Big Girl Bed!!! Yeah Maycen

Ok I know it is a little late but we finally put Maycen in a Big Girl bed!  She was never the kind of kid to crawl out so it never was a problem keeping her in there.  She loved her bed and played nicely in there in the mornings and after naps that it gave Jared and I a few extra moments of alone time or sleep:) Maycen has never had a problem wetting at night so its never been an issue to let her get out at night to go.

So I got a cute little Dora the Explorer toddler bed and I ordered a Dora Pillow case with her name on it and I ordered Peppa Pig cupcake bedding that matches the colors of her Dora bed from London.

I wanted to make it as special as possible so when we got back from dropping off the Toppenberg's at the airport I told her she could sleep in her Big Girl Bed.  She has done great all week long, helpful too that she has been at daycare this week so she was extra tired. Today is the first day with a full nap and she has not yet gotten out of bed, she will call to us in the morning or when she wakes up. 

On a follow up note on her procedure she had done a while back to see what was going on with her tummy, everything came back good the biopsies showed nothing concerning.  Hopefully it was just bizarre events and an infection that won't cause any issues ahead.  Maycen did really well with the procedure but is such a little fighter and she new the minute that things were going to go down.  Even with nitrious Oxide she was still fighting. She kept saying the doctor said I can eat ketchup now because we were holding off on tomato products till we talked with allergy. She has still been talking all week about blowing up the green balloon and breathing in the strawberry mask. Anyway we are glad to have it behind us...no pun intended!

Maycen is such a smart little cookie, she is such a talker, she can unlock my phone and call her Nana.  She knows all her letters, and number and talks like such a big kid, sometimes I have to remind myself that she is still 2.  On the other hand her little temper tantrums remind me of that very quickly!  Although sometimes it feels like an argument with a tween versus a toddler.  She even has the snooty inflection in her tone.  I think I am going to be in trouble!

Turkey with the Toppenberg's!

 

Grandma and Papa Toppenberg

The Toppenberg's came to visit us for Thanksgiving!  I thought we would have a bigger group of people for the day since we have a few friends that have husband's on deployment but everyone already seemed to have a place to go for the day.  I had to work ,so Jared and Papa and Grandma all spent the dreary day inside cooking away with the kids.  Jared got a smoker this past year and so we did a smoked turkey.  I think if people knew what great cooks out family has theyr probably would have changed their minds and come anyway!  It was fabulous food, even though it is some of the traditional thanksgiving foods somehow it is better than most, except my mom's,:) of course! 

 

The rain was pretty relentless this visit but we were able to see some sort of dolphines playing and the sealions returned to thier post from the previous blogpost.

 

Dinner!!! We had a lot more luck this trip, less crabs but all were males and large 5 total Dungees! Yumm!

 

In my attempt to create Memorie for Maycen at the Holidays I have found this great website called www.soundsfunmom.com

But knowing all there is to do and see can add to ones stress.  I often feel like we are never going to experience all that WA has to offer especially if we end up transfering due to Jared's job search or to another guard unit or state. I feel like I want to see it all. So for me sometime knowing all there is to do and feeling the want to do all of it while dragging two small kids aorund can sometimes get to be a bit too much! On the other hand seeing everything is not all it is cracked up to be.  The Olympia tree lighting and winter festival was kinda a dud.  The parade was like watching traffic on I-5, except it was moving and the highlight of the kids parade was the GLBT crossdresser that was dressed like a hooker in platform stillettos. We still found some fun though! 

Let me not forget that November is also called MOvember to support testicular and prostate cancer awareness month Jared sported a mustache. Just remember it takes balls to grow one!http://www.mustache.org/

 

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Nothing better than a Nana

Nana visit November 2012

 

When you have been away from home so long you learn so much about your parents, that either you never reaslized or have forgotten, when they come to visit. I remember that my Mom wasn't a big fan of the rides at Valley Fair Amusement Park except the Blue Cork Screw, or maybe she just liked it because they sold a house to a guy that had a piece of it in their front yard, anyway I never really knew that my Mom did not like heights.  The woman that tought me how to back dive off the diving board and would take me to pools with high dives apparently is scared of rides with heights.  So what did I do but I planned a day to see the "Great" Ferris Wheel new to seattle!  It was a perfect day and she did great but I have to admit looking out above the water out into the sound high up above seattle is a little creapy even for this sky diving veteran.

 
Maycen of course liked it!

I do have to share a funny story though, I asked the attendant( a young 20 something kid) since it was a slow day if we could have our own car so I could breastfeed the baby during the ride and his resposne was Ma'm there is no food or drink allowed on the ride.  I almost burst out laughing, he obviously just didn't get it, considering I am a walking "Big Gulp" these days I probably should not have been allowed to ride the ride.

The sun made an apparance again and we made our way crabbing and actually got a lot of crabs just all woman and too small!  We ended up with mostly rock crab which are not my personal favorite. But there was a great display from the sealions on this floating barrel.

The Children's Museum opened its doors in Olympia and we had to check it out for it's opening weekend.