Thank you blogger for finally updating your software so that I can now blog from my phone. I'm hardly ever on my computer any more. Why get on the computer when I can do everything from my phone?! They've also changed the way you compose your posts now too... weiiirdd..
Anyway, the Orton household is doing great. We love Andrew's new job. We never pay for gas anymore because company pays for it. He likes what he's doing, he likes being at the mine, he likes the people he works with. Pay isn't any better BUT he's home more and he's happy. we're happy.
I love my new job (coaching gymnastics). I got certified in CPR last week as well as coaching certified for safety and risk management... and I've started teaching for 8 hrs a week. It's small $ but I don't have to pay for Abby's gymnastics any more (a blessing), I can bring my kids to work (blessing), it brings in a little extra $ (blessing) and I love it (double blessing). It also gets me out of the house on these hot summer days! And the girls are fun to be around. I also got released from my callings of family history consultant and relief society activity committee (had them for 3 years!!! I still don't know how grandma did nursery for so long!). And am back in a calling I've had at every ward I've been in..... -.- CTR 5 teacher (I for some reason ALWAYS teach the SAME AGE LEVEL too). ... it's fine i guess. I like to teach the little kids and it's in my attention span range. But they're making me co-teach with another teacher and sometimes there are more teachers than kids.... like last week. I feel like my potential is being wasted in the ward with a class that doesn't need me. They only need 1 teacher, but they're insisting on each class having 2 teachers in the room always. meh. I'm just glad to be out of my old callings! i'll take anything!!!
Ruby's growing up fast! She's teething and was sleeping through the night but is no longer. I thought I wasn't making enough milk so we bought formula to supplement, but it turns out that if I don't run, I have enough. (I was starting to do a couch potato to 5k program. and i liked it a lot. I was running a little over 2 miles 3 times a week. After 2 or 3 weeks of running, I noticed that once I started to run I started to not produce milk for Ruby. I no longer run-- #formulasexpensive) It also turns out that she's not screaming because she's hungry but because she's T-E-E-T-H-I-N-G... UGGGHHH.... often if we rub her gums she's quiet down. You can't see her teeth though, this is going to be a long teething process.
Abby is always wanting to do something or go somewhere. "Can we make a craft?" (thus the previous post) "Can we make cookies and give them to the neighbors?" (how can you say no to that??) "can we ride our bikes??" (she can now ride her bike with out training wheels. something she could have been doing for the past year but is too scared). "can we fly a kite"-- ahhh something I can absolutely say NO to because we have no wind. She's especially wanting to learn how to read. I've tried teaching her, but I'm not very good at it. She really really really wants to learn though. The school she's going to this fall (Legacy Traditional School (a charter school)) uses the Spalding phonics program.... so I've been trying with that but I'm no good. I get my chinese pronunciation and my English pronunciation mixed up. fail. the devil of learning 2 languages. Any suggestions on getting her to read would be great. she is just dying to learn, and I'm excited to not have to read to her. #IHATEREADING I'm trying to like it more, but I just can't get my mind to concentrate on what I'm reading. I think about other things and forget that I am reading and what I'm reading.
So that's the update for now. Here's some pictures that my friend Cindy Price from www.lilypstudio.com took the week Ruby had her baby blessing. I love love LOVE <3 them. You might have seen them already on FB but here they are anyway.
