What's up, pup?

I am sitting on the couch with my incredibly handsome husband and he just read the title of this blog. His only response was, "Who is pup?" To which I replied, "I don't know it rhymed with up." Deep insight for this moment.

General Life News
I find myself with fewer things to say now-a-days as I feel I am becoming redundant. I am feeling better to an extent, but still exhausted and pretty unmotivated. I had a bad cold through January, took the lowest dose of Amoxycillin possible for a week, felt better for about a week, and am now all icky again. I started to slowly lose weight, but last Sunday decided that a one-topping Papa John's pizza sounded mighty tasty and Micah was so excited that I actually wanted something that we got one. And it did adequately satisfy.

So, really, that is about my life right now. I am spending lots of the energy I do have teaching...the big school program is at the end of March. It seems like plenty of time away, but I poorly planned this year and ISTEP (Indiana's standardized testing program) falls at the beginning of March (even though we took it last September as well). Which means I lose some valuable time with the kiddoes. Bummer, I know.

But really, it is a bummer. I became a teacher for lots of reasons, but one of the benefits is that being a teacher totally fulfills my extroverted side.

Anything exciting?
Today we made an offer on a new vehicle for Micah. Which is really very exciting. You see, Micah has been driving a '98 Neon with 175,000 miles, no driver's side mirror, windows you can pull out of the door, and three major oil leaks. Plus it has a pretty gold stripe where someone painted it with spray paint. But, soon, NO MORE!

In the big picture, Micah will be a stay at home Dad, so he needs a good reliable car. And what's more reliable than a Toyota? So, dear readers, we put down a deposit on a 2003 Toyota Matrix today. It was having some issues with idling which will be evaluated on Monday, but hopefully it is a cheap and easy fix which will end up costing us $2000 under blue book.

Oh yeah, we also took Inu to make sure she would fit in the hatch. She did. And then promptly took her muddy paws and jumped into the back seat. So we have now begun researching a variety of pet travel supplies to prevent her from jumping on Baby Bell.

Baby News
We will find out if we are having a boy or girl on the 16th! More than anything, I am excited to see our baby again. We saw Baby Bell at 5 weeks and 7 weeks due to complications, but (praises) we haven't had any since.

Sometimes I think about how preposterous it is that we only get to hear our baby once a month for the first 6 or so.

I think we felt baby kick for the fist time last weekend, but it was so light that I am a little unsure-it could have just been gas.

Sorry for a boring post, loyal readers. I usually like to try to be insightful, but have heard through the grapevine that brains truly shrink in pregnancy. Which goes to explain a lot-mainly why I got on 70 West the other day when picking Micah up from the airport. We were 56 miles away from home before I asked Micah if we had driven through the city yet...at least Micah has a good sense of humor.

peace.