My Day Friday and a housing update!

My Day Friday is a little blog party a fellow Army wife blogger Kathlyn is doing.  The idea is that most Mommy bloggers have pictures of everyone or everything else but themselves, so this is a post with a picture of me :).  Anyway, I thought I'd join in on the little blog party.

This was just taken last weekend and just posted a earlier this week, but its a good pic.  I'm nearly 24 weeks pregnant here with my 2nd baby out on a date with my fantastic husband here in sunny Hawaii!

So now for the housing update.  We have a house!  We are thankful that God has provided us a place to move into next week!  The unfortunate part is that this house is scheduled to be demolished in the fall, so we'll have to move again later this year, but this was pretty much our only option, so we are thankful and ready to be settled in.  The house is perfectly fine and fits our needs (of course it's nothing special because it gonna be demolished soon), I'll post some pictures next week before we have our stuff delivered and keep you all up to date on the settling in process.  Hope everyone has a great holiday weekend!

Toddler Pool

Well, life with a toddler in a hotel room is not always so fun, so this week I was resolved to do some new activities.  One of the Mom's I met here at the hotel, told me about the toddler pool over at the gym nearby, so yesterday we ventured there.  Getting there was pretty easy, except that there isn't a sidewalk that takes you all the way there, so we were sometimes on the street or parking lot and the Tripler Army hospital we were walking through is pretty busy.  I arrived at 10:30, but the pool didn't open until 11, so we played in the grass and waited for a half hour.  At 11, I paid my $1 and we went to the pool.  They have a great little toddler pool that Eli had a blast playing in.  Now I mentioned getting there was easy, getting back was not so much!  I had to walk up a huge hill, pushing a 40+ toddler in a stroller with all our snacks, not to mention 24 weeks pregnant to get back to the hotel... let's just say I got my workout!  Here's a few pics of Eli in the water ;).

I love his face in the picture

Playing in the fountain

I sounded like a lifeguard or my parents telling Eli to walk and not run, LOL.

He's such a chunk!

He looks like a football player to me in this picture, he just finished throwing something :)

Dinner Cruise for Valentine's

Saturday night, Robert and I were able to go on a dinner cruise for Valentine's Day thanks to some new friends who babysat Eli.  The food was pretty good and the view of Waikiki and the sunset was great.  We had fun spending a few hours together sans 2 year old.  Here's a few pics!

Robert's first Pina Colada ever... he's not really into sweet drinks

Over looking Waikiki

Silly self portrait

Belly Shot, almost 24 weeks along

Part of the skyline

Robert is such a good sport, they got him to get up and dance along with a hula dancer lol.  There may or may not be video of this :).

Dole Plantation

This past Saturday we went to the Dole Plantation.  We walked around, went on the train (which Eli was very excited about) and ate pineapple ice cream.  It was a fun little outing!  Here's a few pics.

Waiting for the choo choo train...

Out for a walk with Daddy, trying to get a better view of the trucks

Flirting with some cute Japanese tourists

Asking them, "Where choo choo go?"

Really ready to get on the train now.

Cheese with Daddy

Big cheese with Momma

He loved putting his shades on and off all day

Ko Olina Lagoons

On Tuesday Robert got a day off because his office is under renovation, so we headed to the beach.  We wanted to try the Ko Olina lagoons because we knew they would be super kid friendly and my parents have a timeshare at a property close-by, so we wanted to scope it out.

We are still in Army lodging at Tripler Medical Center.  Most likely another month or so... we are looking into other options besides on-post housing like renting or buying, so we'll see what happens.  For now, we like the lodging and I just heard about a pool within walking distance that has a kids section, so we'll be checking that out soon.

Here are some pics from our beach day!

He played in the sand for a few minutes before heading to the water

Me and the baby

Wonderful husband helping get things set up

The lagoon

my boys

Little feet