what does this look like to you?

Art class? no. religion class? no. it is in fact my math class. both senior and freshman classes were cutting and pasteing and glueing and tracing. a weeks worth of arts and crafts did in fact yeild a math project.

Seniors: created a stained glass window by drawing lines and then gave me the equations of the lines. and made a pretty window :)

Freshman: same idea but in the form of a Mondrian art piece (you know...the guy who painted black horizontal and vertical lines and colored in the rectangles either white, blue, red or yellow). they collaged different pieces of red yellow and blue.

all in all a nice project, gave them a break, gave me a break (sort of) and let them do something out of the oridinary for math

Fraggle Rock

Fraggle Rock:

I think was one of my favorite shows EVER. The complete series will be coming out in a box set November 4.....i HAVE to have it. HAVE TO!!!! I am not sure what made me look it up online tonight but I am so excited the series is going to be released as a box set collectors set....$125 for all the episodes ever made....YAY!

ok, so does this mean i am a complete dork?

A few pictures

My house has been transformed into a mini-daycare. we have boatloads of toys (very few of which WE have actually bought) and he only plays with a few....hopefully he'll learn to like the rest eventually, because i dont think we'll be buying any new toys for a very long time! He's walking all over the house and now trying to climb on everythiing, including the big red wagon that holds all of his mega bloks...

E left for california this morning for 2 weeks..yay....(that was sarcasm). and when he does get back there are a few more trips that are possible...each at a week long....yay again.

The debate

I dont generally write about politics however today seems like a fitting time, and plus, i have a nifty link for you to follow below. Or maybe thats the main thing. Sara says it best, i think i agree with her 100% on everything. The debate was surprisingly not the circus it couldve been and while Palin was coached non-stop since the Couric interview I'm sure........she did'nt really screw up. Of course when you say the same 4 or 5 scripted phrases over and over again and repeatedly bring the conversation back to energy which is the only topic she actually knows anythign about it's kind of hard to screw it up. But Biden didnt fall apart either and considering he's not the best speaker on his feet he did ok....and there were plenty of times he couldve lashed out at Palin or corrected her but he was smart, he didnt give anyone a reason to classify him as talking down to her becasue she's a woman..etc...etc. So over all it was ok. She danced around the issues as always making it appear that she knew what she was talking about and Biden didn't say anything unexpected. Although if i have to hear Palin say the work "maverick" again I might just run screaming from the room.......or that he suggested 2 years ago that franny and freddie should have tighter restrictions on them.....thats great, but please, cant you think of just ONE other way in which mccain was a Maverick in the financial system....but whatever. I would cut and pasted sara's entire blog entry from the last 2 days but most of you know how to find it (or actually read it on a regular basis)...basically everything she said I agree. and I am scared and disheartened too as to what may happen next month...next year....etc.

but here's the fun link, i enjoyed it anyways

Sarah Palin Debate Flow Chart

Playing at the park....

Yesterday we took EJ to CB Smith Park for a bit so he could burn off some energy. The playground isnt that great but its less than a mile from our house and it was between morning and afternoon nap time so it didnt leave us much time. He ran around and played in the dirt. He seemed to enjoy that much more than actually climbing on the toys. He picked up every thing he shouldnt like straws, cup tops, plastic bags so he kept us busy chasing him around to take them away. He liked digging his hands in the sand and ended covered in dirt and all sweaty but he has fun and slept well after lunch when we got home.

We figuredout he loves sandwiches, PB&J and grilled cheese work well. he eats the whole sandwhich. so thats progress. although cutting them up into amillion little pieces is a pain it works. He likes to put the whole piece in his mouth no matter the size so we'll be cutting it up for awhile. but he eats it so thats good. hopefully he'll move on to something a little more substantial soon.

House hunting sucks

3 things to talk about....

so the house we had an offer on was officially denied, they wanted 20K more than we were willing to spend so we passed...it had a huge hole in the roof and needed a whole new one not tomention whatever damage resulted from the hole and water damage. so yeah, 3 months we waited for that answer. nice. we have expanded our search to a little farther north of where we live right now, looked at 2 yesterday. one way out of our price range by like 50K and the other was nice but the main power lines ran right behind it. which isnt all bad sice it gave us tons of space behind the fence to run Es RC cars and play ball and whatnot but living near main power lines has been assiciated with a higher rate of childhood cancer so yeah, that threw that house right out the window. So E andhis parents are looking at a few more tonight. me and the baby stayed home since we had him out way past his bedtime last night just to look at those 2 places.
so i think we decided not to even try with a short sale property as this last one was 3 months of waiting and waiting sucks.....so we are back to square one.
and we would like to be in a new house by february as thats when our fixed rate mortgage turns adjustable and we got a letter the other day saying our payment would most likely go up like $250 a month....and that doesnt include the HOA which also kicks in next feb at another $250 a month and thats to live in a 3rd floor apartment which is quickly turning more ghetto by the day.


and that leads to my next topic. our fabulous community. this past sunday we looked out our windo and there were 2 guys grilling in their driveway. not a big deal on itsown. of course most people do it on their balcony but whatever, so they were grilling chicken and had a tent to keep the sun off. ok, getting more ghetto but not too bad yet. the best part was that they had brought their tv out and run the powere and cable lines outside to watch the football game, while they grilled and ate chicken. ther were 2 of them. TWO OF THEM. you think the a/c inside would be more comfortable but i guess you just cant take the ghetto out of some people. oh, wait, i forgot, WE live in the ghetto now ;) and to add to the swell-ness of our living arrangements i was outide yesterday and kicked something metal on the ground. so i looked and i thought i was mistaken, but no, it really was a bullet casing. yup, you read that right...a freaking bullet casing. now i know there havent been any gun shots here but seriously, why was it on the ground in my parking lot?!?! :) i love my condo community...oh wait, i forgot, its not a condo community anymore, they are renting them again becasie people wont buy here, sobasically those of us that bought before the market crashed are just screwed......

and the third topic....we went for our one year check up. he weighs 19lbs 12oz. hes not even 20lbs yet. that puts him in about the 8th percentile for weight while being in teh 50-75th for height. so we had a long talk with the doctor about his eating. he was eating lots of table finger foods beofer i went back to work but my MIL will only feed him puree. shes afraid he'll choke. adn e is afraid she'll panic. so if he doesnt trust her i definately dont. a little background info: she fed E puree until he was 3. and he drank milk from a bottle till who knows when...7? (but most latin families are like that...even ones that have lived most of their lives here) so yeah, we are trying to feed him table food at dinner. last night he ate like 5 tiny pieces of chicken (if that) 2 pieces of carrot and a few watermelon. pieces. tonight he ate a piece of bread, a itsy bitsy piece of carrot and like two little bites of turkey lunch meat. those two meals together shouldnt even be enough for a snack. so i have no idea how we are going to put weight on him. ???????


other than that things are good. work is great. i love my kids. they have a test thirsday or friday so we'll see how well they do....

Birthday Pictures

So here are the pictures from EJs first birthday. We decorated with Curious George since the only thing he has attached himself to is his monkey....i dont think he really even noticed but thats ok, i liked them :)

Opening presents was fun, his attention span got him through about 2 presents until he had had enough....bedtime was quickley approaching and he certainly let everyone know it!

He was unsure about the cake, watched everyone as they sang and immediatly took the little Curious george figurine off the cake and played with that. He had no desire to eat the cake and even though we put his hands in it he really just wanted to play with the monkey.
Amelia saw that EJ was having trouble understanding what to do with the cake so she thought she would helphim out by showing him that you are supposed to eat it......
and she ended up having more than he did!