September 13th, 2009

We are back into the school routine and things are going great. Chase still goes to an in home daycare until next year when he will attend preschool. He is in charge of setting the table everyday and seems to take pride in his job. He reports who was put in timeout and for what every night at the dinner table. I am happy to say he listens pretty well and very rarely gets in trouble.

This coming Saturday he will start playing soccer and he is so excited. They play 4 on 4 and it should be quite a learning experience. Craig is coaching the team(after a phone call from the YMCA begging for coaches) and he has started making Chase call him Coach Christiansen......I am starting to think that Craig is more excited for the soccer season than Chase. I will try to take pictures of both boys in action and post them later.

Craig is extremely busy right now with bathroom remodels and tile jobs. Between working and helping me cart Chase places he stays pretty busy.

I am finishing one of my last classes as we speak. It is an online Educational Reserach class(doesn't that sound fun) with a lot of busy work. I take my last one at WIU in October and then the celebration will be starting. Currently I have about 85 hours in for internship and hope to have about twice that by the end of October. I have a couple of job shadowing dates set up and school board meetings that I will be attending to collect hours.

As for baby number two, it is kicking and growing like crazy. Chase tries to catch it kicking but has not managed to feel it yet. When people ask him how his brother or sister are doing, he responds by saying, "Fine, but it's not out of my mom's belly yet!" We had a contest the other night to see who has the biggest belly in the house...... guess who won?!?!? No, not me... Craig still takes the gold on that one! (Chase loves to try to make his belly as big as possible)