I almost forgot. Ron went into the hospital today for his PRK eye surgery. If you can really call it "surgery" as it was a laser that took about 5 minutes! He was there most of the day, waiting around for the one doctor that was doing all the procedures in between patient exams. When I finally picked him up at 2, he was reading street signs on the way home! Amazing!!!! Ron had been pretty much blind without his glasses up until now but will have excellent eye sight. For the next few days he has to rest and protect his eyes and over the next 2-6 weeks his eyes will adjust. It was another reason we celebrated Ella's birthday early as we weren't sure what to expect after the laser treatment... would he be in any pain or be able to see at all. But he's doing great and enjoying his new glasses-free vision. Gotta love military health care benefits. Ella goes for her one-year check-up tomorrow.
Ella is learning to Peek-A-Boo...these pictures are deceiving though, they look like she's a pro at it but usually she'll cover her ears instead of her eyes and when you say "Peek-A-Boo" she'll uncover her ears and giggle. I'll try to get video of it...too funny. But every few times, she'll cover the correct sensory organ.... :)
This week has been busy visiting with Grandpa. We've had a lot of fun and celebrated Ella's birthday early...shhhh don't tell her! We had cake and photos on Tuesday night as it's spring break this week and flights back to Canada are booked up the next few days. We decided to celebrate on Tuesday, just in case Grandpa had to fly home early. Turns out he left late tonight and will hopefully make it back to Toronto with little trouble.
She opened her gifts from her Grandpa (a learning puppy that sings songs and uses lots of vocabulary) and Great Grandpa ( a toddler swing for our lanai and her one-year portraits we had done at Walmart). She also got a cute bathing suit and matching sandals along with a quacking rubber duckie from a friend, Jackie. Here's some pictures of her early celebration. I'll post tomorrow about the rest of the festivities...so cute!!!! We also saved her gifts from Grandma and Granddad and Ron and I for tomorrow.
We decided to have a beach day as the weather this week is unpredictable and it's best to take advantage of the great weather while we can. It's been raining off and on but it is "winter" here so hence the "rainy season". Ella has grown so much, all her clothes seem to disappear before she really gets good wear out of them (not to worry, she has bags of clothes waiting for her 18 month phase).
Sometimes, by the time I find something I'd put "aside", she's just able to fit it and within a month, it's too small. So I'm pulling out the 18 month stuff early this time and hope to get a lot better use of it. Here is a pretty sun dress from Aunty Carol (Nana Diane's sister) and though a little roomy, totally fits... and it's actually long enough for her. Thank you, Carol, it's perfect for the weather.
Happy Birthday, Suzanne! To another year of friends, family, love and joy. May your Margarita glass runneth over.... :)
Grandpa arrived from Toronto, via Victoria today and though Ella's birthday isn't for another week, she's already getting spoiled! Not only did Grandpa arrive with presents, but packages have arrived in the mail and were greeting us on the doorstep when we got back from the airport. Have I ever mentioned how much this little girl is spoiled?? She certainly is loved by all her grandparents.
I can't wait to bake her little cake and decorate it, and I'll wrap up all her presents. Her birthday will be just the three of us and Grandpa but we'll take lots of pictures. We're going to have a belated birthday BBQ in April when Karen and Maddison are here and all our neighbors are home from vacation.
Guess what Ella had for breakfast this morning??? :)
I got this off Christin's site. I think it's funny. And,
I wish!
So despite all the technical difficulties with the new MP3 Player and my computer, everything is finally working and I'm in the process of loading all my music. Ron, as usual, came to my rescue and managed to fix my computer, upgrade it so that it now works with my new player and didn't loose any of my files (other than the web page bookmarks and a day of Ella's photos...whatever, considering that 99.9% was saved, he did perfect!)
So, had it not been for Ron, my laptop would have been out the window and in a thousand pieces. I really don't know how he stays so calm with these things. But he is wonderful and can now add Tracey's computer saver to his list of husbandly duties (spider killer, bug sqasher, BBQ grill supervisor, tall shelf reacher...)
Thank you for everything you do for me. I love you.
So, my beautiful, new, shiny MP3 Player arrived today. I was so excited to get my music set up and start walking off more pounds. But I learned that my new player is so new and so shiny that it surpasses the software I have on my computer and won't work. What the ???? And we can't download the software upgrades without the original disk.
In the process of "trying to get around it", Ron wiped my hard drive (thank god not all my music and files) but I did loose all my website address that I had bookmarked and organized as well as all the photos we took in the last couple of days (all of Ella's bathing suits and lots of her outfits that she is growing out of). We spent a whole day taking pictures of Ella in all the outfits I was donating, gifting and saving...plus went to Ko Olina to document her bathing suit attire.....all gone.
I love my laptop. I hate hate hate technical difficulties!
Ella really hasn't had any sugar before as all her baby food is 100% real food, no sugar, salt or additives. This cake and the icing was like giving her speed. She LOVED it! She was a bit princessy with it at first and would dip her finger in the icing. But once she realized we weren't taking it away she got a bit more bold. We didn't let her eat much but the little she had had her crazy! She's still learning to walk so she's a bit unbalanced to begin with. On a sugar high she was walking and stumbling all over the place. She looked like a little drunk baby. So funny! As with all sugar highs, it didn't last long and she was in bed soon enough and slept through the night. I'll post some videos soon.
