:D

Regina did something really cute the other night. Night before yesterday( on friday night) , I was getting ready for Nicks Bparty. I re-arranged tables, got out some chairs cleaned, etc. Suddenly Regina had an idea. She took some napkins, paperplates, forks knifes and set the table. And she told me. Mommy, I really want us to have nice dinner together today. Please call daddy and ask him to come home sooner so we can eat these yummy strawberries .
That was the sweetest thing I have heard from her for a while. :) 

St jude Travel office.

Every time we go to St jude we get one slip that we have to fill out and leave downstairs where is patient services. Slip is about when our next trip will be , so they can make reservations ahead of time.
Our trip is coming up next week ( tuesday) and we have no tickets. So I call them and guess what- They have not sent us tickets yet BECAUSE we have not requested them. So I emailed to Dr Gajjar and he told us that he will sort things out with Travel office and they will get back to us tomorrow. Tis is second time I have problems with travel office. Next time I will call them every week to make sure they have our info. lol But this is frustrating. I just hope that they do not have to change our schedule, because if they do I have to take Gabriel with us. ( Not a very good idea).

AND on a good note. TOMORROW ( march 31st) is my husbands 40th birthday. Happy Birthday Honey. :) I have been baking and baking and making sure markets have foods I need and were are best prices. Oh. I am exited. :):):)

r

ONe more week.

Sorry for not updating often enough. Nothing exiting is really happening around here. I drive kids to school every morning and pick them up every afternoon. In between I clean, shop and get botox shots ( Not really, but if you watch real desparate housewifes of Orange county, then you may think that all the females here are freeloading self centered h****. srry, just had to get that out.

Regina is feeling better now. She is not coughing as much as she did 4 days ag0. I am pretty sure now that her cough and runny nose has something to do with spring allergies. With she gets better, but when sun is out and all flowers in full bloom , she gets really congested and sick.

We also are getting ready to go to memphis. Our apointments are 5-7 april. So think about us during those 3 grazy stressed filled days.

:)

Regina lost one more tooth. Total count -4-/ :) She looks so funny without her teeth. New ones are allready in and I can tell that she will need braces when right time comes.

Do NOT run away FROM Me>>>>>

FUN Saturday. :)

Today really was fun, fun saturday. It started around 10.30 in park. Around 11 am I received a call from Miss B. ( she was supposed to call me today, I even had it marked it down, BUT i forgot that she was supposed to call). Anyway, she called and asked if we want to go to see movie and have lunch. Of Course we did because we were pretty bored.
We went to plaza were we were supposed to have lunch and see movie. As we entered parking lot something seemed weird. It was 11.40 and parking lot was empty ( almost empty). We started walking toward Edwards( movie theater) and we were told that there was minor fire in theater and movie is closed down. for 5 hours. GREAT!!!!. So we had lunch and headed to Discovery science senter. Gabriel and Heather had fun, but Regina was bored out of her mind. Science is really not her thing.

After science center we went to Irvine spectrum. We went to see The Shaggy dog movie. It was ok movie- we did have some good laughs but overall it was really dumb ( YEAH, message kids got out of this movie was- IF YOU GET BITTEN BY DOG, YOU WILL TURN INTO ONE ). Gabriel is real exited about it. He wants to be dog. And of course as always- Gabriels fave part about movie was THE END.
Then We had dinner in Yard house ( I had California roll - It was really, really really good. ) and after that kids and us took a ride with marry go round and it was allredy 7.30 PM. Time really did go by really fast today :) It is 10.24pm. Kids are fast asleep and I am tired but not ready to sleep. So much to do, so little time.... ;)

Di

Jog-A-Thon- Happy St Patricks day :)

Regina is third from right

This morning was fun!!! Really, it was really, really, really cool way to start a morning. :) There was jog-a-thon in Reginas school. Lot of kids raised lots of money for theyr school and to end a 2 week fundraiser, all kids who raised money and others too, ran for 20 minutes. You should have seen Regina go. She was really fast. She ran 6 laps. Unbelivable, I had no Idea she had that much strenght and energy in her. I am so proud of her :) She was so out of breath after she finished, but she was happy :) Go Regina :)

Oh wow...

Today was pretty eventful day . My windows are now all nice and clean. I had guy come in and clean all the windows, mirrows, shower doors, garage doors and everything else that shines. lol

nd the main event of the day was KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION. I can not belive how fast time just passes by. I got all the needed papers to enroll Gabriel to public kindergarten . Unbelivable, Gabriel will start kindergarten in fall. MY kids really are growing up. :( Reginas school has 3 kindergarten classes - 26 kids in each class, but seems like this year there will be more kids wanting to enter this school. Last year, when I did kindergarten Orientation for Regina, there were lot of empty spaces in room, but this time all the chairs were filled and people also sat on the floor. :)

Gabriel is really ready to start kindergarten. He asks every day when he can go to "Reginas " School. He is so exited about it. :) Jey for Gabe. :)

Regina is doing OK. She still coughs and has runny nose. One of the moms recommended ProBiotics , so off I go to health store tomorrow to get it. :)



AND all of you who know Steven( he had same kind of brain tumor as Regina). He had his check up in St Jude and has good news to report :):):) (((( Hugs and Kisses to Steven)))

Find my kids....

Last week I decided to organise my kids rooms- It was hard work. All the books, coloring books, cars, dolls, board games and other junk just started getting on my nerves and on some weird way things never stayed where I put them. SO now all kids toys/books are in one room, and beds in other room. Much easier to clean.
Next mission- clean up kids closets. ( even more junk there lol)

***
Regina is doing ok. On friday I did not send her to school. She woke up with fever and coughed a lot. Fever dissapeared pretty fast but she was still left with horrible cough. So I went to pharmacy and got her some med. I got her cough medicine she has never used before and it does wonders. it is a 12 hour cough medicine but it works for 14-15 hours. No more robitussin in our house. :)

Gabriel is doing also ok. He is more active than ever and gets himself in trouble all the time. Now that he is in pre-K , he has new teachers. Gabe has been in tutor time for 3 years now and NEVER ever before I got a note that he missbehaved or, did no listen , or disturbed others. Now suddenly I get note from teahcers every day that he just did not follow the rules and did not sleep- BUT , ever time I pick him up from shool he is still naping ( 3 pm). His teachers sound like Gabriel is the worst kid in group but same time I see other kids and if I have to compare gabe to some of the others- HE is an Angel. I think tomorrow I will ask directors permission to monitor him throug security camera to see what is really going on in his class. I'm sure he is not as bad as teachers make him look like. :(

He truly is good boy with very twisted mind. lol. He hugs and kisses me hundreds of times when we are together, he asks silliest questions about people and things and he loves his sister very much- he told me he hates Regina only when Regina wants to take his favorite Barbie away. ( Gabriels fave Barbie is annika from princess and pauper, and he sleeps with hem, takes baths with her etc- The other night I took his barbie away, he woke up middle of the night and started screaming- MY BARBIE IS MISSING, mommy FIND MY BARBIE... He is so attached to her.. :)

Other than that we are ok. Just do the things we have to do. :0) 

To be continued....... San Francisco....

As you may now by now, we spent our presiden Its day in San Francsisco. It was long 9 hour car drive , but worth every minute.
Sorry, I did not update earlier this week. My laptop has some weird hardware problems, shuts down when feels like and starts typing in random places. I finally got a chance to use my dh's PC.
Regina and Gabriel were not very exited to be in San Francisco. They thought it was cold and not it is not fun. The wanted to hang out in hotelroom all day and play with pillows and blankets. But they did enjoy cable car ride and hanging out in restaurants. They also liked pier 39 because there were lots of people and cookie shop and ice cream shop. But yeah, if you ask from them how did they like SF, they would tell you- Not fun, Disneyland is more fun. So now they have been bugging me about me taking them to Disney. oh.
I think because of cold weather up there, Regina cought cold or somekind of bug, because she has been feeling down and lots of foods make her throw up.
She also has been complaning about her back pain and at sometimes she has to lye down to make herself feel comfy. Uh, I hate when she gets sick, or even feels down. She gets this sad, empty look in her eyes and there is nothing much we can do. So hope that this is some passing bug and that she feels better tomorrow.
If you want to read more about our SF trip check my PMS 24/7 blog
http://www.darkertan.blogspot.com
:)

I want to brag...... My husband is THE best!!!! As you all know feb.14th is valentines day. I told my dh that I want to stay in and eat at home , so kids will not feel left out. And you know what my dh did??? He made me valenites dinner. Albacore tuna with asparagus and noodles( it was the best tuna I ever had- really!!!) and for dessert- lol , he was really creative with dessert. He made mango ice cream and fruit dessert ;) It was yummmmmm. Thanks for making valentines day so special( and oh,I forgot, before dinner I ate half a pound of Sees chocolates ( thanks Beth
:) )

Before dinner I took Regina to see Nanny McPhee. She really wanted to see this movie. I was surprised how good this movie really was. I thought it is going to be one of those really stupid movie, but 15 minutes into movie I started to get the message :) She also loved it.

"Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to
new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom.
Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon.
They stay in our lives for awhile, leave footprints
on our hearts, and we are never ever the same."
~ Flavia Weedn .

I've been tagged

4 Jobs I Have Held In My Life: Secretary childrens art manager mommy volunteer 4 Places I Have Lived: Estonia, vorumaa New Jearsey, Howell California, Newport Beach California, laguna niguel 4 TV Shows I Love To Watch: 1. Greys Anatomy CSI ( all of them) Law and order SVU Murder she wrote ( over and over again) 4 Places I Have Been On Vacation: 1. Estonia 2. Las Vegas 3.Orlando 4.Stockholm 4 Websites I Visit Daily: 1. www.rate.ee www.darkertan.blogspot.com http://www.sloleht.ee/ http://www.fbi.gov/ 4 Favorite Foods: Estonian potato salad smoked cheese sausages hardwood smoked pork with rind dark whole wheat/seed estonian bread 4 Places I Would Rather Be Right Now: 1. In Los Angeles, Univeral studios 2.In gym 3.in havaii 4.somewhere getting liposuction.... 4 People I am tagging: still working on it.

To Kathy- Reginas hair is getting longer, and it is baby soft. Bold spot is huge ( much larger than stevens) and mostly in front of her head, so it is harder to cover .

:D

Regina is doing good now. She still has congested cough. Friend of mine suggested that we would stop giving her milk for couple of days because dairy products cause more mucus. We'll see. I think it will be really hard for her to give up milk for few days. My kids live on milk. But whatever helps , we are willing to try.

Other than that we are pretty unactive. Kids are going to school,my husband spends hours on phone working and I clean or cook most of the time. I did start painting my family room. Last night I added one layer of primer, so now my family room looks peach. The color I want is orange- 2 more nights of hard work and it should be ready. :)

Just wanted to share...

...this cool pic of Regina blowing bubbles. :):):) And let you know that she is doing better. She is not coughing as much as she did few days ago and she has more energy to run and play :) She really wants to go to see Nanny McPhee but I think we wait until next week. This weekend is going to be kind of busy. Tomorrow I am all bymyself with kids. My dear husband Nianxiong Tan has to leave 6am to attend traffic school ( Ha-ha-ha-ha) and spend 8 hours there. That'll be fun, this is his third time in traffic school and it is all because of S P E E D I N G or trying to take over cops motosycle. lol He is funny....

Then on sunday we are going to attend superbowl party. It'll be my first superbowl party since nobody ever invited us and reason for that is because we do not watch superbowl, but that is about to change. At least I glue myself in front of TV during commercials......;)

Have fun weekend and I hope you all are doing great :)

Seems like nothing works...

Regina was doing really good for a while. She stopped coughing and energy was good. Now, last night - well, after shcool she started coughing up on a storm. It was weird kind of cough - not dry, not congested, really weird. So I decided to keep her home today. Today her cough is about as bad as it was last night. She tells me that her arms hurt when she coughs( huh???). By now most of you know that every time my kids get even littlebit sick I HAVE to take them to see doctors, I am psycho mom who drags kids to doctors within minutes first symptoms of sickness show up.... I just want her cough go away, she has been coughing now over a month on and off. Sometimes I think there is something in our house that makes her cough...

Here they are- two, most beautiful kids in whole wide world. ;0) This picture is taken shortly before we headed to LAX. Trip to airport was fine. No traffic issues. His trip was only 20 minutes late and we did not have to wait to long. Kids were very happy to see dad again. When they saw him coming towards us, throgh security doors, they both ran, ran, ran as fast as they could and kissed and hugged dad.

to much going on..( u p d a t e )

Friday 1pm.
We are back from doctor. Bronchitus it is.

Friday 1/20/06
yesterday Regina did not cough at all, but last night she started coughing a lot, again. and she also has low grade fever. I take her to see her doctor today, b/c she has been coughing now for a week.


Regina and gabriel are doing better now. They are not coughing as much as they did 2 days ago, I think meds are working. :) Oh, did I mention I took both of them to see dentist. Regina did awsome, did not whine, complain or anything, Gabriel was little different. I had to talk to him , I had to hold his hand, I had to tell him all the time that IT IS OK. IT WILL NOT HURT. lol After cleaning and x rayes were taken , they got to go to pick a toy from toybox- both of them like that very much. At first Gabriel was about to pee his pants, he was so scared, but now, he wants to go back, because he thinks dentist did not clean his teeth clean enough. lol But we all know why he really wants to go back- IT IS THAT toybox. ;)

Now lets talk about me. I am not doing very well on these days. Tuesday, after my dentist appointment I got really sick. Today I went to see my doctor- I have 4 different infections - Sinusitus, tonsilitus( don't remember spelling), bladder infection and the most embarrasing of them all , yeast infection. I also had 102,7 fever. I managed to get it down, but I am stuck with body aches, horrible pounding headache, cramping stomach and doubble vision.
When I went to pick up Regina today I felt my worst- meds had not kicked in yet and every single part of my body was hurting so bad I wanted to cry, and then Mrs A. ( reginas Teacher) came out and asked what's wrong and then I just lost it- I started crying. What is wrong with me. people just want to know why I look like crap and I start crying over that. cheesh. couple of other moms also offered to help me out tonight( they are real nice and I want to accept the help, but I just could not... people have been helping me out a lot and I have noting to give in for return and It makes me feel like crap.

And my dh will return on sunday. I hope I get some help then, but I am very sure that he will be sleeping most of the time and asking tons of questions- where is this, where is that, why this thing is here, where are my pencils or whatever things. And then he will be leaving clothes all over the place and of course NEXT to dirty laundry basket, and he will want my attention and he will complain that I spend to much time in internet and --- DO I complain to much??? lol

Anyway, we are happy that he comes home. :) I need some time to relax and do some things I have not done for ages...

Update...

Regina managed to stay healthy in Estonia. It was COLD and windy, and snowy and she managed to stay healthy, so did I and so did Gabriel. And now, all 3 of us are sick. Regina is coughing like grazy and she has boooooogery nose. lol Gabriel is coughing a little and I have splitting headaches, tootaches and swollen tonsils. What the heck is wrong with this warm CA weather. For now I am 100 percent sure that all our health problems are b/c of CA. ( every time I go back to EST all my pains leave me for good and my skin clears up, and then I come back and next day I am achy all over).

But Reginas cought really concerns me this time. I have not heard her ever cough so much. I wait one more day and then take her to see doctor. Hope she gets well soon.

Fun things we have done.
On sunday we went to see Hoodwinked. LOL I really liked this movie- kind of like CSI but only for kids lol and Animated. lololol. Regina loved it, but when I asked from Gabe what was his fave part , his response was - THE END- thank you very much. lololol
Then last week we attended Mad science B party ( one of Reginas classmates turned 6). It was fun party for kids, and mad scientist was hot young dude. lol. ( he showed kids how to do fun tricks with ice and some chemicals.)

We also went to chuckee cheeses( don't remember how to spell it), this place is grazy. It is like training camp for young kids, so if they grow up one day and go to vegas, they know how to spend money.....

We also wisited library few times, went book stores, malls, ate in chilis, baked few cakes , ate candy that had peanuts in, but did not suppose to have them in, and we all ended in hospital ER( for few hours, because of Regina, she has nut allergies), and did many other fun family things......
but I am so ready for my husband to return. He will be home on sunday, but then he will take off on monday b/c he has to fly to san Jose,.. I am ready for GIRLS night out......

Oh no- Gabriel , Gabriel, Gabriel. He walks better on high heals than I do.... What did I do wrong???

About Regina

Little update how Regina is doing. :)
Right now she is doing really well. When we v visited St Jude in december, we also had endorcrine clinic appointment. Well, she has not grown at all. And it concerned them big time. Anyway, they scheduled insuline injected growth hormone testing in march. They want to know more about her and see if she is doing as great as we all think. her bone age was( is 5years), but they sayd that it is ok, she still has some time to grow and catch up. So hopefully testing goes well and we do not have to start her on daily shots of growth hormoes.
She still likes school and her homework assignments. I have harder time doing her homework. lol Right now they are learning long and short sounds. In Estonian it is easy- we have doubble A and single A, but in english it is harder. I have to think a minute before I finally get it. She does much better with sounds than I do.:)

(Lindora)

All eyes on Gabe....lol.

Christmas dinner. Before dinner we all went to Church . And after church we had dratitonal christmas dinner with all the foods I had missed here. ( me, Sija, Sijas Friend, Tiim(brother, 0, Leo( stepdad), mom, Regina. gabriel refused to eat whatever was on table- he wanted to have mac and cheese....

Babriel, Regina , grandpa and grandma

Dear United Airlines

... I DO NOT LIKE YOU....
That is all I have to say about them. They did not deliver my loggage first time ON TIME, and same happened this time. My loggage is still somewhere in Chicago customs area ( in airport). I filed a claim last night , and asked if they can look it up on somehow, which they did, but there was no record of my loggage leaving chicago. Hopefully we will get it today. I have some pretty important stuff in those hot pink suitcases, and if they get lost, in the future I will only travel with carry on bags.
I am pissed , Really , really pissed.....

My brother Tiim ( 19) and Regina. This picture is taken shorty after his christmas brake from military ended. He has to spend 6 more months in military- learning all the needed stuff to protect our country...

My handsome Husband Nick surrounded by cold weather and people ( behind the scenes) who do not speak english....;)

Wohooo!!

Can you tell we are exited?? Our fun family vacation has ended and we are on our way to CA. It was ok trip. Okay because most of the time we spent in countryside where was no running water, no privacy and no place to take showers. lol . During christmas holiday my sister and brother were there also , which meant 9 people had to fit into small house and it was not pretty sight at all.

Kids had some fun- we all went to ski and took lots of sleight rides, made snow angels, cruised around and ate lots of food. Now they are ready to go home to ca and first thing they want to do is to go to the MALL!!!!!! lol My husband is not with us, he did spend some time with us in estonia, but he left 2 days ago to go back to china. ( work, work, work and more work)..

See you in ca.

D

We had some snow fun....

Happy New Year my dear friends:)

Ho ho ho and

oh, I look like fat santa myself now. I have been eating nonstop since 21st of december. But honestly, I am so sick of potato salads and sausages I am about to puke. ( lol) sorry dear sweet Estonians. If you read this, make sure that If I come to your house- only serve water and gabbage. Thank you !!!

Today was -15C cold. Cold, cold cold. Everything is soo beautiful. White, sparkling- looks clean and really peaceful. Regina is doing better, but they do miss usa. We have no interenet connection at home , so kids are bored to death because they have nothing to do. My moms house is really small- just 3 rooms and kitchen. The rooms we live in we also sleep in. So it is grazy 24/7. We also are allready getting to each other nerves......

On a happier note- tomorrow (dec 28th ) is our 7th wedding anniversary. For that we leave kids with my parents and drive to tallin to celebrate. ( tallin is about 350 kilometers from my parents house, it takes about 4 hours to drive there, but it'll be worth it.

Take care and happy holidays...
di

WE MADE IT

our loggage did not. In denver we only had 15 minutes to change our planes, and we made it to the right gate after gates were closed. they had to open an emergency door to let us in. It was 2 floor plane, huuuuge but boring. I dislike lufthansa. I AM totally sas person. anyway, ouR SUITCASES wEREs still in denver last night. THEY should arrive today around 4.50. so we'll see. at least i was smart enough to take our 'goats' because i just new that something like that will happen. i blame it on kathy....anyway, mu husband is somwhere in the sky flying towards sweden. i do not know when will I SEE HIM

I can almost reach it- I AM REACHING IT ALLREDY- GOT IT!!!

GOT IT!!!

My neighbor who works in Post office just told me that I WILL BE THE first person to get package today. So it should be here shortly!!!!!!





Reginas passport is finally in system. BUT it is not in our local post office. It is in Santa Ana distribution center. I have to wait another hour to start making phonecalls before I have more answers. PLEASE, USPS do not let me down today. I NEEd THIS PASSPORT ASAP. Customer service girl does not know whick post office it is. Fingers crossed.

One more for you Beth and for those who find it hard to belive that once or twice I was overweight pumpkin....;) Baby I am carring is my sweet boy Gabriel ( 2001)

To BETH!!!

Hei, Here I am with blond "shorter kind of hair". And Nick full set of hair and Regina IS HERE ABOUT 13,5 MONTHS OLD :)

 

 

It is 2.30 pm

ANd I Reginas passport still is not in tracking system. I made phonecalls all morning along and since her passport is not in USPS system yet it is not possible to track. I was told that It was picked up today 1.30 pm, but it is available to track after 6.30 pm and it will be at our house in 12.00 pm tomorrow. ( IF deliveries are on time)./ My flight is on 1.20 I live 35 minutes from airport. I just can not risk waiting until last minute.
I do not know what to do.... I hate this.

Ho,ho , Ho and merry christmas

Santa baby.... bring me some cash, like few million dollars. I really need that money....;)

Today was busy day. We woke up 9 am. Ate breakfast. I told kids to check their stockings and they did and , oh how surprised they were when they discovered that stockigs were not empty anymore. :)

Then we headed to Ralps to buy some food. And around 2pm we went to our neighbors house for Christmas Partey.
The moment I stepped into her house , my christmas spirit came back. her house looked amazing. She had about 3 snow willages , 2-3 christmas trees, EVERYTHING was decorated and it was done in such a classy manner. Her house was A M A Z I N G!!!!! It was like a museum inside. Beautiful :) We had early dinner there, chit chatted with neighbors and then around 4 pm we left.

Then we headed to Reginas friends house. We exchanged gifts, kids played and I had fun talking to Beth. :) After we got home , gabriel played with his new car for an hour , regina sorted out her stickers and now they are sleeping and I am trying to figure out what have I not packed. lol

I have 2 HOT pink suitcases full of things. One suitcase weighs 56 lbs and other 30 lbs. I have my backback almost ready- it is missing my laptop and camera. I packed Reginas suitcase because I wanted to take along something they have not seen yet because our trip is 18 hours total and if I do not have any good surprizes to take along with me, I'll be in big trouble. lol


Now I ran into another little problem. I have tracking number for Reginas passport ( it is through USPS, BUT it does not work. It is starting with letters EV, but when I check usps letter, non of the tracking number there start with EV. So I think I hav to wake up early to find out what is going on and Why I can not track her passport.

OK. Now good night. I take my acking bones to bed and dream about sourkrout and blood budding.......

Santa better bring Regina and gabriel great toys this year. Regina and gabe decorated lots of cookies for santa to eat.

Little girl in a big city. I took this pic from our baclony.

:)

This morning, when I woke up. I looked at myself at the mirror. My eyes were all puffy, red, I looked horrible. Well, it is all because of crying for hours last night. I called to passport agency for about 6 times yesterday- each time I had to wait 30-45 minuts before I could speak to someone, and each time I had to listen to same classical masterpeace.... No more Bach for me.

So today I logged into passport site and the message I got was this-

Thank you for submitting your passport application!

Your passport application locator number is ......

We have finished processing your passport, and it has been mailed to you.

You paid for overnight delivery. This means you should receive your passport on or about 12/18/2005.

I can not belive this. Yesterday they had no news whatsoever and today. Now lets hope that overnight delivery works. I am beyond happy- now lets just hope that this was not another error.

I think my grandma up there somewhere heard me cry....

Now, back to our St Jude trip.

Overall It was great trip. Regina is doing better than ever:) Her speech is up to date, and speech therapist commented how good she is doing. I blamed it on Reginas teacher.lol They sayed that there should be more teachers and schools like that :)

And I am soooo proud of Regina. She did 2 MRI's without sedations. Unbelivable. She was so ready for it. No complaning, no tears, no fuss at all. She just climbed on MRI table , closed her eyes and fell asleep. And of course , everybody who was in MRI room told us, that even some 16 year olds can not do such a good job staying still. :) And they told REgina that she is the BEST MRI kid ever.lol

Since I did not have a car for my stay, We pretty much hang out in hospital or in Grizzlies house. This time of year there is lots to do. In grizzlies house there were 2 christmas parties with awsome southern dinners. lol First dinner had lots of food- BBQ meatballs, sweet and sour meatballs, chicken, vegetables, lots of different cheeses, fruits , drinks and variety of desserts. It was fun dinner. On thursday the Wilsons( sp?) hotels hosted dinner and after dinner Santa came and gave kids lots, and lots of educational presents. :) I could not belive the rudness of some parents and kids. They opened their presents, ran back and seyed- I do not like this toy, this it a baby toy, I want new toy etc. - I was embarrased for them. Gosh, gifts were awsome, not some cheep toys- those were Discovery toys, games etc. Anyway- it was just great. I even managed to get myself to feel chirstmasy for a while. :) There are good people out there .....

AND we are now home. It felt sooo good to hug my little boy after this stressful week. he had this silliest , cutest, sweetest smile on his face that melted my heart. Sadly I was just way to tired to enjoy it completely, and I did pick up somekind of stomack bug... anyway- I have been huging my kids on and off last 5 hours. I think they will be sick off my hugs soon. :):)


Now everybody - cross your fingers and hope for holiday miracles for us.....

Oh I do not know how to deal with it anymore.

I WAS promised, that Reginas passport will be ready today. So I called LA passport center AGAIn- after 45 minutes on hold I got through. And all I got was- sorry LA passport center is down today. We have no information to give you. Go to our website blah blah blah. '
I have been crying my eyes out for about half an hour. I do not remember when was the last time I cryed so much about something that is not even worth crying... I just need one simple YES or NO.

BTW. Nick got his visa :) Thanks to my good friends in Estonia who did everything in theyr power to make his visa process faster. :) Thank you guys.:):)

Not happy.

I called to passport services, and got news I was not ready to hear. I was told that they have not even started revewing Reginas passport case. WHF??? Last week, when I called them, I was told it is in LA and it will be ready by today. When I confronted them about the info I was told last week, I was told that well, everybody makes mistakes..... I better not get my hopes up- they emailed to LA passport services with URGENT matter, but they also did it last week, and 2 weeks before that. So I do not think that URGENT matter much for them. Oh, well, seems like we will celebrate our christmas with palm trees and hormone treated foods instead traditional estonian christmas food....

WOhoo!!!!

Regina did her MRI without the sedation yesterday :):):):) SHe fell asleep right away and everybody commented how GOOD she is doing with everything. SHe did have to have IV line placed in because of MRI with contrast, but she did so good. No crying at all!!


NO changes in REginas brain. SHe is doing awsome, she is cancer free!!!

Diana

We are here.

Today has been really lazy day. 7.30 we had endocrine clinc apointment. Regina has not grown at all( 1 mm maybe.) But she did gain 4 lbs since last time( 3 months ago). They told me that most likely next time we fly over here they have to do insluline injected grownt hormone testing on her. brrr. GROW regina, GROW.

Tomorrow 12.00 she has MRI and that is it.

She still is coughing a lot and has lot of discharge from eyes , nose and lungs( she spits out a lot of yelloishy gooo).

D

I allready miss you Gabriel.

I just dropped Gabriel off to my friends house and I allready miss his silly laugh and whiny "but WHY mom". I hope he stays healthy and happy for the most of the time and I hope he listens Miss P. well!!!! Love you Gabe. 

This is not happening .,..

I swear, we are cursed. EVERY singel time we go to Memphis, Regina gets sick DAY before her trip. So this time it is the same old story- runny nose, cough and she is overly sensitive. Is it stress? Is she worring so much about her upcoming trip that she just gets sick thinking about it?? OH. I just hope that she does not get worse.

This picture is taken on thursday, 5 minutes before Keesu was picked up by his original "mom". Now he is back with his 2 sisters and mom. Notice power ranger in front of Keesu? I have not idea why it is there or who but it there,but it looks kind of cool. lol

Student of The month...

Regina got her FIRST student of the month award today. :) Students name are pulled out of "hat" and it is random. ( sounds fair).. Regina had this proud smile on her face the whole time she stood in front of her class. :) I am so proud of her :):):) 

Snow day...

Today is Friday. And it was snowday In Reginas school. Kids were told to wear scarves, mittens, sweaters etc. Not many kids did though. :)  

Mom, why roses have thorns???? I DO NOT KNOW, because they are roses?

Oh my

Good old times. This pic is taken last year , when we had our"vacation" from St Jude. For a while I thougth I have to 2 girls, because all gabriel wanted was to wear dresses. Now, more than year later he is little better. He still likes to dress up as princess, but not everyday. Now it is more like once in couple of weeks. lol


Everything is going pretty well with us. Kids miss their dad very much and ask every day when Dad is coming home. I do miss my dh a lot, but only because I need a brake and I do not want to worry about babysitters or parents night out or after school activity places. I miss going to movies and eating in nice restaurants. I miss his clothes on the floor next to dirty laundry basket, I miss cooking for him and I miss his hugs and kisses. ...... I MISS HIM TOO!!!!

There is hope that soon we will reunite again. And hopefully he will stay for at least couple of months. :) 

Christmas/Holiday madness has begun. North pole adventures, community holiday partys, parades, Santas running around like there is no tomorrow... no wonder kids are confused about Real santa.......;)

Find Hilary... lol, well, really it is a turkey in discuise, so the pilgrims wount find and eat them for Thanksgiving. It was one of the projects she had to do for her school. It was her idea, i just helped her to find the right materials :) If only Hilary knew about it....

Mommy- I want to eat fried potatoes and mini hamburgers.

Keep Everything crossed.!!

Regina is doing GREAT!!!
BUT, there are 2 important last minute before Christmas kind of things that are pending right now.
#one- We went ahead and applied Reginas passport yesterday. Problem is, I was told that there is a slight chance that it WILL not get ready when we need it. ( SO START CROSSING EVERYTHING ALLREADY).. and other thing... Nick has something MAJOR going on for him( couple of things- if everything goes well, and there is buyer for his company, he does not have to go to china so often..

#two- his Estonian visa application is still not approved.... MORE CROSSING PLEASE......

Short update.

There is nothing new to report. Both kids are doing really great. Both of them are happy and healthy right now.
I think I am starting to get Pre Memphis Syndrom . lol We will be flying over there on 11th( early morning) and back on 16th. I hate going there this time. HATE, HATE, HATE. On 12th there is little Christmas celebration on Reginas school and 16th is the last day of school this year. She will miss it. :(

I also found somone who will "adopt" Gabriel for a week . I feel horrible about leaving him with somebody else, but I really have no other choice right now. I do not want to take him to Memphis for 6 days. There are lots of things for him to do in the hospital that can keep him busy, BUT,for me, it will be one of the most nervwracking times ever. ( not because Gabe is there, but because I will be worried about Reginas MRI's and other apointments, and with 2 kids and no help at all- I'm sure I'll go grazy..... :)
Parisa- right now I have no Idea how I can pay you back- I probably will babysit your kids rest of my life...... ;) Thank you so much for that great offer. I would have never thought about asking it from you :)

Oh- I think I am allergic to my cat. I can not get myself tested this year b/c of insurance issues, but all the signs are telling me that my rescent healt problems are b/c of my naughty kitty. So kitty has to go. Sooner the better. Kittys Original owner will take him back and keep him. :) So at least I know that he will be in good home. :)