Week 7... I wish you had been nicer

I don’t mean to complain, but I am SO THANKFUL this week is OVER!!! It has been a bad week for the West household. Don’t get me wrong the week started off great. Tuesday we had a meeting with our wonderful CE spouses to plan for the upcoming Spring Fling. Even though I won’t be here for it I am excited to hear about all the things that are going to happen! It’s always a big event for our squadron and has been a great way for me to meet other spouses. After our meeting, we mailed Uncle G a package for his birthday, and we sure do hope that he enjoys his snickerdoodle cookies!!! Then we had to do the not so fun part of the day and get shots. I’ve never had to run out of the dr’s office because my child was crying so bad, but I guess there is a first for everything. 

Making Uncle G's cookies

Thankfully, that night I was able to go out with two awesome ladies. We went to see “We Bought a Zoo” while one of their husbands kept an eye on Little Man for me. It was a nice break and a really cute movie. I try not to cry in a movie theater, but I just couldn’t help myself crying a few parts of the movie. I’m such a sap when it comes to that.

Wednesday Little Man finally got a haircut. I should have made sure that I asked for the guy that always cuts his hair. He does such a great job, but the girl who cut his hair this time didn’t do so hot. Bubba keeps telling me it looks like he has a chili bowl haircut… which I think is CRAZY, but she didn’t do a good job at all. I was quite annoyed when she asked me how it looked but then didn’t charge me full price. I will be getting it recut again this next week… it’s probably not as bad as I think it is, but it’s enough to annoy me.

Thursday is where are week turns to the NOT FUN!!! Little Man and I both woke up with a stomach bug of some kind. Poor thing was so pathetic. I think the only good thing I can take out of him being sick was that I have received lots of snuggles. I felt 100% better on Friday and it looked like he was feeling better to, except for the fact that he then developed a running nose and cough. In my mind, I will take a runny nose over vomit and runny diapers any day! Unfortunately, he started feeling bad again on Saturday, and we left base (after seeing a dr and 3 diapers later) with a very sleepy, not feeling well boy and a mom who had too many body fluids on her clothes for her liking. Hopefully, today will be a better day and Little Man will start feeling better soon, real soon. Lots of prayers would be appreciated because we will be traveling this week and I need a healthy little boy. 

Week 6

This week we were incredibly busy, which is a good thing since time seems to go a little faster. Monday we spent recovering from the weekend and got most of the upstairs organized. If I can get the extra bedroom organized it would be AMAZING. I know I said a couple weeks ago that it was almost done, but it has gone back to being a disorganized mess. That's what happens when I can't find paperwork. That will be my project during nap time today, after I take the 10 minutes to mow the lawn. So happy that we have a small backyard, well the part covered in grass is small.

Tuesday, Little Man was a trooper as we had 2 meetings, had to go run errands and finish signing up for a HOP home. He really surprises me when we have busy days like that. I'm glad that he is a kid that likes his schedule, but can adjust when we need him to.

Wendesday, my washing machine decided that it didn't feel like washing clothes any more and died on me. Since I was having dinner with some amazing women at the deployed spouses dinner, I waited and called base on Thursday morning, and within an hour and a half I had a brand new washing machine partly set up... This is when my week started to get really crazy. Friday we went to the store and got groceries for some parites and meetings we have to attend. As I was getting ready for a party water was seeping up through my kitchen floor!!! AHHH... luckily I have AMAZING landlords, who came and found a leak from the day before, when my washer was partially installed, and fixed everything for me :) Thankfully, by Saturday morning most of the water had dried up and the floor was no longer squishy.

Yesterday was a long day of tutoring about fractions, decimals, percents, and probabilities. After arguing with a 6th grade boy about how to change a decimal to a percent (I won by the way) it only took us 3 hours to do 10 pages of homework. It really makes me want to teach again, I can't wait til I get the chance. Can't wait to see what week 7 brings!!

Week 5.. Where did you go?

I can't believe how fast this past week went. I was just looking at the calendar trying to figure out what is going on this week and realized that it's Monday... again! The week started off crazy and ended just as crazy. I spent Monday and Tuesday helping a friend get her car fixed and running errands while waiting on her car. Wednesday Little Man and I walked around base for 2 hrs waiting on Bubba's car to get inspected, which it failed, and now is officially off the road until he comes home and get fix it. I'm not messing with the exhaust and brakes and everything else! We ended the week with Little Man's 18 month check up, dinner with friends and tutoring. Little Man is doing great and growing and developing right on time :) Most days I don't realize how much he has grown. I was switching out some of our pictures of him and couldn't believe the difference.

I'm getting so excited about getting to go to the States and see all of our family and friends. Time is flying here and I will be there soon :) This week is going to be another busy busy one, can't wait to see what all is going to happen, and with Little Man, there is no telling :)

Week 4.........

Week Four is FINALLY done. It went by fairly quick, except for the not feeling great part :) But I can officially say that I am feeling a little bit better. Little Man has been on the go, wait, he is always on the go, so nothing has changed there :)

I am super excited though that our family pictures came in!!! Now it's time to figure out where to put them all! There were so many good ones, that we ended up getting all of them. Hopefully I will get them all up this week.

Since this week was pretty uneventful, that's about all I have :)

Week 3- Snow and Sickness

This past week has been full of running around. Which is good because it makes time go by a lot faster. I had a  meeting this week, which was nice to get to sit with the ladies that I "work" with and talk about things that are going on around base. Little Man and I also went to girl scouts and took a walk with them as we talked about the changes from day to night and safety. He had more fun just looking at everything and waving to everyone. Saturday and Sunday, ended the week with us going to a BBQ and tutoring my friends two boys. It's nice to be able to use my degree in some way while I'm here and still be able to stay home with Little Man.

The reason I'm late posting this is that Sunday it "snowed" and I ended up staying at my friends house. Since we really didn't know the extent that it was snowing everywhere else I really didn't feel comfortable driving the hour home in possibly really bad snow. This South Texas girl does NOT know the first thing about driving in snow, so it was best for me just to stay off the road. Luckily, it didn't stick, or what did melted before morning, and we got home safely. Now if we both could just get over the allergies from whatever blew in with the snow.

Little Man is doing a FANTASTIC job in his new bed! For the most part I can put him down and he will stay in his bed. If I hear him up, I just tell him to get back in bed, and he does. I was really surprised at this considering how hard headed he is :) I can't believe how much is growing! I'm sad that Bubba, isn't here to see it. I know that this is the life that we chose, and we wouldn't change it, but that doesn't make it any easier when he is gone.

Anyways... This week is another fun one :) especially now I am feeling better.

Week 2.... Almost Through

Well we are nowhere close to being through, but this week is :) It's Thursday!!! I don't really know why I am excited that it's almost the weekend, because it will be just like every other day, but, I guess that means we are one week closer.

This week seemed to drag on and on. We even had things to do. I forgot that Monday was a holiday and went to base to run all my errands and get them out of the way, until I got to the post office and they were closed :( Luckily I was able to get my grocery shopping taken care of, even if it did take almost an hour. Little Man was well behaved even though he did try to eat a banana through the bag, and peel. I guess I really can't complain.

On Tuesday, Little Man's daddy doll arrived. He was so happy, he hugged the doll and wouldn't let me have it. Every morning he now asks for daddy and gives him a big hug. It melts my heart, but I'm happy he has something tangible. He also tries to call daddy on his "cell phone" which usually just consists of him putting his hand to his ear, saying hewo, dada, yeah, yeah, bye-bye, and going on about his business.

Excited and nervous about the next couple days... I will be converting Little Man's crib into a toddler bed. The new night time routine is going to be a tough one on both of us, but I will feel much better knowing he can't climb over the railing of his crib (like he has been trying to do this week). So, keep us in your prayers and I will let you know how it goes :)

Week ONE... DONE!

Well we made it through week one!!! YAY! Little Man and I had lots of fun, playing and dancing and getting the house organized. Okay so maybe the getting organized hasn't been so much fun, but I'm almost done!!! YAY! I can't wait to have things the way I want them, of course this being a year before we have to move, but I'll hopefully remember to take pictures so I can get things in order quickly when we do.

This week I put together a little activity for Little Man. I poured some dry beans, popcorn, and rice into a large bowl, gave him utensils and smaller bowls and let him go to town. For those of you who know him, know that he doesn't stay in one place for long, but let me tell you, he played with it for close to 30 minutes! I was amazed at how much fun he was having. It was also a challenge for him, and when he puts his mind to it, he will figure things out. When he sees the container on the counter now he wants to play with it. The time he spends with it is getting shorter, so I will be coming up with some ways to make it more fun/ make some new activities.

I also got to take pictures of a precious little girl this week. Since I have never taken newborn pictures before it was definitely an adventure. I'm still editing some of them, but I'll show you a few :)

Can't wait to see what this week brings!