Nature Walk

Creatures found by Ronan when walking through our neighborhood.

While cleaning out the future baby room

This is the pack Josh used to tow all his military gear while deployed to Iraq.

Ronan fits quite nicely.
(Photo by KP-August 2008)

Ronan is 4!

Ronan, Josh and I celebrated Ronan's 4th birthday with cupcakes and presents at home. Check out how the number 4 is backwards for the photo. I will get these birthday photos down when baby number 2 is celebrating with cake (I hope).

Chocolate cupcake. Yummy!

Ronan LOVES Legos and Star Wars, so the fact that the two are combined commercially made his birthday.

Here, Josh and Ronan have a blast putting the Legos together.

Bean Bags

Here is what my 4 y/o thought of the new bean bags for the Tatami Room. This was his favorite past time for a few weeks after we bought the chairs. (Photo by KP-June 2008)

Tokyo Disney

Here we are at Disneyland in Tokyo, Japan. Ronan and I went with our friends Melissa, Ramone and Esiah Cantu.
(Photo taken by Melissa-June 2008)

Finally, we are able to download pictures from our camera. So I am going to be posting some pics that will not be in chronological order of when taken. I will put a blip with each photo so the details will be known. Enjoy! Kristin


Here are Josh and Ronan at the Kanazawa Zoo Roller Park. Notice the slide. There are a couple of slides like this in our area of Japan. Ronan always has a blast. (Photo by KP-Father's Day 2008)

38 weeks and counting

Hello All

Well I officially surpassed the week that Ronan was born during his pregnancy. I really feel like I am going to go into labor any day now, but that is a wait and see game. I have our hospital bag packed, minus toiletries, and I have an overnight bag for Ronan ready to go. I think I will have Josh put the infant car seat in the car now.

• Still no bed for this child.
• Need new curtains for baby room
• Still need to get the house in a cleaner state than it is in the event company comes around. We live off base, so I suspect we won't have too many people driving out this way. They'll most likely wait till I am on base. Just an assumption, so I want to have the house in decent order, just in case.
• Need to renew our Costco membership and pick up some pre-made meals.

So much to do, so little time. My own fault. I am a procrastinator. Must get it from my mother as she just wrote me an email this morning proclaiming herself a procrastinator. There are worse things to inherit from a parent.

Check back in a week to see if Conor made his debut yet. Love to all my friends and family. Miss you all.

Cheers ---Kristin

36 weeks and counting

Hello All

I am 36 weeks along in pregnancy #2. Feeling good. Get tired easily and I don't average a lot of sleep at night. Ronan is not a fan, but we are taking naps again to help me catch up on my sleep.
Ronan decided he wanted out of my belly at 37 weeks, so Josh and I are trying to get somewhat prepared in the event this baby comes early too. Ronan is getting super excited, but I think he will be most happy to get all of the baby items that are stored in his room out of there. Josh and I have been so lax about fixing up this kids room. Ronan had a complete room at 5 months into the pregnancy.

Ronan and I have been spending a lot time together. We went to Tokyo Disney for the day last month. It was a great time. He was big enough (or small enough) to ride many rides and he wasn't scared like I thought he would be. We went with friends. I was restricted from riding may of the rides. The park is super clean and all the staff very friendly. Typically Japan. I am sure it is part of the Disney thing too.

Ronan and I had to miss a week long trip to Hawaii with Josh because I am too far along to fly. Josh really needed us there because he did not do much in the way of fun outside of going to dinner with friends. No pool time. No beach time. Things he would have done had we been there. I really enjoyed Hawaii when we were there in 2006 and hope to get back there before we leave Asia next year.

Ronan turned 4 last month. Josh, Ronan and I celebrated with cupcakes and presents at home and then we had a party with kids his age at the park. It was hot, but all kids had a great time and we kept our guests well hydrated with water. I was glad Ronan got to have a big cake and blow out candles after friends sang happy birthday. Josh and I forgot to take photos of this event.

Speaking of photos, there are none posted because our camera is not in good shape for downloading pics. The battery died during a download and now it won't download pics. Takes all the pics you want, we just can't extract them from the camera. Hope we can get this problem worked out before baby #2 makes his appearance. May have to buy a point a click camera to have for baby boy Perry's arrival.

Well, I need to get started on my day. Cheers to all our family and friends around the world.
Kristin