Froggied Princess: Our life with a Wheaton-Pavlik Harness: US Navy

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Sunday, February 2, 2014

Happy Birthday Froggie!

It's hard to believe that one year ago today we were 5 days away from Froggie's due date, she was STILL breech and we were at the hospital to try and turn her. If you want to read the rest of Froggie's birth story you can read it here or by using the tabs at the top of the page.

February 1, 2013 February 1, 2014

We decided to make today special for Froggie even though her party isn't until next weekend. Big Brother had tumbling this morning and we got there a little early so we let Froggie walk and crawl around. She took it upon herself to decide today was the day she wanted to really put forth effort to walk by herself and kept walking out towards the big kids.

Playing at tumbling

Walking and watching the big kids

After driving around to order food and cake for next week we headed to the mall and the kids played in the play area for little bit while we waited for Hubby to be done working. Froggie doesn't normally get to play but today since she was feeling adventurous at tumbling I let her. She had a blast climbing on all of the toys and Big Brother would pick her up and cart her from one side to the other when he wanted to play with something different. I was a little nervous but Froggie didn't seem to mind and I figured as long as she was content with it that he could help.

Play time at the mall

She's a climbing machine

Having fun

Big Brother carrying Froggie around

We headed into The Children's Place for a few minutes while Hubby was on his way and picked out some great deals. My favorites being the fedora Big Brother picked out for himself and the Frozen t-shirt I snagged for $1.99 for Froggie! After a little more running around we headed into Build a Bear so that Froggie could pick out a new toy. As soon as we walked in the entrance she started pointing at all the stuffed animals. She became pretty excited about the My Little Ponies so we let her pick one to those. She did a good job and even worked on filling up the pony by herself. Big Brother wanted his own pony but we told him that since it was Froggie's birthday she was going to get a big stuffed animal and he could get a small one so after some discussion he decided to get Spike (the dragon from My Little Pony).

Picking out her new friend

She pointed at ALL of them

I'm 1!

Filling her pony

"Mommy I want that"

working together to fluff her fur

Big Brother got Spike

Loving on her new Pony

Riding the rocket ship in the mall

We went to Max and Erma's for dinner and decided to ask if they would do anything for Froggie for her birthday and they brought her out a pice of chocolate cake with a candle in it. She LOVED it! All of the people sitting near us and the servers kept coming by to see her eating her cake. She made a HUGE mess but she was so happy, it was worth it!

Birthday dinner

CHOCOLATE CAKE!

Happy Birthday to you…

Mmmm cake

A little blurry but she was SO happy

all gone

Happy little girl covering in chocolate cake.

Over all I think she had a great day! I can't wait to see what this year will bring for Froggie and our little family!

Sunday, December 15, 2013

Army vs. Navy Game Day

Yesterday was the Army vs. Navy football game. I was very impressed that the game began in prayer AND that portion of the game was televised! We're a Navy family all the way (I mean, come on Hubby is a Navy recruiter…) and Big Brother showed his support!

Saturday, December 14, 2013

Breakfast with Santa Cow, Playing in the Snow and a Party!

Saturday morning we headed out into the snow to attend a Chick-fil-a event. It just so happened to be breakfast with Santa Cow. The kids got a yummy breakfast out, which we don't normally do, and they got to make a craft, play in the play area and meet Santa Cow.
Big Brother had a blast and Froggie absolutely loved getting her own "real" food for breakfast instead of her normal oatmeal. Despite the snowy weather and slippery roads it was worth the trip out. After our breakfast we did a little bit of shopping and headed home for lunch and nap time.

Mmmm fruit

Breakfast!

Gingerbread man

Froggie liked hers too

Santa cow!

The kids got gifts from Santa Cow

Hubby and Froggie snoozing

After nap time Big Brother wanted to help shovel the driveway. He got all bundled up and put on his snow suit and headed out with Hubby while I looked for his old snow pants for Froggie. Of course they weren't where I thought they were and I didn't want to spend too much time looking for them so I improvised. With approximately 4 layers on I carted Froggie out to hang out with all of us in the snow. She seemed to like watching it fall but I'm still on the hunt for Big Brother's old snow pants so she can really play.

Snow Angels

He LOVES the snow

Building a snowman

Hanging out in the snow

a tiny snowman

After our fun morning and afternoon we headed back out in the snow to go to a Christmas party. This was your standard "command Chirstmas party" with some food, door prizes and some other miscellaneous things to do before coming to a close. The kids were well behaved and seemed to have fun. We won a door prize (COFFEE!!!!) and got to watch Hubby "sumo wrestle"!

Sumo wrestling

The kids!

Thursday, December 12, 2013

Mini Vacation: Day #3 Graduation

This morning was a bit of an early start since we had to be out of our rooms and at the school house early for Hubby's graduation. In true Navy fashion we had to hurry up and wait this morning; once we got to the school house we were supposed to sit in the petty officer association's room where they were preparing for a Christmas party and had a TON of wrapped gifts all over the room. Let me tell you, there is a sense of panic when asked to sit in a room full of gifts with your toddler when none of them are for him! While we waited Big Brother asked to have some pictures taken and the kids played with some toys and had some snacks.
I didn't take any pictures during graduation because I was holding Froggie who was being pretty squirmy. Not to mention I couldn't fish out my phone during graduation and knew that Froggie would grab at my actual camera and none of the pictures would turn out anyway. Following graduation Hubby and I purchased some sweatshirts from the "gear locker" and headed back towards our hotel. Before we got settled and changed we took a bunch of pictures. Lately Big Brother has been pretty uncooperative when it comes to taking pictures but we ended up with something to document the event.

Big Brother wanted a picture with Froggie

So proud of Hubby!

Our little family

Hubby and I

After everyone got changed and a little packing was done we headed out to pick up the new uniform that Hubby had ordered along with some other goodies. This included a very large new duffle bag to get home everything that Hubby had acquired over the course of his time in Florida. After some lunch (and Starbucks) we headed back to our rooms for nap time so that we could go back out for some fun.

Mmmm Starbucks

Nap time ended up being pretty short lived since we wanted to get across base to see Santa come in on a fire truck. The fire truck pulled in as we were coming across the parking lot. While Hubby and the kids made their way towards Santa and the festivities my mom and I both ended up with burrs in our feet. I had to use my camera strap to get the burrs off my feet and then had to figure out how to get them out of my strap. Man do those little things hurt!
There were cookies, hot chocolate, coloring, seeing Santa, bounce houses and free trees for military personnel. Big Brother waited rather impatiently to see Santa. He had been pretty shy about Santa and still always has a funky face in pictures (lately with or without Santa) until today! The kids had put out their shoes for Saint Nick and due to his recent visit Big Brother seemed more accepting of the big guy in red. When it was time to get out of the sleigh he didn't want to go until he told Santa thank you for the gift he had left the night before. It was really cute and one of those proud mommy moments. Froggie seems to be hit or miss with Santa and she wasn't thrilled about Santa today.

Christmas festivities on base.

FIRE ANTS EVERYWHERE!

After our fun on base we headed out toward to beach to a local restuarant that was having some pre-parade festivities including crafts, a bonfire and Santa. Big Brother loved it and especially had fun with the hammock and the S'mores. Froggie had her first taste of a S'more and got upset that she couldn't be down on her own but otherwise seemed to enjoy it. After awhile to boats that had strung themselves up with lights made their way out from the dock and we drove back towards our rooms and ordered Pizza.