This "Bee" Started Buzzing!

Being pregnant with a second child sure is different than being pregnant with a first child.  Having a little one already buzzing around out in the real world keeps life busy and gives this working mom very little time to think about the one that is coming.  There are a few brief, tender thoughts of baby number two (or "beebee," as Jack appropriately called him yesterday) and some quick rubs of the belly before my eyelids flutter closed at night.

And often when I do think tenderly of baby number two, it is with the accompanying guilt that I am not thinking about baby number two enough.

Well, yesterday "beebee" finally demanded some attention and started buzzing around him(her?)self!  Sitting at work listening to the voices of my teammates, this one started poking me lightly in the belly!  "Beebee" might just be buzzing around in utero for now, but it sure was fun to feel the flutter of excitement as I imagined him joining our little hive soon!

Hana's Suitcase: A True Story by Karen Levine

This is a simple, matter-of-fact biography of a young Jewish girl during the Holocaust. I read this for our regional Battle of the Books competition and thought it was a great addition to the Battle list. While I think students may not find this to be the most exciting of the books they will read, the true connection to a real person is engaging. And, with all the fictional Holocaust stories out there, it is nice to be able to tell the students that this one is real. I liked this book.

Belly Shots: Week 16

Jack, giving his baby brother or sister a kiss.

"Hi, beebee," he whispers.

2011 Books

The complete list of books I read in 2011....

Adult Fiction
-Still Alice by Lisa Genova (December, 2011)
-Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber (December, 2011)
-Arcadia Falls by Carol Goodman (July, 2011)
-No Place Like Home by Mary Higgins Clark (June, 2011)
-Little Bee by Chris Cleave (June, 2011)
-Amsterdam by Ian McEwan (April, 2011)
-Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult (March, 2011)
-Home Safe by Elizabeth Berg (March, 2011)
-Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger (February, 2011)

Children's Chapter Books
-Freckle Juice by Judy Blume (November, 2011) -The BFG by Roald Dahl (October, 2011)
-Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan (October, 2011)
-Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli (April, 2011)
-The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis (April, 2011)
-The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (April, 2011)
-Charlie's Raven by Jean Craighead George (April, 2011)
-Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan (April, 2011)
-Rules by Cynthia Lord (March, 2011)
-Heat by Mike Lupica (March, 2011)
-Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements (March, 2011)
-The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs by Betty G. Birney (March, 2011)
-Lily's Crossing by Patricia Reilly Giff (February, 2011)
-Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio by Peg Kehret (February, 2011)
-The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare (January, 2011)
-The Cay by Theodore Taylor (January, 2011)
-Ruby Holler by Sharon Creech (January, 2011)
-The Trumpet of the Swan by E. B. White (January, 2011)
-A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park (January, 2011)

Historical Fiction
-A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (October, 2011)
-Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks (May, 2011)

Nonfiction
-The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell (August, 2011)
-The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz (January, 2011)

Autobiographies
-Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year by Anne Lamott (August, 2011)
-Bossypants by Tina Fey (June, 2011)
-Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler (January, 2011)

Short Story Collections
-Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories by Ann Beattie (July, 2011)

Books Nathan and I Read Together
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K.Rowling (February, 2011)