The next Michaelangelo and almost 5 teeth

I am starting to believe that we have a future artist on our hands. Again I trust Lee to do his homework and again I walk in and this is what his homework has turned into this time. It is very interesting if you look closely. Of course you can tell he drew a little person but even more funny is the nose is another person's face. Pretty creative if you ask me. They sent him home with two pages of homework this last weekend and I think we should have done one page on Satruday and another on Sunday, evidently he got a little bored doing two pages on one day. He does do really well on his homework and the second picture was him working on the second page and he starts to get bored and color in the letting and starts to write other things on the page. On his first page of homework he added Lee to the end of one line but it was written as EEL perfectly. I never know what he is going to do and that is why it is never boring around here.

Easton almost has five teeth now. He has two completely in on the bottom and working on the third. Then on the top row he is getting both of the center big teeth. Poor little guy isn't getting a break at all. He is everywhere now. He knows how to get to whatever he wants and it usually isn't a safe thing that he wants. He is constantly after cords and my decorations. I have a basket on the floor with those primitive berries in it and he is constantly after those and I haven't given in yet, I think that I will be able to teach him no. I am not going to put it away, but I also don't want him eating those berries. He likes the find the tiniest things on the floor and stick them in his mouth no matter what it is. All I really know is he is getting too big too fast. I was looking at Lee's pictures the other day when he was Easton's age and they almost look identical except for the hair, it is amazing. Easton looks more and more like Lee every day.

We are all doing well. I am looking forward to having my Scentsy party on Saturday and also looking very much forward to becoming a consultant. Once I have my website up and going and also to where I understand everything I will post it and you can order from me anytime if you would like. Harley is doing better with his ear but it is still constantly draining all of the time and he isn't complaining that it is as painful as it was at first. I just hope it heals quickly. Well, time to go pick up Lee and we are off to go bowling this afternoon.

Never a dull moment

Not much to say except Love My Boys!!

Long week

I know...I know I haven't blogged in more than a week. It has been a long rough week. We have all been passing around the Guam Crud for more than two weeks. Thank goodness Easton has been well through the rest of us being sick. We are slowly getting better. Even Squeaky the betta fish is sick and I had to get anibiotics for a fish!! Can you believe that. He is starting to act like he feels a little bit better too. His little white patch on his head isn't as bad anymore and he is eating a little bit more every day. I had to give the fish medicine every day for a week and it almost seemed like the medicine made even more sick. He was pretty pathetic looking. Harley finally got certified in scuba diving and invested a lot of time and money into it. We thought it was going to be something we both could enjoy together without the kids. He really liked it when he did it until the other night. He started complaining of an earache and if you know Harley he NEVER complains about anything. Then that night he got up in the middle of the night and went to the ER because it hurt so bad. He got back home and said it was just an infection they gave him some medicine and some numbing cream. Not even an hour later he was hurting really really bad and said something just doesn't feel right. He went back to the ER for the second time. I was so worried about him, neither one of us got much sleep that night at all. When he came home he told me that his eardrum had ruptured. How terrible!! I have never seen him in this much pain, I feel so sorry for him. His ear just keeps dripping and oozing with fluids. He hasn't even been sleeping in bed because it isn't comfortable for him, he has been sleeping in our recliner. It is the worse feeling to watch someone you love and care for so much in so much pain, I want to take his place. He can't swim for six weeks and can't scuba for eight weeks, he doesn't even know if he wants to scuba again. I don't think I want to learn now, I am pretty scared that would happen to me and with my luck it would be both ears. On some positive notes, Lee is loving going to both schools. He brings work home every day that he has done and it is so neat watching him improve on things. He colors really well and stays in the lines which he has been doing that for a while now. He can spell colors while singing a song. If I ask him to spell green he can do it. I guess it is easy to learn things while singing it. He has made a few little friends and I have met some ladies also while taking him to school and waiting outside for the teachers to let them in and also waiting outside for the teachers to let them out of school. He is writing his name pretty well. He always complains about writing Ragle because it's more difficult than Lee. He says "I don't like writing the R word mom, will you do it?" I am working with him now because he writed his name but he writes from right to left instead of left to right. Kind of weird, it's not like dislexia because it actually says Lee. I can probably actually say that Easton is crawling now. He is doing very well. He likes to go after cords and chew on them. He gets so mad when I tell him no, but it is either him get mad or he gets shocked. I would much rather him just get mad and cry for a few minutes than to get schocked. He almost has 4 teeth now. They are coming in so fast, and I wish they wouldn't. I love the toothless smiles. Now, I can honestly say that I am loving staying at home and being a stay at home mom. I have my own little schedule on when I do things and I love that I can have everything done by the time Harley gets home so that he doesn't have to do anything. The only thing I want him to do is mow the grass. I actually am not minding doing the laundry now either, I have got in down to a good routine also. Things are finally looking up out here and I think I will be able to survive the next three years. I am having a Scentsy party on October 3rd and I am so excited about it. There is a change though if you want to order from me you can't order online you would have to tell me what you want and I have to fill out a form for you. I am hoping to meet a lot more people and also become a consultant. It would be a good hobby for me and kind of like a part time job. Harley is actually at the doctor right now so I am anxiously waiting on him to get home and see what the doctor says. He is supposed to work this weekend starting tomorrow and I think he should stay home one more day. So, I joined the Oakleaf Wives Club, I think I have mentioned this before but I am liking it a lot. Today a bunch of went to a Thai restaraunt and had lunch. It was fun getting to get out even though I took Easton with me, he did pretty well. Didn't really care too much for the food but the company was great. The club makes and sells this jelly, it is called boonie pepper jelly. It is soooo good. We make it and sell it to make money for the club to do things for the hospital and deployed military. I eat it with ritz crackers and cream cheese and it is addicting. The cream cheese kind of evens out the hotness of it. It isn't really hot because I can tolerate it and I love it. If anyone would like jar let me know and I will send some to you. Well, I think this is a long enough blog for now. I really need to keep up every day or two because all of my information just piles up just like laundry. Hope everyone is doing well. Please look at the scentsy website and let me know if you would like anything. www.scentsy.com Wonderful products, can't say enough about them.

Lee's homework

So, Lee gets homework every Friday from one of his Pre-schools. Well, we didn't get to it until tonight and he was ready and excited to do it. I told him to go to the kitchen table and start on it and I would check on him after I had put Easton to bed. When I walked into the dining room and saw what he had done as homework I couldn't help but laugh. My little Lee is artistic and I didn't even know it. He had turned his paper over and drew a little smiley face guy. He said it was a picture of himself. It was so cute. He did complete half of his homework on the other side as well, so he must have gotten bored half way through. I just had to share this, you never know what a kid is going to do. I made my day a million times better, I just love my boys!!! The picture of Lee

Lee's real homework

And of course a picture of Easton

It's going to be a long day

Today is going to be a long day. I had plans yesterday to do all of the laundry but the power went out for a long time. I think the power has went out more here in the two months we have been here than in my entire life anywhere else, crazy. So, I have a ton of laundry to do and I better get it done because we have a tropical storm watch going on right now. If we really do get a typhoon we won't have power and who knows for how long. I guess thinking about the power of course it will go out a lot here, we live on a tiny island out in the middle of the ocean. Every time we have a storm lightning strikes something and we are stuck without power. Yesterday the whole island was without power and it wasn't even a bad storm, hardly a storm at all. Lee and I still have the Guam Crud (that is what everyone refers to it as out here). My throat has hurt really bad for almost a week, it will be a week tomorrow and my ears hurt too. Lee has complained of his throat hurting and today his nose is running like a faucet. He still is trying to get the hang of blowing his nose, he sucks in instead of blowing out. I didn't know it was so hard to teach a little one how to blow their nose. He even slept with me last night because he didn't feel good and poor Harley slept on the couch, I guess it is more comfortable than Lee's bed. Easton is doing just fine, happy as ever. He hardly ever cries, if he is crying it is usually because he is hungry or his teeth are really bothering him. He is having a hard time teething, I feel so bad for him, it's a good thing we don't remember getting our teeth in. My mom sent me these little teething tabs in the mail and they seem to help him a lot for a while along with tylenol. Since I am updating on everyone I might as well update you on Squeaky our betta fish. I think he is sick of something. He has started to develop a white patch on his head and doesn't seem very active. I am kind of worried, Lee would be devestated if his fish died. I guess I could just get him a new one if he did. They all kind of look alike. Here I am thinking what did I do wrong for this fish to get sick?? I really hope he makes it through whatever it is. I thought these things were supposed to live for a long time. My neighbor asked me to go to a scentsy open house with her yesterday and I am so glad I went. I had never heard of scentsy until I got to Guam. It is kind of like the little yankee burners with the tarts but these burn with a little light bulb and it smells up our entire house. I bought two of them and some of the bricks. I am obsessed already. Harley is working all weekend, last day today and the he has two days off. Except he never really gets to enjoy his days off now. He is always doing homework and now scuba diving. He has his first lesson tomorrow. I signed up for a photography class and scuba diving class through a wives club that I have joined so I am looking forward to those classes. I just hope I can handle the scuba lessons. I kind of have a fear of water. I guess to pass you have to be able to put on your mask and take it off and then put it back on and get all of the water out of it all being under water. This kind of freaks me out. I am afraid I am going to try to breathe under water while doing this and inhale a bunch of salty yucky water and have to have CPR. Oh my, I don't even want to think about it yet. If all of that fails, I can always just snorkle. We snorkled on our honeymoon and it was fun but for some reason my goggles and little tube always got water in them. Geesh, enough about water. I am really going to enjoy the photography class, you all know how much I like to take pictures. She is going to teach us all about lighting and angles and all kinds of good stuff. That's about all I can ramble on about right now.

Look at this picture

Doesn't this picture look exactly like Easton?? I can't believe how much he looks like Harley when Harley was a baby. I don't think anyone would be able to tell except for the old walker and the old yellow linolium floor. I have no chance at all. Neither one of my boys look like me at all, but they love me, that's really all that matters, all three of them and I couldn't ask for more.

Long time...no post

Sorry it has been a while since I have kept everyone updated on what has been going on here on Guam with the Ragle family. We have been trying to keep busy and do things, but then again we each keep getting struck with the Guam Crud one at a time. I think we have all been sick about 50% of the time we have been out here. Harley, Lee and I have been sick this week with bad colds. I have had the worst sore throat and ear aches I have ever had. Lee has a cough and runny nose and Harley has a bad sore throat also. Lee started his real Pre-school this Wednesday and he loves it. We thought he had to wear uniforms so we sent him in it the first day but it turned out that preschoolers don't have to wear uniforms, but he did look so darn cute. I think one of the reasons may be because of the pants, the buttons and zippers are still kind of hard for most of the kids to do on their own when they go to the bathroom. He is so happy because they call him Lee there, so I let the other place he goes to in the morning know this today so from now on they will also be calling him Lee. This makes me so happy!! It didn't bother me a whole lot that they insisted on calling him Harley but Lee didn't like it at all. Easton is doing well and meeting a lot of milestones. He is beginning to talk. He said his first word the other day and it was "dada" which made Harley very proud. I am okay with it because Lee said mama first. He also says "lala" which I think he is trying to say mama, or I may just think that because that is what I really want him to be saying. This boy also sings all the time, he is constantly humming a little tune of his own. I think he may be a bigger chatterbox than Lee is and I never thought that could be possible. He also says "hi" every once in a while when I say it a million times to him and it sounds really cute when he says it. Lee started talking at 8 months also. Easton is very easy going but very adament when he wants something he will let you know. He is rolling and army crawling everywhere and very quickly. I know he will be crawling very soon but I am not in a hurry for it because I think he will be into everything. He already is into everything he can get those little hands on. He has an obsession with shoes if they are out he is after them and he gets so mad when I take them away from him. Forget toys I guess I should just buy him a cheap pair of shoes to play with and chew on, he would be perfectly happy. Harley has started a Chemistry class and also starting Scuba diving classes. Once he is done with his scuba diving lessons I am going to take lessons. I need to learn to swim a little better at least so I can handle myself a little better in the ocean if I had to. We went bowling last week and Lee loves it. He has been bowling quite a few times. He actually beat me on our second game. I won the first gam out of all of us and Harley won the second one. We had a busy weekend. We had two BBQ's that we went to and they were a lot of fun. The first one had a pool and Lee was in it and the hot tub the whole time he didn't even have time to come out to eat. That boy loves the water. Harley has to work all of this weekend so no big plans for us especially since Lee and I are under the weather. I will try to start keeping up with the blogs more like I did before, sorry Larry.

More Pictures

The Hill We Hiked Up

Guam Hike # 2

War Wounds

A view from atop the hill

The Landing Beach

Hey everyone this is Harley. Lee and I went on our second hike today. We went to Asan Beach which is the beach that the Marines landed on in WWII when they retook Guam from the Japanese; now it is a National Park. We had a good time and afterwards we went to the top of a mountain that overlooks the beach which is where the Japanese had guns to fire on the Marines. There was a plaque to honor the Americans who died retaking the island and there was a William Ragle who died. I am going to have to do some research and find out more about him. Hope everyone is well, talk to you all again soon

Oh....mama wasp is MAD!!

So, Lee comes to me last week and said there was an ant hill in his bike helmet. I automatically thought uh oh!! I went outside and it there is a HUGE wasp nest in his helmet. We left it there for a few days and I don't know why, but about two days ago Harley finally threw the helmet in the trash can. Now, anytime anyone walks outside mama wasp follows them. She is so mad!! I took the trash out this morning and it was like she was waiting for me. I am even scared to open the trash can lid outside. She comes flying around me and I put the bag in the can and run as fast as I can back into the house hoping she doesn't come into the house. Thankfully she did not. If I were her I would be mad too, but weighing out goods and bads on keeping the helmet for some wasps to live I think we did the right thing. I hope she finds somewhere else to go very soon.