Pussing.....

......is that a form of puss oozing out....why no, it's not! It's what you call it when you can't say f's and your baby sister is crying. So mommy, baby sister is "pussing" . I love it! He is so cute. He can say "fruit snacks" but not "goldfish"...it's "goldpish". When you try and emphasizethe f he just says it slower and louder with a p. My constant entertainment!

Rice cereal and dog slobber don't mix

So my day started okay. Miss G slept through the night until 4:30am so that was wonderful. Little Man went to a sitter this am for a few hours so I got started and didn't stop until he came home......cleaning out the car, monogramming in between that and cleaning the garage, cleaning house, etc. Paw paw was fixing various things around the house, Mimi was entertaining Miss G and all was fine. Paw paw even took the dogs for a walk for me to get them some exercise b/c I am supposed to be resting....and not healing like I should because I am not resting.....but yall know that is me. Anyway......we went to lunch at the O Club and kids were great, food was better than McD's and we came home to a box from Nanny. Tons of goodies for Miss G and LM which LM loved opening. So far, so good , right??
Then we went to the Farmer's Market......remember dogs had been walked and played outside most of the day. While we were gone this is what I picture must have happened:
Mattie: Hey guys there is a box of rice cereal on the counter, I will sneak in and get it.
BT says: yeah, yeah, yeah.....
Beau: What, I was too busy taking the pillows off the couch with my mouth to create a spot to lay down.....mom thinks she is so clever putting all these pillows up here....ha
Mattie drags the rice cereal off the counter and sprays it all over the kitchen , even under the stove......BT and Mattie join in together to drag the box to the living room and spread it even further, then rip the box to shreds.....
Mattie: don't worry we can lick it all up (at which point they begin to lick it all up and mix slobber with rice cereal which turns into a cakey mix and it's all over everything, the oven, cabinets , floor, rugs, you name it )
BT: Mattie, you are hogging it all...get out of my way! (BT then apparently bites mattie putting a small hole in her nose and in her mouth, cutting her gums)

We come home to:
Little Man turns the corner to the kitchen and sees a box all torn up on the floor and says " AWWW, Who done that? " So cute but I knew what mess we must have.......
Three dogs with rice cereal stuck on their eyes, nose , ears, mouth.....and BT with dried blood on him. The couch is a mess with dog hair all over it, Bt has jumped on our leather toy chest and put a hole in it and mattie has holes all in her face while the entire living room and kitchen are covered in rice cereal matted up on everything.

So, how was your day?? :)

Tornadoes and Tulips......

A little weird , I know but what I am going to call the blog for now........the first two things that popped into my head when I thought how to compare Little man and Miss G. He obviously is the tornado and she is the tulip.

Miss G is doing great. She eats , sleeps and poops and gets very angry when a wet wipie touches her....but she has become a master at peeing on mommy and poops always come in threes with her so watch out when you are changing a stinky. She is a sweet baby and is a little mini me of her mommy with daddy's long fingers and toes. I love soaking up every second I can with her. She has found her hair and plays with it just like her big brother did but she pulls it and then screeches. She doesn't cry unless she is hungry--otherwise she is screeching like a bird--an owl maybe.

Little Man is doing so well with her. He reminds me each time that she needs to eat that she eats from mommy's booby....cracks me up. He is so cute with her. Has to hold her, see her, touch her eveyrtime he can. .......and then he kisses her on the hands, feet, head. It's so sweet. He has called her "herm" .......him and her combined...it's precious. He is saying so many new things and saying such long sentences and soo soo cute. He repeats EVERYTHING......EVERYTHING.

so watch what you say around him ;)

Daddy has been able to come home for a couple of visits which were unexpected so very nice. He is doing well and able to talk to us a lot . The dogs love the new little one and have to sniff every time I come in the house to make sure she is with us.

Mimi and Paw paw are here visiting and we are enjoying that and soooo thankful for their help. LM is getting lots of attention and loving it......hope he doesn't get too disappointed when they leave. I will have to get a sitter and keep him busy. No rest for the weary , huh?

Anyway, here are some pictures for your enjoyment.......

Sugar and Spice........

Sugar and spice, and everything nice......I guess I will have to find a new title for the blog now since we have added sugar and spice to our household. That's right ......Miss G was born last Thursday at 5:27 pm weighing in at 8lb 13 oz and 21 inches long. Basically labor was the same as it was with little man. I tried desperately to go into labor for a week b/c daddy was coming home for a visit and there was no way he wasn't going to meet her. So I cut grass, walked , drank special teas, had the doctor do stuff, and ate raw oregano and basil. The Dr. claims it was him that brought it on.....I am not sure since I was in the middle of trying so many things......but anyway. On Thurs. am I woke feeling fine and as soon as my feet hit the ground I started having very irregular contractions just like with little man. Went in to see if anyhthing was going on and they said uh , dear you are 5 cm dilated......so my comment was ......guess that means I am not going home , huh? And after a trying, failed epidural on the right side I finally got a spinal and moved on to push for about 10 minutes and she was here. It was beautiful and bittersweet too. Wish daddy could have made it but he got here the next day and joined us. Little man is a great big brother who comes running when she cries and always wants to kiss her and love her.

We had a nice few days as a family and with my mom's help were able to relax some. Then daddy left. It was harder this time.....I'm gonna say b/c of hormones. It's been harder for little man this time b/c he is more aware of it. He misses him so much and doesn't understand and asks for him constantly. Its that stuff that makes it hard for me to hold it together but I do and thankfully it's getting easier to come up with clever answers.

G is so cute....a little orange from jaundice but still precious. She looks more like mommy is what they are telling me but has daddy's huge feet.....it's so cute. This dainty little baby girl....wait she was almost 9lbs so not so dainty but still a baby girl with these feet....it's so funny. We are glad to have her and be blessed with her presence.

Everyone has been so sweet and wonderful and we thank you all for your support and love over the past few weeks. I will continue to post pictures of her and little man when I have time.

Brain freeze

No, that doesn't mean because of the pregnancy I have a brain freeze of thoughts.....wait , maybe I do.....it's more like a brain lapse sometimes.
First off, I am proud because the last two weeks have been so busy and gone so fast we are two weeks down in this thing....woohoo!
Now on to the brain freeze. Little man and I ventured to Costco this am and on our way out we were sharing a smoothie. Then out of nowhere he started handing me the smoothie saying "cold drink, cold drink" .....I took it.......then he says " hurt eyes, hurt eyes" so it scared me right? Then I realized he had taken too long of a drag on the straw and given himself his first baby brain freeze. Poor thing I couldn't help but laugh.......and then I did the same thing :0- What I get for laughing huh? :)

Thanks

Just wanted to say thanks to all of you for calls, cards, letters, emails and prayers. It has been an emotional week but you have all kept me so busy I didn't have time to sit down.......which is a good thing :)
I am so blessed to have such good friends and family to look out after me and give me and daddy such support. He is grateful as well! God has lifted me up this week in a way I never knew before...it's been amazing. He gave me tremendous strength and a better attitude about this whole thing and I know now I can do it.....even if I have to stay here for winter because He will provide for my needs emotionally. He has lifted the burden off of me and given me a different outlook.....and lead new people into my life that have been such a blessing.

The ladies of my playgroup had a baby shower complete with a sassy cake (thanks K) and beautiful flowers....it was a group thing since one just had a baby girl and the other three are all having baby girls soon. It was beautiful and brightened my day......thanks ladies!

Little man is doing well,snuggling up to daddy doll and saying prayers with daddy every night and still talking about airplanes constantly. We have pinned up his airplane in the room so little man can see it all the time.......he runs to the windows to see the helicopters each time they fly over and gets so excited....it's very cute! But hey I am a little partial.

San Diego.......and hellos.......

Meeting Elmo and giving him five




family pic
no sand on my toes daddy

birthday boy

Well, I know it's been a while so here goes........


In late March we went to San Diego for a friend's wedding. We decided to turn it into a little mini vacation before daddy's deployment. We visited Sea World and the Wild Animal Park and enjoyed the sunshine and beaches. Little man had a blast learning about and seeing whales , dolphins , giraffes and many more but the polar bear was by far his favorite and the lions. We talked about polar bears for weeks. He did have a nice time with our Breakfast with Elmo and Friends. That was a big hit and well worth the money. He met Elmo, Big Bird, Count , Cookie Monster and Bert. Great fun!
Little man was so good ....at the animal park he had an explosion of massive proportions after we had been in line for about an hour to do the safari ride......there was no turning back and luckily I had replenished the wipes and diapers, right?? But did I remember shorts.....no, but had a great onesie...like that helped. So we managed to use all of our wipes in one diaper change until one other mommy saw me and offered me more....thanks to you understanding mommy of another toddler......and little man had no more pants so he walked around in a onesie , a polo and crocs the rest of the day.....boy did we get funny looks , hey we're from AL dressing him like that was normal :) Not really but it was funny so I will post pics of pantsless child later.

Then we had another eventful day but not the kind you want to remember. LM had a fever and it rose RAPIDLY.....we tried to bring it down but it didn't help and he ended up having what they call a complex febrile seizure at the Navy Lodge in Coronado, ambulance arrives, go to hospital (short version of course as most of you have already heard this in great detail). Arrive at hospital and notice he isn't using his left side at all. His face is droopy, can't use his left side at all.....that's when we got really scared. His movement came back in about 8 hours which they said is atypical for it to take so long to come back. ........he went through a batter yof tests that would make any mother cry to watch her kid go through and being pregnant I couldn't do so many things with him like xrays, CTscan , etc. so very happy daddy was there to do it with him. LM was scared and is still a little leery of dr.'s and nurses. All in all he is fine and febrile seizures are very common but it was likely caused by a virus that was going around. It's the complex part that worried us.....because the prolonged paralysis on one side isn't normal but we will just watch out for fevers and hopefully be able to control it somewhat.

So that was SD and then we came home and were all sick for a while with a nasty cold being back in the oh so pleasant 40 degree weather and rain. It was nice to be home but not with this weather.......we actually had snow last weekend 2 inches to be exact and this past weekend we had 70 and sunny.....insane!!! But i suppose the south has had unusual weather this year as well.
We did celebrate LM's birthday early with an Elmo party with a few friends. It was a nice time and he talked about birthday cake and presents for a few days and still sings happy birthday to himself from time to time :) Little does he know he gets to have two birthdays due to daddy's deployment this year.
We have enjoyed our last few weeks together and done some fun things with LM and tried to spend some time together amongst the running of errands and the many things to take care of while daddy is gone. I have learned to use the mower, weedeater, do various things to the cars, put car seats in (yeah, daddy always did that), etc.......still trying to sell our car, no luck so far.
If you know anyone who needs an extra car here in WA let us know......
So today was the day and we had dreaded it for the last few days. We have had some nice farewells from the Wing and everyone has been so supportive and helpful. I through the Lord mustered enough strength to hold it together for my boys and did minimal crying. We went to the airport and there was another family there from the wing going through the same thing so we all stood waving bye to our loved ones and shedding some tears together. LM loved the airplanes and cared way more about that. Daddy of course held it together very well as usual but I know it was killing him to hear that boy say I love you daddy! He told the dogs to be good and not have any drama this year, we'll see if they listen. It was tough , not gonna lie, but I have to buck up and do this now.....got two babies and three furry ones. I can't bring myself to clean up his messes , like his towel in the bathroom and shoes left out right now. That might mean he isn't going to come home and do it himself tomorrow or next week so I am not facing reality in some ways I suppose but I knwo i'll get around to it, not just yet though :) I know God will get me through this next year without my best friend by my side because this hello (goodbye) went better than I thought it ever could...and we both will be stronger for it. I'll keep yall posted and I know Daddy would love to hear from anyone anytime as that is his connection to home......he'll need that support too :)