One Down, Fifteen To Go

I finished my first full week of the student teaching experience. I'm not teaching at all yet but the week went by rather fast considering I don't do very much other than observe the students and my teacher. I am slowly trying to work up to getting to school at 6:30am. The students arrive at 7. It seems that no matter how early I get up and whether I take a shower the night before or in the morning, I can't seem to get out the door until 6:40am. I am now getting up at 5:30am and eventually I will hopefully move a little faster in the mornings so I can leave by 6:15.
There are 8 or 9 Mondays that I won't be home until 5:30pm at the earliest and those will be the hardest days because I will only have an hour and a half at the most with Briggs before he is in bed for the night. The rest of the week I will be home by 4:30 so that will give me two and half hours with him. I do miss the little guy but we are lucky he goes to bed so early because it gives Mark and I time together and also time to do any homework or lesson planning we may have.
Briggs is growing like a weed. He has his 4 month well check and shots this coming Friday. He is getting more and more active and vocal. He is constantly kicking his legs. He kicks while eating, sitting, getting his diaper changed, and of course when he is in his jumparoo. He is definitely a scheduled baby and his naps are like clockwork. He is not very happy if you wake him up early from his naps for any reason. We are so grateful to have our moms, Katelyn, and everyone else that will be helping us with childcare this semester. We still don't have anything set in stone for the first and third Wednesday of each month and since the third Wednesday of January will be here in 3 days, we should really get that taken care of.
Here are some pictures of our favorite person from the last 2 weeks or so

This is a constant scene at our home and we love it so much. His laughing and squealing is the absolute best and slightly contagious


I don't know if Reagan is jealous or what but I'm going with jealous


So Brigham's hair is always a mess, especially on the left side. Well I thought he was just going to have wild and crazy hair and was hoping that it would eventually calm down. Well, the other day when I went t get him up from his nap, he was rubbing his hands through his hair, on the left side! It was really cute and this is the only picture I could get that kind of shows his hand.