What's going on

Hello! So much has happened in the last couple of weeks. The biggest and saddest event has been Devon deploying. We spent the last month spending as much family time as possible, while still going over finances, power of attorneys, wills, and other big to dos that I am now responsible for-yikes! On D’s last night at home we (Devon and I) woke up at 1:00am. He had to be at work by 3:00am so I made breakfast. We had pancakes, eggs, bacon…you know, the good stuff, and we ate breakfast together. Afterwards, we packed up baby and headed off to the company to say our “see you laters”. Sad day.

1:00am breakfast

Waking baby

I started a journal, and write in it daily so that Devon won’t miss a thing. I mainly write about Miss P, but sometimes I write about our boring errands. If he is lucky, something silly will happen, and he will hopefully laugh. Like the story below(not so funny while it was happening, but NOW it’s funny)…

Three days prior to leaving for Colorado, Penelope was sick(this is not the silly part). She had a fever. I called a nurse at the health clinic and she said that because Penelope didn’t show any other symptoms, I could nurse it at home. So that’s what I did. I felt horrible that she was sick, but my girlfriends convinced me that she would be fine.  They were right. The evening before our flight she was fever free.

I have a fever :/

She was still fever free the morning of our flight. Whew! After we made it onto the plane things were looking good. She was just a little clingy, but that’s normal after being sick, right? Nothing that I couldn’t handle…  a 10hour flight from Munich to Atlanta would be nice.

About 7hours into the flight, Nellie had her second bowel movement (she is going to hate me for writing about this when she’s older), but this time I felt it! I quickly put her to my hip so I could take her to the restroom and change her. While she was on my hip, I could feel the heat of it. I just knew that it was going to be messy. When I laid her onto the changing table, I saw that diarrhea had soaked through her clothes! Yuck! I looked at my shirt where P was sitting…yup, that was messy too. Great!

I tended to baby first. I undressed her, and tried to rinse out her outfit. The sink wasn’t the best, and the poop was clogging it. Ugh! Whatever, I would deal with that later. Baby’s diaper should be priority.  Poop was everywhere.  Her legs, her back, her belly! Oh, to be a mom! I cleaned her up, put a fresh diaper on, and then tried dealing with her poopy outfit again. After about 10 seconds of running water onto it, I decided that there would be no salvaging it. I threw it away!  Next I scraped out the poop from the sink to unclog it. It took a while, but thankfully I made it work.  Then I had to tend to my shirt. Knowing that the sink would clog if I tried rinsing it, I just took it off so I could shove it at the very bottom of my diaper bag, which was at my seat. Ugh! Oh, how I wished D was there to be a part of this adventure.

 I walk out of the airplane bathroom wearing a white tank top, my black bra strap showing, holding a naked baby at my hip. Can we say white trash? I was mortified. I quickly got to our seat and changed P into her spare outfit.  Unfortunately, I didn’t bring a jacket or sweater, so I was stuck looking not-so-classy until I made it through customs in Atlanta.

The day got worse, if you can believe it. While waiting at our gate in Atlanta, I noticed Penelope was developing some sort of rash on her face. What is going on? All I wanted to do was get to Colorado and then deal with whatever issues P was having. I convinced myself that the poor lighting in the airport was playing tricks on my eyes and Nellie was fine.

The next day, after we spent the night in our new apartment in Colorado, her rash was worse! It was on her trunk, her face, and her arms. Off to the doctor’s. Our new pediatrician explained that she had Rosiola, a harmless virus. It starts with a fever then the rash breaks out 24 hours later. That fit Penelope to a tee. Don’t worry, Penelope is better now!

So that’s just an example of one of the stories I wrote for Devon. Do you think he’ll enjoy it? Haha.

Being in Colorado has been so much fun.  Everything at our apartment was already taken care of thanks to my bro-in-law and sister. P has a doctor. I have a doctor. Ft Carson is near by(as well as tons of other Air Force Bases). Penelope is in Gymboree classes. Shopping is amazing.

America, I love you.

10 months in Colorado

Brush 'em, brush 'em, brush 'em

It's a Gymboree day

Playing with Graham's toys

Mmm, Mac 'n' Cheese

Last days...

So we haven’t posted anything these past 2 days because there was nothing to write about.  On Thursday we had a Fun Day at Sea. Let me tell you, they shouldn’t call it fun at all. We were traveling from Naples, Italy to Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and the waves and the speed of the boat knocked us down. We were so sick that we missed the formal night…sad face. Devon was really looking forward to eating the lobster, but after being sea sick all day he couldn’t care less. Even Penelope was sick. We weren’t sure if she was nauseated, but she did have a runny nose and sore throat.

Devon forgot to mention in his last post that we took Penelope to the doctor on board the ship. He was a very nice Russian man. We were worried that she had an ear infection because she had slight cough and she kept pulling her ears. There were no signs of an ear infection, but she had slight redness in her throat. He prescribed her baby Tylenol.

 Penelope only needed her medicine twice that day, but Devon and I had about 4 doses of Dramamine. That stuff made us sleepy.  So we spent the rest of day in our cabin promising ourselves that we would never go on a cruise again.

The following day, we stayed on the boat. Devon and I found it extremely difficult to wake up due to the Dramamine, but we force ourselves. We dropped P off at daycare then we ate breakfast, and spent majority of our morning lying out by the pool.

The highlight of our day was when we stopped by the jewelry store on the boat and Penelope and I bought Devon a fancy new watch. It’s by a Swiss company called Tissot. I had never heard of it, but he absolutely loves it. He can’t stop playing with it. I guess it has a satellite function that he adores, and it has a touch screen face too. There are a bunch of other features, but I won’t go into it.

I bought a new ring... It’s has black and white diamonds. Love it to pieces.

The rest of the evening was nice. We tried to go to the comedy club, but it was full. Instead we went to the casino where I lost all of my winnings from the other night. After we ran out of money, we watched Tangled on the big screen by the pool. There, munched on pizza and ice cream-yum!

Today, we are in Marseille, France. We took a shuttle bus into town. We walked around for about 20 minutes, then decided we wanted to head back to the boat for a nap. Yes, we’re lame-we know.

Right now, P is in her crib. She is supposed to be taking a nap, however she is wide awake making silly noises. Sleep child, sleep.

I think later tonight, we will go to dinner then pack. I honestly cannot wait to get back home. 12 days is a long time to be away especially with the baby.

Picture time…we don’t have many…