Job update!!

Thank you so much to everyone who was praying for Leigh to find a job. God gave Leigh a job this week!! The company called today to extend him a job offer (they were supposed to call yesterday, but HR didn't get around to it), so he went down this afternoon to fill out some paperwork and such. He goes in on Monday for a drug test and when they get the results back from that (two to three days), he gets to go to work!!!!  So hopefully he'll be able to start Wednesday or Thursday. He'll be the Oracle DBA for Nationwide Laboratory Services. He was looking for an Oracle DBA job, and when he wasn't finding many openings for those, he broadened his scope to some other programming things and such, so we are very thankful that God gave him a job specifically in the area in which he was looking. There are a couple new things that he will have to learn, but he seems excited about that.
He also will not have a long commute, which is one thing we were a little concerned about living in a larger city, so we are very thankful about that also!!! 

In Leigh's words:
"I have a job!  Praise be to God! 60% faster than average using the normal 3% application to interview ratio and in a market with 14 million people out of work.  It is with Nationwide Laboratory Services less than 15 minutes from our house.  I will be their Oracle DBA and get to learn RAC and Linux"

What happens when you refuse to take your afternoon nap??

You can't make it through supper!!

Such a sweet baby...

Job Update

Well, Leigh had his technical interview today at 11am. It lasted about 2 hours, I think. He thinks it went okay, but we don't know whether he has the job or not. Hopefully we'll find out one way or the other by the end of the week.  The CIO(chief info. officer???) came in partway through the interview, so there shouldn't be a third interview with just him, unless they had more questions or something. It wasn't sure whether he would be there or not. He did take Leigh on a tour of the facility and mentioned the his wife went to PCC, probably before Leigh's time. Thought that was interesting.... Anyways, that's all. :)

Baby Update

Hee hee. Did that make anyone nervous for a minute??? hahaha.
Sorry. I'm probably the only one laughing :). So, my little baby turned 10 months old on the sixth!! I can't believe he's already 10 months old and growing up so fast! He has four teeth. Two bottom ones and two top ones. He has started standing for a few seconds at a time without holding onto anything. He crawls fast and loves going after and playing with his siblings. He learned to wave Bye-bye this week. It's really cute!! He uses both of his hands and he says something while he does it. I don't think any of the others waved bye until they were at least one. (No, he's not a genius). The development charts say that waving bye can start as early as 9 months, but I had never seen a little one do it until a few months before we left Pensacola.  There was a little girl in the nursery who was barely crawling, but she could sure wave! (She was cute, too.) He seems to be outgrowing his fussiness. He has been, by far, our fussiest baby. He has gotten to where he will play by himself without demanding to be held, and has learned to open cabinets, drawers, and pull out whatever is in them. So far, he hasn't emptied a dresser, but I'm sure that day is not far. :) He loves to take baths and splash in the water. He likes to climb onto the trundle bed and then stand up and reach for things on Luke's bed. He loves it when the kids play with him. A few days ago, he was the "sister" to Emily and Josiah according to whatever they were playing. Also, the past couple weeks, he has gotten to where he will be content with me while I hold him and let me rock him. I was sitting on the couch one day holding him and rocking him a little and he went to sleep!! I was surprised he did that. Usually if I'm holding him and he's tired, he just wants to nurse. A few nights ago, we were trying to put him to sleep and he sat and rocked with me for about 30 minutes. He never did go to sleep for me that night, but it was such a sweet cuddle time. He has been jabbering a little more lately, and he has gotten louder. He has started letting us know when he is displeased with things being taken away from him, usually when Josiah is playing with him. Josiah often doesn't think he is allowed to play with things and so tries to protect him by taking them away. They're actually quite funny to watch interact. He's a busy little guy and smiles a lot!! And I'm so glad he's coming out of the "fussy" stage!! Oh, I almost forgot, He has also started sleeping through the night!! Wahoo!! He still gets up about once or twice a week, but that's heaps better than two or three times every night!!
Take a few minutes this week to hug your babies tighter!! They grow up way too fast...

Disclaimer

I just want to apologize for any grammar or spelling mistakes that their might be in my posts. I try to think through things as I write them, but if I went back and read through everything and tried to make it sound just right, I probably would never post anything at all, because it always sounds silly when I read back over it. I try to just write as I would talk. Which is probably why everything seems to just run on. Oh, and I don't know how to turn on spellcheck. Maybe I'll figure it out one day. Anyways, for what it's worth. :)

Job update

Well, Leigh had an interview on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. When he first heard about the job it sounded like something that he would be very interested in and would enjoy doing. He actually turned in a resume to the company about a week before, but according to their website, they didn't have any openings. He was contacted by a recruiter and so everything is done through the recruiter as far as setting up interviews, etc. Needless to say it has been a lot of phone calls back and forth trying to get times to work and stuff for the company. After he was finished with the interview he wasn't sure whether they were still interested or not, but come to find out they are, SO on this Tuesday at 11:00a.m., he goes in for another interview. Please pray that everything will go smoothly and that this will be the job God has for him if it's His will. There's a requirement for the job that Leigh doesn't have, but he would enjoy learning about it, if they would be willing to train him. One of the things that he enjoyed so much about his job at PCC was the diversity of things they had to learn and be able to do.

Beginning of School/ First day off

 We started school on August 29, which seems really late to me because we usually start the last week or last partial week of July. So I have been trying to do some extra lessons and such to "catch up" so that we're not doing school until the end of May. I like to finish near the beginning of May, usually just because I start getting ancy to get other things done, and the beach craving sets in about March/April when the weather starts getting warmer. So this past Friday, Sept. 30, we finished our first six weeks!! WOOHOO!! I'm not cramming in lessons, it came out to one extra lesson a week, which was doable, especially since the first few weeks are a lot of review. As a reward we took yesterday off. It was so nice to have a day off. We don't take holidays, except for Thanksgiving and Christmas, so all our days off are based on what I need to get done, or when I decide to go visit someone, or someone's sick, etc. I found last year, that the kids really enjoy looking forward to having a day off, and since we don't take holidays, they were missing out, because I would plan my schedule and tentatively plan a day off here or there, but not tell them, in case I changed my mind or I was able to fit school in along with the other things. I didn't realize this until towards the end of the year, so they only had like one or two days to look forward to, so I decided this year to try to make them a little more planned. They had a Great day, even though I didn't plan anything special or anything, it was just a day off. L had asked for the trains and track to be brought out a couple weeks before so they could play with it, but I wanted to get their room cleaned and reorganized, so I could get the tub down and leave it down, so we did that Monday morning and they played in their room very happily with the trains and track most of the day. Which made it very nice for me because I was hoping to get some sewing done and I was able to, and even got more done than I had planned!! I needed to make Emily a slip to go under some of her dresses, because it is very difficult to find little girls slips, and when you do it's hard to know what size to buy because they make things so short, so that's been on my sewing list for quite a while, so I was able to get that done. Then Luke only had one pair of summer pajamas and I had put them in the laundry and they were stuck in the laundry for three days (usually I try to wash them and dry them in the same day, so he can wear them again, but I got behind) so I had already decided I was going to make him some more pajama pants. I had two remnants of material that I had picked up somewhere along the way and I thought one of them would be long enough-it was a full yard, but due to the stripes, it wouldn't work for pants, but it would work for shorts. So after looking at them both, it ended up that I would have enough to make Luke shorts and matching shorts for Josiah and Timothy. They turned out cute and I was able to finish all three of them!! Leigh  even gave himself a little less to do. He called his recruiters and did a few of his job emails/application/stuff and then he worked on the church's website. HE's been doing their website since they started, but he's had ideas and such that he's wanted to add, take down, change, etc and just hasn't had the time. He hasn't had the time, or some of the info, to do it, so he took a few hours yesterday and worked on it. He seemed pleased with how it was going. I told Mom he had changed it, but I didn't realize he hadn't put it live yet. So if you read this Mom, it won't look different yet. :)  Anyways, we had a nice, fun, relaxing, yet productive day!!