Getting Closer

Not a lot to report today, and definitely no pictures. Less than a week before we board a plane to go back to KS for a month.
Mike is extremely excited, as he hasn't been home in 27 months. I mean he has seen MY family, but not his mom, dad, brothers, etc. He has a new nephew he has never seen, a neice he has only met once, she was 1 month then, and 2 now! Plus a neice on MY side. Scowly baby as I have heard her called!! (jk Jenn, she's soo darn cute!)
The kids really don't care either way, we are TRYING to teach Kinzer to say Papa, cause we ALL know she has a special place in his heart. But she will only say it on the phone to my mom, no other time. Course she does say MINE and I bet he will get a kick out of her callin him 'MINE'! Or anything else in the house she decides is hers.
Charlie is falling back on the potty training. We were doing SO well, and now, back to wanting pull-ups all the time. It's just so frustrating. He should be done by now, and he's barely getting started.
Mike has an official date for his lasik eye surgery. 15 Jan he will be officially glasses free. I am slightly jealous! Especially since it is FREE!! But they have soo many active duty over here that get it, they can't do dependants.
I had my 1st ob appt. It was just the nurse visit, she confirmed my due date, as 20 Jul, less than a week after Kinz's 2nd bday. Also got my labs done yesterday. They took 7 vials of blood! I had normal prenatal labs, plus a thyroid check AND a glucose check. Thanks to my overbearing Schley genes (aka love of all foods fatty and obvious weight problem) and my family history of diabetes, my drs over here think that I must have gestational diabetes. With Kinzie, they made me take 4 glucose lab tests, and already only 7 wks along, and taking one, looks like it will be a long pregnancy for me!
Guess thats all I have today. I should be packing, but not looking forward to it. Wish I could just snap my fingers and it be done!

Loooonngg NIGHT!

No pics today, mostly cause I don't have any new ones, but also because I don't think anyone would want to see pictures of what I will be discussing!

So yesterday Charlie had his 3 yr old well child check up. Everything looked great. He is 28.5 lbs, 36.25in, 50% in both, NOT the midget I thought he was! As we were leaving, I started noticing his left eye was getting some eye gunk in it. I didn't think much of it. As the day went on, it was getting worse and worse. At one point his eye was completely gunked over. On top of that it was turning a lovely shade of RED. That's right, I thought he had pink eye.

I had to pick up Jose and Louie at 5, so I asked the teacher at the B&A and she said YUP pink eye. Well with 4 kids at home and 2 who NEED to go to school (mostly for MY sanity) I decided it was gonna be an ER night for us, get it treated and over with.

After picking up the boys I ran over to the shop to see Mike and he called OUR VERY WONDERFUL FRIENDS Mary and Shane Quale and begged them to take Louie, Jose, and Kinz so I could run to the ER, since Mike couldn't get of work. I ran kids and burger king over to the Quales and headed off to the Emergency Room.

We got there at 6:30, and signed in, and went to the waiting room. Now here's where it gets fun. Charlie fell asleep in the car, so he didn't eat supper, and that was the only nap he had all day! Once you sign in, they request that the patient not eat or drink anything until after they see the dr. At 8:15 they take us back to the room to see the dr. We weren't seen until 9:45!! I was livid. They took us out of the waiting room that had a tv and tons of childrens movie and put us in a room for a hour and a half, with no tv, no toys, no nothing! Charlie was NOT a happy camper.

So the dr comes in, looks at his eye and decides he wants to flush it out. Now lets remember, it's almost 10, and we are dealing with a 3 yr old, that has had no food since noon, no real nap, and it's 2 hours passed his bedtime. It takes 2 people to hold him down to wipe the gunk out, 3 to hold him down to put the numbing drops in, and 3 to hold him down for the flushing. The whole time Charlie is screaming and saying it hurts and that he wants to go night night.

So we wait 10 more minutes to get some antibiotic because the dr has decided he has a serious bacterial infection, which he assures me is NOT pink eye, but much worse. Then he gives me the discharge papers, and it says right on it, conjunctivits, aka PINK EYE!

Well anyway, we get home around 11:15, and I haven't even gotten my coat off when the phone rings. The dr from the er calls and says one of the swabs from Charlie's eye came back and it is more serious than previously thought. He called the on call dr from opthalmology (which just happened to be Charlie's lazy eye dr) who said that he needed this much stronger antibiotic, he needed the 1st dose immediately and needed to be seen 1st thing in the morning by Dr. Hammond his opthalmologist.

So I leave the house at 11:30 PM and head back to LRMC to get his new eye drops get home around 12:30 and put the drop in his eye, Charlie gets to bed about 1, and we have to get up at 6 to get ready to go, since we have to take the boys to school 1st.

Once again this morning Charlie falls asleep in the car, doesn't eat his breakfast and has had little sleep, and is expected to sit there through yet another eye exam, on his little eye that he keeps saying hurts. THANKFULLY, Dr Hammond, took one look at it and said it is most likely just a viral infection, still contagious, but not as bad as they thought. The er doc had called him and freaked him out because he said it was pussing out all over and the coulture was read wrong, so whew, not so bad. He said this is not pus, just discharge which means its healing itself, but take the eye drops in BOTH eyes (he woke up this morning with gunk in the other eye too) if its worse tomorrow he needs to be seen immediately, if not, just a phone call Friday to let him know how its looking. But after just 3 doses it looks soo much better. And he is sleeping away right now. Which is what I should be doing. Hope everyone has a great day!

And just as a surprise:

Charlie

As I write this, it is after 12 midnight, so officially my baby boy's 3rd birthday!! Gosh they grow up so fast!! Charlie celebrated his birthday with a few select friends on Friday Nov 23. There were tons of presents to open. He enjoyed every minute of ripping the packages open to see what was inside. Most of the clothes he threw aside. But he was pretty happy with the lincoln logs, books, and most importantly the MACK truck his daddy got him. (It's the Mack from Cars, which most know by now is Charlie's favorite movie ever!) Anyway, the trailer opens up and you can have Lighting McQueen inside and it has a washing station and all that. Unfortunately the Lighting and Mater (Charlie LOVES Mater) that Mike bought didn't make it on time, but we were saved by Kellie and MJ who got him a little Lighting. He has been playing with his *Mackie* all night and took it to bed with him. He got a few other toys as well. A big plastic 'beach ball' which will be a perfect outside ball when the weather gets nicer. A Diego sit and spin, he still hasn't figured out how to make it go, and lots of COLORING books and Markers. A total hit over all!!!

On to the cake. Charlie requested a chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting, and sprinkles. And that is exactly what he got. Everyone sang, and I mean everyone, Charlie sang to himself. Then he blew out his candles, with little to no prompting. I didn't even know he knew the birthday song, and what to do with the candles, he is bigger than even *I* knew! OF course Kinzie dug right into her cake and ice cream, she had it everywhere. But it went over well and was really yummy if I may say so myself! Can't take MUCH credit, it was a box mix!

After cake we played a little bit, then Sheila and her family asked if they could take the birthday boy to his 1st movie theater movie. I was a little hesitant as he had had NO NAP and the movie didn't start until 7. But they asked him and he wanted to go, so we let him. She said he didn't care for the movie, but sat pretty good through it, and afterwards they took him shopping and got him a box of crayons for all his upcoming coloring! He got home around 10:30 asking for 'Mackie', so I let him play for 30 minutes and off to bed him and Mack went to watch Dora!

It was a good and happy birthday all around! Wish we could have been around more family, but our military family really pitched in and made it a good day for him. Plus he got gifts from Nana and Papa, the Mumpowers, and Rene. So he really made out like a little bandit! There is a video and if I can figure out how to add it to the computer I will post it, or else bring it home and everyone can view it when we get there!

Now for those that haven't heard yet. Which I am sure by now is few if any! The day before Charlie's 1st birthday. We found out we were expecting and along came Kinzie. Just to keep with tradition of sort, last Saturday, the WEEK before Charlie's 3rd birthday, Mike and I found out we are expecting once again. The baby will be due sometime around Kinzie's 2nd birthday. In the military they call that a 'deployment baby' apparently, it happens quite a bit! We are all very excited and can't wait to go through this all again!

And now just for a treat, here are the pics of the kids in their Christmas outfits. Charlie hated his and cried the whole time. But Kinzie was swishing hers around and didn't want to get out of it! Don't they look so cute together??

Our day of fun

Since Mike has today off, and we are short 2 kids, we decided to take our kids out to the Kidzone today. Kidzone for those that don't know, is basically the military's equivelant to Chuck E Cheese. They have all the token games where you can win tickets and trade in for prizes, and then they also have a padded jugle gym in the back.

We got there right when they opened and had the place all to ourselves. After ordering our pizza, Mike took off Charlie's shoes and let him go. Today was the 1st time Charlie just ran around the jungle gym needing no assistance from Mike. In the past he has needed Mike to boost him up because he was too short, so he MUST be growing! Kinzie was getting into the playing too. They have a stationary truck that when working kind of rocks back and forth, she played in that thing for the longest time! Also another 1st for the day. As we were eating. Charlie wanted to go play so he left us and Kinzie was sitting there looking around and said Charlie, plain as day! I couldn't believe it, I looked at Mike and said 'did she just...' and he cut me off and said 'yeah you heard that too?' Of course we haven't gotten a repeat performance but she DOES know her brother is Charlie and it was soo cute!

I didn't take the camera because usually it's just Charlie following Mike around while he plays the games, if I had known the kids were going to be so into it, I would have gotten some pics, definitely next time! Tomorrow is another day of errands for us, we get our other kids back either Sunday night or Monday morning, Mike is off tomorrow and Friday so we have a few more days of family time left.

We got some snow today. Nothing stuck, but it was sure coming down pretty nice. Not looking forward to our winter this year. Glad we will be home for a month of it. Hopefully KS winter will be calmer than what is predicted for us!

Pics finally, I know you've all been DYING to see them!

Ok, ok, I know, I am supposed to update this more often. I promise I will get better at it!

This week we are back to just are only 2 kids, as the boys' dad is home for a visit. I think it will be treat for all! Mike is off Monday (today) and Wed, Thur, Fri. So we will have quite a few days of family time.

Charlie has a new found hobby, no more sitting around watching Dora and Cars, now he LOVES to color, in fact he colors on himself, the table, the chair, and the couch. Tonight he was even trying to color on Mike and I!

Kinzie has devoloped a new word, SAUCE. I call her little saucy all the time, and yesterday she said sauccceee, and then wiped my kisses off her face.

I don't have a lot to say, really just wanted to get out the halloween pictures finally. And to say, lately Charlie hasn't been taking naps, and well, he gets REALLY tired at supper time!

Sorry the rest are out of order, but for Halloween Charlie went as a pirate and actually kept his hat on the whole time! Kinzie was a ladybug. And a cute lil bug she was! Louie was a 'Dead Coast Chopper' basically a west coast chopper who was dead. And Jose went as a skeleton. The little eyeore and clown running around are Daniel and Alex, friends of ours!

Charlie thought he needed to read while he went potty, it was too cute NOT to take a picture of it! He will probably hate me for it later!

Just another day

Not much to report today. We did go trick or treating on Wednesday, will try to get those pictures out tomorrow. The kids had fun, but we didn't get much candy. Mike ended up having to work late, and on base the hours of trick or treating were 6-8, we left the house at 6:45 and most people were running out of candy.

Mike has been off since Friday, and doesn't go back to work until Tuesday. Next week they start snow shift, and his days off are Wed, Thurs, Fri, so he only works Tuesday then is off until Saturday. He is happy about having all of his days off during the week. I am just not looking forward to having 4 kids at home all weekend to entertain by myself! BUT on his days off he is going to get up and take the boys to school for me, so I can sleep in a little bit.

We have started working on colors with McKinzie. She can say green, blue, and red. Although she doesn't really recognize them. EXCEPT today she pointed to the green alligator and said bweeen. Which is green in Kinzie-talk. Her hair for those that care, is really growing. I got her some new various colored camo barrettes and it looks so cute!

Charlie is doing really good on his potty training. Even when he has a pull-up on, (bedtimes and nap times) he is still telling us he needs to go so we can take him before he goes in the pull-up. He is no longer drinking out of a sippy cup. We still have some messes, but he is really growing up into a little boy!

Jose and Louie are really starting to fit into our family. Louie and Mike 'bond' over video games, and Charlie and Jose spend all their time chasing Sophee (our cat) around the house. This month Louie has quite a few days off school, so they will be staying home quite a bit.

Not much to report on myself. I don't do much, but try to keep up with the kids.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!!

Just to start things off....

So I thought I would try something new, maybe I will be better at updating this!! Welcome to our blog. On here I will try to keep you filled in on the happenings of the Munson Kids, including for the time being our 'adopted Munsons' The Martinez boys!! You will have to bear in mind that I am all new to this, so there might be some hiccups at first, but I will try to get everything ironed out over time.
So, today Charlie and Kinzie had a WIC appt, it went pretty well, except they are both on the petite side. Charlie weighed in at 29.1 lbs and is 35&7/8 in tall. Kinz was 18lbs 12 oz and is 29in. Now that Kinzie is walking she is dropping some weight. Hopefully it will pick back up. Since she is such a great eater. She eats everything you put in front of her! Charlie needs to gain some weight too, but I have a harder time getting him to eat anything besides chicken, french fries, and nutra grain bars!


Charlie will be 3 soon, I can't believe it! He is growing so fast here lately it seems. He is talking all the time. And we are working on potty training, surprisingly he is doing very well! I think he was just waiting on me to be ready! He is actually playing with other kids now, which is fun, so those little Mumpowers better be ready for him when we come home at Christmas!




Kinzie is 15 months now, and walking and RUNNING all over the place! Shortly after Mike got back she just took off and hasn't stopped yet. She has 6 teeth now, they just keep popping through. She has also started talking. So far we have mommy, dada, puppy, baby, thank you, and her personal favorite, what's this/that.



Just to update on Mike and I, he is back from his deployment and enjoying his kids. He has started back to work and next week they start snow shift, which means long days and weeks! But it's still better than the desert.




I am just trying to survive with 4 kids. I agreed to keep Mike's supervisor's kids for 7 months, while he is deployed. We have had them for 2 weeks and will have them until May. Louie is 7 and Jose is 3, so I stay pretty busy. Charlie is loving having a built in buddy at the house, him and Jose run around and torture our cat together. Louie keeps me busy with schoolwork as he is in the 2nd grade. After only 2 weeks I have decided Mike was crazy in wanting 4 kids!! We are both starting to think 2 is the perfect number (but I am still secretly hoping for that 3rd to just *happen*).


Also for those that haven't heard, we will be HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!! We have already purchased tickets and will be home on Dec. 12th-Jan 8th. The 1st weekend is already booked as we are going to celebrate my dad's 50th bday. Those of you that want to come let me know munson_mjcm@yahoo.com and I will get you the details. Other than that if you want to see us while we are there let me know and we can plan a time to meet up! Mike is going to be pretty busy with his family as he hasn't seen them in over 2 years, but for the most part (aside from Christmas week) the kids and I have free time!


So I hope this was ok for my 1st ever blog, I hope I can keep it up and keep you all filled in on our crazy lives!




and here's a treat (let me know if these don't work!)