First Hair Cut

Waiting patiently for her first haircut!

She was super nice and polite to Anita the woman that cut her hair.

She was so excited.

All done!

She had been begging for days to get a 'hair trim'. It was so adorable so Dennis finally gave in and allowed us to go get her hair cut. Mind you there was only, at the most, 2 inches taken off her hair. Its still super long, but now all evened out.

She introduced Dennis and I to Anita when she met her it was so cute, along with introducing herself. I am not sure when I got this kid, but she can be a terror and then the sweetest little princess ever. :) Though I am sure that is true with all kids.

Duckpond/Zoo

A nice relaxing day at the duckpond.

Running around being a crazy kid!

These are the most comfy shoes EVER!

She got mad because she could not get all the way up on her own.



She loves to slide

This one cracked me up! She was striking a pose!

She liked the rhinos at the San Francisco Zoo.

'Lookie what Kody gave me!'

Well two different times out obviously, but both were fun. She really loves going to the duckpond and we went to the zoo and we did not stay long, it was the windiest day of the year and we had wind advisories and everything that day. It was so cold because its right off the ocean. Alot of the animals were in hiding so we need to go again soon. :)

She is getting it!

Jillian has been going very regularly in her potty, but today was a milestone... I about cried. We were upstairs and she just walked off, I didnt think anything of it. I just figured she went downstairs to play. Well next thing I know, I hear here potty chair start to sing... that means she went potty. So I race down the stairs and she looks up at me triumphantly and says:

'I did it mommy! I big girl!' It was so cute... mind you she didnt get her underpants pulled down all the way and her nightgown was semi in the potty, and she needed a whole change... but it was a big moment and I was so excited for her.

That was just the beginning... she kept doing it through out the day after that. She didnt even wet her naptime diaper! She did go #2, but it was dry. :) She is doing so good. I hope she keeps up the good work.

She still has a fear of potties that are bigger then her potty chair, and we are hoping she will grow out of that soon. I hate getting JUST off base to have her announce she has to go potty... that means I have to turn all the way around and come back home. Plus, they are doing construction near my house, so I have to drive the long way all the way around the base. We are thinking of putting a potty chair in the trunk for those kinda things.

On other news, Dennis' first two days of 13.5 hour days have gone well and now he is on his 2 days off. I think he likes it more then he lets on, but we shall see.

Tomorrow we are going to go see the new disney movie.. Jill calls it 'Chicawawa' hehe. We are going with Jillians best friend and her parents. It should be alot of fun.

Changing Schedule

Dennis' schedule is going to be changing soon. He will be working 12 hour days, 2 days on and 2 days off. So that will make us a little backwards for a while. So dont mind our extra scatter brain to come. :)

Jillian is really picking up on her potty training... as long as she has her underpants on. She refuses to go potty in her underpants so she has to use her potty, but when it comes to her pull ups she just goes.

She has had only 2 accidents in the past 2 weeks. Though normally no matter how into playing she is she will take the time to announce she has to go potty. :) Its pretty darn cute actually. She still will not go #2, but that will come.

We are planning our trip home and trying to get everything squared away, we dont think we will have a car because we can not afford to rent one... so we will be relying on others to get us around. Kinda stinks, but how it sorta needs to be I suppose. We can not just drive home to get us around... well we could but then we could only be home for 4 days instead of 10. :) maybe only 3 or 2 days... Im not really sure exactly how long it takes.

We are working on getting Jillians birthday party squared away aswell before we leave so I dont have to rush around when we get home to have her party. Nothing big, just nice and fun for Jillian. We are thinking of getting her, her first doll house. Then for christmas get her most of the accesories, because the house doesnt come with much.

Thats really all thats going on with us. :)

ANOTHER Happy Dance! :)

Two days in a row Jillian has been using the potty fairly regularly! I knew once she actually got the idea she would catch on quickly. Shes doing great now and I am so excited. I really dont want her to be growing up but its what they do I suppose.

Today we watched Nascar and I wanted Jimmie Johnson to win, atleast he was in second. Dennis' guy Stewart finished a negative lap. He was kinda sad, Though finding out the colts won this afternoon perked him up some. We are going to watch the Cleveland game tonights. :) Its kinda nice that Jillian likes watching Nascar and football. She pretends to be a car during Nascar and a football when we watch football. Its cute. We havnt watched either in so long it was cute to see how much she liked it.

Really nothing else new going on this way.:)

Doing The Happy Dance

Well, I was freaking out because Jillian still isnt fully potty trained. Infact she just recently started showing any interest in it. So I got together with some other moms to talk to them about what I should do.

So it would turn out my kid really isnt slow at all. Shes pretty much right on track for her. I never really thought about it but they all potty train at their own pace no matter how much we influence them.

I didnt want to push Jillian so I just kinda left it up to her wanting to or not. Then I started putting her in underpants all the time except at bedtime/naptime and when we would go out shopping or something.

One of my friends suggested to push her along a bit to take her out on short trips and if she has an accident she wont like it at all being out and about. So she will want to make stops at the potty. So I tried this for the first time yesterday.

We went to the gym and we were there for an hour and a half to two hours. She played hard with the other kids there and not one accident!

We got out to the truck and did the happy dance. She was really happy that she didnt make a mess. So it would seem my daughter is on the fast track now to growing up.

We are alright....

Well, today on base we lost over 125 homes. Actually they were all abandoned houses that were scheduled to be torn down. Thank the Lord those homes were not occupied or already gone. It would have spread quickly to many, many, occupied homes. Here is a website of a local news channel that was covering the fire. You can see some of the videos of it. Its pretty scary.

http://cbs13.com/local/travis.afb.fire.2.797045.html

We had to stay in doors with our windows shut and our air conditioners off. The smoke was horrible and even with the windows shut and the air off it was unbearably smokey anyways. The fires are still going even now after midnight and it started somewhere around 3:15 this afternoon.