Jumble of Randomness

Ok so I am just gonna clump all my thoughts into one post.

1) Tom was finally able to find a Wii Fit and surprised me yesterday with it! He does love me. LOL So I got it out today and I must say I am sore, but it was fun. I spent 47 mins on it and it didn't seem that long! I love to hula (though I'm sure I look ridiculous!). I am so out of shape!

2) We almost have the play/family/sitting room done (yes it's one room). I just need to get my console radio from my uncle's house (he bought my nana's house) and sort toys into toyboxs. I plan on using the plastic totes we used to move with and customizing them for each kiddo.

3) I need to find curtains for our bedroom. We are so picky when it comes to patterns it isn't funny. LOL We also will have to then get a paint color that will look good with it. That is one bonus for not living on post. I like that I can paint the walls and not have to worry about repainting before I move out!

4) We are also going to re-tile part of the bathrooms and get new cabinets. Take the border down in the kitchen/dining room and paint. Paint the living room and hang curtains. Get rugs. All at the same time trying to stay under budget (which is hard). Everything is getting put on a priority list and we get things as we get the money for it (lol which will probably take at least a year if not more to get everything done that we want done...we are also doing alot of it ourselves to save on labor costs).

5) Victoria is wanting to sit up more now! She actually fusses if I don't hold her in an upright sitting position (unless she is going to sleep). She is growing so much! I'm glad that Tom is here to see it. He missed alot with Katheryn.

Charlie's Soap

So I gave my washing machine a well needed scrubbing today (film from the previous detergent/softener and non-use for a few days while we moved). So far I am pretty impressed with the Charlie's soap (a natural detergent, that is good for the environment). So we'll see how it handles with our skin (I was told unless you are allergic to Coconut oil then you'll be ok).

Check them out at Charlie's Soap.

Cloth diapers and Poopy

Ok, so I found a lady in E-town who owns a baby store who sales cloth diapers. I have been debating it long enough and I took the leap. I bought 12 to start with (they are adjustable for 8 to 36 lbs...which I liked instead of messing with plain ones and vinyl pants or the ones you have to buy certain sizes for each weight group). She also recommended a natural soap to do laundry in because Cheer, Tide, Dreft, etc all leave residue which will hamper the absorbency. I'm getting in an Organic/Natural kick too. With everything starting to be "bad" for you, I figure if I can lessen the kids exposure to some it will be good. Plus I'm hoping Victoria will not get diaper rash as bad. Her skin seems to be really sensitive.

As for the poopy, Katheryn seems to be getting into a potty training mood. She's been telling me when she has to go poopy and when she pees her diaper (which is also called "poopy" instead of pee pee but she holds her front when she says it). It's a start! Wish us luck!

2 Month Well Baby

Well, we were running a bit late because of the move (well just a couple weeks). And the fact that Fort Leonard Wood didn't put her info into DEERS like they said (we couldn't find the TriCare office because they moved it and we decided to just wait til we got here for that) and we had to redo everything when we got here...

Anyways! Everything went well. They were all surprised at how big she was and LOVED Katheryn. lol Victoria now weighs in at 11 lbs 8 ozs (in the 49 percentile) and measures 23.75 inches (in the 82 percentile...WOW). So I apparently am feeding her well even though she only nurses on one side half the time (well until about a week ago she was only nursing one side then decided she wanted more). Tom has now started saying I have "magic booby milk"...Thanks Tom... LOL

I was worried though that she was getting sick (other than a little cold). She has alot of congestion and a cough, but she assured me she sounded good in her chest. When we got here Tom had to go in to the ER for acute bronchitis, which is why I was worrying.

I'm gonna assume it's allergies. The people before us had 3 cats in the house and the air ducts and furnace is full of cat hair. So we're having them cleaned soon.

We made it!

That I must say was an interesting trip. It should have taken us maybe 10 hours (we were pulling a 28 foot trailer and a 3 car "convoy"), but it took us more like 14 hours. That story will be posted later.

We finally have internet and cable yesterday.

We got Gabriel's room painted yesterday. He wanted his room Army green. Well, he wanted camo walls, but he settled for Army green and we are going to put camo curtains and maybe a rug if we can find one.

We will hopefully move his furniture in today and then Monday paint the girls room (purple). Katheryn picked it out and she loves tinkerbell so I will probably put tinkerbell curtains up in there.

Tom is sick. He is hopeing it isn't bronchitis. He's going in to the ER today (sucks that they don't have sick call because it's the exodus).

My to-do list has officially ran out of room. LOL

Well, off to catch up on everything else before Victoria becons me. Oh, I had to take her to the doc before we left because of a horrible diaper rash. She already weighed 11 lbs and 4 ozs. It will be interesting to see how much she weighs at her 2 month check up when I get one (a lil late though because of the move).