In two weeks Patrick is leaving for 6 months for work. I have been with him for over 8 years and while he was active duty military he never got to deploy for such a long time and I know in comparison to other spouses who have been gone multiple times for a year or longer it is not comparable, but the longest Patrick ever deployed was for 3 months prior to meeting me.
I will miss seeing him everyday
I will miss seeing him interact with our son
I will miss his kisses
I will miss his hugs
I will miss his text messages
I will miss his random phone calls
I will miss his dinners
but mostly I will miss him...
Six months will fly by and I will try to keep myself busy... hopefully we will get to talk over skype frequently and I hope we will be able to email daily...
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Trick or Treat Oliver Style
A few years ago our friends Aaron and Miranda's son Will was dressed up as a gnome for Halloween and we saw it and knew right away we had to use that outfit whenever we were going to have kids. So September rolled around and I asked her where she got it from and found it on Amazon.
We did a little photo shoot Saturday before Halloween and let's say I am glad, because someone (not trying to mention any names) had an incident at the playground last Sunday and scraped up his nose pretty bad :( Everyone thought it was part of the costume so I guess it worked out...
Here is my gnome:
At first he was enjoying wearing his outfit but he lost interested very fast....
Oliver's bed time is usually around 7pm so we were out and about at 6:30 and lasted for one hour. At first he enjoyed walking by himself and he LOVED walked up to every single house (something that he usually isn't allowed) and he did have Jayden and Zoey to show him how it is done. But I am already looking forward to next year when he'll be able to not only walk up the steps but also down... Halfway through our trick-or-treat I had to start carrying him. Poor little guy was getting tired.
I realized it was time to go home when his diaper gave up and leaked onto me :( I guess I didn't get a treat, just a trick ;)
Disclaimer to the outfit - it runs VERY small - we squeezed our almost 15month child in a size 2T and the red slippers are made out of felt and are very slippery when wearing on non-carpeted flooring. 20 min before bed he slipped and hit his forehead :( Miranda placed duct tape on the bottom for some traction.
We did a little photo shoot Saturday before Halloween and let's say I am glad, because someone (not trying to mention any names) had an incident at the playground last Sunday and scraped up his nose pretty bad :( Everyone thought it was part of the costume so I guess it worked out...
Here is my gnome:
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| My little Gnome |
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| this sucks! |
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| Halloween Night - getting ready for the big show!!! |
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| there is always time to annoy Frankee |
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| gnome and witch |
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| grown-ups treats! |
I realized it was time to go home when his diaper gave up and leaked onto me :( I guess I didn't get a treat, just a trick ;)
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| first house! |
from Pumpkins to Halloween
We took Oliver to pick out his pumpkin and he had a blast and let's say we kind of snuck in by accident...
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| getting ready for the pig race |
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| we had great seats |
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| my boys (someone is sad that the pig race is over) |
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| those are too big for me... |
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| let's see if there is something in my size |
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| here we go Daddy! Look what I found |
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| ok if it doesn't burst open, we are buying this one! |
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| it passed the test |
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| let's go! |
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| playing in the corn box |
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| and having fun |
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| it was a big bouncy ball and it was FUN! |
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| Mommy loves her little boy!!! |
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
14 months
where has the time gone??? just the other day I wrote about Oliver's first birthday and now two months simply just flew by...
Oliver started pointing at everything recently and loves to say "Ai" and wave to "Hi" and "Bye" to whomever waves at him. It is rather cute to hear him and see him in action. His walking has been perfected into non-stop running, with the occasional face-meets-floor accident. His face is still recovering from a recent accident two weeks ago.
The outdoors is his new passion - just walking up and down the street in our neighborhood while kicking a soccer ball or carrying a rock is highly enjoyable these days.
Oliver LOVES balloons and bubbles - the library story time we visit always finishes with bubbles and I am not proud to say, but my child is the bully of story time and shoved a kid out of the way last week just to get to his bubbles... (not proud of that)
On October 2nd we finally baptized Oliver at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Ellicott City. We were very happy Sam finally lives in the area so it made it a bit easier to co-ordinate the Godparents. Unfortunately couldn't Oliver's Godmother Lora make it so we used Sam's girlfriend as her proxy. Oliver was mesmerized by Father Matt and behaved the entire time, he almost burned himself on the baptismal candle, but lucky us no-one really saw it and well let's say his Godfather learned that Oliver can reach PRETTY far....
My favorite part of the day is when I come home from work and he comes running towards me and just smiles and giggles out of happiness that I am back home :)
Oliver started pointing at everything recently and loves to say "Ai" and wave to "Hi" and "Bye" to whomever waves at him. It is rather cute to hear him and see him in action. His walking has been perfected into non-stop running, with the occasional face-meets-floor accident. His face is still recovering from a recent accident two weeks ago.
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| Baptized and showing off my bling and recovering from my fall |
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| silly boy |
The outdoors is his new passion - just walking up and down the street in our neighborhood while kicking a soccer ball or carrying a rock is highly enjoyable these days.
Oliver LOVES balloons and bubbles - the library story time we visit always finishes with bubbles and I am not proud to say, but my child is the bully of story time and shoved a kid out of the way last week just to get to his bubbles... (not proud of that)
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| don't get between me and my balloon lady! |
On October 2nd we finally baptized Oliver at St. Paul's Catholic Church in Ellicott City. We were very happy Sam finally lives in the area so it made it a bit easier to co-ordinate the Godparents. Unfortunately couldn't Oliver's Godmother Lora make it so we used Sam's girlfriend as her proxy. Oliver was mesmerized by Father Matt and behaved the entire time, he almost burned himself on the baptismal candle, but lucky us no-one really saw it and well let's say his Godfather learned that Oliver can reach PRETTY far....
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| My Godfather and Jenn |
My favorite part of the day is when I come home from work and he comes running towards me and just smiles and giggles out of happiness that I am back home :)
Monday, September 26, 2011
drowning in pictures
As a kid I remember having my own baby album - well it wasn't cute or anything, it was the 80's after all... but I had one... it wasn't as fancy as my older brothers baby albums but it was mine... (theirs was done in the 70's and they had this photographer friend who took all these amazing black and white pictures and bla bla)
I always wanted to have a memory book where my parents (mom who else) would have recorded all the important milestones... but I didn't... I guess being the youngest of three I can be happy I have a baby album... and for whatever reason there is a huge gap between the age 2-5 which know I am finding strange, but whatever...
Anyways I knew even before being pregnant my child needed to have a memory book and a photo album and with the day and age of the internet and digital cameras it is just amazing how many more pictures we can take and how many places we can share our children's milestones so yeah it can be overwhelming... By the time I have updated Facebook, my blog and send out text messages with the most recent updates and pictures it is time to go to bed... ugh... oh and I forgot to mention updating his memory book... needless to say I am behind on the photo album. I pretty much stayed on top of the first year in his memory book.... now my question - how many photo albums does one child need? When will I stop taking pictures? Why did I order that one print, that I don't seem to like now anymore? How did I miss this one pictures ALL the way in the beginning??? What it is 11pm and I need another photo album to add 150 pictures to???
I do have all his pictures uploaded to the laptop and a back up on an external hard drive and additionally I have them backed up on shutterfly, not to mention some on FB, this blog, Photobucket and various other photo pages I have signed up over the last year or so...
My admiration goes out to anyone who enjoys scapbooking - it is a beautiful art, I don't think I would enjoy it, mainly because all the options and designs are too overwhelming (it takes me a very long time to pic out a birthday card for someone - and an even longer time to make a decision which one of the 30 identical picture I want to order) so yeah not for me... but it is sooooo pretty and sooo many options.... Anyways I am drifting away from the initial subject - I am drowning in pictures.... there is one too many orange envelope next to me....
Well for now the photo album project is on hold until I have purchased another photo album (matching of course to the first album AND the memory book) and once this project has been successfully tamed (not finished because I do not see an end in the near future) I must tackle the next project - MEMORY BOX!!!
I always wanted to have a memory book where my parents (mom who else) would have recorded all the important milestones... but I didn't... I guess being the youngest of three I can be happy I have a baby album... and for whatever reason there is a huge gap between the age 2-5 which know I am finding strange, but whatever...
Anyways I knew even before being pregnant my child needed to have a memory book and a photo album and with the day and age of the internet and digital cameras it is just amazing how many more pictures we can take and how many places we can share our children's milestones so yeah it can be overwhelming... By the time I have updated Facebook, my blog and send out text messages with the most recent updates and pictures it is time to go to bed... ugh... oh and I forgot to mention updating his memory book... needless to say I am behind on the photo album. I pretty much stayed on top of the first year in his memory book.... now my question - how many photo albums does one child need? When will I stop taking pictures? Why did I order that one print, that I don't seem to like now anymore? How did I miss this one pictures ALL the way in the beginning??? What it is 11pm and I need another photo album to add 150 pictures to???
I do have all his pictures uploaded to the laptop and a back up on an external hard drive and additionally I have them backed up on shutterfly, not to mention some on FB, this blog, Photobucket and various other photo pages I have signed up over the last year or so...
My admiration goes out to anyone who enjoys scapbooking - it is a beautiful art, I don't think I would enjoy it, mainly because all the options and designs are too overwhelming (it takes me a very long time to pic out a birthday card for someone - and an even longer time to make a decision which one of the 30 identical picture I want to order) so yeah not for me... but it is sooooo pretty and sooo many options.... Anyways I am drifting away from the initial subject - I am drowning in pictures.... there is one too many orange envelope next to me....
Well for now the photo album project is on hold until I have purchased another photo album (matching of course to the first album AND the memory book) and once this project has been successfully tamed (not finished because I do not see an end in the near future) I must tackle the next project - MEMORY BOX!!!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Summer - where did you go???
Dear Summer,
I know a lot of people LOVE you, but a lot of people don't like what you bring along the beautiful weather, your cousin humidity... So for the last few weeks all I keep hearing is: Where is fall?? When will she come? I can't wait to wear sweaters, I can't wait for pumpkin beer (I was looking forward to that too I have to admit) and so on.... But you know, you just kind of left quickly the other day.... I don't think I am ready for you to be gone this fast.... Can you come and spend a few more days (weeks)??? It is kind of nice to wear long jeans again and trust me I was getting tired of Oliver's summer clothing, as you know he's been wearing it since May and some stuff he outgrew and some other stuff well, I am just tired of it, but I don't like the fact that his little fingers are cold in the morning when I pick him up from his crib. He does look cute with his house shoes on, but I preferred his little bare feet running around the house.
So it would be nice if you could just hang for a little longer....
Love,
Donik
PS: worst case - we'll just see you next year...
I know a lot of people LOVE you, but a lot of people don't like what you bring along the beautiful weather, your cousin humidity... So for the last few weeks all I keep hearing is: Where is fall?? When will she come? I can't wait to wear sweaters, I can't wait for pumpkin beer (I was looking forward to that too I have to admit) and so on.... But you know, you just kind of left quickly the other day.... I don't think I am ready for you to be gone this fast.... Can you come and spend a few more days (weeks)??? It is kind of nice to wear long jeans again and trust me I was getting tired of Oliver's summer clothing, as you know he's been wearing it since May and some stuff he outgrew and some other stuff well, I am just tired of it, but I don't like the fact that his little fingers are cold in the morning when I pick him up from his crib. He does look cute with his house shoes on, but I preferred his little bare feet running around the house.
So it would be nice if you could just hang for a little longer....
Love,
Donik
PS: worst case - we'll just see you next year...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
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