Welcome!!
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
I just wanted to say welcome to all of my new followers who have ventured over here from the MilSpouse Blog Hop. If I haven't made it over to your blog yet don't worry I will get there as soon as I get a chance! It has been a long time since I went through and told you all about our crazy life so I figured now was as good of a time as any!
KS and I have been together since I was in 10th grade and he was a senior in high school (15 and 18 years old). We met during our humanities class and within a few months of meeting we started dating, but never "officially". I will get to that in a minute. We spent the next two years joined at the hip, he worked at a local tire shop and went to college while I worked part time at Subway and finished up high school. We had always planned to get engaged on our second anniversary so that is exactly what we did. KS took me out to a wonderful restaurant and we enjoyed an amazing dinner followed by a walk on the riverfront. He purposed there next to the river it was the only "official" thing he ever asked me since he never asked me to "go out" or to be boyfriend and girlfriend we always just were. So on January second of my senior year in high school it was official KS and I were engaged, then things got interesting... Almost a month to the day later we found out the big news, I was pregnant. To me it seemed like the end of the world, I was devastated. I had been on the pill and it had failed. This was not where I wanted my life to take me, I had other things that I wanted to do but this was the hand God had dealt us and I refused to make anything short of the best of it. KS on the other hand was thrilled he had always wanted to become a father and his dream was coming true. Now I am not saying that I didn't want to be a mom, I always did its just that its not what I wanted at that particular time in my life. What came next was no surprise, and shotgun wedding. literally. We were married and living together as husband and wife a month and 3 days after telling our families. My 18th birthday followed my wedding my 20 days and I graduated high school two months after that. We found out that we were going to be blessed with a son right before I graduated. During my 5th month of pregnancy I spent two weeks traveling Europe with some of my class mates, it was a wonderful trip and one I will never forget. So many people said I couldn't go due to my pregnancy but boy did my OB and I prove them wrong. I continued working at Subway until the end of August, I was due September 27 and spending hours and hours on my feet each day was starting to get to me. I then became what I had always wanted to do I became a stay at home mom. Kiale was born September 21st one week to the day before his due date on a beautiful Sunday morning. (Kiale's birth story) Nine months after Kiale's birth we found out we were expecting again, I always wanted my children to be close in age and 18 months apart sounded perfect to KS and I. Thankfully I was able to conceive right away and our second son was born on March 15th via induction 2 weeks before his scheduled due date because of macrosomia. (Colin's birth story) We were happy and content being a family of four until three years ago when we decided to add to our family one more time, KS and I both wanted to have a daughter and the boys wanted a little sister. The craziest things was that before I even became pregnant Kiale would tell us that the baby was going to be a girl. That boy just knew he was going to have a sister, thankfully God decided to grant our prayer and on September 3rd our daughter Cayleigh-Grace was born. (Cayleigh-Grace's birth story) That November following her birth we mentioned to my family that we were considering KS joining the Army. We discussed it over a bonfire and some chili but it never went any further than that until the following August. After fighting the economy and knowing that our family was going no where fast we decided to take the plunge and sign up. KS enlisted in August and left for basic training in November. A month and a half ago I packed up our family and moved out west to rejoin my husband while he completes his AIT. Coming from someone who lived within 15minutes of most of my family this has been quite an adjustment, but thankfully it is all going well and the kids love it here. We will PCS again to our permanent duty station some time this fall. I am just hoping for somewhere warm and closer to home.
KS and I have been together since I was in 10th grade and he was a senior in high school (15 and 18 years old). We met during our humanities class and within a few months of meeting we started dating, but never "officially". I will get to that in a minute. We spent the next two years joined at the hip, he worked at a local tire shop and went to college while I worked part time at Subway and finished up high school. We had always planned to get engaged on our second anniversary so that is exactly what we did. KS took me out to a wonderful restaurant and we enjoyed an amazing dinner followed by a walk on the riverfront. He purposed there next to the river it was the only "official" thing he ever asked me since he never asked me to "go out" or to be boyfriend and girlfriend we always just were. So on January second of my senior year in high school it was official KS and I were engaged, then things got interesting... Almost a month to the day later we found out the big news, I was pregnant. To me it seemed like the end of the world, I was devastated. I had been on the pill and it had failed. This was not where I wanted my life to take me, I had other things that I wanted to do but this was the hand God had dealt us and I refused to make anything short of the best of it. KS on the other hand was thrilled he had always wanted to become a father and his dream was coming true. Now I am not saying that I didn't want to be a mom, I always did its just that its not what I wanted at that particular time in my life. What came next was no surprise, and shotgun wedding. literally. We were married and living together as husband and wife a month and 3 days after telling our families. My 18th birthday followed my wedding my 20 days and I graduated high school two months after that. We found out that we were going to be blessed with a son right before I graduated. During my 5th month of pregnancy I spent two weeks traveling Europe with some of my class mates, it was a wonderful trip and one I will never forget. So many people said I couldn't go due to my pregnancy but boy did my OB and I prove them wrong. I continued working at Subway until the end of August, I was due September 27 and spending hours and hours on my feet each day was starting to get to me. I then became what I had always wanted to do I became a stay at home mom. Kiale was born September 21st one week to the day before his due date on a beautiful Sunday morning. (Kiale's birth story) Nine months after Kiale's birth we found out we were expecting again, I always wanted my children to be close in age and 18 months apart sounded perfect to KS and I. Thankfully I was able to conceive right away and our second son was born on March 15th via induction 2 weeks before his scheduled due date because of macrosomia. (Colin's birth story) We were happy and content being a family of four until three years ago when we decided to add to our family one more time, KS and I both wanted to have a daughter and the boys wanted a little sister. The craziest things was that before I even became pregnant Kiale would tell us that the baby was going to be a girl. That boy just knew he was going to have a sister, thankfully God decided to grant our prayer and on September 3rd our daughter Cayleigh-Grace was born. (Cayleigh-Grace's birth story) That November following her birth we mentioned to my family that we were considering KS joining the Army. We discussed it over a bonfire and some chili but it never went any further than that until the following August. After fighting the economy and knowing that our family was going no where fast we decided to take the plunge and sign up. KS enlisted in August and left for basic training in November. A month and a half ago I packed up our family and moved out west to rejoin my husband while he completes his AIT. Coming from someone who lived within 15minutes of most of my family this has been quite an adjustment, but thankfully it is all going well and the kids love it here. We will PCS again to our permanent duty station some time this fall. I am just hoping for somewhere warm and closer to home.
20 Months!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Yesterday was Cayleigh-Grace's 20 month day, it doesn't seem possible that I gave birth to this 10 lb. 7.8oz baby girl that long ago. If you would like to read how I gave birth naturally while in a birthing tub in a free standing birthing center you can find it here. There is also a slide show of her birth on that page as well.
At 20 months Cayleigh-Grace is blossoming into a little girl every day. She has changed so much just within the past 6 months, and I find myself in awe of her each and every day. She is up and running now, and don't let her size fool you, this girl is fast. We have a galley kitchen and on the other side is a long hallway so her favorite thing to to run in circles though the kitchen and living room and then down the hallway making circles while you chase her. She loves it. She already knows how to pillow fight with you and how to how to tell you NO if you are not doing exactly what she wants you to do. She will even smile on cue now!
Her vocabulary is growing every day, I still have to translate it for most people but we know what she is saying. Her words are, Bell Bell (Tinkerbell), No, Thank you, Toe, Bye Bye, Hi, Uh Oh, Puppy Dog, Kiale, Daddy, Mommy, Kitty, Dou (Shoe), Baby, Num Nums (food, or snack), Bir (bird), gone gone, and Nummy. I am sure she is saying more than that but that is about all I can think of at the moment. Some days it seems like all I hear is "No Mommy, No!" and let me tell you she has those words down pat!
Things she doesn't like... getting her teeth brushed, having her face washed, not getting to ride in her stroller, green beans, fish (depending on how we cook it), having to stay out of her brothers room and when we come home from the park.
Some of her favorite things are... Tinkerbell, chicken, macaroni and cheese, fruit snacks, sharing my Green Monsters, swinging, dancing, getting to sleep with Mommy and Daddy at 2am, snuggling, playing with the dogs and her brothers, and her blankets... all 4 of them.
Cayleigh-Grace definitely has a mischievous side, she can open all of the doors in the house open her cup as well as get an entire gallon of milk out of the refrigerator and open it. Thankfully she hasn't tired pouring it... yet. We have to keep the boys bedroom and bathroom door locked. If we leave their bedroom unlocked she will go play Godzilla in their room with whatever she can get her hands on and she will even climb into the top bunk and then freak out because she cannot figure out how to get down. She can open the dogs crate as well as the back door and the sliding screen door (she can unlock that one too) This girl is quite the handful! She understands anything and everything you tell her. She is just amazing.
She wears size 6 shoes and anywhere from 24 months pant and shorts to 3t shirts and 4t sleeper dresses and regular dresses if I want them long. She is still in size 4 diapers and size 2t-3t pull ups. I thought I was going to start potty training her since she can say poo poo whenever she goes poop or pee but she has no interest what soever in going to the bathroom on the toilet so I figure I will just wait until we PCS this fall this way I don't have to worry about regression.
She has finally weaned herself off of breast milk, it has been a week now since she nursed last. She will pat my chest sometimes and say num nums but the last time she tried I was already dried up. I was in tears last night when she asked for it. It absolutely broke my heart that she wanted to nurse and I couldn't give her anything. She just kept patting my chest and then she would say gone gone and lay her head down. I will admit my heart is breaking over it, but I know it will get better. Thankfully she still loves to snuggle and get in her mommy time.
Since it is too cold out this morning to take pictures I will just leave you this this video I took a couple of days ago, enjoy!
Her vocabulary is growing every day, I still have to translate it for most people but we know what she is saying. Her words are, Bell Bell (Tinkerbell), No, Thank you, Toe, Bye Bye, Hi, Uh Oh, Puppy Dog, Kiale, Daddy, Mommy, Kitty, Dou (Shoe), Baby, Num Nums (food, or snack), Bir (bird), gone gone, and Nummy. I am sure she is saying more than that but that is about all I can think of at the moment. Some days it seems like all I hear is "No Mommy, No!" and let me tell you she has those words down pat!
Things she doesn't like... getting her teeth brushed, having her face washed, not getting to ride in her stroller, green beans, fish (depending on how we cook it), having to stay out of her brothers room and when we come home from the park.
Some of her favorite things are... Tinkerbell, chicken, macaroni and cheese, fruit snacks, sharing my Green Monsters, swinging, dancing, getting to sleep with Mommy and Daddy at 2am, snuggling, playing with the dogs and her brothers, and her blankets... all 4 of them.
Cayleigh-Grace definitely has a mischievous side, she can open all of the doors in the house open her cup as well as get an entire gallon of milk out of the refrigerator and open it. Thankfully she hasn't tired pouring it... yet. We have to keep the boys bedroom and bathroom door locked. If we leave their bedroom unlocked she will go play Godzilla in their room with whatever she can get her hands on and she will even climb into the top bunk and then freak out because she cannot figure out how to get down. She can open the dogs crate as well as the back door and the sliding screen door (she can unlock that one too) This girl is quite the handful! She understands anything and everything you tell her. She is just amazing.
She wears size 6 shoes and anywhere from 24 months pant and shorts to 3t shirts and 4t sleeper dresses and regular dresses if I want them long. She is still in size 4 diapers and size 2t-3t pull ups. I thought I was going to start potty training her since she can say poo poo whenever she goes poop or pee but she has no interest what soever in going to the bathroom on the toilet so I figure I will just wait until we PCS this fall this way I don't have to worry about regression.
She has finally weaned herself off of breast milk, it has been a week now since she nursed last. She will pat my chest sometimes and say num nums but the last time she tried I was already dried up. I was in tears last night when she asked for it. It absolutely broke my heart that she wanted to nurse and I couldn't give her anything. She just kept patting my chest and then she would say gone gone and lay her head down. I will admit my heart is breaking over it, but I know it will get better. Thankfully she still loves to snuggle and get in her mommy time.
Since it is too cold out this morning to take pictures I will just leave you this this video I took a couple of days ago, enjoy!
Magic
Monday, May 3, 2010
I took this with my phone today. This is what makes all of the hard times worth it...
This is frequently the scene in my truck or even while we are taking walks with her in the stroller. She is in love with her brothers and they are in love with her. This is how having siblings should be, it should be like a magical bond that can never be broken.
MilSpouse Blog Hop!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Hi! Welcome the MilSpouse Blog Hop sponsored by....
I am Charity. My husband, KS, and I have been married for 7 years now and together for 9. We have been living the Army life for about 6 months now and we just did our first PCS out west to rejoin my husband while he attends school. We have three amazing kids, Kiale who is 6 1/2, Colin who is 5, and Cayleigh-Grace who will be turning 20 months on Monday. We also have two lazy dogs Zoe our Cocker Spaniel, and Emi our Miniature Pinscher.
If you take a look around my blog you will see a series I have done called "Labor Views," it follows along with my views and aspirations to one day become a Midwife. My husband has chosen this career for the long haul so maybe in 20 years or so I will get a chance to accomplish my goals. Right now all I want to do is enjoy my husband while I have him home and raise my kids right in this crazy world. I also love to sew and read.
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