"MAMA MAMA"
Made my heart melt. I ran over to her as quick as possible and squeezed and loved her!!! Oh the joys of motherhood!!!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Mama Mama
Just a side note for today.....Brian and I went to pick up Jazzy from Shelly's houseand we walked up the stairs and she heard us. Well we get to the top and she starts crawling SUPER fast and heads right towards me and says
La Di Da
So, since this is all still new to me, my page is quite drab and boring. My friend has offered to help me make it snazzy when we get to Lima!! So in a month or so I hope to have some substance to this and have it represent "The Bailey Bunch!!!" So please bare with me on that.
We had a check up with the Regional doctor from FL the other day and Jadzia is 16lbs. 9oz. and 27in long! She is doing great. I'm still bfeeding which is HUGE deal, since I almost gave up 2 weeks into it! Although she is supplemented with formula the sitters house. She's been eating pretty much what we eat for a bit now. She has her upper right tooth and her lower left one! Waiting til they come in good enough to get a good picture. She is just over 8 months....she hit the 8 month mark on January 18th! time is flying by way to fast! But she's such a joy to have and so darn funny!
Right now we're in the process of getting Little Miss her first tourist passport! We're really looking forward to showing her the world and although she won't remember we'll be sure to document everything for her to look back on. We have two big trips coming up one to Lima and one to London. We have about two days in between them to rest and recoup. Then we are coming to a close on the Island and back to the good 'ol U.S of A.
Its a love hate relationship I have with with this place! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the beaches, but everything else I could do without. I'm sure some people would think I'm crazy to not like living in the Caribbean, but visiting and living ON an island are two completely different things! I also happen to like four seasons.....well three: spring, summer and fall. Only one of which you get here. There is just something wrong with wearing summer attire year round. It's hard to get in the Thanksgiving and Christmas spirit here. The prices....YIKES! A gallon of gas: $6+; strawberries: $9; juice: $7; Blue Bunny ice cream: $15. And folks that's in US dollars! The people here are absolutely rude! You do find the occasional nice ones. I don't consider myself racist at all, but I have definitely been discriminated against. Before I could only imagine what it is like, but now I know and it's not cool. I have never disrespected someone because of their skin color and I sure as hell don't expect it either. When we had the mom's here for Christmas, my mom was telling me how nice everyone is here and I told her its because she's a tourist and they want your money. It made me sick when this one lady tried some crap with my mom and I was like, "Really???" This IS a third world country......and it looks like one outside of the beaches. Granted I have befriended a couple of the locals, but mostly I just stick to our little crew we have here.
Brian told me that I should probably not complain about living in Barbados to others back in the states, especially with they're spouses being deployed. He said I will most likely come of spoiled and snotty. Well, so what??? I have lived that life and I can compare it to my life back in the states and my life in Eastern Europe. I believe I earned the right to do so. I've been there, done that. I also don't like the lack of travel here. Living in Macedonia was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! We went to Paris, France; Munich and Garmisch, Germany; Budapest, Hungary; Thessaloniki, Greece; Austria; Switzerland; Liechtenstein. Sure if we had just a few more bucks we would have made it to Bulgaria, Croatia, etc. On a last note, the positives from this tour here in Barbados is: Brian finished his Bachelor's degree; we welcomed our perfect little girl, Jadzia; he was non-deployable for 3 years; and no field ops to partake in.
Okay, so that went to more of a vent/rant than planned. I'm just ready to get back to my house with my things! I will close for now and post later.
We had a check up with the Regional doctor from FL the other day and Jadzia is 16lbs. 9oz. and 27in long! She is doing great. I'm still bfeeding which is HUGE deal, since I almost gave up 2 weeks into it! Although she is supplemented with formula the sitters house. She's been eating pretty much what we eat for a bit now. She has her upper right tooth and her lower left one! Waiting til they come in good enough to get a good picture. She is just over 8 months....she hit the 8 month mark on January 18th! time is flying by way to fast! But she's such a joy to have and so darn funny!
Right now we're in the process of getting Little Miss her first tourist passport! We're really looking forward to showing her the world and although she won't remember we'll be sure to document everything for her to look back on. We have two big trips coming up one to Lima and one to London. We have about two days in between them to rest and recoup. Then we are coming to a close on the Island and back to the good 'ol U.S of A.
Its a love hate relationship I have with with this place! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the beaches, but everything else I could do without. I'm sure some people would think I'm crazy to not like living in the Caribbean, but visiting and living ON an island are two completely different things! I also happen to like four seasons.....well three: spring, summer and fall. Only one of which you get here. There is just something wrong with wearing summer attire year round. It's hard to get in the Thanksgiving and Christmas spirit here. The prices....YIKES! A gallon of gas: $6+; strawberries: $9; juice: $7; Blue Bunny ice cream: $15. And folks that's in US dollars! The people here are absolutely rude! You do find the occasional nice ones. I don't consider myself racist at all, but I have definitely been discriminated against. Before I could only imagine what it is like, but now I know and it's not cool. I have never disrespected someone because of their skin color and I sure as hell don't expect it either. When we had the mom's here for Christmas, my mom was telling me how nice everyone is here and I told her its because she's a tourist and they want your money. It made me sick when this one lady tried some crap with my mom and I was like, "Really???" This IS a third world country......and it looks like one outside of the beaches. Granted I have befriended a couple of the locals, but mostly I just stick to our little crew we have here.
Brian told me that I should probably not complain about living in Barbados to others back in the states, especially with they're spouses being deployed. He said I will most likely come of spoiled and snotty. Well, so what??? I have lived that life and I can compare it to my life back in the states and my life in Eastern Europe. I believe I earned the right to do so. I've been there, done that. I also don't like the lack of travel here. Living in Macedonia was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! We went to Paris, France; Munich and Garmisch, Germany; Budapest, Hungary; Thessaloniki, Greece; Austria; Switzerland; Liechtenstein. Sure if we had just a few more bucks we would have made it to Bulgaria, Croatia, etc. On a last note, the positives from this tour here in Barbados is: Brian finished his Bachelor's degree; we welcomed our perfect little girl, Jadzia; he was non-deployable for 3 years; and no field ops to partake in.
Okay, so that went to more of a vent/rant than planned. I'm just ready to get back to my house with my things! I will close for now and post later.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Where has the time gone???
I have decided to try and keep up with a blog. Give more details of what's going with us. If you have us on Facebook you can see our pictures, so I thought this could be more detailed with whats going on with us!
So here we are.....January 20, 2011. I've never been good at relaying my thoughts to paper. So I'm going to try and give it a go!!
Let's go back to Oct 2006 real quick....just do a quick recap to where we are today! I promise to keep it short! :) Brian deployed for 7 months taking us up to May of 2007. He got accepted into the MSG (Marine Security Guard) Program in July 2007. But before he went off to that school he did an Advance MOS Course for 2 months (July-September 2007) and then Staff Academy (October-Decemeber 2007). He had about 3 weeks in between each class. He left for Quantico, VA January 1, 2008 for MSG school for 2 months.
FINALLY, graduation day was here. I met him out in Quantico for the graduation. We found out a week before where we were going. We were going to Skopje, Macedonia (pronounced Scope-e-ah). We returned to 29 Palms in early March to get stuff packed up and shipped out. We arrived in Macedonia April 8, 2008. I'll never forget the smells, the sights that I sensed. (I'll cover our time in MK at some point later). We were there for 16 months and left August 3rd, 2009 back to VA for our leave for 2.5 weeks. We left VA August 22, 2008 and arrived in beautiful Barbados. I have different feelings about this place after living here......again, I'll touch base about here at a later time.
I must also mention that we had an unexpected, but extremely happy suprise.......we were 6 weeks pregnant a month after getting to Barbados!!! It was a rough pregnancy, but so worth it in the end. Our due date was May 26th. I thought we would wait til we got back, but there were other plans. We had been wanting to have one over the last couple years and it finally happened. I had to return to the states in February to have our little one. I found out a couple weeks later it was a girl!! We were beyond estatic. Brian stayed in Barbados up until I "thought" I was in labor. I thought she was going to come like 3 weeks early, luckily she didn't. Brian made it up to VA May 5th and we welcomed our little baby, Jadzia Abigail, on May 18th at 2:44 am. Weighing in at 6 lbs 9 oz and 19 inches long. She was gorgeous and I became a believer in love at first sight! Brian was there for 2 weeks before returning home, and Jaz and I followed when she was 6 weeks old.
So her we are.......January 20, 2011.
We have 10 weeks left here in Barbados and I can't wait to get back home to CA!!! During our last 10 weeks we have a couple trips: Lima, Peru and London, England.
That's just a quick recap of our lives over the last 4.5 years!
Cheers!
So here we are.....January 20, 2011. I've never been good at relaying my thoughts to paper. So I'm going to try and give it a go!!
Let's go back to Oct 2006 real quick....just do a quick recap to where we are today! I promise to keep it short! :) Brian deployed for 7 months taking us up to May of 2007. He got accepted into the MSG (Marine Security Guard) Program in July 2007. But before he went off to that school he did an Advance MOS Course for 2 months (July-September 2007) and then Staff Academy (October-Decemeber 2007). He had about 3 weeks in between each class. He left for Quantico, VA January 1, 2008 for MSG school for 2 months.
FINALLY, graduation day was here. I met him out in Quantico for the graduation. We found out a week before where we were going. We were going to Skopje, Macedonia (pronounced Scope-e-ah). We returned to 29 Palms in early March to get stuff packed up and shipped out. We arrived in Macedonia April 8, 2008. I'll never forget the smells, the sights that I sensed. (I'll cover our time in MK at some point later). We were there for 16 months and left August 3rd, 2009 back to VA for our leave for 2.5 weeks. We left VA August 22, 2008 and arrived in beautiful Barbados. I have different feelings about this place after living here......again, I'll touch base about here at a later time.
I must also mention that we had an unexpected, but extremely happy suprise.......we were 6 weeks pregnant a month after getting to Barbados!!! It was a rough pregnancy, but so worth it in the end. Our due date was May 26th. I thought we would wait til we got back, but there were other plans. We had been wanting to have one over the last couple years and it finally happened. I had to return to the states in February to have our little one. I found out a couple weeks later it was a girl!! We were beyond estatic. Brian stayed in Barbados up until I "thought" I was in labor. I thought she was going to come like 3 weeks early, luckily she didn't. Brian made it up to VA May 5th and we welcomed our little baby, Jadzia Abigail, on May 18th at 2:44 am. Weighing in at 6 lbs 9 oz and 19 inches long. She was gorgeous and I became a believer in love at first sight! Brian was there for 2 weeks before returning home, and Jaz and I followed when she was 6 weeks old.
So her we are.......January 20, 2011.
We have 10 weeks left here in Barbados and I can't wait to get back home to CA!!! During our last 10 weeks we have a couple trips: Lima, Peru and London, England.
That's just a quick recap of our lives over the last 4.5 years!
Cheers!
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