Pregnant!

Surprise! I am pregnant! This is old news, but I thought I would document it at least a couple of times. I am due November 24th and am currently 23 weeks and 1 day pregnant. Jordan and I are so excited to be expecting a little girl in the late fall! I can hardly focus on tasks at hand such as class or work, I just want to organize our second bedroom, purchase clothes and anything else, and sew, sew, and sew! Hopefully I'll share some of the projects I have been working on. The first picture is 17 weeks, the next are 20 week ultrasounds, and the last is 22 weeks pregnant.

I start my final semester of school in about 3 weeks. I am going to be student teaching in a 6th grade class. I am excited and very nervous that I will not be able to enjoy the experience to the fullest because I am so focused on a baby. But I think and am hoping that it will actually make time fly by faster because I will be very busy and doing something I love. Teaching! However, currently the stress is thinking of names! It is fun, but making a final decision is something Jordan and I are going to struggle with.

Book Review: The Lunar Chronicles

I like to read, mostly the popular Young Adult Fiction books that come out. In the past few months I have read or re-read: * The Divergent Trilogy by Veronica Roth. I loved this series and even really enjoyed the movie that just came out. * The Uglies and Pretties, by Scott Westerfeld * The Maze Runner series by James Dashner * Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, sequel to The Giver * The Hunger Games and all the sequels These books are all excellent! However, they are starting to bleed together. They are each dystopian novels where each plot is futuristic with a 'big' government. However, back in March when I was doing my practicum student teaching in a 6th grade classroom I got a hold of one of their Scholastic Book Catalogs and found a new series that is becoming popular. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer. I have fallen in love with this series.

Although this book does fall under the 'dystopian' category, the book does not dwell on the big oppressing government. Instead these books are slight twists on fairy tales in a futuristic world where cyborgs, androids, and aliens all coexist. It sounded strange to me at first, but the stories are captivating and the author makes you fall in love with all the characters. Oh! I find out the gender of my baby in 6 days!!!!!