Hey! It’s another civilian father whose wife is a Navy officer deployed for 6 months. Elysia saw this article today and thought William Kistner’s experience sounded very familiar.
Especially the part about the overseas spouse doing yoga and partying with the guys (aka every other officer in her command) while diapers were exploding back home.
Today was the first day that Citrus was able to make a tube with her tongue, something that she has only dreamed of being able to do like her mom and dad.
It was easier once we removed the piercing we gave her as an infant — and like we predicted, she did not remember the pain involved at the time.
Also in the area of firsts, she has successfully moved to panties (”big girl underwear”) but for the most part we have not photo-documented the transition. Your lucky day.
However, she does appear to be a little confused with the concept. Here she is just sitting unposed on the couch, a toddler panty model in the making as soon as I grabbed the camera. Thoughtful. Poised. Playful. The red velvet series. Or, perhaps in the spirit of what’s on her head: The Red Velvet Elmo Series.
Hopefully she won’t wind up in a Chief Judge’s folders.
We have hit the jackpot! The same weekend we are going to Virginia Beach is the annual Viva Elvis spectacular. Somehow we managed to miss it in the two years we lived there.
There will be an “Are You Smarter than an Elvis?” contest as well as a crowd favorite, the Skydiving Kings. It being a major military town, they will of course descend from the sky carrying a giant American flag. When Elysia was in Bahrain she participated in a hospital bed race charity event with other Navy and Marine officers on a Formula One racetrack. If we could fit furniture in our car, I think she’d have the winning edge in the Elvis recliner race.
Eat our wake, Ypsilanti — this is the 14th year.
It’s been a few days since my last post, and I have been baking up a storm. Coincidentally on the hottest days we have had. Click on the picture for a larger version.
On Thursday we had a going-away party for Steve Ma, who left AARP to launch Live Green a new non-profit in Washington DC. The launch party is Wednesday, June 16th in DC. That’s the logo on the first cake.
Live Green is going to make green living easy by helping people navigate to the better eco-friendly resources in their community. A few years ago Steve did a 1500-mile one-man walk for campaign finance reform in New Jersey and visited all 40 legislative districts, so when he’s passionate about something he really throws everything into it.
On Saturday we went to a double birthday party for two 3-year-olds. One wanted farm animals and the other wanted trucks. I had a Food Network reality show moment when, one hour before the party, something fell out of the kitchen cabinet and grazed the pasture. Fortunately the damage was reparable and the toddlers were forgiving.