Ethnic Enrichment Festival - 2012

I can't believe it has been a whole year since I posted THIS. This year Lyla was not a fan of the port-a-potty's like she was last year but we had several other highlights at the Ethnic Enrichment Festival ... 

Red hair spray provided by the girls selling cable, weird.

Steven's teacher doing Norwegian dancing (her back is to the photo), teacher's have real lives, too!

Sumo Steven

Sumo Lyla

 The food was pretty good, too!

First Day of School - 2012

Border Star, Here we come!

This is Steven's first kindergarten year! While he is still only 4, he made the cut-off date and we decided to send to him. Some selfish reasons (we don't have to pay anymore) and other more thoughtful reasons (he's in a multi-age class so he won't be the youngest). He has Mrs. Jongeling again this year and we are looking forward to a great year of learning the moveable alphabet, the addition board and binomial or trinomial cube. Montessori is learning for us, too!

Lyla is a P3 this year and she is in Mrs. Moore's class. She has had a pretty rough transition but we expected that with her. She is quite the hard-headed child right now and we've had a few days where she's spent some time in the "safe" spot but overall we think she is going to grow at Border Star. We just need to keep her away from Steven during recess so  she starts making her own friends!

32 Weeks?

I almost don't want to post the following picture. We are officially 32 weeks and a few days and I am looking like the baby could come any day. People are always asking me - how much longer? I never really had stranger annoyances with my other pregnancies but I am sure getting them this time around. 

Even our midwife declared that I am big, so much bigger than our date (she measured 36 centimeters which should mean 36 weeks - 4 weeks beyond where we really are) that she ordered us to get another sonogram to check on the baby's size. We got it done this afternoon and the preliminary results say the baby is 6lbs 6oz (+/- 1 lb) which is about 2lbs greater than the average baby. We grow them big in the Clark family!

We won't get the official information until tomorrow or Friday but we're hopeful that his size and fluid levels are in an okay range so that we don't have to change any plans!

Baby Boy Clark's Profile

Update: Baby boy Clark is big. Sono results showed that his heart is fine, brain looks good, kidneys and stomach have fluid in them and his size is above average. Our midwife wants to consult with the obstetrician and may recommend a hospital birth in case delivery complications arise but I am hopeful that we can continue on our current path. I did it with Lyla so I think we can do it again!