Another Episode....

OF PACIFIER AND BABY!
WE NOW JOIN BABY WITH THE FAMOUS PACIFIER...

Hey dad, look what I have...

I have a pacifier and you are not getting it from me!

But what shall I do to keep dad from taking my pacifier?

I have heard that if you lick or bite on something, other people will not want it...hmmm....that's not too bad.

I have never tried a pacifier like this before.

It kind of tastes like lemons (well it is yellow)

I wonder if the purple one tastes like grapes?

I shall find that out another day. Now to move on to my thumb...

Dr. update

Went to the doctor yesterday for her 4 month well baby check-up.

Doctor said "she is perfect"....well I knew that already ;)

She weighs 11 pounds 3 ounces

She is 23 inches long

And she started on food last night...
More came out than went in, but that is to be expected. We shall try again tonight!

Just a Picture

Just a quick picture for today's blog.

A Sigh of Relief

Ever since August of last year (when I finished my degree at Longwood) I have been working to get my teaching license renewed.

I needed to change my name from Kiser to Daniels. I needed to renew it so that I could teach for another 5 years (if I choose). And I needed to add on my librarian degree.

Any one of those might have been easy enough to do, but all three were confusing and I was unsure if I was doing any of it right. So I called in for some help and advice.

At the beginning of the school year I was employed at Herman L. Horn Elementary school for Roanoke County. I ended my work there right before Thanksgiving, but I stayed in touch with the teachers and the school (thank goodness!) So when I needed help the principal offered to help me. I had a meeting with her, and actually I stumped her too. So she sent me off to the school board office.

Have I mentioned that this all happened in January and February, when I was not employed with them? They were so nice to help me!

So I had a meeting with the school board office renewal person. She made sure that I had everything, checked and double checked my forms. Then she even sent it in for me! That was big because if there were any problems she would be the one to answer for them, she was my go-between for the Department of Education (people that I do not like to talk to often).

Well that meeting happened in February. Long time passes, and I am starting to worry because I do not have my license....

I got it today!
Sigh of Relief....

Lunch Date

Today Grace and I did something special. We went to GE at about 12:00 noon and picked up Matt. Then the three of us headed off to the bank to open a savings account for Grace. Then off to the fun part...
We had a lunch date with Matt at Firehouse Subs!
Can you tell how excited Grace is to be there? She is already ignoring me, the camera, her wonderful date (Matt)...well, maybe it is not as bad as all that. Maybe she is just interested in all of the pictures of the firefighters on the wall.

I am just happy that we had a cool spring day where she could dress up in another one of her beautiful outfits from Tennessee, and we could get out and enjoy the day.

New Bed

It has been strongly suggested that I start adding more pictures of Grace onto my blog. So before I start, here is a picture of Grace today.


Now for the blog...
When Matt was on his own he needed a bed. He somehow acquired a beautiful bird's eye pine waterbed frame. It was beautiful, it was decorative, it was a wonderful set, but it was also a bed that you had to pole vault into and usually in the action of jumping (or in my case pole vaulting) into it you usually got multiple bruises on the lower half of your body.

When we moved into the house that we are in now, we somehow decided (I am not sure why) to make the smallest bedroom in our house the guest bedroom. And you got it...the large, tall, behemoth of a bed the guest bed. So when you walk into the guest bedroom you have a small vanity, and a small dresser, and a HUGE bed and not much room for anything else.

After moving the bed this last time to this house we started thinking that we needed to get rid of it, or do something with it. Two years later....

Matt and I decided to go on a evening out and we ended up at one of our favorite places, Goodwill! While looking around for treasures we found a Hollywood Frame for a queen size bed, this is the start to something very good! We took it home and decided that we were going to tear apart the frame of the bed (keeping the beautiful headboard, I am not quite sure for what yet). Use the very nice table saw that we have acquired
Make a lot of saw dust as you can see. We cut all of the side pieces of the bed frame into long strips which would eventually turn into the braces for the bed.
The we started to make some lap joints for the bed. My dad came over for the night and he decided that it might be fun to work on this project. He began to work on it around 6:30pm and Matt joined him soon after. Together they worked until 10:00 pm and carried it up to the room, put on the mattress, I put sheets on and dad slept in the bed that he made that night.It fits so much better in the room, there is actually some room to move around in. The height is about as tall as a normal chair (very lovely to sit on). The bed finally also match the other furniture in the room since the new headboard is part of the set that the dresser and the vanity belong to. I am so happy with this change, but what makes me happier is that we reused something to turn it into something that we needed. It was a good bed frame and it still is a good bed frame, in a different form.

Steve and Sue (and all of our guests for that matter), I think that you will like this bed a lot better!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter from our family to yours!

I had to add this picture....
New way to use a pacifier?