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May 10 There's no denying it
It's a BOY!!! I haven't seen Bodi glow this much since...well... I'll get back to you on that!
April 20 Things I've learnedSince moving, there's been a lot of changes going on over here so I've decided to compile a list of things I've learned.
1. It's very easy to get crayon marks off walls painted with water based paint, just keep a bucket of paint handy since it comes off along with the crayon marks.
2. When your two year old has been grounded from coloring, she'll become very inventive. Colored building blocks always double as crayons on walls.
3. Two year olds don't have any modesty, the clothes come off in the backyard or the neighborhood park.
4. When potty training, tile floors are wayyyyyyyyy easier to clean than carpet.
5. Two year olds and cats don't get along very well.
6. Big wheels are great for two year olds, just remember the driveway leads to the street.
7. Flower gardens and two year olds don't mix.
8. When giving instructions to your "big helper", be sure you're VERY specific or you'll end up with a lot of broken things.
9. If you're planning on having kids, save time and break all of your nice and valuable things before the kids arrive...that way, you won't have to clean it up later.
10. It is impossible for two year olds to go to the bathroom on the toilet without first taking off shoes, socks, pants, underwear, and shirt completely. No article of clothing must be touching any part of their skin, not even their big toe.
February 08 Adventures around the USWe're taking some downtime in Seattle right now before we head back to Texas for the last leg of our move overseas. Driving here from the East coast was definitely an adventure. Kenzie was awesome until the Seahawks lost the Superbowl...don't get me started on that subject. Being stuck in a car with Bodi all day long and then in a hotel room all night did have its moments but we're still in one piece and alive so I guess that's a good thing! Haha! I guess it didn't help matters that I was moody as hell and dealing with hellacious symptoms of morning sickness. Yes, you heard right...we have the most awesome timing in the world. When we were in Maryland for Bodi's training, we found out we're expecting another baby although he seems to think it's going to be a boy this time....we'll see...
I thought California was the best throughout the whole drive because I got to see numerous hawks and golden eagles, some deer grazing on the side of the freeway, and a gorgeous bald eagle taking flight. The mountains actually had snow on them and the air was crisp and fresh! Not to mention the pristine rivers rushing through the rivines and valleys...breathtaking!
I'll update more as I can and I'll leave you with one piece of advice...traveling cross country in a car with two cats is not a very wise idea. November 19 I got searched on Yahoo!I was looking in my stats and I noticed that I was found by a search on Yahoo! and here was the search criteria "Pictures of men and women peeing, pooping, and having sex." I found this disturbing but hilarious at the same time. Since I don't have any pictures of people doing any of those things, my only guess is my previous entries about the adventures in potty training and Kenzie's... uh, accidents. Now my next question is...who in their right mind wants a picture of someone taking a shit?!? October 31 Annual Awards BanquetJust got back from Oklahoma City where Navy Recruiting District of Dallas had their annual awards banquet. Kenzie was once again dressed like a princess, I was wearing a maroonish-purple evening gown that was simple but elegant, and Bodi was in his dress blues. This year I didn't have to be a "duty clapper" since Bodi and his coworkers at Navy Recruiting Station Carrollton earned a NAM (Navy Achievement Medal) for an exceptional job this year. Congrats guys! Kenzie was great considering the 3 hr drive to the hotel and she kept getting woken up from her nap by sailors cheering for their comrades while consuming all the alcohol they could get their hands on...considering there were over approximately 150-200 sailors, that can amount to the equivalent of a low roar! Kenzie was gracious enough to wait until her daddy was ready to receive his award before she woke up moody with a full diaper which ended up leaking all over my evening gown right before Bodi went on stage to get pinned. Atleast it gave me an excuse to go change into jeans as soon as he received his award! LOL...Goddess...you can never accuse me of being a girly-girl! Haha! After I changed into more comfy clothes and got Kenzie changed, it was time to let Kenzie blow some steam by running up and down the halls of the Sheraton hotel. On normal nights I'd think that would bother people but if anyone had the choice of listening to a bunch of sailors partying the night away or a two year old playing, I'm putting my money on the kid! Since last year was my year to party, Bodi got to go out on the town but keep in mine he was all ready at least 2 1/2 sheets to the wind by 10 pm. In the three years I've been married to him...four that I've known him...I've never seen him that drunk. He stumbled into the hotel room at around two in the morning somehow remembering daylight savings and turns the clock back in the hotel and proceeds to set the alarm for eight am. WTF?!? Habit I guess. If I though he was gone before he went out with his fellow sailors, I was sadly mistaken. He came back with a stick about 3 feet in length (don't ask me) and all he said about it is, "Kenzie likes to hold things." Wow.... Next he proceeded very quickly to the bathroom to pray to the porcelain gods. It must have worked because he woke up with no hangover and the only thing he said to that was, "It's cause I'm German, we don't get hangovers!"
Ah, the joys of a navy wife..... October 05 It doesn't go thereKenzie once again has done the unthinkable. Since my last post about her, I've made her go cold turkey and took her diapers way. Only "big girl" underwear from now on since she won't keep pull-ups or diapers on anyways. So far she only seems to take them down when she has to go and tonight was no exception. As I'm sitting here cruising blogs and listening to Kenzie playing and watching "Blue's Clues", I notice a grunting sound coming from behind me. I turn to ask Kenzie if she has to use the potty chair, instead I find her with her pants off and squatting in the middle of my living room..not peeing but POOPING!!! OMG! I guess it's a good thing she isn't sick or teething.... October 03 The ultimate wake-up callBeing a person who LOVES sleep when I actually get there, I like to sleep in. Kenzie on the other hand always wakes up before I do. This morning was no different. As usual she wakes up about 10:30 and sets out to wake up mommy. I'm really not liking this so I try to ignore her efforts, which I might add were pretty good. Around 11 she decides that she's had enough and she wants to be changed so she strips off her pull-up and pees, right there on the bed! UGH!  So much for trying to sleep in...September 29 It's good to be homeI'm back and I managed to stay out of trouble, which is a miracle. The wedding was beautiful and Kenzie managed to keep her diaper on the whole time...well, ok....almost the whole time. She only took it off once but that was during the cleanup of the reception (freaked the dj out though! LMAO!) The upside to us being there is she got to be around a lot of kids at once so she's well on her way to being potty trained, she's learned how to pick up her toys, and she has a new word...two. The downside for the new word is when I'm starting my "1,2,3 count" to let her know she's doing something she's not supposed to, I only get to one because she pipes in "two!". I'll get it right one of these days!
I'll get pics of the wedding up as soon as I can get them scanned. Hope all is well out there in cyberland.
It's good to be home! I guess absence really does make the heart grow fonder.
September 21 I'm outta here!I'm leaving in the morning for St. Louis to attented a friend's wedding. The wedding is going to take place outside in a park which I've never been to but the way it's been described to me is wildflowers galore and and I think a lake or two and about 150-200 in attentance. Somehow I've agreed to let Kenzie be the flower girl. I can just see this now...she'll be walking down the isle, stop half way down to investigate something and decide she no longer wants to wear her diaper. Hopefully I can keep her distracted enough with the camera and she'll make it all the way down without incident. If not, I'm gonna have some hilarious pictures...
The reception, that's going to be something all in its own. Being the good friend that I am, I said I'd help with the music since I have a computer with a cd burner. Now the fun part...since there's going to be a variety of people there and by saying that I mean rednecks, hillbillies, and city folks, I've been asked to mix country, southern rock and rap. This is going to be one interesting reception....
Since Flame's computer decided to go on strike, I won't be online until the 28th so everyone be good and stay safe.
P.S. If any of you get a call in the middle of the night from me, call Bodi and tell him to bail me out of jail. Don't worry, it was just me, Flame (the Bride), and Alcohol reuniting. September 17 She looks so much like an angelI was sitting here rocking my daughter and singing her to sleep when I looked down at her and realized just how perfect the world can be. She looked so much like an angel, it almost hurt to look at her. I just couldn't believe how perfect she looked right there, sleeping in my arms..and then I read my last blog entry and I snapped back to reality!
At my wits end... My daughter is 21 months old and she will not quit taking off her diaper. I've tried to remedy that by making her wear clothes in the house and "big girl panties" but they lasted a whole minute and a half. So then it was on to onsies and overalls...so far she hasn't figured out how to get out of those. That's great for when we're in public because she has only made it out the front door without a diaper or clothes once (the carpet repairman left the front door open and she tried to sneak out). At home it's very counter productive because I'm trying to potty train her and the less clothes she has to take off to use the potty the better. Now, that brings me to her actually using the potty. I've since moved her potty to the living room so it's easy for her to get to since I leave the bathroom door closed at all times..she's too curious for her own good. Instead of taking off her diaper and using her potty, she's peeing everywhere BUT the potty.  Ack! I am so at my wits end because I can't just keep her in diapers longer and I can't get her out of them. Someone?!? HELP?!?September 13 Be careful what you wish forToday my brain is mush from lack of sleep and I have no clue what to write so I've decided to tell about my adventure (if you could call it that) last night. It actually goes back further so I'll get you up to speed on the events which lead to last night.
I wanted my daughter to have fingerpaint but I know her and the messes that ensue with paints and a 21 months old so I decided to find a way around it. I've been looking for paints which she can use in the bath and if she gets them in her eyes it won't hurt, but having no luck finding them anywhere at Walmart or other stores, I found a recipe on the net which involved cornstarch, food coloring, and liquid soap. I'm thinking, "Great! I can just put liquid baby wash in there and that'll take out most of the sting!" So I set to work, even had her help me put it all together. We had fun, we had the walls colorfully COVERED with this homemade concoction. The next night after my husband gets out of the shower he comes to me and informs me the drain is clogged. Great, just great. I finally figured it out that massive amounts of cornstarch and drains don't mix.
So I've been working on unclogging this drain for about a week and a half (luckily we have two bathrooms here) by filling the tub and letting it slowly drain hoping to dissolve the cornstarch. This past Sunday I told my husband we needed to get our bedroom clean and the laundry done so I was going through the house doing chores and decided to run the hot water in the clogged tub while I went and cleaned the other bathroom real fast. Now being a fan of the Cowboys and since they were playing, I was back and forth watching the game between chores. One thing leads to another and about an hour later, my husband goes in our room for something and he notices the carpet is just SOAKED! At first I couldn't figure out why it was wet like that. Then I remembered the clogged bathtub and I rushed into the master bathroom. The tub was completely full and overflowing with standing water to my ankles. Half the padding under the carpet in our room had to be removed and now we're waiting for it to dry so the carpet people can come back in to put new padding in. What a mess! On top of it all, I was talking to a friend today and he said, "Just pour about 6 cups of boiling hot water down the drain, that'll unclog it." Thanks, good to know. In the end, my room got clean, the laundry had to get done so it wouldn't mold, and the drain finally became unclogged. So the moral of the story?
Always have fun when doing something because it might be the last time you'll ever be able to do it again, be careful what you wish for, have patience because the answer will come, and always do one thing at a time when you're a person who gets distracted easily.
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