Can't talk politics!

Well, as we were leaving post to go get dinner, Tom told me that his BN was not allowed to talk politics (specifically related to this election) during duty hours or in duty uniform. Why do you ask? Well, apparently two CPTs in a class behind his got into a fist fight during school over the Presidential candidates. Yes, you heard me right...a fist fight. Talk about setting a good example! Maybe they need to go back and take Officer 101 classes. LOL

Promotion Day!

Thomas is getting promoted to CPT today! I'm excited for him and proud of him! They are planning to do a "ceremony" type thing today so I'm hoping to be able to make it. It's calling for thunderstorms starting when the ceremony will begin. I'll get pictures up later. Funny that it's on Halloween (but I'm sure Tom loves that!).


She didn't quite know what was going on, but she likes to pull his patches off. Everyone in the room went "Awww How cute". :-D

Gabriel and I put his 2LT rank on when he was commissioned after OCS Graduation, so this was Katheryn's turn.

One Week Old

Victoria is one week old today. I have to say she is a great baby and I am lucky. Nursing is going good! She took to it alot better than Katheryn did (we had to work at it).

Katheryn is my helper. She is always looking to see what Victoria is doing and always lets me know when she starts crying (even when I'm in the same room) and gets upset herself. She always says that "baby" is hers. lol She helps me change "baby's" diaper. Gets the diapers, wipes, and throws it away,except the poopy ones. She makes the yuck face while saying yuck. It's so cute.

Gabriel is doing ok. I think he feels "left out", but I think that some of it is the attention the others give to Katheryn. I took him aside and reinforced that I still love him and it will take a little time for me to get to feeling better and then we'd be able to do more stuff.

B-Day

Ok so those of you who have been keeping track of the excitement of my latest pregnancy with Victoria, she finally made her appearance Oct 24th at 12:26pm. She weighed 7 lbs 10 ozs and 19-3/4 inches long.

Well to catch everyone up, I had went to my appt last Wed and was 5cms and 70% and the midwife stripped my membranes. She also set up with L&D for me to be induced Fri if they had a bed. Well, I apparently became famous! I was the lady everyone talked about, how I was walking around at 5cms and not in "active" labor! Every L&D nurse that came in there told me how they couldn't believe I had been walking around at 5 cms and not gone into labor.

Well, I call Friday at 5am and they told me to come in at 5:30. So we go, get hooked up to the monitors and do the normal pre-delivery paperwork (aside from the pre-admission paperwork) and questions. The midwife came in around 7:30 and checked me. I was 6 cms and 80%, but my contractions were sporatic. So she breaks my water. We wait an hour to see if that will be all to make me go into "active labor". An hour later, my contractions really hadn't changed except for getting a little stronger. So she decides to start me on a very low dose of pitocin (in total, they gave me maybe a tsp over the entire time). Well, they are getting really strong and I'm going as long as I can before getting the epidural (yes, I really dislike pain). Well, when the nurse checked me before they gave me the epidural and i was 7-8cms and the contractions were 2 - 3 mins apart. As I was getting the epidural, the shakes started (luckily he was almost finished). I started to get a bit anxious because I still hadn't gone numb in the same area that hadn't gone numb with Katheryn. The told me i might have a "hot spot" in my back that wasn't letting the medicine get that spot. So they rolled me onto my left side and after a while it worked. Not too much longer after I went numb that the nurse checked me and called the midwife. Well, she was in the middle of an exam and when she rushed through that and got there my nurse was in the bathroom. LOL Ten minutes of pushing and Victoria was born. This by far was my fastest "labor" (all of mine had started after my water broke or was broken...Gabriel's was 12 hours long and 45 mins of pushing and Katheryn was 17 hours long and about 30 mins of pushing) and time pushing. I have to say I felt alot better too after this short labor than I did the long ones. The only "bad" thing that happened is Victoria came with her hand up with her head. The midwife thinks that I wouldn't have tore if it wasn't for that. :-( Both of her Bili tests (for jaundice) came back in the normal range and even though she lost 5 ozs, she has already gained back 1 oz as of yesterday.

So far things have been good aside from the soreness.

Eggplant Parm.

Well, I decided not to make the recipe I posted below because I found a small single serving size at the Commissary today. Plus, I didn't want to waste all that money on something I might not even like. Well, I ate the "frozen eggplant parm" today for lunch and liked it. So, I'm sure I'll LOVE the fresh one when I decide to make it. The only problem (which I thought of a solution for) is that it will probably only be me and Katheryn eating it. So I figured I'd just buy some individual dishes that I can bake and freeze individual servings for later.

Oh well, so we'll see how it goes today. *fingers crossed*