First Post of the New Year (finally)

Well, first of all, Happy New Year everyone!  Hard to believe this is the first post of the new year, but we've had a crazy two weeks.  Let's rewind.  New Year's Eve was fun, especially the kids running around with their hats on.  

 

I'd like to say I made it till the ball dropped, but not even close. :)  But we enjoyed our last few days in Kentucky.  Including fun things like car carts (best invention ever and side note, how do Walmart and 1Target not have car carts?!).

 We stayed in Kentucky a few more days and then hit the road on Wednesday to head back to North Carolina.  13.5 hours in the car doesn't lead to many exciting pictures either, but I have to admit, the kids are great travelers.  I am blessed in that aspect. We got back on Wednesday night and then the sickness began.  Gunner started with a nasty cough and I took him to the Dr last Friday just to get checked, only to find out Grace had a double ear infection.  Then Saturday Gunner was asking to go to the Dr again because his ear hurt, so it was off to urgent care.  Sure enough, ear infection for Gunner too. So we had quite the first weekend back.  On top of the Dr madness we had a little accident as well.

If you notice, we had all our Marine Corps glasses (and a few other special ones) on a ledge between our kitchen and living room.  Gunner was playing with his ball and CRASH.  If you notice, there is a glass missing right where that little red ball is.  :)  It was an accident but a difficult one as the glass fell so far and broke right where all the kids toys are.  But it forced me to crazy clean so it was a good thing I suppose.  We also send Nate a package every week so fingerpainting was a great sick project.  He loves getting crafts from the kids.  It was Grace's firs time and took her awhile to get used to it but by the end she loved it. 

Then Monday I had my first OB appt.  They pushed my due date back a week (new due date is August 7th), but that's a blessing in disguise, it will give us more time to get adjusted once Nate gets home before we throw a baby in the mix.  I did get some cute ultrasound pictures though. 

Unfortunately, the only other ultrasound we'll be getting in at 20 weeks (one downside of going to the Naval Hospital).  But the baby looked great and had a nice strong, fast heartbeat (180 beats per minute).  So according to the old wives tale, it should be a girl.  Which was my guess a few weeks ago too, but we'll have to wait and see. :)  A few days later Gunner was still complaining of his ear so it was back to the Dr AGAIN.  She referred us back to the ENT but they can't get us in for almost a month.  So, I guess it's just a waiting game for now.  He seems to be feeling better though so we've been doing more the last few days.  Nate's birthday is still a few weeks away  but when you're sending overseas you gotta plan ahead.  So the kids made birthday pictures yesterday. 

Then Gunner helped me to make cupcakes to celebrate daddy's birthday.  We made a couple of jarred cakes (in a mason jar) to send to Nate too. 

Gunner even made a video saying Happy Birthday to daddy before he ate his cupcake.  Hopefully Nate likes the package (and hopefully it gets there before his birthday).  Aside from that, we've just been enjoying the kids feeling better.  Yesterday we even went to the park for awhile. 

So hopefully the kids are done being sick and we can get back to having fun again. :)