Spring Break Part I

This year we are celebrating Spring Break with a little "Staycation". So far so good. We've enjoyed many days at the park, an easter egg hunt with friends (insert photos of Shaun being tackled by all of the bigger kids here), time at the gym, and time helping our friend jump start his electric car when it ran out of gas and electricity (long story but resulted in a very nice evening all said and done). We look forward to friends visiting the latter part of this week and trips to see the Cherry Blossoms among other adventures. But here are some photos of our Spring Break so far. Maybe next year we'll be somewhere tropical sipping on frui frui drinks ( a girl can always hope) but until then we'll enjoy our little park and our time with friends.

Dirty Mouth

Today I must confess another valuable learning lesson from my two year old due to the power of imitation. Her two new favorite words are "shoot" and "dangit". Since hearing them come out of her mouth and telling her those are naughty words, I've been much more aware of my own language. She definitely picked those two up from me. I say them frequently and until she started copying me I didn't even realize it. Thank goodness I don't say the real words or my girl would have a potty mouth bigger than ever. And okay, so maybe they're not the worst words in the world but hearing them come from an innocent child makes you realize how inappropriate they really are. So a new vow: mommy will clean up her dirty mouth!

Other than the potty mouth lessons the Calderwoods have been busy enjoying the beautiful weather that is finally here! We've spent that past few days at the park, going to barbecues, and going for walks outside. We are looking forward to my Spring Break next week and visits from several friends. We're hoping to have many fun adventures and quality time spent visiting. I look forward to time off with my family and a chance to contemplate the joy of the Easter Season.

Also, I know I'm guilty of not posting enough photos lately of our little Miss so I thought I'd put up a couple from the last week. I think both days were prior to church. She's growing up and enjoys everyone at church. She was actually even pretty good through a two hour stake conference today thanks to getting a good seat and the friends around us that helped entertain her. She missed going to nursery as this is her favorite thing to do. She's a little sponge and knows all of the primary songs, her ABC's, and many others. If you sing she can sing with you and can sing her alphabet independently from Q on. Way to go! She's also learning her colors though it's not very consistent. Other than her potty mouth (thanks to me) she's pretty near perfect as far as I can tell.

Cast Your Vote!

Hello all,

Sorry for the lack of correspondence these last couple of weeks. To be honest, not much has been occurring that's worthy of the chronicle. Just more pontifications similar to my last entry but until something solid happens regarding jobs, housing, part-time work, etc... I'll just leave those issues where they are.

Today I had my check up with the doctor and in five weeks we'll have our ultrasound. So far so good. I'm up seven pounds since my first apt in January according to the doc but I'm really up more like twelve from my lowest weight in November. No biggie. I am trying to be relatively healthy and feeling really good these days. I do not deny myself the occasional frosty when the craving hits but all in all I think I'm doing okay. I will pray that all is healthy and well at the ultrasound but of course the most exciting thing to find out beyond general health is the baby's gender. So I turn it all over to you to cast your vote! I'm thinking boy, but a month ago I was thinking girl. I'll be very happy either way but it's fun to guess. So let us know what you think. We look forward to taking the final tally and in five weeks we'll let you know what this little nugget will be.