ugh...

I just wrote a whole blog post and now it's gone before I pushed publish, ugh technology! So I will sum it all up.
Maleah and I are in Oregon while Tyler is out to sea for the last time, woohoo!!! Will be so glad when we are finished with this and Tyler has a normal job, not to say anything bad about the Navy, it has been good for us, but we are ready to be done.
It is nice to be in Oregon while he is gone, we are getting to see family and friends that we don't get to spend much time with. We are going to California to see my grandma in a couple weeks so that will be nice. We are trying to keep busy and have fun so time goes by fast. I signed Maleah up for parent/toddler swimming class today, we are doing it with our friends Dana and Shelby, it should be fun, too bad I have to get in too! She pedaled her little bike by herself for the first time the other day, glad we brought it because there is a lot of space to ride here.
Maleah is having a hard time adjusting to Tyler being gone, she is doing good with her potty training, she regressed for a day when we got here, but is doing great again. She doesn't want to go to bed at night though, it's a struggle every night, sometime til one in the morning. She cries and says she is sad for daddy. Breaks my heart, but she seems to be getting more used to it and has been falling asleep a little earlier the last few nights thanks to Grampy rocking her.
Well I am done for now, hopefully I will get better about posting on here!

long time no blog

Yikes, I looked on here thinking I hadn't blogged in like three months, oops the last was May, that is more like seven months, haha.
I have been meaning to start up again, I have no excuse for quitting, except for the fact that I didn't really have anything interesting to write, but whatever, I don't care anymore.
My sister started a blog today and posted it on facebook so our family can look at it, so I figured they may see my name on her blog and look at mine too. Thanks Kira!
Anyways not a lot going on, we have just been getting ready for Christmas, Maleah loves everything about it, the tree, the lights, and of course the presents. She asked me whose birthday it was, cuz if presents are involved it must be a birthday, so I told her it was Jesus birthday, not sure how to explain to a two year old, but I tried. All she really wanted to know was if he would let her blow out his candles, haha. She surprises me everyday with the things she comes up with.
We were so excited to hear that we are going to be able to go home to Oregon for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, and that one of Tyler's buddies at work switched duty days (staying all day and night on the submarine) with him. They have it every four days so he told Tyler he would stand his duty on Christmas Day, if Tyler stood his on New Years Eve. Sounds like fair game to me. Especially since New Years Eve we get to go have dinner with him on the sub. We are also going for a tour this weekend, it will be Maleah's first time on it, she is so excited, but she said daddy had to hold her so she won't fall in the water, haha.
Anyways I pretty much just wrote a very random post so I will try to stay on track next time. Goodnight for now!

P.S. For all you moms with little ones out there, check out www.mamabargains.com they have awesome deals, they feature one item at a time and once something is gone they post a new item, things go quick though. I have only bought one thing and that was today, I purchased Maleah two pairs of leg warmers for six dollars usually 12 a piece. So cute and if her legs are too long, the next girl baby shower I go to will receive them, haha!

catching up

I haven't blogged in a long time, I really don't have anything exciting to write about. We have just been busy with day to day things and working on our house. Tyler has been working on the yard a lot and sanding and painting all the kitchen cabinets. It was a lot harder of a task than we thought due to nicotine stains from the previous owner, no matter how much you sand, primer and and paint, it soaks through. So after many layers of paint they are almost finished.
Yesterday we had to drop our good friends Liz and Teagan off at the airport. It was a sad day, they are moving back to Florida and we are going to miss them a lot. Maleah and Teagan aka TT kissed each other goodbye and that made us all cry. Maleah told my mom last night on web cam, "TT bye bye airplane" and then she blew a kiss. Which made me cry again, then this morning she looked outside at her toys and said TT and Mema (this is what Maleah calls herself) up down up down (aka the teeter tauter airplane), I told Liz she will have to setup her skype account so the girls can talk. And we will have to go visit them along with all of our other friends that will soon be or already are in South Carolina.
Tyler will be going out to sea for a while this summer so I will spend most my time in Oregon with the family. It will be nice to be down there when it's nice out although I would rather Tyler just stay home and us stay here, but I don't have a choice because the Navy decides that for us.
I am starting to plan Maleah's second birthday party even though it's not til August, she is going to have a Minnie Mouse party. We will have a little one here in Washington and a big family one in Oregon. I am excited, she is even going to dress like Minnie. She loves her Minnie Mouse and birthday parties. We have went to a few of our friends birthday parties now she tell me, "Birthday me momma!" I can't believe she is going to be two already, crazy crazy crazy! Anyway the princess is calling and is up from her nap!

snow again, and other stuff!

I am so ready to be done with the snow for the year, I am not used to this much snow here or in Oregon, it's crazy. We went to the park yesterday for a picnic, blue sky, a little chilly but not freezing, then wake up this morning and it's snowing. I felt like I was grocery shopping in December.
On another note, Maleah is napping in her big girl bed right now, I am not sure what to think. I hope she doesn't wake up and freak out. She is used to sleeping with us and still has been, but I am breaking her into her bed for nap time until I get a rail up so she doesn't fall out, for now couch cushions are doing the trick.
Guess I better go do the dishes, or laundry, or something productive while she is asleep!

Seaside

This past weekend we met my parents and my two sisters and my sisters husband in Seaside. We got there at a decent time on friday, thanks to the Navy haha we were supposed to leave on thursday but the navy had other plans. He got off early on friday anyways and we got there about three. It was cloudy but pretty nice so we went to the beach and flew kites and played in the sand, it's a good thing because it poured and was super windy all day saturday. So we to eat at Pig and Pancake, then walked around and went in all the shops and got some fudge. Later that day we went to Moe's in Cannon Beach and then back to seaside and rode the bumper cars and carousel then played in the arcade for a few hours. After that we played some good skip-bo and ate junk food. It was fun, we were sure thankful for the arcade and inside activities. Then on sunday we went to Cannon Beach and walked around there before we left, it was cold but pretty nice on sunday imagine that. Oh well it was fun and we can't wait to go back.

sick baby

It is so not fun having a sick kid. I don't do well with vomit and last night at 11:30 that is just what she did in the middle of our bed. Then it continued throughout the night. I didn't know how to help her. I wasn't feeling the greatest myself and was in the bathroom more times than I would have liked to have been throughout the night also. Thank God my parents were here for the weekend so they were able to help out a lot. Thank you Mimi for staying up all night!!! Neither one of us have eaten much today, but she hasn't puked since about seven this morning, so hopefully we are over with that part. Laundry in the middle of the night is never fun. Poor baby!!!
Other than that we haven't been up to too much lately, just remodeling the bathroom and starting some other around the house projects, well Tyler does most of that. Anyways I should try to go get the little sicko to sleep, hopefully we have a better night tonight!!!

Teething!!!

Maleah has been super whiny lately and I finally figured out what is wrong. She keeps saying "owie mouth" so last night after giving her tylenol I looked in her mouth and she has her last four teeth coming in, (well not counting her two year molars). Teeth never bothered her before so I never thought that would be the reason until she started telling me. I am glad she is able to communicate to me what is wrong now, it's really nice to be able to fix the problem. I hope they come through soon, so she feels better and so I don't have a constant headache from whining. Anyways not too much else to blog about.
We went to Seattle today just for the fun of it. We rode the ferry over and ate lunch and walked around Pike's Place then walked around some more and came home. It was a nice adventure and Maleah had a good time.