What are kids REALLY learning in school?!

Leena is 7, going on 15.

I'm still deciding if this is good or bad.

I spent about 3 days at my parents house last week when she was out of scool for inservice and veternas day.

Anyway, she was in entertaining her little brother on the lovesac, while I stood face next to the mirror, putting on my make-up for the day. I hear my dad start to play with her because her brother had fallen asleep.

I'd just finished up my facial artwork, and walked into where my dad was playing with my daughter. Then I hear this "YOU CREEPY OLD MAN! NO PAPA! NOOOOO!" I was so shocked!! She just called her own grandfather a creepy old man!! That was not about to fly if I have it my way. I called her in to where I was and said "what did you just call your papa?!?" she kinda giggled and replied with "I called him a creepy old man". Somehow, my dad didn't seem too horribly offended by her 7 year old statement. My dad is far from a creepy old man! So, I nicely told her, not to call papa things like that. (Papa is the alternative for grandpa with the kids in my fam. None of them could say grandpa as toddlers, so Papa stuck instead) Then I explained to her that a creepy old man is anything but her grandfather. A creepy old man is someone who looks scary, and does bad things to people, like touch little kids where they're not supposed to be touched, or kills people. She got a serious look on her face. I think she realized, what I had just described, was anything but her beloved Papa. She knows he's not only far from that, but would'nt do anything to ever hurt anyone, or her.

My dad piped in somewhat quietly, "She's picked up alot of things from school this year". I couldn't help but think, do first graders go around calling each other creepy old men?! Then I realized, she does share the playground with all the big kids now, I bet that's where she got it from. Or a child in her class that has an older sibling. Something she doesn't have.

She's said a couple other things that I've wanted to cover my mouth with shock and dismay, but for some reason, I'm totally drawing a blank on what they were.

I guess it goes to show that there is more of a stronger influence at such an early age than we realize. Granted what she said wasn't as bad as some of the things I heard from Anita Brown in my 2nd grade class. (She'd going around calling every a Mother F'ing B****. At 8 years old!)

It could be worse, but it just goes to show, we have to somehwat worry early on. One thing as parents, we shouldn't have to do. But not all parents are like me, and have a strict policy of things Leena is allowed to say, and not to say.

I just hope she doesn't get worse!

To Jeff, Love, Me

This is Jeff little bit over a year ago, he was on deployment, before I'd met him ;)"Pre-Heidi".

Anyway, I get alot of thinking time when he's gone. Probably too much. And, with that, comes grattitude and feeling appreciative of a person. I guess you can attribute it to the absence makes the heart grow fonder scenario. It seems like I'm more grateful now, alot of it due to Landon.

So, Jeffy.. Thank you for..

-Being such a wonderful father to both my kids. I know you miss them, but soon you'll be home!
-Being a beyond amazing husband.
-Putting up with all of my whining the 8 months I was pregnant with Landon.
-Making sure that I am taken care of, as well as the kids.
-Having faith.
-Treating me very well, and with respect.
-Loving my family.
-Having a good relationshp with Leena.
-All those late nights with Landon. There are more to come, his life has just started!
-All those many drives out to Issaquah.
-The many bear hugs and "real" kisses.
-For always telling me you love me.
-Taking care of the things, that I don't want to deal with.
-For watching Ghost Hunters with me.
-For doing the lawn, I couldn't do it!
-Singing along to Jack's Mannequin with me in the car.
-All my peppermint hot chocolate drinks :)
-All our dinner dates.
-The phone calls home.
-Finding random DFS with me
-Being a good father figure to Leena.
-Being pushy, sometimes I need it.
-Being a friend, and human tissue if needs be.
-The many shows we have been to.
-My life partner.
-For putting up with me and my snappyness, when it does occur.

This list could go on forever, and take hours. I've always thought we've made a hell of team, and with time, I'm learning I was right when I thought that. Some may say we went too fast, but I think it was all perfect. You're my partner in crime. The one person who has a big enough heart, for me, my kids and everything important to me, and us. The one person who'd get teary with me as I cried because you were leaving me for a long period of time. Which, as sad as that moment is, it's also somehow sweet.

If I look back to not meeting you, how I'd be so different, and possibly unhappy. You're a wonderful person, inside and out. I'll always still be madly in love with you, because you are who you are. You always greet me with a smile, a hug and a kiss. Which is the best thing for me. I'll always love you, and only want wha'ts best for you. I love you Jeff!

Oh, the joys!

I can't believe Landon is 3 weeks, holy cow! It's so funny because I can't lift anything over his weight. So I have to carry him everywhere. Which, is sort of annoying because EVERYONE stops me asking me how old he is etc.

I think it's funny, some women really don't care about boundaries with strangers! I usully get asked "how long was your labor". And I have to smile and say "I had a C-section with him.." and their mouths drop and they reply with "WHAT!? You're walking already?!" Why yes. As far as recovery goes, it still sucks trying to get up off the couch etc. But I remember when I was in the hospital, I was so much worse. So, that's a big step forward.

Overall, Leena is crazy about Landon. (YAY!)

I spent the past couple of days at my parents, because Jeff is gone for about another week and a half. But, this is Jeff's last underway, yay!! Anyway, it was nice to spend a couple of days with my family and kids.

Leena had a playdate with her friend Emma today. She's a really sweet girl and she an Leena have alot of fun together. I'm grateful Emma has an older sister because Leena definately has oldest childsyndrome, very bossy. We will be working on that.

Overall, Sun-Tuesday was good! Here are some pictures. I think I actually got almost all of my family members (which is pretty much my parents and Hillary now) pictures.

So, here they are!


Hillary is moving to China again! She's going to Shanghai for 8 months in February.



Emma was my little helper!



My babies =)



Just missing Jeff!



My new favorite picture.

We've been stationed....

Jeff FINALLY got his orders! He got thm the day after Landon was born. So, needless to say, that was most definately an eventful week!

With that said, we know where we will be stationed. We've been anxious to know for MONTHS. I can't emphasize it enough! We requested to stay in the Seattle area, that way it wouldn't turn ino a custody thing with Leena Rae's dad. Who lives outside of Seattle.

Then, we found out that the "Seattle area" covers, Washington, Northern Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Alaska. After Jeff turned in his paperwork, I couldn't help but think "What have we done?! I'm going to be ticked if we get stationed in Alaska!" No seriously, that's one state I REFUSE to live in. More power to Palin for living there, but I couldn't do it. At that point, months went by, and they originally told us first part of September we'd know. Not true. The recruiter kept giving Jeff certain days to call back. Jeff would call back, be either put on hold, or told to call later. Well, due to Jeffs persistance, the recruiter guy FINALLY said, ok. Call on October 23rd, we've been re-arranging people, so we'll know then.

So, now we're moving to...




Tacoma!!!

It's about 40-50 minutes North of where we live now. We're just happy we're a little closer to my family now! It'll be a 45 minute drive or so, and no ferry rides! That's alot better than the 2 hours it is now. We feel blessed because we had started to get worried, because the guy never told us where we were going to be headed. And when they do that, it doesn't sound good. So, we're looking into the Tacoma housing market, and some cities further out. We'll be out of Bremerton come January. The moving process isn't ever fun, but it'll be nice to get out of boring Brownsville and off with our little family in a new area, that neither of us have lived in! Yay for clean slates!

Tag! All about Landon!

I got tagged from Meagan! So, here we go. And, I figured since I just had Landon, I'd do this one about Landon in particular.


1. Where were you when you first found out you were pregnant? At home, in the bathroom.
2. Who was with you? Jeff

3. How did you find out? Well, my boobs were hurting like ALL the time I couldn't figure it out. Jeff kept pushing me to take a home test, and I was like, nah, I'm fine. took one, and I was "fine", a week or 2 later, still had the same boob issue. Took another one, and it was obviously 2 lines in there. Jeff was like "can I say I told you so?!"

4. What was your first reaction? My eye totally got huge, and I looked at Jeff, fairly surprised. I think I covered my mouth actually. totally surprised!

5. What was your husband's reaction? He was sitting next to me, and we have this thing about not saying "I told you so" to the other person, so he saw it, and got the OK from me to say it to me. He was all smiles though, he was happy.

6. Who was the first person you told? Jeff found out the same time I did, so not him. I think...Maybe Rachel! I thik my mom too.

7. Was the pregnancy planned? Yes and no. It wasn't a huge effort with us, but if it happened, we would've been really excited. And, we were!

8. Did you find out the sex? Yes, I HAD to know!

9. Did anyone throw a baby shower for you? Yes, my friend Melissa and Hanna.

10. If yes, who came? My sister and mom, all my gfs from HS since I've lived in WA.

11. Did you get any outfits you knew you wouldn't use? Nope.

12. How much weight did you gain? Ya know, I don't know ow much the last day I was pregnant with Landon. Between 30-40lbs I know that much.

13. Did you get stretch marks? No, thank goodness! Even the doctors commentedo how rare that was for my 2nd baby. Go me!
14. Did you crave anything crazy? I craved some meat and some cheeses. Even macaroni and cheese! Which I usually don't like. Alot of other things, like pickles, crumb donettes of all things. (which I also am not a huge fan of, pickles that is)

15. Who or what got on your nerves the most? I was working FT, til the last month or so. When whiney people were too dumb for their own good, or southerners that had THICK accents and I couldn' understand them it was that bad, drove me crazy. (I worked in Corporate liable for Sprint|Nextel)

16. Where were you when you went into labor? Funny enough, the day of my surgery,they put me on the monitors fora bit, and were like "Oh look, you're having pretty frequent contractions!" I didn't feel them at all.

17. Did you have any complications? One tiny one, my body tempreture dropped pretty drastically. But, the weird part was, I felt like I was going to die from heat stroke.

18. Did your water break? Nope, dr did that for me.

19. Who drove you to the hospital? Jeff did. I'm glad he was home, becuaue the Nav messed up on his fligts out of San diego, he got home the day prior to my surgery date.

20. Did you go early or late? 2 weeks early.

21. Who was in the room? More like O.R! alot of doctors, and nurses, and Jeff.

22. Did you videotape it? Nope

23. Did you have any pain medication? Yes, a spinal block. Ever had one of those?! It's insane! Worst part bout it is, they pretty much expose all your body to everyone in the Operating Room. And they all get to watch thee hing take effect, which fees like you're paralyzed from your chest down.

24. Did you have a c-section or natural? Natural with Leena. Which was HELL. I had sooo many problem, my delivery almost killed me with her. So, my Dr told me I was pretty much too small to deliver babies normally. And my bones were too small. So, we had a Cesaerean because of the previous issues I had, and because he was breech.

25. What was your reaction to the birth? It seems fast now that I reflect on it. They started operating on me at 5:45, he was born at 6:04, butt first!I was happy he was so healthy and all that.

26. How big was the baby? 7lbs 1oz! Not huge, but he would've been huge if he had been full term!

28. When is the next one coming? When Landon is potty trained and out of diapers.

29. If you could would you do it all over again? Yes, kids are so worth it! Just if I have a c section again, I hope Jeff doesn't watch and then tell me later what they did to me! No wonder I have 6 weeks to recover!

I tag Amy, Lynette and Julia

New addition!

Landon Jeffery Daniels is here, yay!


He weighed in at 7lbs 1oz, 18 1/4" long. Pretty close to what Leena was when she was born. So far he's an amazingy baby! Barely fusses if he is hungry or needs a change. He is loved and adored by everyone. I had a c-section with him, Jeff attentively watched the whole thing, no way would I ever do that! I can barely stand my own blood. Overall it went good, praise the person who invented the spinal block. The only thing that was'nt very good that happened, was my body tempreture, It dropped down to 89 or 90 degrees. Yet as they put all these things on me to warm me up, I felt like I was on fire, I was in a massive sweat. But over a day or 2, finally got it up again, so that was nice.

Landon sleeps in 6 hour blocks or so.So we only got up with him 2-3 times last night, we realize how lucky we are!

Leena wrote about her brother being born in her school diary, I took pictures of it because it is that cute! Phonetically spelled everything, complete with drawings. She loves him to pieces now. We love both of those little kiddos!

Our newest addition, Landon Jeffery Daniels!