Thursday, May 9, 2013

Ouchie Ouch.

pre proceder
it has been a rough week for Fletcher. He got circumcised on Tuesday (5.7.13) and the very next day he got a cough and a runny nose. poor guy. needless to say it has been a traumatic week and he was pretty upset with us...luckily he is a pretty forgiving guy.


also this week...I get to teach my first stroller mommy running class. I'm excited and nervous. I think its going to be lots of fun. Brandon is training a door-to-door sales team manager and of course studying like crazy. 

And we got to go to Auntie Elyse's softball game.


plus it's our 4 year anniversary. Yay us!

always on the move

it's so great to be back in the states and drink real milk and take a hot shower!! 

a few days after we got to Washington we took a road trip to Idaho/Utah! 

My sister had a baby 5 weeks before me and blessed her sweet little boy Canon. (5.5.13)
family photo before the blessing
It was so awesome to be with my family again. Fletcher got to meet some more aunties, uncles and cousins and of course Grandpa J for the first time! He also got to hang out with his Granna again :)
all the grandkids ADORE Grandpa J
I also got to visit with one of my best friends and meet her little guy that is three months older than Fletch. 
Fletch 3mo, Canon 4mo, Rand 6mo
it was an awesome weekend. I also love visiting my sisters because they give me their hand-me-downs. I got a stroller, a bouncy chair, and some new clothes for me and Fletch! love you sisters.

the dreaded flight home

oh my goodness. our flight home.
 22 hours. 5 different airplane. 2 different airlines.
1 super happy angel baby. 2 super grateful and amazed parents.
he got his very own seatbelt
we were a little nervous for this trip for a couple of reasons.
1. we had a three month old and with him comes a car seat/base, a stroller, a diaper bag, a baby carrier, a c pillow, and the possibility of spit up and pooplosions. 
2. 3 out of our 4 layovers were 50 minutes or less. Not much time to get off one plane and on the other. 
Luckily our longest layover was when we were in Miami, which was a huge blessing because we had to go through customs and pick up all of our luggage and drop it off at our other airline.

it seriously was a miracle day. Fletcher was happy all day long. didn't cry. didn't poop. didn't throw up. and he smiled and laughed at all the right people. we also made every single one of our flights. most of our flights we got of the plane and walked right onto the next one. it was amazing. if any one of them was even a little bit delayed we would have missed all of our other flights. 
One of the airline workers made me take a picture because he was being such a perfect baby.
Also--we didn't end up paying for any of our bags. the caribbean airline lets you check 2 bags free each and they checked them all the way to Portland! we had to pick up our bags in Miami when we changed airlines, but we just dropped them off and didn't have to pay for anything. so awesome.

one advantage of flying with kids though is that you get to skip all lines. that is what saved us several times. We wouldn't have made some of our flights if we weren't bumped to the front of the security, customs, and boarding lines. 

I could't believe we actually made it and all of our flights were on time. Heavenly Father loves us.
good bye Bonaire!

Last weeks in Bonaire

Hello Hello!

Its been a while since I put anything up. Life, as it always does, got super busy and crazy!

my last couple of weeks of work actually went by super fast. thank goodness. I couldn't wait to get back to my little guy. My last week of work though I got super sick. Super high fever, aches, chills, headache, the works. I even had to miss work one day. Brandon got super sick too. I went to the doctor and the said that it was probably Dengue Fever from the mosquitoes here. not fun. 

 I didn't have to work the last week of April, which was great because it gave me time to pack and clean and get ready for us to move. Move. once again. that makes the 9th or 10th time that I had to pack up everything that we own in suitcases. I'm becoming quite an expert at packing though. I don't even need a scale anymore to weigh our bags. I can get them to 49.5lbs pretty much in my sleep.

Fletch and I had a couple of doctor appointments the last week we were there. First was Fletcher's ultrasound on his hips. Since he was breech he had a greater risk of developing congenital hip displacement so we had to get his hips checked out at three months. 
almost time for the ultrasound
They were perfect. 
Yay!

The next appointment was at the baby clinic. I understood that the appointment was to just pick up photo copies of his records so that I could take them with me to the States and to Curacao, but the ended up giving him his second rounds of shots. Ouchie! he only had his first round 3 weeks earlier and they are supposed to be 6 weeks apart, but since we were leaving and not coming back and all that jazz and because it was vaccination weeks they gave it to him anyway. the saddest part was that I wasn't prepared and I didn't have any medicine for him and we had a dinner appointment and some other stuff came up and so he didn't get any until night time. he was so miserable. I felt terrible. terrible for him, terrible for the Smiths that invited us for dinner and had to have a crying unhappy baby interrupting...
 he is a tough kid though. 

The other stuff that came up was that we got pulled over! that never happens in Bonaire but we did and it turns out the car we were borrowing (we sold our truck at the beginning of April) wasn't registered and all this stuff. we got it all worked out, but it was nerve racking because it happened 4 days before we were leaving the island and we have seen people get pulled off of planes for unpaid parking tickets. we for sure didn't want that to happen to us. 

what else... the car we were borrowing also gave us lots of grief. it died ALL of the time and then wouldn't start. Brandon and I got really good at the old push-start-pop-the-clutch trick. we even got so good we could do it when we were just by ourselves. luckily it was a small enough car that I could run behind it and get it going fast enough that I could just in an pop it. It was pretty stressful, but looking back it is kind of hilarious....crazy americans....

Brandon had his first real patient. our really good friends have 3 kids and the middle one, Don, fell and spilt his head open when brandon and i were there and brandon got to doctor him up. i'm so excited for him to be a real doctor. he really is a natural.
Donny all bandages up
Our last saturday we of course went to the beach. we almost didn't make it because of the car, but we persevered and had an awesome time.
Brandon and the young men
Our last sunday was pretty emotional for me. I got to give a talk and I pretty much cried the whole time. I love the people there so much and was super sad to leave them.

-oh yeah, we also had a branch party/going away party that was really sweet, but Brandon was feeling super sick so he couldn't make it. They made a slide show of our time there and sang us a song. We are going to miss our little branch so much.

we loved our time in bonaire.