Happy half birthday my sweet girl.
05-20-17
1/2 a year goes by WAY too quickly! Ivy is real close to sitting up on her own. She enjoys rice cereal and squash. She grabs anything with a death grip fist and puts everything right on into her mouth! She's not too keen on tummy time and rolls onto her back as quick as she can. Her giggles are music to our ears and she smiles as soon as you talk to her, give her tickles or kisses. She'll talk and squeal all day if you let her. She's easy going, loves naps and wakes only once in the night. She is the apple of her dads eye and my perfect angel baby. My heart busts up with love for her!!!
Nice bum!
Got my suit, got my shades, got my hat.
Ready for the pool!!
Doing a little 6 month birthday swimming. Ivy wasn't too keen on it.
New bows!!
I only saw my baby for two hours today because of work obligations and her sleep schedule. I'm lucky to work close to home and absolutely love my job. It's bitter sweet that I won't be returning to work next school year... I'm leaving my working mom status and will be joining the stay at home moms club. Bitter because I'll be saying goodbye to my classroom, students, coworkers, school and my proud title of "science teacher". But sweet because I'll get to hang out with Ivy all day and she's pretty much the best thing ever! I can't have the best of both worlds, so I'll choose the best thing in my world.
We keep taking pictures of Eliza holding Ivy and seeing how huge Ivy is getting!
I recently told my students that I won't be returning to work so that I can be home with my baby. I showed them this little girl who is famous from Ellen named Brielle. she is a science wizard and I want to teach Ivy as much as Brielle knows :)
For the 8th grade graduation trip, students went to Disneyland, and of coarse, they needed teacher chaperones for the bus rides over. This also meant that we got a free day to Disneyland!!
WE hit it up!!
We rode the haunted Mansion, Splash mountain, Matterhorn, Star tours and Thunder mountain
Standing in lines with work friends: from left to right:
Tyson Whitcher (history), Jeff Davis (Science), Konstantine Samarikov (math), Heather Keldgord (science).
This is one of my fave students, Alex :)
I can't get enough of this Saturday morning view. No one wants to wake up and get up for the day, we all just want to snuggle and watch cartoons all day long!
Going to work and being away from Ivy has been tough- just in terms of managing everything- sleep, nanny, pumping etc. It's not terribly hard leaving her because I really love my work, but It's hard to only see her 3-4 hours in the day. So while I do my weekend chores, I strap her to me because I need all the cuddle time I can get! Chores are, however, exhausting!
Grocery shopping with baby in tow and finding some Chelan apples- yes please!
Ivy can now sit up all by herself! She takes a little tumble to the side every now and then when she gets distracted but her skills are superb!
A technicolor dabbing panda shirt is totally okay to wear to work, right? #middleschool #teacher#7thgrade Highlights of the week: (speaking about the digestive system) "Mrs. Warner, why does my poop sometimes come out like pebbles?" "My olfactory nerves affect my salivary glands?!" "If your epiglottis didn't work, will you die?" "The phospholipid bilayer is where?" Can you answer these questions?! Kids are brilliant. They amaze me every day with their questions, responses, collaboration and connections to science and life.
I remember playing teacher as a kid and thinking grading was so fun! Putting check ✔️marks or X's on a page and freshly circling that 🅰️ grade. Now that this is a reality and I have 180 students-it's a different story. Think about this: if I spend just 1 minute a day grading each daily assignment for each student, how many hours of grading does it work out to per day? Now I'm no mathematician, but I'm prrretty sure it comes out to about a million. Amiright teacher friends?! 🙋🏻9 more days of grading and then I'll be back to playing teacher with Ivy girl!
This end of year stuff is KILLING me! Between Cume files, certificates, grades, moving out of my classroom/packing/storage, Btsa course work etc. etc things are really busy! BUT
this is why I do what I do! I love seeing my students success▪️ I had this message taped to my desk and loved the reminder it gave to my students about how I felt about them and a reminder for me about how I would want my own child to be treated by his/her teacher while at school ▪️ I loved reading my white board with the sweet farewell comments students left me ▪️🥂 cheers to closing doors and opening new ones. Starting the new chapters and embracing change.
Life is so good to me ▪️
-------> My last day as a teacher.
I cried.
Not because I am sad to become a stay-at-home mom, but because I really enjoy working and feel that being a science teacher has become a part of my identity over the past few years. I am by no means a big career woman, but I definitely feel like I am making a sacrifice staying home with Ivy. I will miss my job, but know I won't regret being home with my babe!
There really are about 1,000,000 emotions going on in me right now. 1 more day before I make the switch from Mrs. Warner to Mom. I've loved every minute of my teaching career. There is a lid for every pot and teaching is definitely my lid! Change is good. I'm ready to be a full time mom and to be just as passionate a teacher for Ivy in the home as I was for my students at school. So long room 6 and NMS
Reasons for the happy dance though: celebrating my amazing time in my teaching career ✔️ school is out for the summer ✔️got my classroom cleaned out ✔️boxed all my things up and put them in storage ✔️getting to hang out and dance with baby Ivy all day every day ✔️fitting into my pre-pregnancy skinny jeans✔️starting exciting new chapters in life ✔️ 😁 ... I may or may not have started crying shortly after my happy dance as I turned in my classroom keys and said goodbye🙈 it's okay
I'm here full time with my homies now!
My first week as a mom has been BUSY! Cleaning, cooking, cross fit, piano lessons, lunch with friends the whole shebang!
I am enjoying being with Ivy. She is brilliant.
She had her 6 month check up on 6-4-17
She screamed during her shots but they didn't bother her the rest of the day.
She is 15% for weight (our little skinny Mini), 50% for height and 75% head. Little body, big head.
She takes after her father! The doctor was impressed that she could sit up all by herself with no support and said she is ahead of her age for being able to sit, especially with such a big head to balance haha (baby Jer on left, Ivy on right)
Loving these new summer clothes!
I've been having a bit of a hard time with the adjustment of working mom to home-working mom.
I've made some big lifestyle changes that I'm hoping will stick and help me meet my goals. I'm hoping to make money by doing art camp, science camp and the Babe Magnet. I deleted Facebook and instagram off of my phone because I've been in a terrible habit of opening the aps multiple times a day and comparing myself and bla bla bla. I've joined crossfit and am determined to lose 15lbs and gain 5lbs of muscle. I've taken up piano lessons to help build skills. I am not officially 3 days sugar free! No snacks, desserts or chips etc. I will go hard for 8 weeks and then see what happens.
Wish me luck!
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