Missing Daddy this Holiday Season

So we are going on 4 months since daddys been gone and still have 11 more to go.

Things are a bit CRAZY as they always are. What do you expect though? We are a MILITRAY family. But with our faith and our heavenly father we make it through every time just fine. The POWER OF PRAYER!

Other than that we are busy getting ready for the Holidays. I decided to put up my Christmas tree and decorations early this year. And I mean really EARLY this year...Nov.1. I absolutely love CHRISTMAS. The smells, the lights...EVERYTHING!

The kids are loving all my decorations. And Ash is having fun braking my bulbs. Thats what happens when you have toddlers and glass bulbs! Not a good combination.

Aubryn is driving me NUTS by asking for everything this year. From clothes to bikes, dolls, barbies, you name it she wants it. But the problem is she already has everything! And every commercial that comes on shes wanting that too! Kids...You gotta love them!

The weather is very cold outside...nice and ICY! The way I like it. I love to cuddle under blankets in the winter with my kids and watch Christmas Classics. Like Frosty the snowman, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story. Those are my favorites.

This is Halloween!

Halloween this year was different without daddy home but still a BLAST. We spent that night with the Mawets and the Viners plus Christina and Pete. The kids all looked so cute and all enjoyed every minute of trick or treating. Candice, Christina and I got tired early so we took the babies Home. We are such party poopers! Sheri and the husbands continued to take the kids door to door. Back at home we enjoyed the peice and quiet while stuffing our faces with chips and dip and JUNK! My favorite when Im pregnant! LOL!

Aubryn this year was a Cat and Ash was a Bat. Costumes from Old Navy. They were too cute for words.

Pumpkins this year we did not carve but painted. Mommy didnt have patience for the mess this year. Thats usually daddys job and we didnt want to carve pumpkins with out him!

All in all we had a great October. And I REALLY enjoy the fall so much. Its my favorite season.

Another Boy on the way...Alexander James LaBossiere!

We are excited to announce that we are having another boy. Just found out in the middle of October sometime. He was not a shy little one. He made it perfectly clear that he was not a GIRL! So exciting!! Well at least for my husband and I. On the other hand Aubryn wanted a sister really bad. So she cried for a bit and is over it now.

As most of you all know I have my babies really early. TOO EARLY!! So far things are a little shakey. The baby is really low and Im having alot of lower back pain and sciatic nerve problems.

The doctors are starting me on progesterone shots every week.

Progesterone is a female hormone produced by the overies during release of a mature egg from an ovary (ovulation). Progesterone helps prepare the lining of the uterus (endometrium) to receive the egg if it becomes fertilized by a sperm. If the egg is not fertilized, progesterone levels drop and menstrual bleeding begins.
During pregnancy, the placenta also produces high levels of progesterone, starting near the end of the first trimester and continuing until the baby is born. Levels of progesterone in a pregnant woman are about 10 times higher than they are in a woman who is not pregnant. But sometimes when a woman is pregnant she loses progesterone and it causes her to go into pre-term labor. So I am just getting extra progesterone. And maybe that will help.

Hopefully Alex will stay in my belly until at least 35 weeks preferably longer.

I can use all the hopes and prayers I can.

Aubryn Aubryn Aubryn

Well its been a month since Johns been gone and it seems that little Miss Aubby is taking it worse and worse. I actually think she might be a little depressed. Its sad that she knows and understands!

We have had to keep this little one very busy.

We took a beach trip and it was wonderful to see her be so adventurous and exploring her imagination.

First she was a pirate out at see and then she was a pelican eating a jellyfish but my favorite had to be when she was swimming in the sand pretending to be washed up seaweed.

Chasing the seagulls I think was her favorite part of the day.

We found a huge chunk of driftwood so Aubryn used it as her pirate ship and she said it was coral reef and a jet ski.

She exhausted her self out.

At the end of the day she was the happiest litle girl ever. She is so amazing most of the time. And that was the end of our Adventurous day to lighthouse Park beach.

Ash is starting to grow!

With just turning a year old Ash is weighing in at 17lbs 26inches long. Which is really small but considering that he was pre-mature he is right where he should be. Not quite on the charts yet but starting to catch up. And the good thing is he has trippled his birth weight. He was 5lb 3oz and 17in long.





Doctors are concerned about his height and size of his head. He is very short and his head is big for his age. He just now is able to sit up on his own. For the longest time his head out weighed his body and he would fall back.

Health wise has been a battle for the LaBossiere household. Since the birth of Ash hes had RSV twice, pneumonia 3 times and bronchitis twice. Dealing with that and his many food allergies and his excema it gets quite exciting some times. Anything his skin comes in contact with just seems to flair up and rash resulting in him itching until he bleeds. Its so sad! So I had to switch all our detergents to free and clear. And I have to be very careful about the soaps we use.

But summer is just about over and Im so excited for the winter. Ash is excema is going to be very adventurous this cold season. It will be at its worst. So I imagine we'll be in the house most of the winter.

The Deployment has started!

John has finally left for his 4th tour to Iraq. Its going to be along next 14 months. Probably miserable! But GOD will provide and we'll get through this. We always do!

Aubryn is starting to ask for him less but still isnt sleeping through the night. She misses her daddy. Its definately going to be the hardest on her. She is almost four (October) and she understands so well. I almost wish she didnt! She has so many questions!

Ash Just turned a year. And he'S too little to understand this mess. His gentle smile gets us through the day. And he is just so HAPPY!

Baby LaBossiere #3 is baking as we speak. Another one on the way! But this time I get to do it all on my own. With the help of family and friends.

God has BLESSED me with an Amazing family. I am so Grateful to have such a wonderful husband and fun loving children.