Time has flown

Time has just flown by this last year. Kameron is 6 months old today. He had his doctors appointment and he isn't as big as I though he was. He was 26 1/2 inches long and only 15 lbs 13 oz. Once again that was with a wet diaper and clothes on. So he hasn't doubled his birth weight yet. The nurse was calling him a horse. I don't think that is that big actually. Some of the other babies his age are weighing in at almost 21 lbs. This one 6 month old weighs 25 lbs already. McKaila doesn't even weigh that much. He had 6 different shots today. Only 3 pokes though and then one was an oral medication. He handled it like a champ.

Only two more days here and we are done. I am excited and sad at the same time. We have made a lot of friends here and I am sad to leave them. However, I am excited to get to Bangkok. Moving can be really expensive. This being our first real move with this job it was quite a shock. We just had to pay $1800 for Davids work cell phone bill. If he missed paying for a phone call they don't add it up till the end. That also includes outprocessing fees. My stomach is still hurting from this one. David called me from a country and we talked maybe 20 minutes and it cost us nearly $270. I didn't know it was that expensive but I can say that isn't happening anymore.

Our inspection of the house went well. We don't owe for any of the furniture or any damage done to anything. We just had to pay for two lost keys. Each key was about $70 though. Man this job is expensive.

We found out more about our housing in Bangkok. We thought we'd have high rise apartment buildings. It turnes out we are getting a house. Its about 1600 square feet. So its a decent size. It has 5 bathrooms, 3 bedrooms, a maids quarters, and a study. It looks really pretty from the pictures we have seen. Speaking of pictures. Here are a few of the kids. Sorry I'm not posting that many but its harder from the laptop.

Can you see his two teeth?

McKaila saying goodbye to her friend William.

I survived!!!!

David is finally done traveling for a while. He had his last trip this week. He is in the office all next week and then he is all mine till Bangkok. It has been a rough couple of weeks but I made it.

This is probably going to be my last post for a while. I'll try my best to get more done but things are going to be pretty busy the next couple of weeks. We pack out on Thursday of next week so our home computer will be gone. We'll have our laptop but no internet service. We can go over to the fieldhouse and get internet but we probably won't do that too often. We have a lot to do before Thursday. We have to pack our suitcases and find out what we want to throw away. We also have to figure out what is going into storage, our air shipment, and household shipment. So much to do and so little time. Then once we are packed we then have to worry about getting the apartment clean for the inspection. Once that is over we can finally relax. Well we can relax as much as we can. Our inspection is Monday the 24th and we leave Sunday the 30th.

I am so excited to be going home and seeing family. This will really be our last time visiting for a while. It'll be too hard for me to travel 23 hours with two little kids. So our families will just have to come and visit us :)

The kids are doing great. Did I already mention Kameron has two teeth now? They came in so fast. One day they were just barely poking through and two days later both teeth were all the way through and you can see them really well. He is now enjoying baby food. We started him with rice cereal and he didn't enjoy it. He spit it out and seemed to almost choke on it so I thought he wasn't ready for food yet. Well I tried applesauce baby food and he loved it. So now I trick him and mix banana's and rice cereal. He opens his mouth for more. My little boy is growing up so fast. McKaila is getting big as well. She repeats so much of what we say. She is also remembers her friends names. We went to the park yesterday and she saw one of her friends and said "Hi Kaden." It was adorable. Of course Kaden felt so special because McKaila remembered his name. Her favorite food is cheese hotdogs. When I tell her its time for breakfast and to get into her highchair she tells me hotdogs.

Well I am off to go help decorate the church for a ward party tonight. We are having a luau.

Das Tollhaus

David will be home in 2 days. YEAH!!!!! Then he'll have two days off and then he is on another couple of trips. Then he is finished going out of town for a while. These last couple of days have been ok with David gone. We have been keeping busy. That first week was really tough. The weather hasn't been so great though. It has been in the high 50's low 60's this past week. It doesn't feel like summer or fall.

We had a fun day today with my friend, Allison, and her son Aiden. We went to this indoor playground, Das Tollhaus. It had a bunch of fun things to do. They had bobby cars and a little race track, a giant inflatable slide, a ball pit and lots of things to climb on. The kids had so much fun there as you will be able to see in the pictures. They were definetly worn out by the end of the day.
Kameron has two teeth now. Once again he slept through the night last night. I hope it continues. He did really well today just chilling out on my hip. When we got home we ate dinner and went out to the playground outside. McKaila loves playing out there. I let her run off some more energy. She is talking so much. We really have to be careful with what we say because she copies everything now. I can't believe how big my little girl is getting.

Moving plans are coming along. We pack out in 2 weeks and move in 22 days. Thats right I'm counting down. I've made a lot of friends here and will be sad to leave them. I didn't know too many people when we first moved here because I was never at the playground and never got out much because McKaila was just a newborn. I have met so many people now I hate to leave. Just as I was starting to enjoy Frankfurt I move. Thats how life is sometimes. Oh well.

McKaila and Aiden in the ball pit.

McKaila on her bobby car"

McKaila went down this huge slide all by herself. It really is big. I screamed going down it the first time.This slide was little but steep. Everytime they would go down it they would hit the ground with their bottoms and then keep bouncing. He thinks my tractor's sexy :)Kameron in the ball pit.McKaila in the ball pit.

My sweet children and I. Yes, McKaila is picking her nose.

FINALLY!!!

Kameron got his first tooth. It has been so close to breaking through for a while and on September 1st it popped out. His poor gums are so swollen that yesterday it covered his tooth again. It has popped through though. We had a rough night that night as well. I was up with him every two hours and then from 5-7 in the morning he just screamed. Poor little guy. The last two nights have been great with him sleeping though. I pray it continues. He has slept from 8:30 p.m. to 6 a.m. one morning and 7 a.m. the other. I have been having issues with him sleeping all night and it makes it really hard for me to sleep now.

David finally comes home today. We are going to go pick him up from the airport in a little over 3 hours. It'll be nice to have him home. Even though it is only for a day. We had such a rough week. I was so stressed out and cried a couple times everday. Something is wrong with me I guess. Here are a few pictures. It'll probably be a week before I can post again. Enjoy.

McKaila feeding her baby.

Kameron kind of sitting up.

McKaila plays basketball with these guys. From left its Jake, Gage, and lil' Jake

Kameron is finally starting to enjoy his saucer.

Stop and smell the flowers. In this case the leaves. It looks like a flower in the picture but the white is actually from her shirt.