Vacation...wahoo!

I have an entire week off.
I cannot adequately express the relief and joy that the thought of a week off brings to me much less the actuality of waking up to a leisurely morning.

My plans for the week?

• trips, yes multiple trips, to the gym
• tamale making
• the new Twilight movie
• ultrasound
• a day ALL BY MYSELF 
• our traditional night before Thanksgiving happy hour
• Thanksgiving with my BFF and her significant other
• a trip to the desert

But then again reality has a way of creeping in.
This morning bejos boy woke up with pink eye. Ugh. We dealt with this a lot last year, just about this time. I am hoping that this time around, with a week off, we can knock it out quickly. Rearrange and shift into a new gear. Let's add hand washing to that list.

the curse

Three years ago, while eight months pregnant with bejos boy, we had a little incident in our driveway.

A very impaired driver, driving way too fast, lost control and totaled my car. Drama, a whole lot of drama.

The other night, while reading bedtime stories with bejos boy, we heard a crash. Another impaired driver had invaded our property. 

Two accidents, two pregnancies.
I'm pretty sure that this will be our last baby.
sigh

Adding to the family tree

That's right, we are adding a leaf to the bejos family tree.

Baby bejos is scheduled to arrive this spring, April to be specific.
We discovered this delightful news the first week of school...it did help explain the extreme exhaustion that was overcoming me. In hindsight I think it was a combination of the two: pregnancy and new job, or maybe it is just my new label of Advanced Maternal Age. 

It is still hush-hush at school. While we come up with a plan for my maternity leave we have decided not to rile up the parents and students just yet. It helps that I don't quite show yet, one of the perks of carrying a few extra pounds.

the playground

On a recent fall weekend day we grabbed a cup of coffee, doughnuts (doughnuts!) and headed to the playground.This little guy has a very large reserve of energy.

not the best picture, but you have asked

We weren't planning on doing the trick-or-treat thing this year, but then we were invited by friends to cruise around their neighborhood. Bejos boy quickly got the hang of the evening even if he didn't care too much about the candy - until the next day that is.

After each house he'd walk away with his shallow bucket tipping out all the candy he'd received but wearing a huge grin.

This is the best picture we got from the night. The hat was made by me, the tail by sister bejos.