Oh School

Well, i'm two and half weeks into school.  Already I have no motivation to read my text books.  When you are supposed to read 5 chapters of small print from a large boring text book before your class it's really hard to find the motivation/focus to do so.  Luckily I'm not the only one in my class who isn't reading.  We did have a math test (dosage calculations) that we have to pass 100% and only have 4 times to do it.  I passed it the first time.  Luckily I enjoy math.  From what I heard from the re-take today there was one question that stumped almost everyone.  My first big test is thursday.  I'm a little nervous because it is the first test so I'm not sure what to expect.  I do know that the 6 different instructors for Weber State (for the 6 different campuses) are all pooling together questions for the test.  So we will see how this goes.  With the minimal teaching we get I'm a little concerned.

talking to herself in the bathroom mirror

Other than school, Tacy is now 13 months old!  Crazy how time flies.  Some new things about Tacy:

She LOVES books!  Tacy loves to read books and she loves to give them to me to read.  It's so fun listening to her read to herself and fun that she is not trying to rip books apart anymore.

Tacy loves onions.  Seriously.  My father-in-law has a huge garden and he brought in a bucket of onions from it and put it on the kitchen floor.  Well Tacy was fascinated with this bucket.  She tried lifting it by it's handle, then she discovered the onions inside.  First she would just pull them out and start to peel them.  Then she took a bite out of one.  Pretty funny.  But yesterday, we went to Outback and got a free blooming onion.  When Tacy had quickly eaten all the bread, we gave her some of my french fries (which she LOVED, more then McDonald's fries) and then we tried some of the blooming onion.  She loved it.  She even ate pieces of the onions from Brad and my salads.  No funny faces she just kept reaching for more.

biting the onion from the bucket

We are still working on teaching her to say "Please".  Sometimes she manages to say something close to please.  We are working on other words too, like bird, bear, etc.  Brad and I were talking about her talking last night and realized part of her trouble with saying words is that she only has 2 bottom teeth.  We tried talking without touching our teeth and it does not work so well with many words.  But she does talk a lot and makes a lot of different sounds and noises so i'm sure she will get there.

Tacy loves playing the keyboard piano and will push it along the ground while playing it or will pick it up and then drop it somewhere else.

Tacy doesn't like to sit normal in carts

Tacy is taking steps now!  She took two steps in church last sunday to get to a 20 month-old holding a bag a pretzels.  Shocked both Brad and I.  She will only take a max of 3 steps before falling to her knees, but she is getting there.  She is getting more confident and trying to step more now then a week ago when we really had to bribe her to try and walk.  She does still love to smile at me, shake her head, and get down and crawl.

Tacy may not say "no" but she does love to shake her head.  Smart kid.  I shake my head when I tell her "no".

Tacy will now give me my phone when I have the screen off to turn it on.  She always wants it so I will turn the screen off and hand it to her.  She just hands it back and smiles and will only take it back when I turn the screen on.  She does know how to awake the tablet screen.  And she still has a ridiculous nak for getting to the internet.  And she can scroll through stuff really well.  She has fingers made for touch screens I swear.

Her hair is getting longer.  I put some of her hair in a pony tail for church and it looked so cute.  Unfortunately Tacy moves a lot and from crawling under and over people and under benches, her pony tail quickly came out.  Oh well.  She does not like having hats on her head, so putting pony tails in is a little tricky.  She also does not love to wear shoes, which is probably my fault because I love being barefoot and have let her be barefoot practically all summer.  Now that she is learning to walk I'm trying to enforce shoes to go outside and she will just sit down.  We are working on it.  Stubborn girl.

Brad is still plugging along at work and being a great Dad.  Fall softball started up and Tacy and I were able to go to his game last week.  It was fun to watch him and Tacy loved clapping with everyone and was pretty good at watching her Daddy bat each time.  I love Fall and am loving the cooler weather and sunflowers.  All my fall decorations have been up for 2 weeks now.  I keep wanting more decorations, but with Tacy it is hard to have enough places high enough up to hold stuff.