Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Advanced!

Kate was moved to the advanced class today! I was in shock. Good shock! Yesterday she was able to swim across 10 feet all by herself! YAY!!!!!So today when she got to class her teacher took her over to the advanced class. I don't know if she will be able to handle it because she still can't stand in the water like the other kids. The other kids in this class are ages 8 and up. I am still very excited that she was able to swim across 10 feet by herself. I wish I would of had video of it but I forgot my camera yesterday and today she practiced other things. (Damn)! LOL! Tomorrow is the last day of Swim camp! She will still be going every Saturday until the first week of Sept! I am hoping Papa will be home in time to catch the last class! Cross my fingers!

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Here she is in the middle of 4 feet swimming!
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These are the other kids in the class!
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I just thought this pic was cute!
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Kate with her teacher Daniel!

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Princess Day at Chik-fil-a!

Yesterday Chick-fil-a hosted a princess day! Well really they had Cinderella and a table providing manicures for the little girls! It was so crowded I couldn't believe it. Kate loved it. Can you believe she was more scared of Cinderella then of the cow. HAHAHA! She blew my mind away with that. She would not take a pic with Cinderella. I had to bribe her with getting the nails done and then she would have to go get a pic. I finally got a picture. After that she wanted to go and say Hi to her every five minutes! Every Monday they host all kinds of events here. I like them because they are inside away from the friggin heat and they are just down the street from me!

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Cinderella and Kate after she got her nails done!

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Showing off her manicure!

Friday, July 25, 2008

Hair day today!

Kate and I went to the salon today for hair cuts. I actually went for a whole new look and I got it. Kate had her first haircut since her first buzz back in 05. She did really good. They only trimmed off about 2 inches! You can still tell the difference.
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Here is the before pic! Her hair was really long!

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Here is the during the hair cut!

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Here is the after. Her pony tail was usually longer!

Here are some of my pics. right now my hair is really red because it was just done. It will look better in a few days! I still love it. And I love the fact that I had a pair of big ones to do it! LOL!
Here is a before pic!
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Yes very funny pic of the during my drastic change!

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Here is the after pics of my new hair do! Really red huh?

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Oh yes and my hair feels so much lighter! I am glad because the heat here is starting to be horrible!
I will re post more pics in a few days after my red tones down a bit! Oh my hubby has no idea I did this. I want to surprise him when he gets off the plane! LOL!

Here is a pic of my mom! She permed her eyelashes today! Yes permed eyelashes. Her eyelashes were very droopy according to her. So she went to day and had it done. It is about a 1 hour process. The final result is her lashes look like she is wearing mascara all the time. She won't let me take an after pic. But I will try and steal one! LOL!
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

All eyes on TS Dolly!

Right now all over the news and freeway signs you see reminders of a tropical storm in the gulf. We are not going to get the direct impact but they are saying we will feel the outerbands and strong winds tomorrow and Thursday! They are predicting Dolly to develope into a Cat 1 Hurricane. They are also predicting landfall for south Texas/northern Mexico! I have family there. They are further inland but they to will feel the effects. They are asking for all of us near the coast to fill up gas tanks! I am going to. I am about an hour or less from Galveston! I am not taking any chances. I am not freaking out about it but you know how it goes. You seemed to get bleeped when you are unprepared. So we will just have to wait and see. I took some pics of how it is outside right now and a sign on the freeway asking us to fill up our gas tanks. Today is pretty windy. Actually really windy! I opened my car door and it flew wide open with me still hanging on to it. LOL! I am keeping a close eye on it tonight!

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Today is a very beautiful day kinda of cloudy and windy! Hopefully it won't get to bad here. We need the rain but no power outages!

Monday, July 21, 2008

Busy Day!

Today was a busy busy day! I started off today buy taking Kate to swimming camp that lasted for an hour! We rushed home to shower and eat. I took Kate to gymnastics camp! After I dropped her off I was off to the Dr myself. By this time I am exhausted. I was at the Dr's for an hour. (very unpleasant of course). As if that wasn't enough she wanted blood from me. Great! Another half an hour taken away. Not to mention my trip to the pharmacy and target. OMG! Today was run around all day! I was able to come home and relax for about 40 minutes and then run run until about 6:30! And my day started at 8am! I have been busy but not like this. I am glad this day is over!
Kate's camp theme this week is magic week. They had a local magician come over and perform for the kids today. I managed to sneak some pics before it was over!
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Sunday, July 20, 2008

Bellobration!

I took Kate to the circus for the first time today! Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey The Greatest Show On Earth Presents Bellobration! It was an awesome show that lasted over 2 hours on top of the open house show. Kate loved it. This is one of the few moments where I think it's good to be on the mainland for this kinda of stuff! And then I snap back in to reality because I missed the weather in Hawaii while standing in line to get in. HAHA! It was friggin hot today! I took a few pics with my camera phone because my smart self forgot my camera at home! (damn)!
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Here is Kate in her inflatable booster seat!
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The nose came with the program book and she actually wanted to wear it! LOL!
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I tried to get a pic of the elephants but it didn't come out as well! (Damn again)

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Swim class!

Kate had her second swimming lesson today! It was awesome! Last week there was like 4 kids total in her class and only one teacher! Today it was just her with a different teacher but he was great!It was like her own private lesson!:) He got her to start floating on her own and letting her go to float up and swim more. She is doing great. She starts going to swim camp this and next week. I am so excited! I managed to sneak a pic with my camera phone through the glass window! It's not the best but at least I have one! LOL!
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You can barely see her! LOL!

Friday, July 18, 2008

Guppies to Puppies!

Guppies to puppies was the theme this week at Kate's camp! Her gymnastics school is having weekly camps for the entire summer! I enrolled her in 3 total! This was her first week! She loved it. She was there from 1-4 everyday this week. Not to mention I had a blast as well.LOL! They had a variety of animals come and visit the kids and people from shelters and pet stores came to visit as well. I just love the fact of Kate being a social child. She used to be so shy and cry when ever I would leave her with someone! She is still kinda of shy when she first meets you. But it is a different kinda of shy. I have to say I feel very accomplished in that department. Before I use to feel that I had not socialized her enough and I did wrong by keeping her home for 3 years! But I am making up for that this year! Her next weeks of camp are in August. Next week she starts swimming camp and she will do that for the next 2 weeks on top of her swimming lessons on Saturday! I am going to be exhausted when this month is over.
Here are some pics of camp!
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Yesterday they had guinea pigs come visit!
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Here is a closer pic of guinea pigs!
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This dog was so cute with his sleeveless top and glasses. He never took the glasses off!
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Here are some of the crafts they did also!

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Busy weekend!

The weekend was pretty busy for us! Well I tried to keep us busy as possible. Don't know why if this month is going to be busy as hell.

On Friday I took my mom for her 6 week check up. It's been 6 weeks already! WOW! Kate hasn't been an any kind of activities for about 3 weeks so I decided to take her to play putt putt! We took her once back in Hawaii but she wasn't even 2 then! So this was like her first real time! She loved it! It was friggin hot but totally worth it.
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Here are some pics of her!
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Saturday was her first swimming lesson! I enrolled her last month in this swimming program. She did really good! She is doing so much better around new people! She loved the swimming class. I don't have any pics because you watch them on a TV in a different room. It's better this way so the kids will have no distractions from us! The best part of this is it is an indoor pool. Rain or shine class won't be canceled. She has four 1 hour classes total! Yes this is on top of her swim camp for 2 weeks. That starts the week after this week!
Tomorrow she starts another camp at her gymnastics school! She will go this whole week from 1-4. I am stoked for the couple of hours I will have to myself! But that will be a whole new different blog!
Today was a typical Sunday! I went to my moms and hung out with family. I am looking forward to this week! YAY!!!!

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Kate's first Joke!

Well yesterday Kate comes up to me and said mama I say knock knock and you say who's there. I am like ok. So she puts the pillow in front of me and and she said knock knock and I said who's there. She said angus and I was like angus who. She said angus angus means but! LOL!!! Not funny but I was just impressed she said a joke. And I have no idea where she got the word angus from. I am pretty sure it was from a bk commercial or something like that! I know I sound silly but I am realizing my baby is growing up. I still can't believe she will be 4 in less than a month! Well I just wanted to share Kate's first joke with you guys! I am just sorry that Leo missed it.

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Another month down Baby!:)

I can't believe another month down! I can only hope this month will go by as fast as the last one did! I believe it will be July 21st that will be considered 7and 1/2 months down and half way there.Although my frg leader wrote on an email that half way there was in the middle of June! Something about if you add the days in 15 months and then divide them by 2 it would give you like the middle of June! I will have to look at the email closely and do the math! But any way month wise I consider it half way there this month!YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The month started off OK I guess! I was just happy to start the month! Thursday i went to the galleria mall! I went looking for some old friends at a restaurant I use to work at. Bennigan's!!!! Kate and I went in for lunch. I happened to spot one of my old friends back from 1997! That is the year I starting working for Bennigan's! I hadn't sen him since 1999 after they closed the first one I worked at. I asked to be seated in his section! His surprise when he came and asked what I wanted to drink! Old times! There was another old friend working there from the last Bennigan's I worked at before going to Hawaii! I should of got pictures of all us but with all the excitement and catching up it totally slipped my mind! DAMN!! I will take some next time! That mall is huge! 3 floors and miles and miles of stores. Kate and I walked around for 3 hours never hitting the same store twice! It also has an ice skating ring! I almost took Kate in it but I didn't feel brave enough to hold her on my own. Maybe when Leo gets home! Here is a pic of Kate near the weird waterfall in the middle of the mall!
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The 4th was pretty boring for us. The day started off raining which made it even more boring. Those kinda of days you just want to spend in bed! We did go out and rent movies and I was really bad and had food from California Pizza kitchen for dinner. So good and so bad at the same time! So Kate and I just watched movies together and ate pizza! At night we had front row seats from my porch to the fireworks. I live on the second floor which made it even more fun to watch! Kate and enjoyed it and thought the fireworks were awesome!
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Yesterday Kate received her first letter for lending her Papa for this deployment! She was thrilled that Scooby Doo himself wrote her a letter. She loves Scooby Doo! The letter is now on the fridge hanging up with tons of magnets! Thank you!!!!!
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