La Famiglia

A little update on our family. Not much has been going on here. I had my follow up appointment and everything is going really well. I basically got a clean bill of health. The doc just warned that I would probably get tired more easily since my blood counts are still building back up. Having Eric come home early from CAX was such a blessing. His help in the little things around here gave me the rest I really needed. He is the meglio, the best!

As of now, Eric will be deploying with the unit he moved to in February. So this will be the 3rd year in a row that he'll be gone for 7 months. *sigh* I'm okay with it. To be honest, I'm just glad to know. But we will definitely miss him. Something awful! I am hoping and praying that Skype will be as readily available as it was last deployment. It was such a comfort to the girls and me. I will be buckling down this deployment. No traveling this time, I will be working hard on putting money in savings and on bills so when we do finally leave Hawaii and lose all the COLA and extra we get from 802 housing that it won't be a bother. I am going to be better about taking the girls to the beach and to the pool. We need to enjoy what we have here, while we have it.

One cost we will have to deal with is getting Rye to the orthodontist. Her teeth are very crowded in that mouth of hers and I think she's gonna need to get her palette expanded. Rye is doing really well in school, even if she claims that she hates it. Her math is improving and she's kicking butt in spelling. Her cursive has improved tremendously as well. I wish I had more pictures of her, but she's usually in a crappy, pouty mood or she's outside.

Jo is growing up so fast. She is talking more like a person and less like a toddler all the time. Unfortunately that sometimes means that a whole lot of attitude is included in what she's saying but she's learning.

Jasper is getting big as well. I'm not sure what he'll do when Eric leaves. He is definitely Eric baby, as you can see in the following pics. Rye can be hot & cold with him. Loving him one part of the day, thoroughly annoyed by him later.

I'll leave you with his last picture that Joey took while she was playing with Eric. I heart it, so much.

Mini Bike Time

Joey loves Eric's motorcycle, she calls it the MiniBike, and nothing gets her more excited than hearing the rumble of minibike coming up the driveway. She loves to be out in the garage with Eric when he's wiping down the bike. It's so sweet to see her out there with him, having the 'discussions'.

Here the two of them are wiping down minibike.

She loves to act like she knows just what she's doing
We might have a chopper girl on our hands
Eric got a new head light for the bike. It looks pretty cool. He was a list of a few other things he'd like to get as well, to make it more him.

Adventure?

Not sure whether this qualifies as an adventure....a scare...but we'll go with adventure to put a more positive spin on it. ;)

So, since my miscarriage I have patiently been waiting for my 'auntie' to show. Tuesday afternoon I thought the time had finally come. I was actually pretty excited. But within a half hour I had to change clothes and another half hour after that and about 10 minutes after that. After that I finally figured out to have a pad on as well as my tampon. *If this is TMI, veer away from this page now* Around 6 hours, 3 heavy duty pads and 10 super tampons later I made a call to the on call physician at our hospital. He told me this was definitely not normal and that I should get my tail to the ER asap. He suggested going to Castle, since it was closer & because I planned on driving myself. I felt fine, I didn't need an ambulance. I got there and they got me in a bed pretty quickly. The doctors and staff were great. I, of course, answered the same questions about 20 times. They did an exam and an ultrasound. The doctor there called Tripler and they decided that I should head there for a d&c. I should say that they offered me a d&c when I first miscarried but the doctor said she'd rather see if I could pass everything on my own, like I had done the first time. The Castle doctor then told me that since I had lost a good amount of blood already they were going to transport my via ambulance, they didn't want my passing out on the drive over. I am very thankful for that. While waiting for the transport to arrive there were several times I felt about ready to pass out.

I got to Tripler and the doctors there were great too. I waited to be seen by the doc and had a very helpful Murse with me. I tried to sleep, it was after 1 am by this point. The doc finally came into see me and I'm pretty sure I passed out while talking to him. I remember feeling like I was going to puke one second and him saying, 'ma'am can you hear me' the next. They got a little more hurried after that. They did another pelvic exam. And in cam a nurse to have my sign blood transfusion consent forms. BLOOD TRANSFUSION?? That stopped my heart a little. Was I really that bad? Had I lost that much? They explained the necessity, I signed and around 345 I was being wheeled up to surgery. This whole time I wasn't caring about being there alone. I was wishing I were home with my girls, I was hoping everything would go well and that they wouldn't be growing up without a Mommy. That's how scared I got for a minute. When I woke up from surgery and was told everything went well and I'd be fine. I sent up the biggest thank you I ever have in my whole life, after I puked. ;)

I spent an extra night in the hospital than I would have had it just been a d&c and not a blood transfusion as well. I am glad I did. On top of the stress of that I had just started my p90x again. I was so sore on top of being exhausted from the procedure. My nursers in recovery and my doctor were outstanding. Now, I have heard many a horror story about Tripler (or Cripler as some people refer to it) but I have to tell you...every time something has happened or I've been seen there...I've had not an ounce of trouble *knock on wood, just in case*

Everything is good and it turned out to be a blessing in disguise for a couple of reasons, the most important being that Eric gets to come home early. He should be here tomorrow. I am still very tired and get light headed quite easily. But I am feeling better more and more each day. I have a follow up with the doc in 2 weeks and I'm hoping he'll okay me to start working out again. I don't want to push it...but I also don't want to use it as an excuse to laze about too long.

"Play Park"

Rye is spending the night at a friend's tonight. So, I took Jo to the Super Park. We haven't been in so long. Seriously, it's been forever. SHe had fun and when it was time to leave to was, "No. Play park!" She was a little more tentative there than she used to be. I had to hold her hand across the bridge and down the slide. She wasn't too sure about the swings either. I guess I need to start taking her there more often again. So here are the pictures. She's getting so big and she is such a beauty already. It makes me sad that she's growing up so fast.

Girls Night In

The girls and I had a nice night together last night. Very relaxed, for the most part. We had dinner and the girls played pretty nicely together in the living room. Here are some cute pics from the night.
Rye's self portrait
Jo after her hair do
Rye put Jo's hair into a ponytail. Jo sat very still for her.
Cheesing for me!
Then Jo got to be the stylist. Rye was very nice, even when Jo banged her in the head with the hairbrush.
Poor Jasper, he was used as a doll last night. Rye put her Build-a-Bear's robe on him. He didn't seem to mind too much. It is very soft. :)
Rye made this at the end of the night. Last week she went to the mall with her friend and they had their pictures taken with some Chinese dragon's for the New Year. This is her dragon skin. I'll try and get the pictures form the girl's Mom to share.

Last night was good. I need to cling to night like that, so when night that aren't like that roll around, I don't get too crazy.

Obsession

Jo's first obsession was with the ever popular Yo Gabba Gabba. She took her friends with her to bed and every where else with her. Jo still loves her Gabbas and her best friend Brobee but she has some new friends to add. As of late Jo has been loving Wow Wow Wubzy..A LOT! I found these stuffed versions for her at a great price. She claims they are now her 'fay-vitt'. She is now watching WWW in the same position she is in the picture below. Only with a slightly more tired look on her face.

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Sea Gals Visit

The Seattle Sea Gals came and did a mini cheer camp at the base. Our neighbor invited Rye along. She had a really good time. Here are a couple pics.

Here is a video of Rye doing the cheer they learned. She did pretty well for how uncoordinated she can be.

Oh and here's a random shot of a rainbow over the house. The one with the blue grill is ours. ;) Even when it's raining there's still something pretty to look at.

Cuteness...

Just a couple shots I took of Jo to show how long her hair is getting. She is getting too big, too fast. She's talking like a crazy woman now. I can't believe how fast it's gone.




Hehe, the darker side of Rye. She didn't want Joey taking a picture of her.
Another of Joey in the kennel. She likes to get in there with Jasper.

Jo is so sweet and pretty when she's sleeping. I just had to try and capture it.

One More Year

So, news from the home front. We will be staying in Hawaii for one more year. Eric has changed battalions and will be deploying again sooner, rather than later. He'll be gone most of the year again but it will be okay. We talked about this a lot. We really wanted to get one more deployment in before we left here and this way instead of leaving around Christmas time, he'll be coming home. I in no way think this deployment will be easy. It's gonna be tough. This will be the 3rd year in a row he's missed our anniversary, his birthday, my birthday, Rye's birthday, Father's Day, Mother's Day. Not only that but the 3rd year in a row he'll be gone for half of the year. It will be a struggle but I know we can come out the other side stronger than we are now. I am counting on Skype to help up through this again.

Keep us in your prayer, I have a feeling we're gonna need them.

Hale Koa Pool

So we made our way down to Honolulu yesterday to the pool at the Hale Koa Hotel. It's a hotel for military and at one of their pools you can get in with a military id. It's such a nice pool and it's so much fun to go there. I really need to head down with the girls more often. We had a lot of fun. Eric did most of the pool time as my tattoo was still healing a bit (ps, i got 2 new tattoos last week. hehe). Eric's camera is so cool. I was able to get a few underwater shots too. Rye's friend, Juliana, came with us which was nice for her.

Joey humoring me with one more picture
Here she's yelling across the pool for Juliana & Rye to come back. You can see Rye splashing back there.
Just a beautiful picture of my baby.
Here she is talking...and talking...and talking. She is quite the talker now.
It's so hard to get her to say 'cheese' to the actual camera.

Rye & Jo with Juliana

The Chicas

My favorite part. The girls loves getting their pictures done underwater. Even in their individual pictures have both of them in there. I liked that.