Deployment day 5

Wonder when that title will start getting really annoying!? If I don't number the days I will forget! Today was a good but sad day, my Mom left today :-( She's been with me this whole first week of deployment.

This morning Bailey woke up at 5am. Why child, why?! She wouldn't go back to sleep so we got up and she ate breakfast. She was yawning and so sleepy so I rocked her until she fell asleep (around 7). She woke up again around 9 and my Mom heard her talking in her room so she got up with her. I heard them up and thought I'd get up in a minute but I fell back asleep and didn't wake up again until 11! I love getting to sleep just wish it was straight through! I have been so exhausted lately I seriously think I could sleep a whole day!

We just played the rest of the morning/early afternoon and took turns getting showers then drove to Wilmington. I had a teething necklace held for Bailey on Friday so we picked that up then we to Panera for an early dinner! We ran to Target after on our way to the airport. We did good this time, no tears! We always cry at the airport.

Bailey and I got some gas and hit the road! When we got home the girls were out walking so we all stood outside for a while talking. When we came in it was snack, bath (with new bath toys from Nana!), then bed for Bailey! I'm watching tv then going to bed :)

Day 5 photo- Bailey just looking cute, At the airport dropping Nana off, napping on the way home, new bath toys!

Deployment day 4

Today was a lazy day! We did a lot of playing and relaxing :) Bailey was in a snugglie mood when she woke up this morning and sat with me for a a long time just cuddling! I love these days! I did a little work out in the back yard, watering and cleaning up. We went downtown to pick up Bailey's pictures from the photographers studio from her first birthday/Easter shoot and later went to CVS to return a Redbox and get some pictures printed. Bailey loved riding in the little cozy coop shopping cart! She thought that was pretty cool! Later we went on a little walk around the block. Bailey has been going to bed at 8 lately but that has made her wake up earlier (like7) and she's been skipping her afternoon nap so we pushed back bedtime tonight to about 8:40. We were giving her some banana pudding for a bedtime snack and she was laying her head down on her tray she was so tired! It was cute! Hopefully she will resume taking her afternoon naps so she can make it to closer to 9 like normal! It's just been a rough week for us all! Her teething was better today, she didn't seem to be in nearly as bad of pain as the was the rest of the week!! She is cutting 3 teeth on top and one or two on the bottom! She no longer has just one vampire fang on top.

Mom and I watched a movie after Bailey was in bed and no it's bedtime! Patrick messaged me on facebook during the movie and said he would be able to call in a couple hours which will make it midnight so maybe I'll get a little sleep before my wake up call, we'll see!

Goodnight!

Day 4 photo- Snuggle time this morning, Mom and Bailey snacking, Cozy coop at CVS, Bailey carrying around a bag of easter eggs, Sleepy head falling asleep eating her bedtime snack <3

Deployment day 3

Overall today was a better day! This morning, well noon (hah!), I helped Kayla load up some furniture she sold. By help, I mean I got one of our friends husband's to come do it and I watched and held her baby! After that I mowed the grass for the first time! It was not fun but it looks good now! I need to get an edger and/or a weed eater. I also put down the weed & feed! While I was out there I kept seeing spiders running everywhere so I got the bug spray out and started spraying and then they came out from everywhere!!!! AHHHHH I HATE SPIDERS!!! I will be calling an exterminator on Monday! There are TONS of them all along the outside of my house and I am NOT okay with that!!! Yuck, yuck, yuck!!!

Once I got my shower and got ready, we took Patrick's car out for a drive. I haven't driven a stick shift in 11 years (yikes!) so I needed to re-learn/practice! I did pretty good! We stalled a couple times of course and I never got past 3rd gear but it's a start and I feel good about it so I will be able to at least drive it around the neighborhood once and a while.

Target was next on the list to find a shirt for Mom. Bailey did not want to ride in the cart which has become a regular thing now and started letting out short screams at the top of her lungs. Oh my this is not something I am ready to deal with! She has always done so well in carts and strollers and all of a sudden she is pitching fits and screaming when she doesn't get her way and I am not quite sure how to deal with it! I tell her no and ignore it but I always hate those people who let their children scream in stores and restaurants so I always think about that and end up getting her out or doing whatever I can to make her happier. It is just getting frustrating to take her places but we have to work on this because we can't stay home all the time! Hope this is a phase!!

We had tacos for dinner and now Bailey is sleeping and Mom and I are going to have strawberry shortcake and watch a chick flick! :)

One more thought.... Bailey figured out how to climb up onto her little bus today. I was in the same room with her but not looking directly at her when she did it so I only saw her standing on top with a big 'ol smile on her face! She did it several times throughout the day and just thought it was so fun. It is definitely cute but not safe at all! She finds new ways to scare me everyday now! She banged her head on the table tonight and about gave me a heart attack! Not from standing on the bus, just walking around and lost her balance. I don't let her play with the bus now unless I'm there! Oh the joys of toddlers!

Day 3 photo- Me driving Patrick's car, Bailey's new trick, Throwing a tantrum, mowing the lawn :)

Day 2 photo..

Day 2 photo- 

Bailey getting Hershey kisses, Silly girl with the car keys, dinner time and the new rental :)

Deployment day 2

Today was a better day emotionally for me. It started at 12 something this morning when Patrick woke me up with a skype call! We got to talk for 45 mins! It was great to see his face and chat about our days :-) I woke up for the second time around 8 and got the day started. Bailey wasn't feeling very good today after having her shots yesterday, poor baby kept pointing to her legs where she got them and whining. We spent the whole morning at home cleaning the house. It was much needed! I called to check on my car today hoping it would be ready but no such luck... they have ordered 8, EIGHT bumpers and every one of them has come in cracked or damaged supposedly and the new one won't be in until next week. I am getting pretty mad about this and not so sure I believe the story. I think Monday if they tell me the new one is cracked I will be visiting them in person to see for myself.

I got to talk to Patrick again this afternoon on skype while we were grocery shopping, thank goodness for my Iphone!!

This evening I went to trade in my rental car for a different one since we had trouble with mine yesterday and they said I needed to trade it in. WHen I called they told me that didn't have anything but SUV's and the insurance company is only paying for smaller cars for me but they said to come on in and they'd work something out. I'm thinking that means they are going to put me in an SUV and comp the difference or maybe just for the weekend or something but no, when I got there they gave me the keys to an old camry. The gas light was on as well at the maint req'd light and it smelled awful. I got gas and was driving home all mad and noticed there weren't any stickers on the front window like all the other rental cars have so I called the woman and asked if it was a car they normally rented out and she sounded very unsure with her "yea" and said that I could come back and she'd switch it out again. When I got there she tried to put me back in the mazda I just returned and then she realized and magically found another car on the lot. Ugh... I am getting more mad by the moment.... Anyway, she was really rude about it and told me to get in the car to see if it was ok for me. RUDE! It is fine and is much newer and actually looks like a rental car. What a frustrating experience and waste of my time!!!! I WANT MY CAR BACK!!!

Anyway, so far this deployment sucks and it's only day 2! It will get better, I know that.

We had a nice dinner, sloppy joes! lol Yum!! Bailey seemed to be feeling better by the end of the day. I had a teething necklace put on hold for her today so I can pick it up in Wilmington when I take my mom to the airport in a few days. Hopefully that will help some! She is just miserable :-( She's only been in bed a little over an hour and has already woken up twice crying. I am ready to be done with teething!!

Daployment day one

As well as adding a photo a day on my facebook I am going to try to post a short blog each night with our day to keep track of everything going on while Patrick is gone. I want to use it to remember things to tell him when we get to talk and so he can read if he has the time :) I'm horrible at blogging on a regular basis but I'm going to try hard!

Day 1- Mom is still here with us this week. We all woke up tired this morning. After our long/exhausting/emotional day yesterday, Bailey was up off and on all night with outburst of screaming so no one in the house got much sleep for the second night in a row. Once we got ourselves up and around we were to base for Bailey's 12 month well check (a few weeks late) and they gate guard would not let us on base in my rental car. I went on base three different times yesterday and did not have one problem so I was quite frustrated to say the least. I had to go into the visitor center to get a pass and since I didn't have my rental agreement with me (I know, big no no but it has been a stressful week and somehow it got brought in the house.) so right there in the office I started crying. The man asked where I lived and I told him and there was just now way I could get home and back before Bailey's appt so I guess he felt bad for me standing there balling like an idiot so he wrote the pass and we went on our way.

Miss Bailey is 22 lbs and 29 1/4 inches long and very healthy! She is cutting a lot of teeth so he said that is the cause of all the fussiness we are experiencing now. She is way ahead in all developmental stages! She had to get three shots. Mom and I both started crying with her when they gave them to her :-( Like I said, it has been a very long/stressful/emotional couple of days with very little sleep and every little thing sets me off! She was fine after a few minutes of course. When we left, my gas light was on so we went straight for the gas station and barely made it with the crazy base traffic! A late lunch was next on our list of things to do and we were all starving! We had chick-fil-A! When we got in the car to leave the gear shifter was stuck and so we couldn't go anywhere. I had to call the rental company and they sent someone out to get us a new car. She actually fixed it by man handling it and so we kept the car we have and continued on with our day. Next was food lion then home!

Mom and Bailey went for a little walk around the block while Hershey and I went on our usual 2 mile walk with the girls! We played outside for a while when we got back then came in and put Bailey boo to bed! Poor thing has had a rough couple days! Mom and I are going to watch a little tv and get to bed early!



Picture for the day- Bailey enjoying her brownie at Chick-fil-A! We don't usually get dessert but we decided we all deserved a little chocolate fix today! Yum! 

About time!

I have been super busy lately and completely forgot about blogging! I'm in a writing/sharing/getting thoughts out kind of mood tonight so what better way than to blog! I have been on an emotional roller coaster lately but I blame it ALL on the fact that my husband leaves in just a few days for a 7 month deployment. We have been through a deployment before but it has been a few years and life is quite different now so it is a totally different bunch of feelings involved with this one. Last time we lived in an apartment and had very few ties to the city we lived in so I packed up and moved home with my parents but this time we own a home, have a one year old and so that changes things! I will not be going home this time b/c home is where I am. I have made some really great friends here who just so happen to be my neighbors and one of their husband's is in the same unit as my husband and the other's hubs has been deployed for a few months now but he will be gone a while longer so we will all be going through it together. That is comforting. Blogging will probably happen more frequently over the next few months since night times are the loneliest and are also the best time to blog.

I cannot believe that my baby girl turned one earlier this month! We had 3 parties! One in our house with all of our friends here, one in FL on her actual birthday with all of our family and another one in FL with all of our close friends there! What a way to bring in 1! She is such an amazing little girl <3 I love her more everyday! We are very tight and I'm a little worried that with Patrick gone, we will only get closer which is great for me but I want her to be comfortable with her Daddy and some other people. She is much better than she was the first 4 months of her life but she still doesn't like to be away from me for long nor does she like to stay with anyone when I'm not there other than my Mom and a few friends that also have kids. Having kids to play with distracts her so she has to have babysitters with kids!

Bailey at 1 year and 3 weeks-

-Loves dogs! She "barks" at every dog she sees! Her bark sounds somewhat like an owl "oh oh oh" and she makes the cutest face!

-is walking all over the place and gets very mad when I pick her up to "relocate" her when she's headed somewhere I don't want her to go (like trying to cross the street to play with our neighbor's kids!)

-still loves to eat! She is still eating 3 meals a day plus 2-3 snacks. She is no longer breastfeeding. We completely weaned about 3 weeks before her first birthday! She drinks whole milk at night now.

-is taking baths in the big tub now as of last night! She always fit so well in her baby tub and I was bathing her in our huge tub so it worked but I am redecorating the guest bath and turning it into Bailey's bathroom so we started using the tub in there and packed the baby tub away! Now we need more toys! She loves bath time!

-loves to climb! She tried to climb everything!! I am just waiting for the day she figures out how to get out of her crib. I hope we have a while but at the rate this kid is going it wouldn't surprise me!

-is facing forward in her car seat now! We turned her about a week after her birthday and she is so much happier now!

-is still sleeping 11-13 hours at night! Bedtime is between 8-9 most nights unless we're out late (which isn't often).

-is taking 2 naps a day lasting 1-2 hours. Very recently though her first nap has been very early causing her to take a 3rd nap or a longer 2nd nap and then get cranky around 6:30-7 until bedtime. I have to figure out what's going on with these naps and get back in a routine! She is growing and of course always changing so I'm sure she'll settle into something soon! ..Hopefully!

-has 3 teeth on the bottom with another coming in and 1 on top (a vampire fang as we call it since it's over to the side!) and 3 more coming in. She has to be in some pain with all these teeth trying to cut through!! That may be the problem with naps and crankiness!

-loves wearing shoes and gets quite upset when we take them off of her! She tried to put on everyones shoes if she is barefoot!

-still loves sunglasses and knows how to put them on!

-knows that combs and brushes are for your hair as well as hair bows! It's so fun to watch her "brush" her hair and try to put bows in!

-eats everything with her hands. We have tried spoons some but so far she's not so good at it! She likes trying though. She also isn't very good at eating off a plate. The plate usually ends up on the floor so for now we just eat off the tray or at restaurants we put down a mat or clean the table first.

I am pretty sure I could go on for a while but I should stop!! I updated Bailey's journal and have been typing for a while I have completely missed most of the movie we're watching! It's a movie about deployments so I wasn't too interested in watching it right now anyway.

Until next time... :-)