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A lot has happened in the 2 plus months since our last post!  I’ll do my best to chronicle those changes here…

1)  We moved if you didn’t know prior to this notice.  We moved from Cary, North Carolina to Greenville, North Carolina at the end of the year.

2)  I got a new job as a teaching instructor at East Carolina University in the College of Business teaching accounting.  I absolutely love my new job and I love the new hours I keep.  I teach Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and have office hours Mondays and Wednesdays.  I start my day at 8 am and end it at 3:30 pm on my “long” days and on Fridays, I’m done at noon.  I will start doing tax work tomorrow on Tuesdays and Thursdays and half day on Saturdays.  I’m looking forward to this work as well and learning new things!

3)  Brian got a new job.  He will be teaching social studies at North Lenoir High School, which is actually his alma mater.  He starts as soon as he gets through all the paperwork which he is currently trying to expedite along by driving what he has completed to the Board of Education tomorrow.

4)  Gwyn started walking, about 90% of the time.  She has been walking for a while now, like since Christmas… holding someone’s hand or the wall.  She has progressively gotten more confident and hasn’t fallen too much.  She was flying around the house last week but was still leery to let go the wall, until this weekend when she just took off walking all over the place!

5)  Gwyn is going to be either a belly dancer, football referee, or an engineer when she grows up.  She LOVES to dance and I don’t think it could ever be the ballerina type dancing… she’s got way too much rhythm.  My guess is that she will be a belly dancer or something along those lines… see video at the end of the post!  So if she isn’t a dancer, then maybe a football referee as Brian has taught her to signal a touchdown.  So if you say “TOUCHDOWN!”, Gwyn puts her arms straight up in the air over her head!  Too cute in my opinion.

And if neither of those two occupations work out, then she is sure to be an engineer.  I was worried about having a girl… I wouldn’t know what to do with a girly girl.  Well, problem solved (or I hope so) because Gwyn doesn’t seem to be a girly girl!  She LOVES to examine things and anything new that she hasn’t seen before.  She will spend 30 plus minutes examining something new!  She doesn’t care too much for stuff animals or dolls.  Brian put a stuffed animal in her stroller she got for Christmas.  She immediately chucked the stuffed animal across the room and tried to put things like building blocks in the seat instead.

6)  Gwyn started daycare today.  I really like this in-home daycare facility that we chose and I’m looking forward to her time there.  Today was her first day, so nap time didn’t go too well considering how she has never had to nap at any certain time and has always done so in her crib.  Today was from noon – 2pm and on a cot.  I think that she will get used to it by the week’s end.  We have at least been trying to get her to nap from noon – 2 pm this past week in preparation.

7)  We are still unpacking and probably won’t post pictures of our new digs for quite some time.  We are hoping to get a storage building this weekend to help make room for storage type things outside and room for normal type stuff inside.  I’m sick of having a mountain bike in our dining room!  I’m also quite sick of eating on the couch!  This place is tiny!  I miss our old house.  The dogs and cats are always under our feet… and now add to that a 1 year old who is starting to walk.  Did I mention this place is way too small for 2 grown people, a one year old, 2 dogs and 3 cats?

So with that… you can see that we are extremely busy and trying to get settled in, and why it has taken us two months to post again.  We are enjoying being closer to Brian’s parents and sister’s family.  We have already taken in a very exciting youth basketball game, in which both teams were undefeated and Lexie was the only girl player on either team.  Lexie’s team won 36 to 35.  Needless to say, I was on the edge of my seat the entire game.  To boot… Gwyn loved to watch them play!

In other news, it snowed here last week.  So the great schedule I have for work was even better due to the snow – only worked 1 day last week… oh poor me!  However, now I am behind in class and trying to figure out where I can make up the days.

Here are a few videos of Gwyn and all her new adventures!  Also some pictures of the snow… until next time!



Gwyn can walk! from Brian Brassine on Vimeo


Shake Shake Shake from Brian Brassine on Vimeo

Christmas in Kinston and a few pictures from our short time in Greenville:

Bath Time with Gwyn in her new bathtub:

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