The Whites: May Recap

May was quite a month for us in the White household. Here are some highlights to recap.

We kicked off the month with our first visit down to the Houston area since Emily's been born. This was only her second road trip and I'm embarrassed to say at 9 months of age her first trip down to Angleton. A big thanks to all our family for coming to us during this past crazy year!

Mike met up with his siblings to go to The Woodlands to do some spring cleaning at his Dad's house. Knowing they would have their hands full there, the kids and I went down to Angleton to see my parents. My siblings came down as well which was a nice treat. We got to see a bunch of my mom's side of the family and Emily go to meet them for the first time. We also ended up getting to see both Vanessa and Thomas's places in Houston along the way. It was a good time seeing and catching up with family.

The first weekend of May we traveled to Houston, second weekend was full of Mother's Day fun. The third weekend was full of celebrations for friends--we had the Smith birthday extravaganza celebrating the birthdays of all three of our favorite playmates followed by celebrating our friend Jon's graduation with his MBA from UT. My sister came in town that weekend too to take stock of all our babystuff and she is into the major planning stages for baby Elise scheduled to arrive in October. So excited that we also found out this month she's having a girl. And already passed on two huge bags of Emily's clothes to her!

After the first 3 busy weekends, we enjoyed some "down time" for Memorial Day by filling it with fun activities with friends: Saturday--to Jon and Erin's for pool time and burgers. Sunday--to the neighborhood pool with the Smiths followed by pizza at our house. Monday--more neighborhood pool time with Vanessa who came in town to visit for the day. Pool, pool, pool! The kids love the water!

We've also had some excited changes that took place this month. After wrapping up my last class for the semester I turned in my keys at UT. I was able to get a long term position with Child Inc and let the School of Nursing know I would not be returning to teach in the fall. I'll miss the students but won't miss a lot of the other stuff that went along with the job. I may return once our kids are both in school but for now will enjoy a shorter more flexible work schedule which will allow me to spend more time with Noah and Emily. I'll be working for Child Inc which is the HeadStart program in Austin (goverment funded preschool for lowincome/at risk kids). I'll work with Health Services to provide health screenings/physicals/shots, etc to all kids entering the program and then monitor my assigned kids to make sure they stay up to date with all their medical care throughout the year. I did some work with them last summer before Emily was born and it's a great group to work with. The work is low stress and I get to work with one of my best friends from my old job at the CWC. Plus I only work 2 days a week and arrange my hours to be whatever I need them to be to work for our family. Lots of perks to that!

As my job stuff finally settled out, so did preschool for the kids. We'd been working on this since earlier this spring. And thanks to God's perfect timing it all came together right when it needed to. Noah had his last day at Ms. Ruth's at the end of May and will be starting a Tue/Thur program at Immanuel Lutheran Day School in Pflugerville the first part of June. This coincides perfectly with my new work schedule. Once Emily turns one, she'll transfer over to ILDS too. The school is well established and comes highly recommended from several families we know that have kids that have gone there. Plus we love that it's a faith based school with daily chapel. They have a huge playground plus a gym for when it's too hot/cold/wet so we know they'll gets lots of activity. Ruth's has been a great place for them to be--crazy to think that Noah's been there since he was only 6 months old--but it's time for a change for them too.

Enjoy some photos with some other recaps from this month:

Yummy spaghetti!