So last Friday my mom came to visit. We had the best time! Superstar warmed up to her pretty quickly and they played and read stories, but best of all she made me gingerbread! It's one of my favorite recipes from when I grew up that she made. I know you're probably thinking cookies or something but it's gingerbread cake and oh so yummy and moist and delicious! I made her double the recipe so we'd have lots! Thanks Mom!
So even though it feels like I skipped Christmas this year, there were still some great highlights. We never got around to putting up the tree, since I was too sick and David didn't care. 
Superstar still got the experience with decorating Grandma's tree and Luke and Diva's tree. I still managed to fill Daddy's stocking with the help of this wonderful candy website that sells all sorts of goodies! It was fun. I bet there was 20 different kinds of candy in there. 
Poor Superstar! Sunday he woke up all sick and with this walrus cough. When Daddy got home from church we took him to the Urgicare since he was complaining about his ear hurting. Sure enough, his poor little ear was sick. Everybody at the center thought he looked so pitiful. Poor little guy, his nose got all red and he got a scab from wiping it so much. He slept with me for a couple of nights and Daddy was good enough to take the couch. We need a bigger bed!!!
I'm due supposedly in July, but no one really knows exactly since I couldn't give them accurate dates. That's okay, and here comes my soapbox, there's really no way to know when you get pregnant or when the baby will be born. It's all just roundabout guessing, so we'll just say July. I'm super excited because poor Superstar is born 2 weeks after Christmas and gets this big deluge of presents and excitement once a year and then nothin'! Plus we're always trying to plan his party around the weather, totally unpredictable. Summer birthdays are so much more fun! Water parties, the beach, ice cream, popsicles! So much fun! Now everybody please pray I can just hold on to this baby because if I don't I don't know that I'll have the courage to try again. The last couple of months have been so miserable, and I've been so bored and lonely. 
Superstar and Daddy have been beyond fabulous. Superstar just plays and comes in to hug me. He can even make his own PB sandwiches, BONUS! Daddy has taken over the whole house and is always willing to pop out for food, (even twice one night) to get me whatever my tummy thinks it can handle. He has me all set up in bed with the laptop and phones and a TV courtesy of my MIL and FIL, thanks! He even found me these acupressure wristbands which helped for a couple of days and then weren't so effective. Oh well, they came conveniently in time so I could at least go to church for Christmas and to the family celebrations. I guess God really does have the best timing, because I would have died, ok that's a little dramatic, but it would have been even more miserable to try to take care of Superstar when he was younger and not so self-sufficient. I learned and continue to learn so many lessons from the miscarriage. Sometimes I wonder what lessons I'm supposed to be learning from this pregnancy sickness. Why am I so sick when other people cruise through pregnancy. I promised God I would appreciate my life more if he would make me well. I know you're not supposed to bargain with God, but I'm desperate! Anyway, sorry so long, but I've had a lot of time to think, and I've missed being a part of the world.
So my Dad always says to people that complain we have so seasons here, that we do have seasons: fire season and flood season. I just can't believe that they're saying this is worse than the fires three years ago. I thought at that time it couldn't possibly be any worse. I remember it went on for weeks and every channel on TV was fire coverage. My sister in San Diego thought she might have to come up with her family to stay with us, but so far they're okay, just really smoky and close to the evacuation areas. It's really incredible how the weather can change so quickly and dramatically. I just went and bought some new jeans in preparation for the cooler days and nights, and now it's almost 90 degrees! The wind reminds me of being in Oklahoma. I'm jealous of the people who have good wind hair, which basically means no hair at all. So here's our tarp in the backyard. We came home and found it toppled. Daddy wanted to put it back up, but I said, why? It will just blow down again. So Superstar and I took pictures of it. He loves to take pictures with my camera. Yesterday I downloaded my pictures and found 104 pictures on there, few of them being mine. There were lots of pictures of a green balloon and self-portraits of Superstar, and his trains. It's cute. I'm hoping he'll get a kid camera for Christmas, but we'll see. Here's some of his best work. Abstract, but fun.
Daddy's team won!!! This week was the play-offs for Daddy's softball team on the Naval base where he works. I like to go watch because it makes Daddy happy and the other guys too since I used to work with them and they laugh at my bench coaching. Run run run now stop stop! It's fun. So Daddy played the first game and they won, which put them into the championship game. 
In between we had a bbq. I brought brownies with M&Ms. Tasty enough, but I don't think I'll waste the candy on the brownies again. I'll save them for the rice krispie treats. So they won and it was so fun! 
Superstar got tired at the end and fell asleep; it was after 9 and like 56 degrees outside. 
Here's their cute team with the trophy.
Last night we celebrated Daddy and Luke's birthdays, since they're born a week apart, well, and a few years. We had Korean BBQ, thanks to Luke, and I made 2 cheesecakes, one with strawberries and one with raspberries. So yummy!!!! The best part is that there's leftovers, so we get to have this yumminess again on Sunday!!! What could be better? I gave Daddy the leaning tower of presents, sorry no picture, but it was stuff for his new bike and for his racquetball adventures.
I made Luke a Star Wars quilt, which he thought was pretty cool. 
Diva got a little grumpy, so Luke tried to cheer her up with his never-should-happen-again but funny combover. Really, you men out there, take a hint! It's really better to be bald. Just do it!
Superstar loves animals! I'm so happy about this. I get so impatient with children who are afraid of animals. 
I always wanted Superstar to be tender-hearted towards God's creatures and have tried to help him feel comfortable around them since he was very small.
