I wish I had more time to blog. In fact, I wish I has more time in general! 35 weeks until graduation... Not that I'm counting or anything! I am very ready for May. Life will be a whole heck of a lot simpler then! The school/work/home routine will end, which will serve as a much needed break, and I'll get to spend more time with my precious little man. (who, by the way, is now THIRTEEN months old!). And hopefully, I'll get a JOB. Send some good vibes into the job market, okay? I'd love to stop being a custodian! :) Right now, I'm student teaching with first graders. They are a cute bunch, but I have my challenges cut out for me, to say the least!

Jon is doing great as well. He's now in his second year of teaching, and loves the school that he works at. It's a long drive for him, but he thinks it's worth the travel. He's also HALFWAY through his Master's program, with straight A's to boot! I'm so proud of him. He's a very supportive husband and such an amazing father. I'm so lucky to have him around.

Everett is the biggest part of our lives, and you should see him grow! He RUNS, he plays, he knows words in sign language, and he has such a funny personality. He's not much of a baby anymore though! About 25lbs, and 31 inches tall, Everett is our big man. He loves all kinds of food (salmon! steak! asparagus!). He is an amzing sleeper (8pm to 7am or later!). He LOVES to dance. Music is his thing... he's constantly bouncing to the beat and playing with toy instruments. He's also got a mouth full of teeth all of a sudden (on his 9th!). He's completely on milk now, and uses sippy cups ONLY. He's my little toddler now... It's sad to let go of all of the baby things, but so fun to watch the changes. Here's my little picture story of his growth :





Here's some pictures of Everett's FIRST birthday party! It was a fun day!

Just Keep Swimmin, Just Keep Swimmin...

Worst. Blogger. Ever. I know, I know!

It's been super crazy in the Guerin house lately. Everett is now NINE MONTHS OLD, can you believe it? He is also a maniac. :) Climbing, crawling, standing, grabbing, falling, walking along furniture... What a cute little nutcase he is. If there is anything that Everett hates, it's staying still! He also has FOUR teeth now! Two on bottom, and two big ones on top that are huge compared to his little head! At his last appointment, he now weighs 20 lbs, 14 ounces and is 28 inches long! With all of his active-ness, he is now in the 50th percentile in everything. My big boy has finally leveled out! He is a fabulous sleeper. I have no idea how we survived those newborn baby nights. But we did, and now everything is much easier. He goes to bed around 9pm and we don't hear a peep from him until alomst 8am! He also loves naptime now, too. Everett has pretty much lost all interest in baby food, and wants to eat whatever we eat. He can grab chunks of food and feed himself now! He can also say "dada" and "baba" and can occasionally say "mama", but mostly only when he's crying. Everett is such a little grown up boy now, I can't believe how fast the time has flown by. We found some old picture of Everett just a couple months ago and I can't believe the difference. Over night he became a little boy and not a little baby. I'm afraid to blink because then he'll be a fourth grader.

I am in school now, actually teaching! It's really busy and hard to be away from my family, but if I don't do it now, I never will. I'm at school and then UNLV all day, and then I work basically all night. It's tough. But sometimes we have to make difficult sacrifices to get where we want to be, so I think it will be worth it in the end. This time next year, I'll have my degree and be looking for a teaching job! Right now I'm with the third graders at Vanderburg, and I love it. After so many years of college, it's nice to actually be learning in the field that you want to work in. I figure if I just work really hard and keep going, this will be over before I know it.


Jon is finishing up his first year teaching at a school he really loves. Even though it's far way, he's happy to teach at such a great school. He's also working hard on his Master's and will finish around the same time as I graduate! He's loving Everett to death, the two of them are like best friends. Hopefully they don't forget about me while I'm chasing after my degree.
I'll try to update more often, promise! :)

The good, the bad, the UGLY

So, we love being parents. Really, we do. But it is hard, my friends. HARD.

Sometimes we can't help but reminisce about how easy life is without kids. It's hard to even remember a time that simple. Wait... You mean to tell me that people sometimes sleep in until NINE in the MORNING?! Go out to movies?? Eat leisurely at restaurants without any toys or baby food splatter on their shirts? UNBELIEVABLE! They sometimes take showers without their babies crying in a playpen or listen to music instead of baby Einstein DVDs? No way.

Being parents is a dirty job sometimes, too. Dirty diapers no longer make me want to hurl, and I have occasionally been caught putting Everett's binkies in my mouth after they have fallen to the floor to clean them off. I know. I'm ashamed. Test-tasting strange homemade baby food concoctions? Yep. Sniffing my child's butt to see if he needs to be changed? Been there, too. It's a dirty job, I tell you. DIRTY. I vaguely remember being a well-put-together girl who smelled nice and went out with her husband. Now I am the one woman in Target at 8 in the morning in my sweatpants sorting through baby sock sizes.

Even though being a mom is hard work, I love it. Everett had a six-month old photo shoot and they turned out so. dang. cute. I mean, who couldn't love this face?

Six months old!

I know I never update this, but our little guys just turned SIX months old! I can't believe it! Half a year has gone by already??



Everett is growing like a weed! He is now 18 lbs! He has TWO teeth, sits up perfectly, and is THIS close to learning to crawl. He giggles and scoots around, I just am so amazed by his progress. He's even making friends! ;)



We're totally loving being parents- best thing we ever did for sure.



Things are busy around here though. I am working at night and going to school, and Jon teaches all day. I start my Practicum this summer, too. Almost done with school! I'm lucky to have such a supportive family. Spring 11' or BUST.

Expired Magazine Subscriptions

I know it’s cliché to talk about how fast the time flies by, but when you have a living, growing baby to mark the time by… Man. Does the time sure fly.

Today I packed up drawers upon drawers of clothes Everett doesn’t fit into anymore and I was amazed at how much he’d outgrown already. Cute little socks and layettes piled in stacks around his room- stuff I couldn’t believe he’d ever fit into. What happened to my little boy? Didn’t I just come home from the hospital? Wasn't I just sitting on my couch wallowing in my post-partum sadness crying about the newborn who hated breastfeeding? I could have sworn that was last week…

Now that “newborn” sits up, rolls over, and scoots his way around a room in seconds. It’s like I blinked, and he wasn’t such a little guy anymore. Suddenly we need a different diaper size and an extra case of baby squash because he loves it so much. Bring on the nine month onesies because the little ones won’t button. Should I be scoping out colleges?

It makes me sad. It’s going by too fast, all of it. I never noticed time passing until my baby came around. Jon and I will have been together seven years in March. Seven. If I can’t measure the months in inches like Everett does on his chart, how do I? By my expired magazine subscriptions? Guess I better hurry up… travel to Italy. Fly in a hot air balloon. Something.

Our year, at a glance

The blogging universe has been calling out to me for quite some time now. So now at the close of this year, I figured it was time to give in to my keyboard and begin what promises to be a long and healthy blogging relationship.

And what a year it’s been! This time last year I was still semi-in-the-closet about my pregnancy and stealthily scarfing down saltines while trying to keep my nausea under wraps. It was about this time that Jon and I started freaking out about our current situation. One bedroom apartment. Two-seater Colorado. Oh, and did we mention the college degrees we didn’t have yet? I remember holding a positive pregnancy test in our living room thinking, “Umm, can someone quickly explain to me how to be a grown up?” It was a crazy time. But those two pink lines did not, in fact, disappear. I was 100% pregnant!

Ahh, pregnancy. What an interesting time. Filled with swollen ankles, nosey strangers, gaining a bazillion or so pounds, and endless backaches. Blech. Though admittedly not my most attractive year (ha, ha), it has certainly been the most rewarding. Having met the baby that grew inside of me, I swear I’d do it a million times over. After the initial shock of finding out we were expecting, we were off to the races. Thanks to our failing economy, we purchased a beautiful four bedroom house in Henderson, got an additional car, and continued going to school. Jon graduated from UNLV in May and landed himself a pretty sweet teaching career teaching High School Physics. I was a nesting maniac and insisted the nursery must be ready in April… for our August baby. Jon was a trooper though, so we painted away. House? Check. Car? Check. Nursery? Check. We were ready!

And come that baby did! Our son, Everett Michael Guerin was born on August 10, 2009- and is the best thing we ever did. Learning to be parents and be a family of three has been incredible. We have been overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity of our friends and family during this time in our lives. We have yet to buy a single diaper. And that is not a joke. I truly feel so blessed. I’m so lucky to have Jon, too. He can change diapers and clean spit up with the best of them, while simultaneously rubbing my back and making me laugh. He we was born to be a dad, and he rocks at it.

We hope that 2010 brings more joy and love to our little family- and to yours, too!