holy cow batman...

it has been forever since I blogged. I knew I was keeping busy but wow when I look back at the past 11 days I have really done a lot. AJ finished up swim lessons so I took her and Supermom's oldest dd Avery, plus my other kiddoes and the dogs and Bro K all to the beach last Saturday. It was nice Marge even met up with us, I am going to miss her so much when she leaves in a few weeks! The ocean was really rough but AJ and Avery showed off there swimming skills battling those waves and currents. The dogs had a blast going to the beach again they were so tired that we forgot to throw away the chicken bones from dinner and they didn't even get into 'em. Sunday was a recoop day and we started draining the pool since Bro K and I were lazy/dumb and were not trying to get the rain out of the cover so the cover caved in, then the winds from Alberto left tons of pine needles/ parts of pine trees in the pool so it was sap. The pool was already murky before the storm so that just left it unsalvagable. Well the pool draining took 28 hours!! It only took 6 hours to fill so that surprised us. So now we have been working on it slowly all week we had to take it completly apart now we need to get all the stuff out from under the pool and put in some leveling sand and hopefully that will make it so the pool is a little more even and doesn't have a few random spots that hurt your feet.
We have also met up at three playdates this week, plus the big girls had dentist appointments and we went to AJ's friend from preschool's house for a playdate there. So I actually got out of the house every day this week. Next week I will be pretty home bound I have to make my 3/4 tank of gas last until Friday! But Monkey is off to sleep away camp on Sunday and will be home on Friday. I was excited now the closer it comes it is kinda scary she has never been away from home that long before. At least it is only in Middleburg so I can rescue her, but I am sure she will do fine! Then Flyboy will be home for a week so I will go from one less person in the house to an extra. Yeah I know he lives here but this is the weirdest deployment I am used to him being gone gone for six months not stopping in here every few months for a couple of days. Plus I am kinda upset he is coming home next week since it is pretty much guarenteeing he will not be here for the birth. I will be 37 weeks when he leaves again, I am going to beg my midwife to induce me but since there is no medical reason I cannot see them agreeing to it, Chubs was born at 38w1d and weighed 8lb 5 oz so I know he would be more than okay but 37 weeks is still early if it was one week later and I was 38 weeks then I am sure I could sell it. It was hard enough saying goodbye a few weeks ago but to have him home again and to leave probably within a week of delievering seems like cruel and unusual punishment. I am okay with delievering when he isn't here but he is so sad to miss it, he just keeps telling me I haven't missed a birth yet and I really don't want to. I still am not ready to not be preggo, not that I am loving toting around the 25 lbs in my tummy, but I know it is easier right now than being sleep deprived and having to take care of a newborn and case Chubs who has become quite the brute these days. I will have to face the music soon enough. Well I am off to help AJ look for one of her thousands of toys...

What a wonderful weekend

I always dread my first weekend of Flyboys deployment or just any time he is gone. They usually suck, it is when the kids notice he isn't here. He makes breakfast on Saturdays and Sundays so they expect me to do it but I don't make pancakes from scratch or cinnamon rolls like him so it is different anyway! This weekend was awesome, Bro K being here makes a huge difference I think. Monkey had her friend stay the night and they had so much fun and spent most of the time in the pool. They actually played pretty well with AJ which is always amazing. Then Bro K b-sat the 2 big ones, Chubs was being something else and I felt a little uncomfy leaving her here. I went to a baby shower/ bbq. It was nice to get out for a little bit and get to visit. Sunday was bday party day! We had so much fun jumping from one party to the other. I felt a little weird going between, but we were invited to 2 different parties at the same time on the same day both at Kids Kampus. So the girls and I did our best hanging out with both parties. It was hot and I drank tons of water but obviously not enough when I got home I was pretty swollen so I spent the afternoon with my feet up and laying down. Bro K was awesome and helped get dinner ready and the kiddoes to bed since we were all so tired.
Too bad it is looking like it will be a crappy week all overcast and rainy, I just hope that there are no storms until after 11:30am so AJ gets her last 4 swim classes! I have no desire to do anything but I have some cleaning that I should get done today. Since the swim classes are on base I usually just hang out with Supermom most of the day and don't get anything done around here!

It's been a little over a week...

and it feels like a month has gone by!! My shower was last weekend, even with the crappy weather it ended up being a nice shower. I had fun visiting with everyone, I hadn't seen most everyone there in a while so I got to play "catch-up". I got a lot of cute little outfits I am still not used to seeing all the blue. I felt bad because I am having a pretty easy pregnancy as far as pregnancies ever go and the other 2 ladies are both having pre-term labor and are on restrictions and I feel great for the most part. I have been having dizzy spells and have taken a couple of good falls from them but the doc ran a bunch of tests (I spent all Wed. afternoon in L&D my doc sent me there after my apt) and all we could come up with was heat and stress from Flyboy leaving. Either way even for all the random contractions I am having I am dialated but not a complete 1 cm yet so all looks good.
After my shower we headed to BBQ at Flyboy's friends house. The friends wife was really nice and they have 2 girls and our girls got along well, even though Chubs was getting rough. We are still working on that, I am over her being so mean.
Tuesday I put Flyboy on the plane, so many people were crying and I was the only pregnant wife who actually stayed until the plane left. The other 2 pregnant wives just walked the guys to the hanger and left. I should have they had us there at 6am for the guys to not leave until 9am, damn Navy hurry up and wait!! My big girls of course just kissed daddy and said see ya later and skipped off. Chubs cried because she wanted to go on the plane since she is used to going into a hanger and getting to climb around the plane, but she calls planes daddy since we usually point at the plane and say daddy might be on that plane. So she was crying and saying daddy. I felt bad for Chubs because she really wanted to go. I also felt bad that my big girls have been trained not to cry or get sad, they are so used to him leaving that it just isn't a big deal. I always tell them it is okay to miss him but he doesn't need to see us upset because it is harder on him since he has to leave us and his home. It doesn't even feel like a deployment though I call him every night in his hotel room and we can im, he even says it is weird to not be on the ship. Our phone bill is going to be OUTRAGOUS with calling central America everyday, but Flyboy wants me too! With bro K here the girls haven't even really noticed since he has been working so he comes home in the evening and he interacts with them. AJ is still calling him her third parent and for the most part he is. I am just happy he is here it is nice having someone here. I am just hoping to go into labor on the weekend so Supermom won't have my kiddoes for too long! Especially after the poopy day Wednesday, I will save you the details but it includes Chubs pooping on the floor and eating it and a couple explosive diarrhea episodes from the other kiddoes, ick! Supermom's bed had to be washed 2ce and then I got home to my doggies having their own diarrhea all over my back room, just one long poopy day :(
Supermom got their orders for Italy they will be leaving late January sometime. That will suck, she is definately my closest friend here. It is the Navy though and if they weren't going to Italy they were going to get out and go back to Texas so either way I was going to be saying goodbye next year. It isn't all bad since Chubs and the girl of the triplets have been at each other's throats for the past month anyway so I have been trying to limit my time there before they kill each other. Plus it is chaos with the big kids out of school (as if four isn't) but 7 kids in one house is too much!
Other than that same ol' same ol' AJ has swim lessons thru next week then we will have a quiet summer until the baby comes of course! I am not ready for a Chubs and a newborn I am already feeling overwhelmed by that idea, but I am sure I will get used to it.

Just what I needed!!

Flyboy just called at 5am to tell me that he made first. Okay for you non-Navy folk he got advanced. It is crazy out of almost 800 guys only 58 made it and he was one of 'em!! It is so awesome, we just hit our 7 year mark and he is already an E-6. I am so proud of him. We won't see the extra money until Dec or so, but it will be nice to get that extra pay especially since we have four kiddoes now and we will be within 3 months of paying the van off so extra pay and no car payment, well until Flyboy gets his new car!
I have been fighting depression so bad and so has Flyboy. Neither of us want him to leave next week even though he should be back sometime end of July early August for a couple days, then not for good until Dec, he is going to miss the baby's birth for sure. I am set though I have all the clothes washed and put away we moved Chubs into my room so I will have both her and the new baby in the room with me. I need to get bassinet sheets but other than that I have everything as ready as I want for now. I will do all the rest after my bday, I don't want to be too done!
Other than that I been feeling okay, I have had a couple of really bad dizzy spells and I fell into my landscaping pond and have the narliest looking bruise on my leg. I am fine other than that. The baby seems okay I really didn't feel the need to go to labor and delievery I did go up to Walmart and take my blood pressure to make sure it isn't high, it was elavated, but not high enough for me to panic. I really hope if I am going to get pre-eclampsia again I can hold it off for another 4 weeks. Just make it to 36 weeks so he is at less of a risk of being in the NICU. I don't know if I can handle deciding between my big girls or the baby in the NICU. Well I am off to work on the curtains I am making for Chubs/baby's room, which is Bro K's room until November!