Week 26

Less than 14 weeks to go until our little girl is here. We had our third and final ultrasound yesterday. She is growing right on target and everything looks great which is a relief! This pregnancy has been so much different than with Zach. Good in some ways, bad in others. She moves so much more which I love, but I also don't feel as great as I did with Zach.

Right now she is over 2 lbs and sitting in the breech position, so let's hope she flips around here soon before she runs out of room.

Zach is somewhat understanding the concept. He says "sissy" and he rubs, kisses and knocks on my belly. I think he is going to be a great big brother.

The first picture of the newest Hiatt

Zachary is going to be a big brother!! Baby Hiatt is due September 11, 2007!!

Entry for February 15, 2007

Entry for January 09, 2007

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Observed at San Luis Obispo, CA


I LOVE where we live!! My friend and I take walks on our lunch to get a workout, since the campus has so many hills, and today is just SO nice outside! It was hard to come back in.

The Oak Tree

I was out doing some yard work today since the weather is so nice and as I was cursing all the leaves that fall off the Oak Tree on to our property. This thing is so huge and is just on the other side of our property line, but it covers almost our whole house.

Last weekend, Chris got on the roof and took the blower to the layer on the roof and the gutters. It looked like it was pouring leaves when Zach and I watched from inside. When he finished, we spent about 6-7 hours picking up leaves, thousands of acorns and all the other fun fall stuff. That was all just so Chris could mow the lawn. Today I was finally replanting a transplanted tree and I could not believe how bad the leaves were again! I was on the deck watering my tree and I decided to take some pictures of all the fall colors right now, and I couldn't curse the Oak Tree anymore. I looked at it and was reminded how massive and cool this thing is. Sometimes I sit on the deck and marvel at the size of this thing. The branches that have grown off in every direction, they are the size of most trees.It just amazes me.

Anyway, I wanted to share a picture of the Big Oak Tree so you all know what we are doing on our fall weekends! And for the Cali transplants up in Oregon to see the sunshine they are missing!

Pumpkins!!

Fall Leaves....

Why are bees able to fly?

Scientifically, a bee is too fat to fly. It's not aerodynamic enough, and its wings are too short. But, why does it still fly, you ask?

Because nobody told him he couldn't.

It's official!!

As of today, I am a Payroll Technician II for California Polytechnic State University (better known as Cal Poly). Today was my first day and it went great. The people are so nice, the campus is beautiful and I am finally working back in the field that I have spent most of my working years doing. And, being that it is a state job, we have great benefits and the best retirement plan in the state.

Life is good!

Update

It's been awhile since I blogged, so I thought it was time. We have had a very busy couple of months. We are getting settled into our house and trying to find spots for all our stuff. I see a big garage sale in the very near future.

We have been back and forth to San Jose a few times to visit family. It is nice to be able to do that so easily now. We found a pre school for Zach, but after a few bad incidents, I have decided he is not going back there. I found another one, but I am waiting to hear if they can take him. (they are at their limit right now with their number of kids, but one is supposed to be leaving soon). Day care is a prime here. It is close to impossible to find a good one, with room for more children.

We got Zach going with his services and man are they good here. The services we got in Oregon for him were terrible and almost non existent. Terrible even compared to what we were getting in San Jose when he was a baby. Here, he is going to have speech therapy once a week and someone will be working on his fine motor skills once a week. We are so happy about this. They are very impressed with how well he is doing for not having services for the past year. I know I shouldn't do it, but it makes me sad, and makes me think "what if". What if we would have chosen Option B, and moved here last year. How well would he be doing? How much better would his health be? Oh well, I can't take anything back, so we just need to work on getting him the best going forward.

We are loving small town living and all the things that come along with it. It is such a great community. Our next door neighbors are awesome. Both places Chris and I have lived together before here, we hated our neighbors, so it is a nice change. And it is weird, all 4 of the houses here in our little cul-da-sac, all the people moved here after living in either Oregon or Washington.

Anyway, here is a picture of Zach hitting his first pinata! He wasn't too sure about it, but liked it once he got the hang of the bat.

Hope all is well!