*yawn*

and the battle to get him to sleep later continues..... up at 4:45 this morning, a bit early for him and he was cranky all day because of it. there is hope yet though, our spanish tutor, who knows everyone and can get everything is going to have black out curtains made for us!!! yeah, but i'm not celebrating too soon cause you never know if that will actually work.

on a more interesting front dane is starting to try to talk, so cute, he goes back and forth between ba baaah's and actually trying to say the word. also new this week he is starting to figure out how to put lids on things and discovered that dropping stuff is fun. we are def in the explore absolutely everything over and over and over again phase of development.

not feeling very witty right now and think that actually falling asleep last night at midnight was a bad idea, so i will finish my vodka tonic and go right to bed----

some pictures to make up for my sucky blogging

so here is sleepy sad nap training baby (that lasted about 3 days, no go)



milk and cookies! (i don't feel like changing the code to make this vertical, so just tilt your head)

munchie and daddy at home in the ocean

costa birthday

pictures from his actual bday and party in costa




how he likes to spend his birthday, in the sink of course


what are you looking at??


the unnecessarily large cake



what is this crap? dane apparently isn't too into cake



faye bought him dane a really really scary snake......

mr president, i have an idea

with all the money you have decided to spend, why don't you tack onto the shiny new heath care plan an option that allows sick mothers to get a nanny for free. who cooks and cleans too, that would be great----

in a weeks time....

its amazing how quickly kids grow and change, i know i know, blah blah blah cliche cliche but seriously!

since last week dane now:
go get the toy you tell him to grab
bring you books to read
is starting to use a spoon
gives you some of whatever he has
starting to actually play with toys and not just eat them (ie makes cars go!)
to attaching babblings to things
understands STOP!
can climb our sketchy stairs much to my dismay
step over stuff...

besides all the squishy stuff i have had a few hard costa rica days, i'm home sick.... i miss going to the store and being able to get wheat bread any day i want (went to three stores and couldn't find any), getting into my car and knowing everything is functioning, calling grammy and having her watch the baby for an hour to regain my sanity, not being afraid to go to the bathroom at night because i might find a giant cocroach climbing around, and things being easy and convenient. i miss my friends....... blah! this too shall pass

looking forward.....

and here he is now.......


add to the list of things he can do:
-if you yell touchdown he raises his arms (like the ref touchdown gesture, we taught him yesterday)
-is actually sleeping through the night but unfortunately wakes up with the sun
-dances

and now he is throwing fits, not too sure why i am blessed with a kid who throws fits at a year old but i keep telling myself it is cause he is curious and headstrong and those things will serve him well in life....

it is just weird to think it has been a year since he was born and i am amazed at how quickly babies change and grow.


here are some more picts taken, mostly from our trip home and in san jose.....

dane at the playgroup's 1st bday party
all the other kids.....

happy US bday to me!!!!

bath in SJ, blowing raspberries

sunscreen makes a wonderful hair product


i promise to be a more consistent blogger, we are moving to a new house (with a pool, ya!) next month and hopefully have better internet to make it easier

looking back.....

then, i think he was about 3 weeks old or so in this picture





it is crazy to think that almost a year ago dane was born...

i can't believe how much has changed in a year, and that i actually thought dane was cute when he was first born..... ha! i look back and he looks like a wrinkly old man.

things that he can now do, it seems as though he has become a different kid in the last month or so

-walking like a maniac
- answering his toy telephone
-plays peek a boo and patty cake
-can show you where his nose is
-waves
-talks, although whatever you ask him to say is bu baaa!


and of course now my internet is sucking so i can't get the now picture up, blog post to be continued.....

and we're back!

we made to the states and back.... its nice to look out my window and see the ocean, and not wear make-up or brush my hair for that matter.....

however i didn't miss typing as fast as i can at night before the internet goes out or loosing power while giving munchie bath, he really freaks when that happens.


nd since jeff's computer charger broke on the way home i battle my laptop screen daylily. like right now since the screen is going out i have no idea what i am typing, so frustrating. i was going to tell you all about my walking child but i guess it will have to wait. and i have some videao and really cute picts too

FINALLY--- GOOD LORD

so i have been trying to post since a few days after the last one and haven't been able too, not too sure what the hell the problem is....


but without much further ado---- MUNCHIE WALKS!

4 am.....

have you ever wondered what 4 am in costa rica is like? well i could tell you all about it considering munchie has decided that is an appropriate time to wake up in the morning..... ugh.... i guess it would be much worse but he rolls around and gabbers away being all cute while i am praying that he will go to sleep because he was moved into our bed. this morning, no dice-

we finally have internet back after it took at 2 and half day hiatus. its like xmas jeff and i both rush to the computers and start clicking away. and the our water has gone on and off all day today, not really sure why. i was told last week that mercury is in retrograde which causes things to break so i would like to blame it on that. it makes me feel better than thinking no running water is a typical occurance around here.

more pictures soon to come!

the big announcement is.....

we're coming home in july!!!! just for a visit....


bet you all thought i was preggo.....


we'll be home the 7th thru the 20th and i am much more excited than i thought i would be, which is a good thing because it is keeping me from worrying about the screaming five hour car ride and then the plane flights..... i'm thinking benadryl, lots of benadryl.


kate, the one who got bit by the snake, is doing just fine. lily her daughter, has gotten seriously sick but appears to be on the mend, her fever broke yesterday morning.


another announcement, dane is partially crawling! i say partially because he will only do it when he is on our bed and when i am not looking. (think this will be a pattern throughout his life?) this pretty amazing considering he is so close to walking that i don't know why he will even bother to learn to crawl. jeff and i can get him to take a few steps on his own. its pretty exciting, he wants to go so bad...


i've been trying to get this pict up on facebook since it was taken (3/4 weeks ago....) and our internet isn't good enough. we are at playa hermosa, about 10 min from our place, this is how we spend most of the time at the beach, naked and walking

it all seemed like such a good idea.....

by the way, munchie is laughing hysterically in that video, he tends to shriek when he does =)


holy crap we just got back today from the most ill fated trip i have ever been on (well minus the camping trip exactly a year ago, i think we will no longer travel on memorial day) we got invited to go down to matapalo with another couple for the night. thinking great idea! we've never been that far south, amazing surf for jeff (he caught his longest wave ever) lets go check it out. all begins good, dane does ok in the car

get to puerto jimmenez (about 30 min from matapalo) and stop for a bite to eat, kate points out to john that their daughter lily def has a fever, which i should have known then..... being the ever prepared mom i offer her some kid motrin. lily starts to feel better right away so we figure no big deal. do the long bumpy ride out to matapalo, the beach is absolutely beautiful! one of the prettiest i've been to here, white sand, crystal clear water. we run into a ton of people from our area so i get to meet more, which is nice. everything is going so well...

the boys get in from surfing and go to find us a place to stay, which when we all get there is where the trip goes south. basically we paid $60 to stay in an unfinished house. we quickly find out that there is NO ELECTRICITY in matapalo (why?? who knows) and are told that the place is low on water.... there are three of these weird buildings so we have a 'house' to oursleves. i go lay down with dane, noticing the lovely sarongs used as hangings over the window to keep the bugs out (really, you think that works?) luckily there is a mosquito net over our bed that is covered in stained sheets. all of you know i'm not what you would call an outdoorsy girl, so i'm not so happy. jeff leaves to go out to surf again...

dane and i are awakened by kate yelling jessica... i'm thinking oh shit this isn't good, and the next thing she says is i've got an emergency situation, i've been bitten by a snake!!!! there are a few very highly poisonous snakes in costa rica which happen to fit the description of the one that bit her. so the guy who owns the place gives us direcitons to the nearest hospital, i grab all of our stuff upstairs, and we haul ass. dane screams the whole way, and are lucky enough that when the guy who owns the place called the hospital they sent an ambulance....

we follow the ambulance to the hospital (which we would have NEVER found on our own) kate stayed in the car with me not wanting to leave lily who is sound asleep. when we get there i stay in the car with the kids and she goes in, i can here the boys coming in the car about 2 minutes before they arrive due to how fast they are driving.

turns out kate was bit by a mica (mee-kha) boa type snake and she is totally fine. since we are back in puerto jimmenez we decide to stay there. super crappy hotel, no hot water, our room reeks of mold but it had a/c and windows. lily is progressively going down hill, and we find out in the morning that her fever wouldn't break and she had been throwing up....

(wow this is long!) so to wrap it up, we came home this morning and dane screamed almost the whole way. now i am waiting to get sick......

i have a few picts (camera started to go dead, i'll post later)

munchie's first swing ride

they will steal anything.....

anyone remember the stories about the car we rented down here last time? come on the geo tracker..... well i'm convinced jeff has a knack for renting the shittiest car possible in any given situation. we now are the proud drivers of a red suzuki something. one of the belts needs adjusted so you can here us squealing down the road from anywhere, and to get the radio to work you need a tape in the tape deck (seriously where do you buy a tape anymore?), and the spring in the drivers side door handle is popping out so there is method to opening the door. it also has the annoying locking hub 4wd system, which up till a couple of days ago was fine.....

then somebody stole the hub that you twist to lock it in!!!!! seriously???? why? you do realize that that is a bit necessary around here, right, we can make it up to our place only in 2wd drive but it is a bit sketchy. so awesome, i swear ticos will steal anything

ahhh...

i have some time to write, the monster is asleep. it is so nice to finally settle somewhere, be it in another country or not. things are going well, we have been meeting people and have started hanging out with maya, brett, and their son jaxton a lot. they also just moved here and are about our age. jax is almost two and they have one on the way, so it will be nice to watch someone go through having a baby here before i do (if things all pan out).

jeff has been looking at property and found some interesting things, so it looks like the project is def possible here and i would imagine we will be able to find something before 6 months is up.

dane is digging it here. he really like the ocean and eating sand. i would imagine it would awesome for a little boy to grow up here so i am excited to watch him grow and have room to run and explore.

costa rica

so i really suck at this blogging thing, i have an excuse though, our internet has been really really spotty! anyway things are going well. don't have a lot of time right now since munchie is just barely occupied but i thought i would post some picts





ummmmmmm cheezits


the waterfall just down the road from our place


saturday afternoon


at the waterfall, maya and jax in the background


the view off our deck

our last night......

its our last night, really really weird. little guy is having a hard time, he knows something is up

adios amigos!

so for those of you who don't know because i am bad at keeping a blog, we got intercepted on the way to OBX and are now moving to Dominical, Costa Rica in a week! (on easter to be exact)

pretty crazy, but jeff will actually have a job there so costa rica + job =good, obx - job =bad.....


so the blog will be up and going again, i think it just got a little sad trying to write about my life living at my in-laws house.......