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| Our crazy family right before Jason left. |
Apparently I can't stay away from writing with Jason gone. It feels good to write, but it's even nicer to keep everyone up to date with us and Jason.
It has been a few days since I have heard from Jason. He is on his security outpost now, I assume. I talked to him right before he left Leatherneck...that was on Monday night. It's different not being able to talk to him. The last deployment he had the satellite phone and I was able to call him every night. I miss that. And I miss being in the loop. Jason wanted me to hold out sending out his address until it was activated. It was activated yesterday, but the addresses have changed and now I don't know which one is his. I have emailed our Family Readiness Officer to figure it out, but of course, have not heard back from him. It's frustrating, especially since it's a Friday!
The girls and I have been doing good. They took really good care of me after my surgery. Yesterday and today...I have felt normal. And it feels great! But of course, I didn't stay down today and thought I could rearrange a little...I'm paying the price right now. I just want to be a busy body. I feel like I should be nesting, I'm obviously not pregnant...but I want to be busy doing things. I really dislike the evenings when I don't have anything to do. I would much rather be watching Swamp People with Jason.
Changing gears, as most of you know, we got a new addition on Easter. Miss Mabel Mae, she's a Great Dane.
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Miss Mabel Mae at 2 weeks old.
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Miss Mabel Mae the day we brought her home. 6 weeks, 5 days.
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Miss Mabel Mae, 7 weeks.
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Taking Jason to the busses.
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Mabel thinks Stella is her Mom. And boy does she have the best role model in Stella!
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She is such a cuddler. It's like having a baby to cuddle with in the house again. She did nothing but cuddle with me for days after my surgery.
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9 Weeks, staring out the window!
Mabel is amazing, although, amazing, I think, is an understatement. She is freakin awesome! She is growing like a weed and already potty trained like a champ...at 9 weeks! She sleeps through the night and pretty much all day long. When she goes outside to play with the girls after school, you can count on her passing out and not moving until the next day. Stella lets her cuddle with her, they sleep together, and they play really good outside together...but when Stella is sleeping and Mabel wakes her up by biting her tail...it's on. They are a lot of fun to watch. I think half the reason Mabel is so awesome is because she has such a great role model in Stella...and she wants to do as Stella does. Finally, we found another dog match for our family. After many trials and errors, we finally got it right. I'm taking weekly pictures of her to do a time lapse video eventually. When she was born, she weighed 1.8Ibs...at 8 weeks, she weighed 20 Ibs. I take her back to the vet on Monday, She will be a day shy of 10 weeks, I'm guessing she will at least be 30. She's pushing Layla's weight!
I will end this with Ava's art project, her self portrait!
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