Adventures of Paul and Jenn

Abby is almost 9 months!  Wow does time sure fly!

Abby is doing well at her school (daycare).  She really likes to go.  She gets really excited when we ask if she's ready to go to school.  She loves her teachers.  She likes playing with the other babies but is also very happy to play by herself.  She never gets upset when I leave, but will get upset if she knows I am there and I don't come into the room right away to get her!  She thinks it's funny when I leave and tell her that her assignment for that day is to start crawling.  She will probably be walking before crawling!


At her 6 month checkup, she was 17 pounds and 26 inches long!  She has her 9 month checkup in a few weeks as well as her first vision check and her next Parents as Teachers visit.  Abby is still on breastmilk and we haven't had to supplement with formula (Yay for Mom!).  She has been eating cereal and solids for almost 5 months now.  She tends to only eat one type of food at a time.  She gets a taste for something and won't eat anything else.  I can see we might have a battle later with this.  We have her on an organic only diet and most of her baby food is homemade.  We want to make sure to not feed her anything that has herbicides, pesticides, GMOs, or extra supplements that she doesn't need.  Her current love is butternut squash and corn!  Soon, Abby will have her first goat at Grandma's farm.  Her goat will provide her will her dairy needs.  Goat milk is very similar to breastmilk and it breaks down fast within the digestive system.  Goat milk is great for those with dairy allergies for this reason.  Dairy allergies run in my family so we are giving Abby a chance for her digestive system to mature before she experiences cow milk.

We made a trip to Texas for Thanksgiving to visit Nana and Grandpa Novogoratz.  The trip was a lot easier than in June since we recently joined the Minivan Brigade!  Abby had lots of fun playing with Uncle Matt and screaming at Uncle Jamie.

Where's Abby?  There she is!

Do not let Porsche inside.  This is my house!

Tonight, was the sold-out Tool concert at Sprint Center in KC. Paul really wanted to go and I didn't. I did however manage to score him a ticket two days before the concert so he could go by himself and have fun and play. But while Paul plays, what will Jennifer do. Jennifer cleaned the living room. Now this sounds like an menial task, but our living room was filled with Rubbermaid tubs and boxes that needed to be put in the correct storage location or unpacked. The "furniture" had to be arranged as well.

I wish I had a before picture, but I never took one because I never wanted to remember it! Below is the living room arranged. Notice the blinds that are stained orange in the upper half. This was because the previous homeowner was a man and didn't know how to clean! I am debating tackling that tonight!

I would love to see Paul's surprised face when he arrives home, but I would rather be asleep!

So Paul and I have been super busy! Right after we got the house, I got a job teaching for the last 5 weeks of school at Bishop Ward in KCK. I lucked out and got a contract for next year as well. Then once school was out, I started teaching Summer School at Bishop Miege. 60 hour weeks, 10-11 hour days and a whole year worth of school work!

We are setting a goal to have a housewarming party at the end of July to welcome our friends and family into our new house. We should be unpacked by then since I am finished with school Friday.

While unpacking, I found Porsche's box of outfits. She got super excited and went NUTS! She saw the moose costume from Halloween 2006. She wanted to wear it. She didn't calm down until I told her to chill and started putting it on her. Here is a picture of her posing in it.



Beamer has been shedding ridiculously so our pretty creme colored carpet is now a hideous shade of black dog hair! We vacuum almost daily! Dogs love their back yard and have even found a baby bunny nest. That ended in great tragedy.

Soon we will be unpacked... soon we will have a clean and organized house. The more I say this to myself... the sooner it will come true!