Well, the last time I posted a written post was on Bill's 31st Birthday. The kids and I went to our December MOPS/MOPPETS meeting on Monday the 14th. Mister Daniel is doing much better with being without Mom and Sisters for an hour and a half. While Bill headed to the Ramstein area for his preopp. appointment for his surgery coming up in the week. After MOPS the girls and I started on our Christmas baking. We ended up making banana bread muffins, no bake cookies, puppy chow (or Chex Muddy Buddies), peanut butter fudge, chocolate fudge, and chocolate-peanut butter fudge. Everything was completed by bedtime.
Tuesday the kids and I headed to playgroup. Afterwards we dropped our goodies off at the Club for the cookie drive for the airman on the base. After eating lunch we headed to Ramstein. We ended up having to get a room in Ramstein for Bill's surgery the next morning as he had to be there at 6:00 in the morning.
Bill ended up taking a taxi to the hospital as we didn't want to drag the kids out in the cold at 5:30 in the morning. Once 11:00 hit (check out time) the kids and I headed to the BX and hung out there until it was time to check on/pick up Daddy. Everything went well, thank goodness. He will be at home with us until the 4th of January!!!
Thursday was Daniel's first birthday. We didn't do much as his party was the following Saturday. He had his well baby check weighing in at 23 pounds 7 ounces and measuring 31 1/4 inches long. He got four shots and had to have a tube of his blood drawn. My poor boy I just tortured him on his birthday. We sang Happy Birthday to him several times and he got to open all his presents that were there.
Friday was the day to prepare for the party the following day. Lots of cleaning and prepping the food.
Saturday was the "Big Day" for Daniel. "Happy Birthday to You". He had a blast!!! It was a nice small party with three other families plus ours. We really enjoyed ourselves. After the party it was time to relax.
This last week was pretty relaxing (minus the back window on the van shattering) not much going on, but taking it easy.
Monday the 21st Daniel, Alyssa and myself went to the Post Office and the Commissary. Well, somehow the whole back window on the van shattered while we were in the Commissary. Not sure how that happened. The police said they think it may have been from the extreme temperature changes the past couple days. To me it looked like it was hit by something. Anyway I called Bill at home and he called the insurance company, the place that ended up fixing the van, someone to come pick the three of us up, and the car rental place. So, a hour trip to the base turned into a 3-4 hour ordeal. The place we brought the van to worked really hard and we got our van back on the 23rd, just in time for Christmas!!!!
We had lots of snow all week for the kids to play in. I think I shoveled three or four days in a row. We built a snow hill, a snowman, and went sledding. Yesterday the snow completely melted away. I do have to say that Alyssa is a true North Dakota girl, she played outside in the snow for over two hours two of the days. I had to con her into the house with hot chocolate!!!
This week the kids and I did our usual things: playgroup and story time at the Library. We had a nice quiet Christmas Eve and Christmas with just our family. It was actually very relaxing without all the hustle and bustle. We all really enjoyed it. We wish all of you a Happy New Year!!!
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