Who would have thought that my extreme paranoia, separation from my husband for 6 months, stress from worrying about my moms brain cancer and worrying about the umbilical cord wrapped about the baby's neck, raising a toddler in my mother in laws house, running into a cement column with my car, falling down a few steps, random bouts of vomiting and hospitalization, loneliness, sadness, frustration, planning a move across the world with 2 kids and a dog, and gaining 25 pounds would have produced a healthy 8lbs 1oz baby boy?
Max will be 9 weeks old in 3 days and I couldn't be more happy! The first 3 weeks were hard for him, we thought he had colic but turns out that moderate reflux and my diet were to blame for the 3-5 hour cry sessions we were having daily. Now that some of that is under control our daily lives are getting a little more bearable. We do take a noon car ride just to get him to sleep but other than that everything is going ok.
We have Sergeant all ready to go to Japan. The process to take a dog to a rabies free country is obnoxious. Between micropchipping, FAVN blood test, vaccines, dewormings.... It goes on, but he is almost done. 10 days before we board that plane we will need to get him a health certificate and also get all of his paperwork stamped at the USDA in LA.
Just waiting for a few things on the military side before we can book our flight. Max turned 8 weeks old and we were able to get his vaccines and our medical screening done, we were approved that day and all of paperwork was then forwarded ( by that I mean I had to scan all the paperwork and email it to Ryan) to the medical screeners in Okinawa. Once they approve us then he can move into our house and get our things out of storage there. Once we get Max's passport then we can book our flight. Thankfully my wonderful sister in law will be travel with me on this 24 hour trip!
Jack is doing great. He is well into in his terrible twos. And it is terrible. I've heard about terrible threes but I refuse to believe it! I'm just going to thinks he's going to grow out of this in a week. Other than that he is super fun! And smart. Knows all his letters, most shapes and colors and can count to 10. Right now we are working on staying in bed at night. He likes to get up and sleep by the door, which wouldn't be a problem if he didn't kick the door off and on. So irritating! So he gets his "blankie" taken away for ten minutes and then he stays in bed the rest the night. So far.
We can't wait to see Ryan. I am so sad to leave everyone but I am very excited to have my own family whole again. And I will never complain about Ryan leaving for short periods of time ever again.
Max will be 9 weeks old in 3 days and I couldn't be more happy! The first 3 weeks were hard for him, we thought he had colic but turns out that moderate reflux and my diet were to blame for the 3-5 hour cry sessions we were having daily. Now that some of that is under control our daily lives are getting a little more bearable. We do take a noon car ride just to get him to sleep but other than that everything is going ok.
We have Sergeant all ready to go to Japan. The process to take a dog to a rabies free country is obnoxious. Between micropchipping, FAVN blood test, vaccines, dewormings.... It goes on, but he is almost done. 10 days before we board that plane we will need to get him a health certificate and also get all of his paperwork stamped at the USDA in LA.
Just waiting for a few things on the military side before we can book our flight. Max turned 8 weeks old and we were able to get his vaccines and our medical screening done, we were approved that day and all of paperwork was then forwarded ( by that I mean I had to scan all the paperwork and email it to Ryan) to the medical screeners in Okinawa. Once they approve us then he can move into our house and get our things out of storage there. Once we get Max's passport then we can book our flight. Thankfully my wonderful sister in law will be travel with me on this 24 hour trip!
Jack is doing great. He is well into in his terrible twos. And it is terrible. I've heard about terrible threes but I refuse to believe it! I'm just going to thinks he's going to grow out of this in a week. Other than that he is super fun! And smart. Knows all his letters, most shapes and colors and can count to 10. Right now we are working on staying in bed at night. He likes to get up and sleep by the door, which wouldn't be a problem if he didn't kick the door off and on. So irritating! So he gets his "blankie" taken away for ten minutes and then he stays in bed the rest the night. So far.
We can't wait to see Ryan. I am so sad to leave everyone but I am very excited to have my own family whole again. And I will never complain about Ryan leaving for short periods of time ever again.
