And now what you've all been waiting for

Okay, okay. This one is for real. Now that my mom and dad know what we are having (they're on a mission in Manchester, England and I haven't been able to talk to them since they left) I feel like I can tell the rest of the world. Thanks for all the phone calls, emails, and texts from everyone. Okay, if you guessed we are having a boy you are wrong. IT'S A GIRL! We are really excited and couldn't be happier. Here are some of the ultrasound pics from last weekend:


Isn't that the cutest little foot?

The ultra sound tech said she wasn't allowed to say it was for sure a boy or a girl and had to put the "?" to avoid lawsuits. She said she looked at it from several different angles and she had no reason to think it was a boy :)


BTW, I got a pregnancy ticker, as you can see to the right, but it seems to be a little off. Sunday I will be 20 weeks. Oh well, its cute.

WE'RE HAVING A...

Well we went to Kaiser tonight to get our ultrasound done of the baby. They tell you to drink 32 ounces of water and hold it for an hour. I couldn't make it. We had to make a pit stop on the way. Nevertheless, I still had to go so bad during the ultrasound I was about to cry. (Is this grossing you out Caralee? Worse than the pee stick? :) sorry.) The ultrasound technician got all the measurements she needed but the baby had it's legs crossed...like it was sitting indian style (criss-cross applesauce or like a pretzel). Thomas kept telling the tech to poke it and make it move. I was trying not to cry and at that point could care less whether or not we found out what it was. I asked if I could just go to the bathroom and see if that would help the babys position. She said I could and it did. We found out what we are having! What do you think it is? Call us and find out! If you don't get a chance we will post it in a couple of days. We just can't pass up the opportunity of telling our friends and family in person. :)

Mrs. Duran

For the last few weeks I have been known to 20 students as Mrs. Duran. I got a job over the summer teaching Kindergarten at San Joaquin Elementary in the Golden Plains Unified School District. Where is that you ask? It is in San Joaquin, California...about 20 miles south on the 41 and 20 miles west on Manning Avenue. It is a 40-50 minute drive for me each morning and afternoon, depending on how fast I can go, how many big trucks I need to pass, and how many cars coming the opposite direction that prevent me from doing so. It has been very fun so far, and very interesting. San Joaquin is an extremely small little town in the middle of a bunch of fields. Most of the parents of my students are field workers, speaking only Spanish and with little education. Almost all of my students came to me as Spanish speaking only. This was very tricky for me, who only had 1 semester of Spanish in high school and 1 semester of Spanish in College, for the first couple of weeks. It's not so bad now. Being so young and having a necessity to do so (to understand what the heck their teacher is saying to them), almost all my students have picked up English very well and can communicate with me. So, that is what I have been doing since August 12th, being a Kindergarten teacher. I'm so glad for the opportunity to put my education and creativity into practice for as long as I can. We'll see what happens come February.