What's a happenin?

So if you are one of the few who don't know, I am in the midst of starting my own business! It's called Spit Up Happens Burp Cloths. I am slowly but surely stocking up my website:

www.spituphappens.etsy.com

It is such a great release for me to be so wrapped up in something productive. Bryan comes home in 12 days but yet I am so busy that I am not able to just sit around thinking about how slow it's going by!!

Not white trash anymore.........

We finally got a NICE entertainment center!! This one is completely intact, it's not missing the top, the doors are not so crooked that they can't even shut...........IT'S NICE!! I am so excited. But the best part is my lovely lovely friends who voluntold their sweet husbands to come and move it for me!! It feels so good knowing that I have someone there just in case I need them. Usually I am the one to the rescue but it felt pretty good to be rescued tonight. :)

Here it is! :)

16 Days.....

I am starting to freak out a bit, my hubby comes home in 16 days.

Bagels are 5am exciting apparently.

5am......................I hear over the monitor.......Bagels? Alexis?

You have got to be kidding me?!!!!

Every Sunday Jayda and I drive to Mission Valley and have bagels with Jaine and her daughter Alexis and who ever else decides to get out of bed and come. Kelly has had her baby (Lauren Elizabeth for anyone who cares! :)) and so Jaine and I are the only die hards still going every Sunday. But last night when I put Jayda to bed, I DID NOT tell her tomorrow is Sunday, we are going to see Alexis. But apparently when she opened her eyes this morning at the butt crack of dawn, she KNEW where we were going!

Put me in the zoo...

Yesterday the animal lover and I took a trip to the zoo. We hit the zoo at least two times a week but yesterday was just different. To start off, it was flipping COLD! Apparently San Diegans don't handle the cold very well, we were two of the four people who went to the zoo that morning............NOT NORMAL for a friday. Like I said, not normal but GREAT for Jayda and I.

The VERY first thing we see when we go to the zoo is the flamingos (and the ducks who have flown in from the wild to mooch off of the flamingos........seriously). Jayda LOVES them and we spend about a half an hour just sitting and watching them.





The next was the Hippos, which are my favorite. We pretty much just go to the zoo for the hippos and the flamingos. Although Jayda took a pretty big interest in the monkeys this time too, and the turtles. Now that she can say the animals name's she is much more interested in them! But I digress----back to the hippos----So there was NO one down at the hippo exhibit so my little monkey got to get out of her stroller and follow the hippos along the glass. She was utterly amazed. There were two in the tank and they were chasing each other and playing, she just loved it! I should have brought her some popcorn!!

In my daughters eyes

Today as I sat Jayda down next to her toy shelf to pull her beloved lovies down for the 18th time today, I wondered what she thinks and will think of me in years to come. Now, I am greeted with sighs of relief, giggles and sometimes happy screams. I hope that she realizes that everything I do is for her. I have based my entire life around this little being that weighs only 18 lbs but can push me over in a second. Today she sat in her crib and watched me clean her room. Every once in a while she would get occupied with her pink rubber ducky but the majority of the time she was carefully watching what I was doing. It also became clear that we need to move the mattress of her crib down before she starts sleeping in there because she was able to pull herself up on the rails and could topple out VERY easily. I am hoping that the transition into her crib will be a smooth one. She is doing very well when she sleeps in her pack~N~play so hopefully she will do ok. I honestly think that it will be her worrywart mom that will freak out more than her. I am planning on moving her after Christmas, after Tammy and Jen leave. They will be sleeping in her room and so it would just be easier to keep her in with us. Well, I am hoping to write in this blog everyday and write down thoughts about being a mommy and my wonderful daughter.

Navy Wife

I wear no uniforms, no blues or army greens. But I am in the Navy in the ranks rarely seen. I have no rank upon my shoulders. Salutes I do not give. But the military world is the place where I live. I'm not in the chain of command, orders I do not get. But my husband is the one who does, this I can not forget. I'm not the one who fires the weapon, who puts my life on the line. But my job is just as tough. I'm the one that's left behind. My husband is a patriot, a brave and prideful man. The call to serve his country not all can understand. Behind the lines I see the things needed to keep this country free. My husband makes the sacrifice, but so do our kids and me. I love the man I married. Military is his life. But I stand among the silent ranks known as a Navy Wife.