rands in haiti

Here's a picture of my man getting ready to do a dive in Haiti :)
Julietta saw this picture and she was "awww... why does daddy have to live on a boat? I miss him, I want him home!"

Randy is in Haiti!

http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/autos_and_vehicles/watch/v19680542q6eH9saF

There's a video of the boat that Randy is on, and there are some shots of Randy in it!

New from Randy is he's doing well. They are in Haiti working with some Navy Divers fixing the pier and repairing the port. As of right now we have no exact time for him to come home, but we think he will be home by mid-march!

I have been on the move working on my weight goal since he has been gone. So far he's been gone 3 weeks, and I am down 10 pounds! As of right now I have about 6-8 more weeks until he comes home, and I am really trying and hoping that I can drop 2- more and be down 30 when he gets home!

Julietta is missing her daddy like crazy. She has these fruit snacks that have diver guys in them, and picks it up and say "awww it's daddy! now i'm gonna eat daddy!".... haha. She has been acting up with him gone, but I'm hoping it will calm down when he comes back. Normally when we go someplace to visit and leave him at home she says she doesn't miss him because she doesn't want to go home. But she's now at the point where she talks about how much she missed daddy and loves him. I know she wants him home! That's really sweet :)

Ender is doing okay. I will go into that further more in his 5 month post. We have determined that Ender has a milk protein allergy. I have completly cut out all dairy to include cheese, milk, butter, and everything else! My diet is a little bland :) But he seems to be getter better. I will go more into that later!

Thank you for the prayers while Randy is gone, it's not fun but I can see light at the end of the tunnel... (it's far away) but I'm praying it goes by fast!

doctors appointment

Well, we finally had Ender's first doctors appointment yesterday. He is doing great. He was 13.8 pounds and a little over 25 inches. He is tall and lean. His weight is in the 35%. And his height was in the 79%. As normal Ender hated tummy time and the doctor was not impressed. He said we need to stress it, so as i speak Ender is on his pad huffing and telling me he wanted to be turned over. I am not concerned seeing how Julietta HATED tummy time as well.
Other than that, the only new thing is Ender has deceided finally to give us a belly laugh, but he has only done it twice and only for Randy and if I come up to see he stops!
Ender has had his first cold this week. He is a little grumpy but for the most part is such a well mannered baby. Even the people at the doctors office were like is he always this quiet. He didn't seem to mind anything they did until they got to the shots.

Ender is still loving bath time. Julietta loves to give him one. The other day I tried to bathe them together, this did not work out so well since Ender pretty much just floated and I coudln't even wash him up, but Julietta liked it a lot!

Also, I have been doing babywise for the past week. I have my sanity back!!!! Ender is now on track. He eats every 2 1/2 -3 1/2 hours and naps in between! I am still feeding him 7 times a day but he is doing so much better. He seems a lot more happy and I am MUCH more happy :) Two of those days I've managed to get their naps lined up and I actually had an hour to myself. With two I am finding it so much harder to keep the house looking the way I want. It almost feels like if I completly take care of the house and have some time for me then I'm being a bad mom, if I spend really good quality time with the kids and take care of the house then I have nothing left for me or for Randy, and then if I take the time for myself and spend quality time with the kids then I'm being a bad homemaker because the house suffers. It's frustrating, and i need/want to find a balance because obviously all things need to get done. Any tips from moms with multiple kids is appreciated!!!That's a pic of Ender showing how strong he is :)

my dad....

well today it's officially been a year since dad passed away. it's not as hard as i thought it would be. it's definitely hard to realize how much he has missed this year. he didn't even know i was pregnant and it's difficult to know that so much has happened in my life that he doesn't know. i still hope that god allows him a window to see main events. i've been trying to jog julietta's memory about him lately because i realize that she is forgetting. it's sad how life moves on. it makes me realize that it will eventually happen to all of us. someday i will die and eventually the people who love me will not mour everyday. that's a good thing but at that same time when you are going through something so painful you don't realize it will get easier and you almost don't want it to. and then you wake up a year later and realize that some days life is back to normal. yes i still miss him and yes i still cry about it sometimes, but there are days where sadly i don't think about it.
i am happy he's in better place and that i truely believe he is walking and talking again in heaven and is happy but it is still hard to think about his body being in the ground.
here's i think the last picture of julietta and dad:
i will always love him and miss the love of a father! RIP daddy..... i miss you :)

3 months.... well sorta!

I am falling behind on blogging! Ender was three months on November 28th. I still haven't taken him to the actual doctor, but I had a wic appointment this week and they weighed and measured him. He is almost 14 pounds and is 24 inches. That makes me feel good about how much milk he is getting. It has been a couple rough weeks with Ender. He has started to refuse to nap longer than 30 minutes and has been waking up a couple time during the night. So..... I am going to give babywise a good try again for about a week. After that, if it doesn't work and I can't get him on a schedule then I will say it's just him. However, I am about to crazy! Not knowning what is wrong with your child can be very depressing!
Ender is still a cutie! He loves to smile at all of us. He has learned to blow raspberries and loves it when we do it back to him! He mimicks us a lot with his mouth. I think he's going to talk early. But we shall see! Ender also has finally found his thumb and is sucking it to sleep. That's good! He is offically into 3-6 months clothes. He is still sleeping in our room because he gets up at least once a night to eat but most of the time two. We are still swaddeling him to sleep but leaving out his left hand so he can suck his thumb! He almost laughed the other day. It was right there but he hasn't done it yet and hasn't done a full belly laugh! I do have an appointment for him next week so we will know a lot more. I'm going to ask the doctor about his fussiness and sleeplessness but just make sure that nothing is really wrong. Other than that, he is still such a joy! I almost get frustrated in the midle of the night when he wakes up until he sees me and wiggles around and starts smiling really big! It's really sweet :)

8 week pictures!

I'm posting the pictures from Ender's 8 week session with Laura! She did a great job. Ender was pretty fussy and Julietta was refusing to take pictures.... so we are going to try to do another session at Christmas!

Halloween and 2 months!

Well happy halloween last week :) Julietta was Cinderella! We just took her around the neighborhood and to about 10 houses! She had a blast but was done after that, so thankfully we didn't get too much candy that I have to worry about limiting it a ton (or me eating a lot!). Here's the picture from that:

She really did have a blast, but she was just in a mood when we were taking pictures and was trying to be funny by not smiling :)
Really did just not get good pictures this year! Julietta's goodies!

Ender was two months old about a week and a half ago! I'm finding that I'm not as good about taking pictures on time and everything with the second as I was with Julietta. However, my sister did take some pictures of Ender when he was 8 weeks old and those will count as his 2 month pictures (even though they were his newborn pictures!).... wow I need to get better! But here's some pictures from around the time so you can see what he looks like now!


While Randy was in the field I went home to be with mom. It was really fun to be home for a while and just hang out with mom. We got to go up to visit my brother and his family and I got to see my friend Aby and her family as well. We also took Julietta to Jabbas Ranch. It's this Ranch in Fayetteville that has all these animals. Her favorite animals were the Camel and the Alligator but I didn't get any pictures of them because I was taking care of a massive blow out! Ahhh the joys of having a baby again :) hehe... Here are some pictures from that!
I wore Ender in my Bjorn the whole time so I had to get a picture of his face and what I was seeing!

One of Julietta's favorite books is Llama Llama Red Pajama so it was really funny to see this Llama!
That guy was kinda mean and scary!
This dog was bigger than Julietta and she LOVED it!!! The dogs name was Maggie and she would talk to her as we went.


I am also a bad mommy becuase Ender has not had his 2 month appointment. So I don't know how much he weighs or anything like that. I will schedule it next week and hopefully we will find out soon!!!! However, I can tell you he's a chunk!
Here's proof: