BOO

Boo, Michael leaves on Saturday morning. I'll deal, but it still makes me sad. We had both sets of parents and grandparents and his cousin Jennifer and her family over for dinner tonight for all to say their goodbyes. My fear is what effect this will put on Sweet T. I know we will all come out fine, but she is so attached to daddy right now. Alright long deployment, bring it on and hurry up and get here December 2010.

oh my

I just moved 5,000 photos off my laptop onto my flash drive. I had no idea I had so many on there! upside is my pc will run better/faster!

strawberry pickin'

Sweet T and I had some one on one time today and we went strawberry picking with our new playgroup. She had the best time ever and I really enjoyed eating the strawberries out in the patch! Yes, I ate dirty strawberries and they were yummy! You can't get strawberries any fresher than picking them yourself, we are going to do this again at the end of May and I can't wait.













we had a great time, can you tell?

UGHHHH

I wish I were a smart computer gal, but I am not. For some reason my laptop keeps telling me to install plug in for adobe to see video files. Well, I have tried and it won't work for some reason. Any advice? oh, i use firefox, always have and never had any problems before

Old Friend

Hi Old Friend. If you have found your way here to my blog, I would like for you to know why I ended our friendship. You found it more important to get drunk and sleep in due to a hangover than to meet my precious baby girl when we were finally able to fly her home for everyone to meet her. I was so proud and excited to show her off, and you could only think of yourself. I found it to be rude and selfish. You are a mother and it would hurt you too if I had done it to you. End of story.

March For Babies

When she was born we were told that she may never walk, but she runs. When she was born, we were told she may be blind, her favorite color is pink. When she was born, we were told she may lose her hearing, but she sure knows a few select 4 letter words!

She is my daughter. She has a name and it is Tobbie Ruth. Her name was chosen by Michael and I. Tobbie is after my grandfather that I adore and Ruth was Michael's great-grandmother that he misses dearly.

When she was born, we didn't know if she was a boy or girl until about an hour after her birth. As soon as we found out, I felt she needed to be named, I couldn't bear the thought of having to name my child if she had already passed away. Michael got to go in and see her first. When he came back to my room to tell me about her, he was so strong for me. I remember him telling me that she had a head full of black hair, and she did. She weighed a whopping 1 pound 9 ounces and was 11 1/2 inches long. When they finally let me go in to see her, the nurse looked at me like I was crazy because I said, "she looks like a baby." All the pregnancy books make them out to still look like aliens at 24 weeks. She was so beautiful and I didn't want to leave her side.

At nine days of life, we flew her from Okinawa, Japan to Fort Lewis, Washington. She stayed there until April 17th, just a few days before her due date, when she was discharged.

Thank you March of Dimes for all your research, you've helped my daughter and you've helped me to have a successful pregnancy that resulted in Tobbie's lil brother!






And thank you Karen for the amazing logo you made for our team. We were even on the six o'clock news because our shirts stood out!

lots of fun and tricks!

Well, we have been extremely busy around here. Our days are limited with having Michael home. He leaves a week from tomorrow. We have been trying to cram a lot of family time in. This deployment is going to do a number on Tobbie and it worries me. Tristan is too young to know any different, but Tobbie will know. She freaks out when she wakes up in the morning and Michael isn't home on the days he goes hunting. Poor baby girl. She has become so attached to him and it just breaks my heart. We will all come out just fine, but it is going to be hard.

We have been having a lot of family fun time! With it being as warm as it has been, we bought Tobbie a kiddie pool and set it up for her. She loved it!



We also went to the Mossy Creek Barnyard Festival. Tobbie really enjoyed watching the cloggers. Michael took her into the petting zoo and also on a little horseback ride. Both kiddos got a leather belt with their name on the back. I kid you not.


We went yesterday to the Museum of Aviation and a particular little girl had the BEST time! Today we are going to make paper airplanes and fly them in the back yard.





Now on to the tricks! Tristan has started eating cereal and green beans! He didn't care for the cereal too much so we added the green beans and boy is he a hungry boy!
He can also roll over!!!
Ok, enough for now. Once Michael leaves, I'll be posting more, I PROMISE!!!