing is just so set in her ways and has a horrible temper to top it all off. Daycare experienced the first major meltdown this morning when I dropped her off in full blown tantrun mode. She got angry at home because she had to put pants on...I even let her choose which pair. She had to be pried from my arms screaming for me as I left. I cried...I hate to leave her like that but when she calmed down they called from daycare to have her say goodbye and tell me she loved me...which made me cry more but just because she was so sweet. I am dreading the teenage years with this one...I see myself in there and that is NOT good!
Hpefully this week will be a little more mellow with a busy weekend ahead. Lots of catching up to do with old friends and new babies to meet!!! I can't wait.
Tim finished the week off with a trip to Chicago. He and Rick (his assistant coach) drove down for a coaches clinic. I have to admit I was a little envious. The last time I was in Chicago was for ASHA and you grad school girls remember how much we loved it there!
Annika came down with a cold over the weekend...caught it from daycare I'm sure and by Sunday I ended up with it. The worst of it was yesterday but I toughed it out and made it through the day feeling like I'd been punched repeatedly in the head! As I was helping Annika blow her nose on Sunday night she told me that "we need to get better." I agree honey, 100%!!!
She was a little stinker at the cabin this weekend. I mentioned last time how she is hanging out in bed for at least an hour. Well at the cabin Annika has a big girl bed. Mom forgot the nightlight and she is terrified of the dark. So... I put her down at 8...went through the whole routine. Left her with the overhead light on in our bedroom. I went in there a number of times to let her know she needed to go to sleep. Well at 11:30, after a rousing few hours of cribbage in which I officially lost every single game we played, I went in to go to bed to find my daughter still awake with the radio on chatting away to herself. Then she decided she wanted a popsicle to which I gave in simply to avoid a total meltdown and the awakening of every one else present. So around midnight we went to bed...new lamp in the room with dish towels over the top to dim the lights for my benefit, KDWB turned up mighty loud to satisfy yet another demand of my 2 year old, and myself and my little Moo-Moos cuddled up in MY bed together. Don;t get me wrong I love to sleep/cuddle with her whenever I get the chance but this was a little ridiculous. She slept the whole night with me, horizontally spread out over about three quarters of the bed with me waking up to every turn she made, fearful she would fall out of bed. Poor thing was even snoring from being so stuffed up. Well she slept until about 9:30 and woke up happy as could be...what I wouldn't give to be that happy in the morning.
Tim and I definitely did an excellent job of bringing quite possibly the most stubborn child on earth into this world. Granted with the 2 of us combined she was doomed form the start but the poor little thing is just so set in her ways and has a horrible temper to top it all off. Daycare experienced the first major meltdown this morning when I dropped her off in full blown tantrun mode. She got angry at home because she had to put pants on...I even let her choose which pair. She had to be pried from my arms screaming for me as I left. I cried...I hate to leave her like that but when she calmed down they called from daycare to have her say goodbye and tell me she loved me...which made me cry more but just because she was so sweet. I am dreading the teenage years with this one...I see myself in there and that is NOT good!
Hpefully this week will be a little more mellow with a busy weekend ahead. Lots of catching up to do with old friends and new babies to meet!!! I can't wait.
Monday, September 28, 2009
I Knew I Can Count on You Mama!
What a wonderful weekend! We had no plans which gave me time to go through all of our stuff and actually get organized. I am happy to say that we are no longer living out of laundry baskets and heaped over suitcases. Everything has a spot now which is good since we are going to be with Bill and Marilyn for awhile.
Annika had wanted to go to the park on Satuday night but it was getting late so I promised her that we could go on Sunday. When she got home from Sunday school she reminded me of my promise by saying "please oh please can we go to the park now." When I said yes she looked at me and said "I knew I can count on you Mama" and this was her phrase for the rest of the day. Everytime I helped her with something or said yes to something, so very sweet.
We have a busy week this week but that should make it go quickly I hope. Annika has whatI hope will be her final Monday night gymnastics class tonight. The late schedule and total chaos of the place is just not working out for us so we are hoping to move to Saturday mornings.
Annika has been exhausted since her new trick is to go in her crib and play/sing/talk for at least an hour. We are trying to move her bedtime earlier but it's hard to change that schedule sometimes. She is so very stubborn and even though she is exhausted she refuses to go down. At least she's not screaming or crying but still she should cherish that precious sleep time!
Our other concern from the weekend was our sweet Bubba's (Copper). He was not feeling well this weekend...well he pretty much had morning sickness. He threw up both mornings and yesterday morning it was bloody. He was a little more tired than usual yesterday during the day but that chnged as the day went on. He was better this morning so we are just going to watch and see...hopefully everything is ok.
I hope everyone has a wonderful week. Can't wait for the weekend!
Annika had wanted to go to the park on Satuday night but it was getting late so I promised her that we could go on Sunday. When she got home from Sunday school she reminded me of my promise by saying "please oh please can we go to the park now." When I said yes she looked at me and said "I knew I can count on you Mama" and this was her phrase for the rest of the day. Everytime I helped her with something or said yes to something, so very sweet.
We have a busy week this week but that should make it go quickly I hope. Annika has whatI hope will be her final Monday night gymnastics class tonight. The late schedule and total chaos of the place is just not working out for us so we are hoping to move to Saturday mornings.
Annika has been exhausted since her new trick is to go in her crib and play/sing/talk for at least an hour. We are trying to move her bedtime earlier but it's hard to change that schedule sometimes. She is so very stubborn and even though she is exhausted she refuses to go down. At least she's not screaming or crying but still she should cherish that precious sleep time!
Our other concern from the weekend was our sweet Bubba's (Copper). He was not feeling well this weekend...well he pretty much had morning sickness. He threw up both mornings and yesterday morning it was bloody. He was a little more tired than usual yesterday during the day but that chnged as the day went on. He was better this morning so we are just going to watch and see...hopefully everything is ok.
I hope everyone has a wonderful week. Can't wait for the weekend!
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
First Post
Ok so I thought I would try this out seeing as the people we know are all over the place and I thought this would be a fun way to keep people informed. I've been wanting to do this for awhile and I figured that now that things have slowed down a little now would be the perfect time.
We closed on our townhome yesterday. I don't even think we told a ton of people that we sold it but everything was sochaotic up until the very end that I was very worried it would all fall through and I didn't want to jinx it. All I can say is thank goodness we are getting out of that neighborhood now...it isn't the highest caliber of people who have been moving in lately but what can you expect when they are selling for such low prices!!!
So for now we are living at Tim's parents house. It is going really well. Thank goodness for Bill and Marilyn...they are both so wonderful, I don't know what we would do without them. Annika has finally settled in and life is good.
Speaking of Annika, she brings a smile to my face so often it is incredible. The things that come out of her mouth are priceless. Yesterday she told me that "I'm a little bit sick mommy. I don't want my friends to touch me but they can say hi cause that's what friends do" How cute is that??? I am a little bit biased and think that everything she says is cute but how does a 2 year old know what friends do? I"m sure most things that I post on here will pertain to her and i have much to learn about these things such as how to post pics but I am hoping that my friends out there who already have blogs can help me out.
So, welcome to life with the Peper's...I hope you enjoy.
We closed on our townhome yesterday. I don't even think we told a ton of people that we sold it but everything was sochaotic up until the very end that I was very worried it would all fall through and I didn't want to jinx it. All I can say is thank goodness we are getting out of that neighborhood now...it isn't the highest caliber of people who have been moving in lately but what can you expect when they are selling for such low prices!!!
So for now we are living at Tim's parents house. It is going really well. Thank goodness for Bill and Marilyn...they are both so wonderful, I don't know what we would do without them. Annika has finally settled in and life is good.
Speaking of Annika, she brings a smile to my face so often it is incredible. The things that come out of her mouth are priceless. Yesterday she told me that "I'm a little bit sick mommy. I don't want my friends to touch me but they can say hi cause that's what friends do" How cute is that??? I am a little bit biased and think that everything she says is cute but how does a 2 year old know what friends do? I"m sure most things that I post on here will pertain to her and i have much to learn about these things such as how to post pics but I am hoping that my friends out there who already have blogs can help me out.
So, welcome to life with the Peper's...I hope you enjoy.
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