The Holidays

Here's a pic of our christmas tree for the holidays. We had a good time and we had some family pics done. We went up north to visit our relatives in the central valley. I got a new vacuum! Cool! and the kids got a lot of clothes and toys. It was a pretty good holiday. Except for my mom getting the flu on Christmas Day. Which was a bummer but luckily we had a christmas with her on christmas eve.

I don't know why she won't smile.

Then we came back home and celebrated New Years at Legoland. Uncle Derrick was with us and we had a pretty good time. The kids were a little scared of the fireworks. But they did OK.

Fun at the park

I'm posting this from my iPhone so we'll see of this works. We went to CPK this morning and had a tour of the kitchen and all the kids got to male a pizza. Then we went to the park and played. I'll post pics at CPK later.

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Starting the move

I decided after having Ronin that we could no longer live in a 2 bed apartment. So I made the effort to find us a house to rent. I basically looked on craig's list for a few weeks and I must have looked at like 20 house. (Although I didn't really keep track. Boy you should have seen some of these houses. They don't post pictures in the ads because they're hitius. When you go and see these houses they're like gross and tiny and not finished and no yards, just dirt and rocks. Anyhoos, I found a few good ones but then there's a lot of competition. There's like 10 people who want to rent this house and there's a housing shortage in San Diego county. So it's like applying for a job!

The first couple of houses we didn't get. We lost out to a better couple with better credit. But this house we moved into, another post, we got, obviously. Here are some pics of before we moved in. We just now got unpacked so I haven't taken any recent pictures but I will soon and post them.

It's a 3 bed, 2 bath little house. They remodeled it a little bit so the fixtures are nice. But the electrical could use a once over. But it has a great yard and a jetted master tub. So we like it.

Recovering

It took a long time to recover from the C-section. In some ways I'm still recovering. I've heard from other women who've had c-sections that it'll take about a year for it to stop hurting. Which is lamo cause my child like to kick me in the stomach and that can hurt a lot. Also anytime anyone touches it it hurts. Which also sucks. But I haven't started working out yet. So maybe when I work out and strengthen my stomach muscles then I'll feel better. It took a few weeks too to be able to walk around for a while and it took a while to be able to stand and just have stamina. Luckily I had a lot of help and now I can handle both kiddos alone.

Here's me and RoRo coming out of the hospital and on our way home.

Here's Ronin's first bath. He actually really didn't cry and seemed to enjoy it. Maybe it reminded him of the womb, all the cozy warm water.

Ah after bath. He slept a lot in the beginning and now basically sleeps through the night. Mary still doesn't though.

What Happened Since June?

So about the time I stopped blogging I got put on a modified bed rest because I was getting pubis symphysis dysfunction (read about it on wikipedia.) Ironically I was not supposed to do much but sitaround I didn't blog because that would require me to sit very uncomfortably at the desk in the kitchen. So I fell off the face of the earth.

Apparently Ronin was breech and his hips were sitting in my hips and causing quite a lot of pain. But then I had to have someone home with me and Mary all the time. I couldn't lift her. I couldn't stand for long periods and to dishes and laundry and stuff. So my mom came down a few times for a week or two at a time. Rich stayed home a little bit. Derrick even came out a couple of times to help out.

Then my best gal Diane and Carol Annie came down to help us out. They were here for almost 2 months or something like that. We were all crammed in our little 2 bedroom 950 sq ft apartment. It was pretty crazy and I was pretty huge!

Then finally on Aug 25th at 4:48am RoRo was born. Ronin Oliver Augustus

It was pretty stressful at the end of the pregnancy. And I decided then that we needed to move into a rental house. For the sanity of the family!

Christmas Time Update

Wow! It's been a while since I blogged. Well we had a baby, Ronin, and we moved. Diane and Carol Ann came down to visit for a while. Grandma Kay's been down a few times and now we're getting ready to go up north for a few days for christmas.

End of June

And here it is already the end of June. We've been busy busy. Mary did a swim refresher course. She remembered stuff that she learned last year and swam to the edge by herself. She's really good around water now and she still loves it even after all the work we made her do.

We spent some time up north for a quick visit with some family and then headed back down to so cal to get more ready for the baby. Mary loves the piano, we found out. And she's not that bad for 2 years old and having no lessons. We'd like to get her a keyboard for her birthday. One that sounds like a piano but isn't too expensive.

And of course Mary loves cupcakes. Especially chocolate ones with frosting.

I haven't taken any pictures of Mary's room after we've added some things for the baby to it. we added back in the crib and a changing table and another toy storage bin thingy. The room is pretty crowded now. So we're thinking of moving again in October when our lease is up. We can't afford much but we're hoping to find a 3 bedroom house we can rent for a while. And then we'll be a little less crowded. Four people in a 2 bedroom apartment is getting crowded.

Mary got sick this week too. I think she had a bladder infection. So we're giving her antibiotics and she seems to be getting well now. She had a fever of 101.5 for a couple of days and was tugging at her diaper a lot.

Here's a picture of me at 31 weeks. Moooovin along. eventually I'll give birth.

We'll keep you posted.