Aren't Weekends Supposed To Be Easier?

Oh, what a day. Another early morning filled with the smell of fresh baby poop. Not so bad, however, after getting on formula it has become quite a stunner changing the diapers. And to top it off, Kendall needed a diaper change of the same kind this morning. Hers was pretty bad and it should have been a warning of what was to come but I didn't see the sign I guess. Will had called to say he was coming home for a little bit and I was making pancakes, by the way, the multi-grain pancakes from Costco that may sound good and also healthy, bad idea!!! They aren't just multi-grain, the have seeds in them, like flax seed and all kinds of other seeds and they are whole so when you bite into your pancake, it is pretty crunchy, I couldn't eat them. Cassidy has like 4, of which I was shocked and Will ate some too but I couldn't handle the crunch. Anyways, as I am making pancakes, Kendall comes into the kitchen and says, "mommy, my tummy doesn't feel good", followed by the sound of puke hitting the floor. I spun around super fast and saw her standing with her hands on her knees bent over. I pulled her hair back and yelled for Cass to get a hair tie asap. After she got the hair tie and it was in Kendall's hair so she didn't puke in it, I ran for the sick bowl (yes, we have a sick bowl). After she was done, she looked ta me and said "I feel better now" lol. I am glad you do kid because I no longer am loving the morning I was having :) I cleaned her up, followed by the floor and had her lay on the couch. Will finally walked in at that moment, just in time to witness another round of sickness. She said the same thing too...."my tummy hurts", only this time there was no splatter sound, mainly because it was on my rug!!!! So, Will cleans her up while I get out my trusty little green machine. Thank God I had one, I haven't used it a ton but I loved having it around this morning!!!! The rest of the day was pretty much the same. Cass and I escaped for a bit and got some groceries from the commissary, some things that Costco didn't have yesterday. I was almost tempted to take Kendall to the doc to check her out for Swine Flu but Will keep telling me it was not necessary. In my mind though, I kept flashing back to her licking the Target cart yesterday, ewwww, and thinking that she got the flu from that and now we were doomed. She seems fine so far tonight but we will see how the rest of the night goes.

He won't be coming home

Today Will let me know that the higher-ups denied his chit to be able to come home, so until he graduates at the end of this month, he is staying in the barracks :( Today was a great day though other than that disappointing news. I had a follow-up meeting at Cassidys school to discuss her IEP and it went really well. And besides all the educational talk, they let me know that she constantly talks about how one day she will be Miss USA, lol. I swear, you let the girl watch an hour of a beauty pageant and now she has won the title in her mind :) Before that and while Cass was in school I took the other 2 grocery shopping and to Target. I took back the stupid sewing machine that never worked and decided to get a Snugli for Hayley. I have no idea where I put the one from Kendall. I wanted a sling for her but I figured they are more money and she will grow out of it faster so a snugli it is. Anyways, while I was there I decided to pick out my mothers day cards. I started crying, even at the stupid ones no one buys!!! Hello, am I still pregnant, for goodness sakes suck it up woman, lol. People were looking and I am thinking it was not for the cute baby but for the crazy 27 year old woman crying at a horribly written mothers day card :) Costco was uneventful. I will say this though, I have never had a day where everyone was so nice and helpful. I had numerous people opening doors or helping me get things off shelves, one guy even helped put Kendall in the cart since I had Hayley in the snugli and was trying to not have her fall out of it or have Kendall smash her. I was really impressed, normally California people are pretty darn rude, at least after living in the mid-west. Tonight was really special too, Cassidy had her first dance!!!! She went to a Father/Daughter dance. Will wore his uniform and Cassidy got all dolled up in a cute dress and curls in her hair. Again, like a crazy sap, I cried while curling her hair. And after Will got back home to drop her off (yes, he had to go back to the barracks tonight too), he showed em a picture they had taken and I couldn't even look at it because my eyes were clouded with tears. What the heck is wrong with me? I swear I am crying over everything, it is starting to drive me nuts!!!! I am sorry if this post seems random and all over the place too, it is late, I am exhausted and it seems like a ton of stuff is in my head all at once, so I feel like I am not making any sense :)

Still Alone

Will didn't get to come home last night, he didn't hear anything about his chit. He didn't even get done with everything until almost 10 anyways so I guess even if he was able to come home, he would have come home only to sleep. Other than that, things are good. I am having a very hard time with getting Cassidy to do her homework, she wont even try anymore, no matter what I say. We have tried to persuade her with buying her a bike for her birthday but that only worked for maybe a couple of days and she doesn't care of we take things away. She does when they get taken away but not enough to actually try and not get to that point. I don't know what to do anymore, do I get her a tutor? She is only 6, it shouldn't be this hard!!!

Swine Flu

This whole Swine Flu thing is starting to worry me. This morning a little boy in Texas died from it and now they said 1 Marine here has it and 39 others are quarantined. Hayley is just so small and has issues gaining weight and all that, it just makes me nervous that she is more susceptible. On other news, Will might get to come home tonight!! I talked to him last night and one of his Chiefs told him to put in a chit to go to phase 4 so he can start coming home. I guess with all that is happening with Hayley, they feel he should be home. I am starting to like his command a little more and more these days :)

Hayley Update

So, as I have mentioned before, after birth Hayley lost quite a bit of weight and was having a hard time getting it back on. So, that means we have had numerous doc visits since then and so on Friday I had to be back to have her checked out. While there they weighed her and she had lost more weight!!! So, they immediately admitted her to the hospital. Thank God for my mom and husband!!! My mom picked up Cass from school and came to the hospital and Will was able to get there too, right before my mom showed up. Seeing them made me cry but if they hadn't been there, I don't know what I would have done. My mom took Cass and Kendall back home and they had a party (Kendall cant stop talking about her party with Grandma) while Will and I stayed with Hayley. They did a catheter on her to get a urine sample and she was put on a strict feeding schedule. She started doing really well with the preemie nipples they were using. So, I was told to get those nipples for home as well because she was working too hard with the other nipples I was using and was using too many calories to try to eat. We were discharged on Saturday afternoon and I was back there again yesterday for a follow-up. She had gained some weight so the doc was very happy, and I was too!!! She still has a murmur and I guess it has gotten stronger so they are wanting me to take her to a cardiologist. It has been a very scary weekend!!!!

What Is Going On?

For the past 2 days I have heard what sounds like bombs going off. I know we live on an active military base and that training is going on but seriously, bombs? It seriously sounds like when the reporters are in Iraq and you hear the bombing behind them as they report, lol. However, I am the only one who seems to be concerned at all. Not that I am concerned for my safety, obviously I know it is nothing like that but this is the first time I have heard this since moving here so it isn't a normal thing but no one else seems to be outside wondering what the heck is going on. I want to know what it is, haha.

An Official Family of 5!!!

It has been a long time since I wrote last and in that time, I had the baby!!!! Hayley Marie Hall was born on April 3 at 2:43pm. April 3 was actually the due date they gave me after one of my ultrasounds so she came on her due date, that has been a first for me. And the labor was amazing. I woke up that morning and thought I just had bad gas, lol. I called my mom and my sister and told them both I thought I just had gas, but thankfully my mom decided to come and be with me anyways. And it was a good thing that she did. She got here around 11:30 or so after picking Cassidy up from school and we headed to the hospital. I had already called Wills command to let him know we were going, however I wasn't sure I was in labor. We got to the hospital a little before one. The nurse on staff let me know that if I was not at 4 cm that they wouldn't admit me but that I could feel free to walk the hospital before going home. So, they checked me and I was exactly at 4 cm, that was at 1:15 and I was officially admitted. So, if you do the math from the time I was admitted to when she was born, it was only an hour and 28 minutes. However, I wasn't in any real pain until about 15 minutes before she was born. Around 2:30 I had asked if there was any other type of meds they could give me for the pain besides an epidural. I was not going to get one of those no matter what but the pain started to get really bad. And at one point I was on oxygen because they couldn't find the babies heart rate on the monitor and they became nervous. The next time they checked me I was at 7 cm, I guess they paged the peds doc to let him know where I was at and to be ready in a couple of hours, lol. Little did he know that 2 minutes later he would be getting a page that I was at 9 and feeling pressure to push. He ran up to my room and the look on his face was complete shock. One good push and she was out. It was pretty funny, a little later before they were going to move me to my new room, I heard 2 of the docs talking. One was commenting on how Hayley has such a nice shaped head, which is odd for natural birthed babies since their head is normally coned or a little odd shaped from being pushed through the birth canal. The other doc, the one who ran up just in time for her arrival then said "well, I wouldn't say she was pushed out, I would say the baby came shooting out like a torpedo" lol. I guess I did a good job in the pushing department :) So, all in all, a very good, easy birth, if you call birth easy. Oh, and she weighed 7 pounds 11 ounces and was 19 inches long. Our biggest baby yet!!! I was able to breastfeed as well right after however, she started to lose a lot of weight and I was told to put her on formula. It has almost been 3 weeks since her birth and she is still not back to her birth weight so they are keeping an eye on her, I have had a lot of doc visits at the hospital. She is healthy and not in any real danger, they just want to keep an eye on her. So, that is what has been going on in our household. Will is still going to the field med school and isn't able to come home. He maybe gets a couple of hours on the weekend but that is it. I will be happy when he graduates!!! He is doing great though and is doing excellent on his tests, I am so proud of him.