Cannstatter volksfest part three

Cannstatter volksfest part deux!

Cannstatter fest!

haha Caelan

So as you can tell from the pictures below, Caelan loves popsicles! But don't worry, they are diet, sugar-free popsicles, even the chocolate one. (It's called Skinny cow lol) I told you that we harbored a kind of bad habit in him that if he is around and you are eating then he wants some too. I am trying to capture the moment when the popsicle first goes into his mouth because its freaking hilarious! The sudden realization of extreme cold is so cute. There are more pictures of the Garteschau I have to put up. We had the best time!

I love you!

chocolate popsicle fun

popsicle fun!

*blush*

Hello all! (Though I am sure the only one that still checks this is Adam) The KMCC is finally completed! Remember when we had the Right Start briefing when we got here and they said it would be done by X-mas 2006 LOL how about late summer of 2009...anywho, man how I wanted to hate it...I wanted to pride myself in never going in, never thinking about it, looking down on people who shopped there exclusively but my mom, being the consumer that she is, said You are taking me to the new BX!!! ( that was last night) and now my feelings toward the KMCC? well...it's amazing, spectacular, huge and EVERYTHING IS IN ONE SPOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That alone sold me. "What do you say? I can buy beef jerky, a lawn mower, new bed sheets, a plasma TV screen, new draws, and a bottle of Crown Royal IN ONE SPOT?!?!?" (not that any of those things were purchased by me) love it....so yea, I'm an American which = consumer...its a cultural thing, not my fault :P

So I hope you find a job soon and go to wherever it is you are supposed to be going...Caelan prays for his Daddy morning and night so you should be good to go :)

love you and miss you!

Indian summer

Usually, by this time, the air has turned crisper and its jacket weather. This seemed to be happening about a month-2 weeks ago. But then, its hot again! The morning is kinda chilly, like around high 40s but during the day its sunny and mid to high 70s. And its the end of September!! Crazy, I know but I am enjoying it! You know I am a sun baby. But on what I thought was the last warm day of the year, we cleaned out the little kiddie pool the neighbors gave us and gave little man a bath outside. Like everything, he was a little standoffish to the whole situation at first. "Um, this is not how I usually take a bath, Mom." But then of course he was slapping the water and kicking away, splashing and havin' a grand old time. Most of the pictures are not for Internet posting since it was a bath and little man is in his birthday suit but I got one post worthy one. Here it is!

Pishures!!!

Here are some pics from the awesome birfday party Caelan was invited to. I was his +guest.

H1N1 breakout...and other random musings :)

Bah, so for the last two days I have been feeling...off. Not like sick but just off. Throat kinda hurts, head kinda hurts, stomach kind feels sick...dunno. I hate the waiting, like if I'm going to get sick, well then COME ON, so I can get over it. To make matters worse, we are being directed to take the flu mist. The powers that be have decided that the flu mist is SO important that they felt that a picture of the wing commander receiving the flu mist-and I mean like full-on flu misty applicator thing up his nose-in the newspaper. Very odd. Oh, and by the way, its Hispanic heritage month! YAY! There had interviews with some random Hispanic people. It was sos funny cause one of the questions was, "What do you like best about being Hispanic?" LOL um, lawl wut? I would have said, "um being able to tan?" lol So what do you like the best about being white? haha I will take lots of pics of buddy tomorrow at the birfday party

Love you

Hello!

Sorry I haven't written in a long time. With the situation of your internet, I am not sure if you even have the opportunity to czech this. The season is definitely changing: the trees have begun to turn different colors and the air is crisper, especially in the morning. It is even begginning to smell like Fall, you know, that special Fall smell. Though I am not excited to put my summer clothes away so soon, I am excited for my favorite season. And if we are in a new season, it means that time has passed which means it is closer for you to come home, sigh. It feels like you will never be home. This Saturday we are going to Dorian's first birthday party and then Sunday we are going to watch some USO Sesame Street show. Zoe has begun to take a special interest in Caelan. Now she actually gets excited when she sees him. She runs up to him and starts smelling him and of course Caelan is super ecstatic. This is all for now. Saturday I will take my camera and take pictures of buddy playing with babies!

Haapy Birthday Daddy!!!

Today is your big day!!! Did you celebrate it by playing spades, lifting weights, eating at the chow hall, missing us? Sounds exciting...Today you are a quarter of a century old. I thank God for bringing you into my life and giving me the gift of finding my soulmate. I celebrate your life and our life since every year that you grow older is another year I get to spend with you. Yesterday I was talking to your Dad on skype and I was telling him about the sucky jobs for retraining and I said, "Well, I feel like any of the jobs I choose will be for me to get a retirement check and to feel as if the last 7 years of my life aren't a total waste of time." And he said, "Of course it hasn't. You met Adam and you had Caelan." That is so completely true and I am glad that he said that. I guess I hadn't thought of it that way. I really hope we get to talk to you today. We were thinking of going to the Frankfurt zoo but we decided to saty home to wait for your call. Sometime today I do need to make it over to the commissary but other than that I will be here. Today I started my humanities class. My instructor is an actor and, looking at his profile pic, super fabulous. lol Please please please please try to contact us today. I'll try not to completely hog you since your mom and your brother would like to talk to you...bah, I can't promise I won't be selfish, can't I blame it on the fact that I'm an only child :P

I love you so much and so does Caelan and so does my mama.

wakey wakey

Being woken up from a nap...don't feel bad for him , he had slept for two hours at that point!!!

2009 IS AWESOME!!!

I am so glad we have internet again!!!! Hector was so nice and patient, he seriously came over like five times including the web cam fiasco. Hopefully, there is nothing else that goes wrong with the internet until you get back. I really hope you get to wherver it isthatyou are going soon so I can start counting down the days. It is already turning cold here. I feel like I just put my winter clothes away and took my summer clothes out. Now I have to do the dance again, boo. I'm going to the Bernkastel-Kues wine festival tomorrow which should be interesting. I haven't gone to that one yet. I heard there is going to be fireworks which kinda sucks. You won't be there to hug and feel safe. Yes, I know it is completely ludicrous to be scared of fireworks but there have been stories of people being burned!!! Ok, yea, I'm dumb for being scared of fireworks...I love you! I am posting a video of buddy waking up from a nap...I love that little man, he is so awesome....

boo hoo

so my fear has come true...you are stuck somewhere in the pit of a cave with no communication. I just want you to know that we all love you and miss you so much. Please contact me as soon as you can. You are my saner side. :(

As promised

Here is a video of our happy little boy just woken up...sorry the video is so dark :(

Kinda sucks

So its kinda weird how we are both going off on this separate vacations without each other, huh? Kinda sucks. I promise to be good and eat all my vegetables and floss my teeth. I hope you have as much fun in El Paso as I hope to have in London!

someone likes music

The other day I let your son run free like the wind around teh living room and below are examples of where he spent around 30 minutes. He would stand up and bang against the strings to make noises or he would sit down and knock on the wood. All in all, it was very cute! :)

that last post was a booboo

After I posted the title I hit enter and I guess that posts the blog...will remember for future postings...anywho, this weekend was uneventful. We woke up early on Saturday because we were all geared up to go to the Speyer fest on a USO trip. Of course, we woke up at 0600 but didn't manage to get there until 0850 when the bus departed at 0900. To my surprise there was NO bus to be found...they ditched us!!! It is perfectly understandable if they had driven off exactly at 0900 on the dot...but they didn't evne though they were aware that there were people missing on the bus. Not only that, but if they expect you to be there 15 minutes prior, then they need to state so on the receipt!!! I was so frustrated. I am going to call USO tomorrow and figure out if I can get my money back...am I being unreasonable?

missed you...

:(

Missing you a lot lately...

The boy is one! Off to the doctor we go!

Today was Caelan's first year doctor appointment. It was funny because it was the first doctor's appointment that we've had that I didn't have a million and one questions. I got the sheet at first that had all the things you had to check off such as talking, walking, problem solving milestones. The communication was the first part and Caelan isn't doing ANY of those things yet. Made me very nervous. All the other milestones he has down pat, well except for the walking one. So your son is 24 lbs 2 oz., 35 inches long, and has a head circumference 45.5 inches. The doctor said he can get off of formula so we are gave him all whole milk today. The doctor did say that he wants me to call a place called EDIS or EDSI like education development something or other (don't worry I have it written down) because he is concerned that Caelan hasn't reached any of the communication milestones yet. I told him I thought that maybe it was because we spoke different languages to him but he said they should still reach the same milestones. So I guess the people from this place will come over and play games with him and test him out and see if he has special needs or if he needs speech therapy? It was all kind of vague but I am sure I will get the information when I call them. I'm not too worried about it, though. Caelan is a smart baby and I know he will speak when he wants to. Maybe he has nothing interesting to say right now...Ok, then off we were to get blood drawn for an anemia test (though by looking at chunky pants you could prolly tell that was going to be a negative) It was Randy's wife that was the lab tech which made me feel better about the whole thing. Blood drawn?! I was not looking forward to it... I had to sit in the chair and hold him tight while they pushed down the arm bar on us as if we were on a roller coaster (I felt almost the same nervousness as if I was actually going on a real roller coaster) and another tech was holding his other arm. Here comes the needle! and...YOUR SON DID NOT CRY AT ALL!!!!!!! And when I am saying not at all that's exactly what I mean!!! Not one little pouty lip, not frown, not one single tear. He was just looking at Joye (thats Randy's wife's name btw) like, "What is that thing? Can I touch it?" And it was an actual blood drawn, they filled a little test tube and all. Very proud of my strong boy. The off we go to shots...He was supposed to get five (!) but they were out of one (yes, what a surprise) so we decided to only give him three for now and wait to give him two when the other one came in. The shots, well the shots didn't go as well as the blood draw. It didn't help that there was a baby getting his shots in the bed next to ours before Caelan got his and this baby was screaming BLOODY MURDER! Caelan looked so worried like, "Mom, what are they doing to that baby?!" Kinda cute. So going into the whole thing he was already scared. After his shots, he cried for like 15 minutes. It was funny cause he would kinda stop for like 30 sec and then I would think it was over and then he would start crying again. We gave him some Tylenol and he has been sleeping a lot. Poor baby. Will let you know when I hear more about the EDSI or EDIS place. All in all, our son is the picture of health!

More of the afterparty

Crazy, wild times

the after party

Me and buddy had a crazy party afterwards...

Trepidation

So much pressure for a little baby!

the sweetest thing

It is so nice how Caelan truly picks me over others because I am his mama. Its a feeling that I don't think could be replaced by anything else in the world. Yesterday, he was crawling around upstairs and he took a wrong step and face dived into the floor. It wasn't bad, just a bump but it surprised him and he started crying. He immediately crawled over to me, stood up, and put his little arms around my neck. I was instantly sold. He didn't go to my mom, who was right there who spend a lot more time with him that I do. He came to me because I am his mama and he needed me to make sure everything was going to be ok. It might be selfish to relish this moment so much but I realize these are the moments in life that count, that make everything else worth it. I love my son and I love you.

Birfday singing

Hopefully it works today:

Videos and more videos

Lots of videos of Caelan on his big day! You can tell that the cake destruction did not go as planned.

Ok I am having technical difficulties so I'm goin to post them one by one...

Oh and by the way the show I like, No Reservations, has a Colombia episode! It's freaking awesome, watching atm..YouTube it! No reservations in Columbia (gggrr)

And a little something for you

Something funny I saw at the store for you:

Go-to Heidelberg

Yesterday we took Christina to Heidelberg aaaaall day. It was nice because we didn't rush in the morning to get out the door. I didn't wake up until the baby woke up. On to breakfast at the Barbarossa and then I drove to Heidelberg. The GPS made me kind of nervous because it would get all confused all of a sudden on the Autobahn but then it would be fine. Not sure what was going on. We did the castle thing BUT it was a nice day so we went on the grass in front of the sexy Zeus fountain and let him crawl around. He was so happy! It was funny because he was grabbing at the grass and tearing it out and crawling towards all the leaves on the ground. His pants got so dirty! Good thing we had brought a change of clothes for him. Then we went down to the Bier Brezel (yum, yum) and had lunch and we ordered Christina a jagerschnitzel and bratkartofflen which she thoroughly enjoyed. We looked around at the shops and eventually went home. The neighbors were kind enough to take Princess Zoe out while we were gone as we didn't come home until almost 10. Anywho, here are some pics!

sexy spam?

I just got this email:

Looking for a Beautiful boyfriend
Handsome boy,How are you ?My name is Michelle. I'm 18. I have been looking for their Prince Charming, Experienced so many ups and downs, Really tired, I dream of when he came to my side?This is my photos If you like me . Please give me your photo and Phone Number. I will call you.Thank you !

What the hell? There is an attachment and I really want to open it but I'm sure its a chinese hacker...

rain rain go away

It has been super rainy lately and just overall muggy. Tonight was no different. We decided to venture out to Burg Nanstein Jazz Fest. It started at 8 but we thought, "Bah, Caelan loves partying." Well, we got there and Christina loved the view. The sooped up the outside area really nice. There was some metrosexual dude serving homosexual drinks and, of course, your beer guy. The baby was in the stroller so I went to go in the castle to see what the situation was. So yea, turns out that the price was 22 euro oh and yea that was per person. So we didn't go in. For the trip to not be entirely wasted we decided to sit down and have something to drink(On another note, I hate being the only driver now) and then it started to rain...fabulous. We had our drinks (I had a cappuccino, don't judge me) and by that time the rain stopped. Now we came home and I see I missed your skype message, sucks. But don't feel too bad for me. Now we are watching Chicage and drinking Parisian champagne. :)

ok ok here it is

Ok unfortunately I have to start this one off with some bad news...Wolfgang called and said he didn't get the rent so I am thinking we (meaning I) prolly fudged the numbers with the exchange rates soooo we only have 814 in the SCU soooo we have to come up with 1421...pretty sweet. Good thing you ain't spending no monies, right?! yea I'll set it to .67 for now, exchange rate has been going from .68 to .69 lately...i did hear some good news! I was reading the lates Star magazine (someone left it in the lobby, don't judge me!) and it seems Tim Burton is doing a remake of Alice in Wonderland and Johnny Depp is going to be the Mad Hatter! I hope someone will want to watch with me if it comes out before you come back...still no takers for being my date to Harry Potter :( man, am so lame....

ah memories

drinking rose reminds me of piazza novona and you...that was one of the best nights of my life...i love you.

funny occurences

Today I spent almost all day at the vegetable market/BX/commissary, you can just imagine how much fun that ended up being. We bought all the week's vegetables at the little vegetable market in Weilerback out by the Baeckerei. It was pretty cheap besides the fact that the exchange just keeps dropping..sucks. I know all that stuff is grown locally so I am doing my part to dimish our carbon footprint. Iknow you are so proud of me, babe. (lol) Then on to the BX to buy the GPS. It ended up being $395. I didn't buy the top of the line one cause it just had bluetooth, voice recognition, and landmark view; these are all features I felt were not worth shelling over another 100 buckaroos. Two funny things I saw: first, a guy wearing the funniest shirt I have seen in a long time. The top said: DaVinci Cod and then it had a picture of Mona Lisa holding a fish. So random. Second, we were eating at the food court and there was a guy with a camouflage hat with bud light bottle caps decorating the whole bill. Like, he had taken the time out of his life to fold the bottle caps around his hat and then worn this in public. Pretty awesome.

I guess you are out in field training since I have not heard from you. We were waiting last night for your Skype call. Caelan stayed up until 10 but then he was way too tired so I had to put him to bed. I wake up to no messages. This sucks. I hope I hear from you soon. I was so bored last night. My mom was watching the Goonies which I HATE. The only good part now is that the little Asian kid kinda looks like Al which cracks me up.

Oh, next weekend we are going on a USO tour to this place called Lucerne in Switzerland. Should be pretty fun. It's just a day thing. And then the day after!!!! Our baby is one year old!!!! I am making him a cake and I am going to plant it in front of him and just let him go at it. Of course, I will take lots of pictures, probably a cake.

Hope to hear from you soon. I love you.

omg

I got a freaking B MINUS on my first essay...so upset....

Noob

So I got an email from My English teacher today. Something to the tune of: "Yea, it was really cute how you tried to turn in an entire essay citing the wrong author the entire time...um, and by cute I mean dumb, so try again." So yea, I got to feel really special as I proofread my essay and changed the the name of the author whose essay I am arguing against. I cited it just about, oh, only twenty times. Pretty awesome. But at least she is letting me fix it before she grades it. And another thing, she nixed my Holocaust denial idea for an essay. She said it was too broad so am thinking of doing it on Apocalypto and how peeps think that it makes Mayans seem violent. Dunno, if people came and raped and plundered my village I would be pretty mad too but at the same time how are the crops going to grow back if humans aren't sacrificed to the sun god? Quite a conundrum, if you ask me. More to come on this...

and you're gone

yep, woke up waay to early after getting almost no sleep to meet you at the airport. I've been sad but not break down sad. I cried when you left and after walking away from the gate but mostly now I feel a void or like chronic sadness. This sucks. I know it will get better but still...Isaw your stupid house loafers that you hate and they made me cry cause then I thought we should wash them and put them away. I already have things to tell you like I can't believe I actually got lost coming back from Frankfurt! I stayed on the 60 too long and didn't notice until I saw signs for Ruedesheim am Rhine...d'oh! So what? We took the extra long way and looking at beautiful German countryside made us all feel better, especially Calean who fell asleep. Thess sent me an email saying she got you some doobies but forgot to give them to you yesterday. I'll send them to you once you get to the desert. Not looking forward to his weekend besides that I get to wake Caelan up. We might have a goal day so was thinking of doing something like maybe Bostalsee or Koeln or Frankfurt. We'll see. Definitely getting a GPS this weekend and stashing away so no tricksies can steal it this time. I added some pics from today. I hope you have a nice flight and saw a good movie...transformers maybe? lol I love you.

It is upon us...

It's here...well, almost here and while I still feel that the certainty of your absence is still not apparent to me, it is looming over my head. Kind of like the big grey clouds that have been around for the past week or so. So it is Sunday and you leave on Tuesday, still making last minute plans, still running around trying to get stuff done when you should just be at home not worrying about those things because they are already done...ggrrr. You already know my feelings on the obvious failure of your UDM. Anywho, I am posting some pics of us over some years to include our very first family portrait. I love you.