Of Pancakes and Pluckers

To bring everyone up to date:  I moved 2 weeks ago to Huntsville, Alabama.  All I have left in order to finish my undergrad degree in music education is to do my semester of student teaching.  As I have a somewhat (understatement) adventurous spirit and definitely feel like I have gotten quite a full "northern colorado experience", and as you can really student teach anywhere, I decided to come out to Alabama and do it here.

Why Alabama?!?  (I knew that was coming.)  My older sister and her family live here, so I'm staying with them.  Upcoming features to look forward to in my blog:  Things I Learned from a 4-year-old Princess.  I have some great ones already, don't worry.  Let me introduce the cast of characters for that series:  Kellie, my older sister--The Mom.  Scott, her husband--The Dad.  (Who recently revived my mac, whose new hard drive I named "Lazarus"--Thank You!)  Audrey, my adorable, blond, 4-year-old niece.  And Ian Holland, born this morning at 7:33 am.  :)

Just 2 funnies from the normalities of life today (look for upcoming episodes of the "Things I Learned..." series):

Whenever Audrey is bored or cranky or just doesn't want to do something, she'll get this obnoxious whiny voice and say, "I'm SOOOOOooooOOOOooo tired!"  Tonight, on the way to the hospital to say goodnight to her mom, she was sitting in the backseat and made some comment about being tired.  I got ready for the whiny "soooooooo tired" comment, but instead she said very matter-of-factly, "I'm as tired as a pancake!"

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Things I Learned from a 4-year-old Princess, Chapter 1:  Pancakes are very, very sleepy.

Other funny:  Scott was showing me the 3 1/2 page form they have to fill out and give to the state to get Ian's birth certificate.  Apparently there are several glaring typo's and grammatical mistakes (welkome too Alabama), but this was the part that we liked best.  One of the questions, honest to goodness, said the following:

What was your occupation during this pregnancy?  for example, cashier, bank teller, chicken plucker, nurse, attorney, etc.