Mothers Day and Birthday Celebration

This weekend we celebrated Ily's 2nd Birthday. It was Elmo and Carnival theme. It was a great turn out despite the slushie machine not working on us. We also got to spend Mothers day with both of our strong willed women of our familys. It was an exciting weekend!

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Baby girl on her first day!

So yesterday was baby girl first day of "school". We were a bit reluctant on taking her to this learning center but after reading all the great reviews and feedback we decided that we would just give it a try. A plus was that it was just around the corner of our house and my commute to work would be cut in half. When I dropped her off, I stayed with her a little bit to get used to the surroundings. I think I was more scared for her then anything. They offered her breakfast and she willingly accepted. The director needed me to fill out more paperwork and advise me that she would probably be ok. But the minute, she notice I was gone. The crying began. My gut feeling was telling me this wasn't for her and I wanted to yank her up and leave the place.But my voice of reason, told me that I needed give it chance. Not even 2 minutes later the crying had stop. So I proceeded onto work. I worried about her all day. My husband called me during work but I pleaded with him to call the center to check up on her. I was to chicken to do it cause I was fearing for the worst. To our surprise, the teacher said that she was doing quite well and no problem what so ever. We were so anxious to pick her up from school even my oldest was excited to see how her day went. When I walked in, the director told me that she did very well considering that she never been in this type of care before. They also said that they moved her up in class since she was so advanced for her age. When they showed me to her new classes I found her sitting at the table chatting it up with the other kids. I wanted to cry cause I was so proud of her. The teacher had nothing but positive things to say about her. I definately had a proud parent moment.Today I dropped her off and she actually just waved bye to me and proceeded to her table as she has been going there for years and knows the routine.

Time is flying by too fast for me as my kids are getting older and I want to press the pause button. But I now life moments like this has to keep playing, so more chapters can be developed.

"Siva fever"

Someone has siva fever. Dancing with her papa to samoan music.

Wordless Mondays!

St Patty Goodness

 

Happy St patricks day every. Hope you have your green on and dont get pinched. lol. To celebrate this event I thought it would be fun for me and my tot to make some green cupcakes to take to work and for her sitter as well. It was great fun and we spent some much needed quality time with each other doing so. The only mistake that we came upon was doing the project right before dinner so when it was time to eat my girls were full on cupcake.lol. Way to go,mom! lol

 

The pre cupcakes

 

Being goofy like her daddy

 

Savoring the green goodness

She just could not resist!


VOILA!!! The end result

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

Got choo choo!

Sister Love: Tea anyone???

My sitter sent me this today while I was at work. A total pick me up for the day. Its a bit blurry cause she took it with her phone. My oldest loves to play pretend and tea time is one of her favorites. She always has make up names for everyone and has designated the name "Rosa" for my youngest. Too funny.

Mile stone: 9 months

Can you believe that I gave birth to this precious thing 9 months ago. Where has the time gone. She is on the verge of walking and crawls everywhere and puts her hands on anything she gets her eye on.

We love you Ily and thankful that God has blessed us with a bright and intrigued child like yourself.

Our 2010 Rough Start

Every year I try to make a resolution on how I can make myself a better person. You know the typical, loose weight, go to church every Sunday without skipping a beat, etc...it goes on and on. But this year was a different story due to different circumstances. Our year started off a bit bumpy, but its slowly smoothing out.

Our youngest gave us quite a scare. Right before Mike arrived, I notice that my kids were getting the sniffles. Its was around that time that kids get the common cold. I opted out the flu becuase they recieved the Flu and H1N1 already. We did the usual and took her to her pedi and was relieved that it was just a common cold. We were hoping that with just the help of a humidifier and shots of saline up her nose. It would do the trick. WRONG. We went 2 weeks and nothing was subsiding. Now she had a cough and was seriously having hard time sleeping and it seem that breathing seemed like a chore as well. It just didnt seem right so we took her back to her pedi. There was nothing they could do for her and her doc advise that to keep giving her Saline and it will go away. I confided in this Pedi in hopes that she was right and I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. We did what she told us too for 2 more days and finally she wasnt eating. So I had to take her to the ER room. It was rough getting her in cause apparently they dropped the ball and left us hanging without even taking her vitals for 30 mins. Way to long, so after bickering my husband to go complain they finally saw us. Once they evaluated her they noticed her oxygen saturation was way low and that she was using too much of her stomach muscle to breath and took her straight to the back. It was happening all way to fast. One prick of needles after the other. One more machine to hook her up too. Come to find out she was positive for RSV and was dehydrated and had bronchitis. We were at a military facilitiy and apparently they did not have the means to care for my child there so they had to medivac her to the nearest Childrens hospital. I was in shock and didnt know how to react. Didnt cry. Stayed strong for my baby girl. She looked so helpless with all those strings attached to her. They admitted her to PICU. It was that severe. If I would of waited another day or even weeks what would her condition been then. I was relieved that we caught it time. She was so exhausted having to fight the nurses on all the pricks that were being administered to her. Luckily after all the breathing treatments and steriods were given to expand her airways we were sent down to the pedi for another night of evaluation. She was doing great and we were discharged 2 days later.

All the while this was going on, my husband was packing his bag to leave us for the next 7 months. It was finally kicking in that he was really leaving and that our form of communication will be stricken to only days at a time. I was hoping that we would be released in time to see him off, but that wasnt the case. I broke down to him telling him that this wasnt how I pictured his send off to be. But he assured me that I was in good hands becuase of our family but also that Ily was getting better. The day he was supposed to leave we said our goodbyes that morning. I was just crying and couldnt stop. My husband going to war. Not me. But it was me and many other women were out there doing the same as me , sending their loved ones out to war.Since then, my baby girl has gotten better. We changed pediatricians and we are staying busy.

Thanks to God for helping us thru this one and many of our family and friends that prayed for us.

Miles stones just keep popping up

So my youngest just surprises me everyday. For one, we are parents to a sitter now. She still wobbles here and there but you can see her wheels turning to keep her balance going. Yesterday was not a good day for her though. She was on a cranky momment all day. Come to find out as she took a bite out of my hand that I could feel another bottom tooth arising. She looks so cute with her front teeth just making its entrance. Its awesome.

Here are some pictures: Enjoy!

where has the time gone...

I have been on MIA status and in my death bed for the past week, well thats not fair to say my whole family has been on their death bed. The flu decided to pay our household a visit and literally knocked us out on our feet. What a great way to kick off the month of November. But thankfully we are good now and in recovery mode. A few coughs here and there but they are productive ones and good signs that we are recovering well.

But before all the catastrophic health issues began, we celebrated my nephew's 3rd the day of Halloween. October 30 is his actual birthday but we decided to celebrate Halloween with his birthday. What a great way for the kiddos to celebrate Halloween. I cant believe he is 3. It was just yesterday my sister was bringing the first grandchild home. What a joy!





Shots from his birthday n Halloween. Tamu decided he wanted to be batman and a dinosaur for his halloween Celebration. And I was some kind of Cheetah woman with adorable Tinkerbell babies.





Everyone is just growing so fast before my eyes. Especially, my youngest. This Past sunday she turned 6 months. Can you believe it she is 1/2 a year old. On top of that she is busting her 1st bottom tooth. How I hate teething.
Oh how I will tear when she turns 1 and my oldest turns 3 next month. Am I really a mother of 2. Its unbelieveable on what God has granted me.

My growing tot!





* sniff sniff * my babies are growing. Well daddy is doing great in his training and we got good word that he might be home for christmas earlier than expected.Crossing fingers. toodles