Ah, 1 more week and Mike will be HOME!!! I can't wait! It's been two weeks so far and I am ready for him to be back home. It will be nice to be a family again. The thing that sucks is that this is NOTHING compared to what the deployment will be like. The only thing that will be better is that hopefully the boys and I will be back home by then. But it will still be hard for Mike to be gone and for him to be in danger. I worry mostly about that and the kids. It has got to be so confusing when he leaves like this. Three weeks is one thing, but then two months and then almost a year? I often wonder what goes through Mason's head when Daddy is gone. We are going to do some things so that the boys can see Daddy everyday. We plan on having Daddy read a bedtime story every night, which we will record on the camcorder before he leaves....he has a lot of reading to start working on!!! I guess for now we must enjoy our time together and soak up as much Daddy time as we can!
Another thing we are looking forward to next week is Susan is coming to visit! Susan has never been here to see us before, so we are so excited to have her here. We have lots of things planned and hopefully will be able to do them all.
As for the giggle, I think Morgan giggled at me today! I say think because it's the first time he has done it and I always wait for it to happen more frequently before saying he giggles now. So for now I am excited to say that I "think" he giggled!!!
I am getting very excited for our trips. I have ordered some gear on-line and I received our first order today! It just made me very excited, knowing we have that to look forward to. I bought Morgan a little swimming trunk and rashguard outfit that is Mickey Mouse, and Mason got a Cars tank top and Mike and Mason got matching tiki Mickey Mouse swimming trunks! I love the matching trunks for Daddy and Mason. They are going to look so cute matching! Now, they aren't all Mickey, they actually have Mickey kind of "hidden" in the print, so I think Mike will be okay with wearing them. You have to be pretty close to notice the Mickey. So now I am waiting on our new beach towels I ordered from Kohls to get here and we will have our beach gear almost set. All we will need is another pair of trunks for Morgan and suits for me. I am not buying suits for me though until right before we leave, as I am trying to lose weight before our trip.
That's all for now. Lots of random topics that don't really flow together, but hey that's life for ya!
Friday, June 20, 2008
Thursday, June 19, 2008
More about potty training....and some about babies and babies growing up
After I wrote my last blog, the day went downhill. Mason kept going into either his room or ours to take his diaper off and then go potty. I couldn't get him to the bathroom. It was so very frustrating. So yesterday I kept the doors closed to those two rooms during the day and he went straight to the bathroom! We had many successful potty trips yesterday and I was even able to keep putting the same diaper on because he wasn't even going in it!!! I was so excited. So, now we shall see what today has in store for us!
Another thing that has changed around here with Mason is the baby gates. We used to have a baby gate up to the bathroom and kitchen. We had one up for the bathroom because we have old doors that while they shut, don't "latch", so Mason could just push it open and would get into everything. We also had one up to the kitchen. The basement stairs are in there and so is the dog's food and water. It was easier to just keep him out of there than to always worry about him going down the stairs.
About a month ago Mason figured out that he could climb the gate if he put a toy up to it to use as a step. Great. The first time it happened, I was in another room with Morgan and Mike was downstairs. Mike heard Mason say," Daddy!", right there in the basement with him. So we got him to stop and thought we were good. Fast forward to this week. Mike has been gone for about week and Mason is constantly going over the gate again! This coupled with his new interest in the potty I decided to take the gates down. So far, so good. While I have to holler for him to stay up here, he has not ventured past the first step to the basement. He does like to play in the animal's water, I caught him driving a monster truck in it the other day, but for the most part the whole house freedom is going a lot better than I had imagined. He's growing up so fast and I can't believe everything that is changing so fast with him.
And now Morgan. He is three months old today and doing great. He is actually on his floor gym right now "talking" to the hanging animals. He sleeps all night, has since he was about 6-7 weeks old, and is in general a very happy baby. He is a little chunk. I got on the scale here at home with him the other day and it said 15.2 pounds!!! He smiles all the time, and I am working on getting that first little giggle out of him. Morgan moved from our room into his crib the night of Father's Day. At 15 pounds he is right at the weight limit for the bassinet part of the pack n play, so the move was necessary. I was VERY nervous having him that far, especially because our movement monitor has gone off once, but so far it has been good. So now both boys are in their beds and I have the bed to myself (well until Mike gets home). I told Mike that when he gets home there will be no kids in our room and he seemed pretty happy about that. You see, Mason has slept with us from just about day one. He slept in his crib until he when he started teething, I would bring him in with us for a night or two because he needed comforting at night. Then Mike left for a week or two for training and I let him sleep with me the whole time. Ever since then he was with us. So now it is huge that they are BOTH in their room and sleeping in their own beds ALL NIGHT LONG!!!!
That's all for now, I will try to update more often as this seems fairly long....
Another thing that has changed around here with Mason is the baby gates. We used to have a baby gate up to the bathroom and kitchen. We had one up for the bathroom because we have old doors that while they shut, don't "latch", so Mason could just push it open and would get into everything. We also had one up to the kitchen. The basement stairs are in there and so is the dog's food and water. It was easier to just keep him out of there than to always worry about him going down the stairs.
About a month ago Mason figured out that he could climb the gate if he put a toy up to it to use as a step. Great. The first time it happened, I was in another room with Morgan and Mike was downstairs. Mike heard Mason say," Daddy!", right there in the basement with him. So we got him to stop and thought we were good. Fast forward to this week. Mike has been gone for about week and Mason is constantly going over the gate again! This coupled with his new interest in the potty I decided to take the gates down. So far, so good. While I have to holler for him to stay up here, he has not ventured past the first step to the basement. He does like to play in the animal's water, I caught him driving a monster truck in it the other day, but for the most part the whole house freedom is going a lot better than I had imagined. He's growing up so fast and I can't believe everything that is changing so fast with him.
And now Morgan. He is three months old today and doing great. He is actually on his floor gym right now "talking" to the hanging animals. He sleeps all night, has since he was about 6-7 weeks old, and is in general a very happy baby. He is a little chunk. I got on the scale here at home with him the other day and it said 15.2 pounds!!! He smiles all the time, and I am working on getting that first little giggle out of him. Morgan moved from our room into his crib the night of Father's Day. At 15 pounds he is right at the weight limit for the bassinet part of the pack n play, so the move was necessary. I was VERY nervous having him that far, especially because our movement monitor has gone off once, but so far it has been good. So now both boys are in their beds and I have the bed to myself (well until Mike gets home). I told Mike that when he gets home there will be no kids in our room and he seemed pretty happy about that. You see, Mason has slept with us from just about day one. He slept in his crib until he when he started teething, I would bring him in with us for a night or two because he needed comforting at night. Then Mike left for a week or two for training and I let him sleep with me the whole time. Ever since then he was with us. So now it is huge that they are BOTH in their room and sleeping in their own beds ALL NIGHT LONG!!!!
That's all for now, I will try to update more often as this seems fairly long....
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Potty training...oh what fun
Mason has started to show an interest in potty training, so here we go! So far potty training has proved to be rather difficult. Mike is gone, so trying to take care of the boys alone has been somewhat of an adventure, but now Mason seems to be telling me it's time to potty train...why not add that in right? He is ALWAYS taking off his diaper. He doesn't like it being "dirty" in the least bit. So I put him on the potty and he was going, even if just a little bit. Now though he seems more obsessed with flushing the toilet and washing his hands. I put him on the potty and he says, "All done!" and then "Flush!", even if he didn't do anything...then that is followed by "hands". I have started not letting him flush if he doesn't go, because let's face it, I don't have the time to let him "play" in the bathroom. So, when his diaper is taken off, he sits on the potty and if he doesn't go, then that's it bathroom time is over. It's kind of sad that I have to use flushing the potty as a reward for actually going on the potty, but let's hope that works!
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The next 6 months are going to be crazy ones....
How do you cram a years worth of family fun into 3-4 months? We are going to have a crazy few months that's how. For those who don't know, which most should by now, Mike is getting deployed...again. (Now I won't ever be posting any specifics, because I think we can all agree that we want them all to be safe and don't want to put out any information out on the internet that could potentially be used the wrong way. ) He is leaving sometime in the next six months and we want to have as much fun with the kids as possible before he leaves. So tonight I finished booking our two vacations we are taking. We were trying to space them out over a couple of months, but resort availability didn't let us do that so we are going on two vacations in two weeks with wedding in between and another right afterwards! I told you it's going to be crazy around here!
Our first vacation is going to be Las Vegas. This is the third vacation to Vegas we have planned and will hopefully be the one that Mike finally gets to go on. I went on the last one that we had planned but Mike had to miss it because of drill for the Guard. I pregnant with Morgan and brought Mason along as it was a family trip. This time we are going kid free. I think I am going to have a hard time leaving them behind, but I think it will be a good trip for us to take before he is gone for so long. Mike thinks I am weird when it comes to leaving the kids (because I never want to), so he is excited that I am doing it this time. I know we will have fun and my Mom is going to come stay with the kids, so I know I won't have to worry about anything there either!
Our second vacation is about 5 days after we get back from our Vegas trip and we are going to Florida. Mike said he wanted to take the kids to the "real" beach before he left. Now, both the kids have been to the beach on the Oregon Coast, but Mike doesn't think that qualifies because it's cold and not "tropical", so we are taking them to the east coast. It will be fun and I must say will be nice to be able to stand in the water and not have my feet go numb! We are also taking them to Orlando to Sea World. Hopefully Mason will enjoy it as much as we think he will. And we get to go for free! There IS an up side to this whole military thing :) I'm kidding of course, there are a lot of good things, but it is nice that we will be able to go and enjoy ourselves and that Mike can be recognized and appreciated for all he has done and is about to do. (although I don't think Sea World admission nearly comes close to paying him back, but it is a nice bonus, and I'm not complaining!!!)
I can't wait to start our family adventure and spend some quality time with my hubby before he has to leave us. But to do that we have to get him back from his 3 week AT.
Our first vacation is going to be Las Vegas. This is the third vacation to Vegas we have planned and will hopefully be the one that Mike finally gets to go on. I went on the last one that we had planned but Mike had to miss it because of drill for the Guard. I pregnant with Morgan and brought Mason along as it was a family trip. This time we are going kid free. I think I am going to have a hard time leaving them behind, but I think it will be a good trip for us to take before he is gone for so long. Mike thinks I am weird when it comes to leaving the kids (because I never want to), so he is excited that I am doing it this time. I know we will have fun and my Mom is going to come stay with the kids, so I know I won't have to worry about anything there either!
Our second vacation is about 5 days after we get back from our Vegas trip and we are going to Florida. Mike said he wanted to take the kids to the "real" beach before he left. Now, both the kids have been to the beach on the Oregon Coast, but Mike doesn't think that qualifies because it's cold and not "tropical", so we are taking them to the east coast. It will be fun and I must say will be nice to be able to stand in the water and not have my feet go numb! We are also taking them to Orlando to Sea World. Hopefully Mason will enjoy it as much as we think he will. And we get to go for free! There IS an up side to this whole military thing :) I'm kidding of course, there are a lot of good things, but it is nice that we will be able to go and enjoy ourselves and that Mike can be recognized and appreciated for all he has done and is about to do. (although I don't think Sea World admission nearly comes close to paying him back, but it is a nice bonus, and I'm not complaining!!!)
I can't wait to start our family adventure and spend some quality time with my hubby before he has to leave us. But to do that we have to get him back from his 3 week AT.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Why we are starting a blog.....
A friend of mine started a blog and after reading it I thought starting one of our own would be a great way for our families and friends to keep up with what is going on in our lives. We have a myspace but some of our family members do not have one and cannot access the new developments in our lives. So here we are. This is all still new, so we'll see how well blogging goes for us.
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