Gillis Family Inc. - Homeschool Blogger

It's a boy!!

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 05:56:00 -0500

I know it has been forever since i posted! Life has been so busy! First piece of news is I had a baby boy on monday (sept 10th) at 5:30 pm. His name is Isaac Soren and he weighed 6lbs 6 oz. He is an amazing baby! he is only 5 days old and already slept for 4 straight hours last night. I feel great today hehe. The kids really love their brother. Toby is taking some time to adjust but he is starting to come around. Jules is over the moon and constantly wants to hold him.

As far as schooling, Jules started kindergarten on Aug 1st. We started a month early this year because of needing to take a break for baby. This year we are working on "learning language arts through literature blue book", math u see, The world God made for science, explode the code and a book on maps. Jules is really enjoying everything! We will break for a couple weeks to get adjusted to being a family of five and then start up again.

Well I'm going to cut this short as i've typed this with one hand and i'm getting sore. i'll try to add updated pictures soon.

Wow a new entry!

Fri, 4 May 2007 14:52:00 -0500

Amazing! I've been so stinking busy or just lazy.. I had my ultrasound on the 25th.. Only one baby in there but healthy and I'm happy. I've been feeling okay with all the blood pressure stuff. My only problem now is the heartburn which makes me think it's a girl cuz Jules was the one who gave me heartburn and Toby didn't at all. I don't know.. we didn't/couldn't find out the sex so we will have to wait til September to find out.
As for school.. Jules finished her phonics book today.. She still has about 19 pages in her math and quite a few pages in her explode the code book but I would say we will be done before this month is over. I'm glad she is done of the phonics book. It has taught her ALOT of stuff but it was really challenging for her so i'm glad we get a break from it.

I also ordered her new books today.. I ordered Learning Language arts through literature blue box, The world God made science, Explode the code 1,2 and 3 and two canada map books. I'm excited to get them but the store I ordered them from had to order them so it will take about two weeks to get them all in. oh well, we won't be ready to start until the fall anyway.. and with the baby coming, we may be taking an extended break.

Twins?????

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:58:00 -0500

I had a doctor's appointment today. It was interesting... First of all, I'm supposed to be 13 weeks and i'm measuring 16-18 weeks. Dr tried for the heartbeat and found it and then moved it around to see if he heard any other heartbeats, he found another one about 1.5-2 inches from the other one. It was faint and had the same rhythm as the first one so he said it was "probably" the same heartbeat. He said he wouldn't rule out twins but he thought that there was only one baby in there. HA! He also said we would have to just wait until my ultrasound to know for sure! That's not until APRIL 25th!!!!! Bah I don't wanna wait that long!! Oh and my blood pressure was 140/100 and my urine is testing positive for protein and keytones! Anyway, doctor wants to see me in 10 days for another BP check and said I may have to go on blood pressure meds! He also said he would try and hear the heartbeat again. I'm really nervous about the blood pressure thing because I was put on bedrest when I was pregnant with Jules because of it. It really sucked but I didn't have 2 kids back then.. I don't know what i'll do if I have to go on bedrest this time. So please pray with me that my body does what it is supposed to do!! Also please pray that I can get the confirmation on the twins thing.

As for Julianna's schooling.. the kids spent the day at their nanny's today, thankfully I had the foresight to bring her schoolbooks with her so we were able to do school today at nanny's house. Nanny and Grampa D were very impressed on how well she is reading her BOB books. I'm proud of her. I think she was a little proud of herself too.

Julianna's newest word now is Awesome. She says it about everything and I have to say it's DARN CUTE! Hee hee. Toby's newest thing now is "no I self" and he wants to do EVERYTHING himself. It can drive me crazy at times when it's cold outside and he's struggling to get himself up into the van but it's easier to let him do it than listening to him cry when I do it for him. Although sometimes I can say "No mommy self" and he is like "oh mommy self okay" hee hee.

anyway, it's past the kids bedtime, Jeff's working late and Toby is playing with his trucks on the couch with just a soggy diaper on so I guess I better get back to mommy mode and change him and get them both to bed. Jules wants to gargle water and spit it in the sink when she brushes her teeth.. Oh the things that kids find fun!

In Loving Memory...

Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:07:00 -0600

Yesterday I received news that my dear friend Jen's baby boy passed away on Saturday evening. Andrew Joshua was just over a month old. He was born at 29 weeks and was loved completely by soo many people. He has touched so many lives in his tiny life. He was truly an Angel sent from Heaven and now he is perfect in Jesus' arms. We will always remember him. Please be praying for Jen, Josh and Haley (Andrew's big sister 2 years old) as they make it through this week and the weeks to come. Jen has had an amazing attitude with all of this and her faith in God has touched me in an amazing way. Love you baby Andrew. Have fun with Jesus.

Big News!

Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:19:00 -0600

Hey all..

Finally I can announce this. We have been waiting for my mom to get here so we could tell her in person. We are having another baby!! Sometime around the end of september! I really wanted to have another fall baby! We are very excited to have a new little one joining our family and making Toby a big brother!

In other news, my sisters wedding is on saturday so we are taking the week off of school so that we can be free to drop and go do things as needed.

Anyway, i'm pretty tired all the time and I think since Toby is napping, i'm going to go lay down and rest. (plus Jules wants to watch a movie on the computer)

Deb Tagged me! lol

Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:23:00 -0600

So Deb tagged me.. I need to say 6 things that are weird about me.. hmm that shouldn't be too hard... I asked Jeff about this and he said, only six? LOL

1. When I bend my arm a certain way, it looks like it's broken.

2. I'd have as many children as Jeff would let me!

3. I fell out of a car going 40-50 kph when I was 11 months old and never got a scratch on me.

4. I've had the same ear rings in my ear for 7.5 years

5. I hate to clean

6.Once when I was 15 I slept for 17 hours straight.

There, that was hard!! I will have to do the picture one later... oh and I have to tag some people... here's my people... Linda, Stefanie, and Emily

oh here's a funny/embarrassing story. Jeff was just asking Jules what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said that she wanted to be a mommy. So Jeff asked her what she would do when she is a mommy and she said oh i get to clean the house and make supper. and Jeff says oh what else? and she says Oh and I get to play on the puter!! ROFL! Silly girl.

update

Wed, 3 Jan 2007 11:14:00 -0600

Well, we made it through christmas and it was great! It's so fun to have children around at christmas time!!! We now have more toys in our house than the kids know what to do with and it's a battle to get them all cleaned up by the end of the day so we have established (starting today) two clean up times, before/after lunch and before bedtime. That should keep things managable. Toby is still learning the clean up game and Jules gets overwelmed quickly (she's alot like her mama) so it helps to have as little toys as possible to clean up. Anyway.. we started back to school yesterday too. We got some new books to do (the preschool series of the Rod and Staff curriculum) just before christmas so we started those yesterday too. They are much too easy for her but she likes them and I think it gives her good practice. It will be good for Toby when he starts doing formal stuff the fall after he turns three (depending on his personality of course but I'm thinking as of now, he will be ready)

We did school just before lunch today and toby was driving me nuts! He usually is pretty good when we do school but today he just wanted to bug me I guess. First he kept wanting to color in Julianna's books. He is so eager to do school work LOL I give him his own coloring book to do but he wants nothing to do with it. Then he takes a crayon and starts coloring one of the little people horses. He has never colored on anything but paper before so it was shocking to me! :frown: He kept trying to count the mice on Julianna's math book too which is great only, he was putting his hands all over the page and Jules couldn't do anything. I know that he's learning lots when he watches us but sometimes he wants to get too involved! I think he will be ready to start doing little things by next fall.. I'll have to find little activities for him to do while we do school. He did do a pretty cute thing though. I usually use the eraser end of a pencil to point at things I need to show Jules so he takes a pencil and turns it to the eraser end and he kept pointing at things on the page and saying "there and there and there and there" LOL

anyway, there's an update from me!!

our crisis

Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:04:00 -0600

Well, we had quite the crisis here today.. I took pictures and video because I'm constantly telling Jules to stop putting her toys in her mouth and today she realized the consequences of her actions and her favorite little mermaid doll had to be the victim! ROFL! I'm sure you can tell what happened by the pictures!

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Santa Claus???

Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:56:00 -0600

We don't really do Santa Claus here. We decided to celebrate st. nicholas day instead so that Christmas can be all about Jesus. We also didn't feel right about telling our kids that santa claus was real when he isn't really. Jules knows he is just pretend and all that. We tell her that other people believe he's real though so she has to pretend too. Well, she's been having a hard time getting that concept and this old guy that hangs out at my dad's asked her one day what santa claus was bringing her and she looked at him in shock like he should have known better and said "santa claus is not real!" soooo I had to tell her that if anyone ever asks her that again, she should tell them what she wants for christmas. She is doing really well with it now thoughwe had that meeting on saturday morning and one of the ladies asked her what santa was bringing her and she said a doll and then the lady asked her if she wrote her letter to santa yet (Jules has never heard of doing that!) and Jules was scribbling out some letters at the time and she said "i'm writing it right now! this is it!!"

grade one!!!!!!!

Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:40:00 -0600

SO I was looking through Julianna's phonic's book today and I realized that she is almost half way done of it. BUt the other thing I noticed was that at the book covers kindergarten, grade one and grade two work. At the first of next week she will be starting grade one work. She hasn't really had any problems with anything that the book has covered so far except figuring out the middle sound of a word like the "i" in pig but she's coming along with that. sooo I decided to just keep going in the book and take things slow if she has problems. So my four year old will be starting grade one probably wednesday if we stay on track!! lol