Chicken Pox has arrived

As if it couldnt get any worse. Doug being gone for like ever, and this on top of it. sigh. Kalista came down with the chicken pox on Tuesday, confirmed Wednesday and I have been confined to my house ever since. well I had to go to court over my loser tenants that I had to evict, but other than that, I have been mostly hanging out here.

This was a crack me up from the other day. I went to the store, bought apples. I often buy fruit for Kiera, but she doesn't always eat it and I hate bananas and they often go to waste. anyway, she went to the bathroom (wha hoo) and she said "mummy, can I get apple for going pee pee on the potty?" ROFL....OF COURSE you can my darling...

I might not be posting pics for a while, as my camera has once again randomly cratered. grrr. I sent if off to be repaired. its too bad because I really should have gotten a picture of Kalista covered in pox, I have one, we all should....

the good news is: DOUG IS HOME THIS FRIDAY! WHA HOO! I have almost survived the entire time. and everything that can happen bad, pretty much has. non paying tenants, a crappy "vacation" to Miami, court dates, evictions AND a baby with the pox. and being stuck in the house with two small children virtually 24-7 for 6 weeks. I deserve an award :)

Kalistas Famous pics

DUh, why didn't I do this before? you can TOTaLLY tell its not her body in the second picture! how funny.

Mamamamamamama

Its Bathtime little Tiger!
I look goofy, but this was at the zoo on a fake camel: The one of Doug and Kiera is the only somewhat decent one I got of them on the carosel...goofy me. Kalista enjoying her first cookie. A picture Kiera took of Kalista, and when Kiera invaded my makeup and put it all over her face. oh yes, and the breastpump picture. Trying to get milk from a stone basically. HAHAHA.











Yesterday Kalista said MAMA, as CLEAR as a bell. I was thrilled. about time! and the amazing thing? I even managed to capture it on video!

Oh yeah and a big funny, I looked at Targets website and sure enough, Kalista is on there now. but what makes it funny, is that its not her body! LOL. they photoshopped her head. now I am wondering who the heck's body that is....here is another link: http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/sr=1-12/qid=1169396025/ref=sr_1_12/602-4320307-5905443?ie=UTF8&asin=B000K16B9S
I know it doesn't all fit, just copy and paste as best as you can. I am not sure why it doesn't allow live links on here, but then I am not super talented at this thing anyway....

Kalista our SuperModel baby!

okay, not really. BUT, hilariously enough this job she went to model for back in September, she got! They are suppose to release the product to Target this month, I was looking on Target, but not Boppy's site, well I went to look this morning and THERE SHE WAS! They took pictures of her in various positions for instructions, so its also possible she will be not just on the outside of the product, but the instructions as well! so now I just have to buy this product, even though clearly she is too old for it now. LOL. here is the link: http://shopboppy.com/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=3&products_id=94


Its been crazy here since Christmas. but we believe Kalista is saying Hi! and talking to DADADADADADA when she sees him. We went to Miami to see Doug, it was almost a complete disaster. I have considered writing out the details of the horrid trip, but it was to depressing. Suffice to say I hate Miami and the fact that NO ONE speaks English. I took a few pictures, but it wasn't very exciting. A few funny stories: we were eating calamari with marinara sauce, and Kalista was sitting on the table watching us. we gave her a piece to chew on herself which she was enjoying. She was watching us get marinara and she was so determined, she bent right over and dipped her own squid! sat up and ate it herself. it was pretty crazy!
I also got my feet down and brought the girls with me of course. it was a Vietnamese run place and I just let this nice lady hold Kalista while I got my feet done. The lady loved it. Kiera started to get a bit squirrly toward the end, so that same lady took Kiera and started to do her nails with a clear polish and did a little flower. Kiera sat there like an old pro, like she'd done it a thousand times, it was really quite comical. I wish I had had my camera handy. she was extremely pleased with her flower, needless to say.
We went to the zoo, and Kiera took some good pics. I was pretty tired by this point, but thankfully it wasn't overly sunny out or it would have been just too hot. we did have fun with daddy though, on his only partial day off.

I will post pics later.

More funny words

Pupcakes: cupcakes
Toast office: post office

I will add more when they happen. they just totally make me LOL.

Christmas, etc...

It has been a crazy month at our house! Doug has started his new job as of December 21st, but hasn't quit his old one. Basically he is using vacation and juggling some stuff to make it work with his new job. Which we are both pretty relieved about at this point, because things look a bit sketchy with the other job maybe even starting. So we will see.
To get to Doug's job was quite an adventure. we had a MASSIVE snowstorm that effectively cut off all air traffic and most driving. so my dh braved the weather, perhaps foolishly and drove to the nearest metropolitan city to fly out of. Our car is still sitting there and we are working on getting it repaired.

Christmas felt a bit anti climactic. Because Doug was gone so much, we barely had a moment to shop. The lovely Christmas I had envisioned of relaxing and having daddy around just did not exist. Instead Doug arrived Christmas Eve at 2pm and left Boxing Day at 9am again. So it has been just me and the girls and the baby who will not sleep. To say I am exhausted feels like a bit of an understatement. The thought of going anywhere is a bit overwhelming but the thought of staying here is also terrifying, so I will probably just suck it up and go and visit Doug at his training center.

Christmas Day was fun. We spent the night before wrapping presents and setting up the new track for Kiera's much anticipated train. I thought we had more track than we actually do, so we were only able to make one circle. Kiera came down Christmas morning and we had to turn her around for her to actually SEE her track, after which it was hard to pull her from it to even open her new presents. We bought her the Tickle Me Elmo Extreme edition, which both girls thought was pretty hilarious and smaller stuff, like Band in a box, etc. About half of the expected gifts had arrived from various other sources, because of the storm everything was really behind in terms of mail. the rest of it came on Friday after Christmas. So thank you everyone for the fun gifts for us and the girls. Kiera's other favourite gift was the rings and earrings from Cami and Deidre, which I personally find pretty hilarious, why is it that kids always love the most inexpensive thing the most! LOL! Grandma got them some nice warm jammies among other things and Nana got Kiera the plane to the Geotrax set. Kiera is quite pleased to have her own plane and one night while Daddy was away she slept with his figurine picture and that plane. It was cute but sad at the time time. It really makes me respect military mama's a lot more. I am not sure how they do this with daddy being gone all the time and having no help.

Funny words: Pakin for napkin and my current favourite: hangebur for hamburger. it sounds SO hilarious to Doug and I we can't help but call it the same thing....

Kalista is CLAPPING and its SO CUTE for words. She just figured out how to do it and she imitates us when we do it, and I have even asked her to clap for me and she has done it. She has definitely become more emotional when telling us what she thinks about things, yelling at the top of her lungs when she gets a toy taken away from her for instance (uh ummm....Kiera...). Kiera tries to be quite the little mum with Kalista, she brings diapers and hugs her when she is crying, always imitates what I am saying "I am coming! I'll be right there!" that kind of thing. in fact her parrotness only makes me MORE aware that I need to be very careful of what I say to anyone in our house. Like telling Bentley to shut up for instance when he barks (which is way toomuch to not be annoying), now I have to say BE QUIET BUBBEE, and she also tries to boss Bentley within an inch of his life as well. Its pretty funny actually.

Everything is up in the air in our house. I am not sure if we are going to be here a year from now, or if we'll be preparing to move or what. its kind of discouraging in some ways because I think it would be nice to actually put roots down somewhere for a while. but alas, I married an adventured and wanderer so I shouldn't expect anything less than a constant itch. I just hope we don't drive our kids crazy dragging them all over the world. Unlike Doug I would ideally like them to be able to say " we are from ______________", wherever that may be at some point in time.