Savannah Update

Well yesterday I took Bean in for her 18 month checkup-a month late but at least I was relatively close. That whole broken arm thing really caused a lot of scheduling issues. Anyway, she seems to have finally slowed down the weight gain (yippee!) and even lost 2 whole ounces. She did however grow 2 whole inches since her last appointment 4 months ago. I was amazed. She is off the charts for height and weight for her age, and I literally mean off the chart. She is just her crazy wild self, a real screamer (which by the way I am completely over). I dream about silence. She loves to swim and you really do have to watch her closely at the pool as she just goes and jumps in. It doesn't bother her at all to get her head submerged and she just loves it. I am halfway through my pediatric rotation and really loving it, but have seen some really sick kids which just makes me appreciate my screamer that much more. Cheers!

Weezer's Birthday

We had another birthday while Mom was here, hers!!!! We took her to a Brazilian steakhouse where they bring out meat on these huge skewers and cut pieces off for your plate. They also have a to die for buffett area with everything from lobster bisque to rice and beans to salmon and olives and cheese. Needless to say we all left a size larger than when we entered. We will definitely hit this restaurant again, plus it was at the beach and was a beautiful night. The last time we spent Mom's birthday together we climbed Mt. Fuji, so this year was a bit more low key, but fun just the same. I'll have to step it up for the next one we spend together, maybe skydiving (yeah right!!!!)

Happy Birthday to Jack!!!!

We celebrated Jack's birthday at a place called Pump It Up. It is an indoor inflatables playground. He only had one other family of friends there as the other kids he wanted to invite live in Maine, Hawaii or Japan. Sometimes it is so hard to be a military kid. This place was loads of fun though and they really do take care of everything. You play for an hour first on all the inflatables and then go to your party room for cake, ice cream and presents. They even have a huge blowup king chair for the birthday kid to sit in. After last year's very low key birthday celebration, this year really was over the top. All the grown ups even jumped or ran the obstacle course, which I did three times and ended up so sweaty by the end. The major catastrophe of the day was when the cake fell apart but you can't even tell, they did a great job of reconstructing it as good as possible.

Geese in the Pond

Well they say that geese fly south in the winter for that warmer weather but apparently these geese love heat and humidity because they haven't left our area yet. The other day we had 22 geese around our little pond. I think if they all got in at the same time the pond would possibly overflow! They are sure beautiful from a distance though.

Happy 4th of July!!!!!

Well we finally had a relaxing day with not a whole lot going on. We were waiting for night to fall so we could finally bring out the fireworks for everyone. We started off with sparklers and then moved on to the big stuff. We had about a half hour of stuff and had a lot of fun. Even Savannah stayed up for quite awhile (way, way past her bedtime) and watched the show. Then we sat on the back screen porch and watched what everyone else was launching. A bunch of folks within a couple mile radius of us shoot off quite a few large shells and we had a good time watching. At ten we finally decided to round up the boys and get them to bed, Tristan of course went without any coaxing, he was pooped out. Jack wasn't quite ready to head to bed though so he watched a bit of the Boston Pops show. Then Jaesen came running inside shouting that there was a fire behind the house. I went outside and sure enough just behind one of the houses behind us was quite a large brush fire. Jaesen got into long pants and flight boots and grabbed a shovel. I knew our neighbors were gone so I grabbed our hose reel and headed out behind Jaesen. He went and threw dirt on the fire until the fire department showed up and I watered the neighbors backyard down. It came within about 40 feet of their backyard. Then we decided to go over and meet our new neighbors who moved in two days before. We promised them that we don't have this kind of fireworks show often, only for the most special of neighbors! That was the big excitement for our neighborhood last night though. Jaesen's parents left on Thursday after helping us out for a couple weeks while I am in school and the kids had a bunch of fun with Cappie and Gran. Weezer comes in tonight and hopefully Pops will be here on Wednesday for a bit, so the kids are being spoiled with grandparent love. You can never go wrong with that.