Pictures of our little girl

This is the best profile picture we got.

Our little girl not being shy.

Look at her little foot.

You can see toes and fingers on this one.

Crossing her legs. Apparently she is as fidgety as me, she likes to cross her legs, uncross them , and do it all over again. She also was putting her hands behind her head and sticking out her tongue.

It's A Girl!!!!!!

We had our sonogram yesterday, and found out we are having a little girl. (Alan was right, and he hasn't stopped rubbing it in.) I can't even imagine how spoiled she is going to be, and I think Alan is already wrapped around her finger. He has said that there will be a limit on the amount of pink.

I am still amazed at how much you can see on a sonogram. We got to see that our little girl is a wiggle worm. She kept crossing and uncrossing her legs, putting her hands behind her head, and sticking her tongue out (that comes from the Carlson side). I felt the baby move yesterday morning before work for the first noticeable time, and I thought it was kicking. Apparently, she was punching me instead. I will post scans of the sonogram when I get back home.

My class took a vote yesterday before my appointment on whether they thought it was a boy or girl. They voted 13 to 5 that it was a girl. They were excited to find out that they were right. I also enjoyed keeping the secret from coworkers overnight. At my school, there is a pattern going of babies born. I think it starts with girl, girl, boy, boy, girl, girl, boy (on the way), boy (on the way), and now me...girl. I'm pretty sure I'm number 9 in the pattern. At least the pressure is off of me to keep the pattern going.

Well, I'll get those pics posted in a couple of days. Only 21 1/2 days of school left!!!!!!!!

Why you need baby wipes in the rainforest...

Today was our big day for a field trip. We were scheduled to take 78 first graders to a place in Kansas City. It rained last night and they called this morning to cancel on us. How do you tell first graders for the 2nd time in a year that their field trip is cancelled? (Pumpkin patch was rained out and the Walmart field trip wasn't much.) Anyway, to make a long story short, we decided to take the kids to the zoo.

We were in the rainforest and I told my kids before we entered that I didn't want to hear one word about the smell. They did great on that. However, we were looking at the otters and one of my little girls came up to me and said, "Mrs. Koller, I think a bird dooceed on my head." (Forgive me for not knowing how to spell dooceed.) Sure enough, a bird had pooped all over her head. Thank goodness she had her sweatshirt hood up. Luckily, I had grabbed a package of baby wipes to take with us...just in case they were needed.

So, the moral behind the story is that even in a rainforest, you should have baby wipes along.

13 Days to Go...

until we find out if we're having a boy or a girl. I couldn't talk them into doing a sonogram yesterday, so the doctor said we could do it in two weeks or wait until our next appointment. Of course I chose a two week appointment. Once I do know, I will want to go on a shopping spree or two. I really want to know if I should be buying camo or camo with lace. I have bought a couple outfits and have made sure it was okay to return if we need to. I couldn't pass up good deals. I found Caterpillar onesies at Vanderbilts for $5. So I bought a pink one and an orange one. I also bought the most adorable deer outifit for our baby this winter. I figured it would make a nice jeeping outfit. I was telling my aunt this, and she just looked at me. Then I realized that she had already bought the same outfit. Ooops, at least they're different sizes. She told me I'm not allowed to buy anything else. :(

I had my final evaluation for the year at school. Good news, I still have a job next year teaching first grade! On a side note about school, I do not think first graders should have to take assessments. I mean, seriously, you can't judge how much they know by what they mark down on paper. They're first graders after all. They still make their letters backwards half of the time. And, for those poor kiddos who can't read very well, they don't have much hope on a test that they have to read passages and read the questions they have to answer. We have practiced, and practiced, and practiced for these tests. Today I gave another practice assessment and I wanted to scream. The highest kids in my reading group bombed most of the questions. Oh well, it's not the end of the world. Only like 30 days left until summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!