Hotel in Oahu

I have always loved to travel and I have always loved to stay in a hotel, but I quit!  We are living in two rooms right now in a hotel next to the airport on the island of Oahu.  Sounds great right?  No!  I have had to unplug everything in the kids room.  They tried to fry something in the microwave, stuffed a pillow in the mini fridge, enjoy turning the lights on and off whenever the mood suits them, and can't wait for mommy and daddy to leave the room so they can watch what they want on tv.  It's so far from ideal it's ridiculous to even think that word.  When we first got here though it was even worse because although they had promised us a connecting set of rooms (since we have four kids that need a place to sleep) we were originally given two room next door to each other!

I was furious, but Chris had to report and we needed a car badly.  A rental for two weeks is so not cheap! Anyway, after bugging the staff often we were given the rooms we're in now.  While we were separated Chris set up our phones to be a video baby monitor.  It was great!  He's so smart.  Now I kind of miss the other rooms - it was easier to wake up when the time was right, now they just come in to get me.

Wish us luck on the wait for a house.  Chris has been good about getting down to the housing office often and calling a lot.  Hopefully we'll get one quick.

We were able to get a nice car!  We found it on Craigslist from a nice woman over in Kaneohe on the side of the island that reminds me easily of Seattle, WA.  It's rainy a lot of the time, though MUCH warmer, still need a sweater sometimes.  We really liked that side of Oahu: lots of beautiful mountains really close, very green (like most of the island), and wet.  It's a nice break from the constant sunshine.  A difference in weather is a nice treat, though we still LOVE the fact that we see a rainbow every single day.

At least now we can save a bit of money on the rental fees!

My poor Baby!

Oh my goodness!  We've only been on Oahu for like two weeks and we already had to find an emergency clinic.

I noticed that Vaughn was not sleeping well.  He was crying a lot, but guess what?  He's a baby!  After an "almost nap" I asked Chris to see if he could figure out what was wrong.  We had changed his diaper, he was well fed, and he'd just slept.  Unlike the other kids, he was in our hotel room, so I knew no one had messed with him.  Just as Chris finished checking the diaper again (you never know!) he noticed V's little foot, more specifically one of his toes.  It was purple and swollen!  Chris noticed that a hair was wrapped tightly around the little digit.  Of course it had to be blonde, cuz I totally needed a pride check, you know how I am about Motherhood.

 oweeee!

So we called our Tricare for a referral to somewhere since we were new to the island and not on base yet.  They sent us to a great doctor, though quite a ways from our hotel.  I called the clinic and they said to come in right away.  We did as quickly as we could navigate the way.  (note to travelers: apple's gps app is not useful here!)  Anyway, so we take him in and the nurse was amazing!  She reassured me that it happens quite often that a mom's hair (she's the one who does most of the care taking) gets wrapped around something on a baby - usually another important area for a little boy!  So after some very tense moments the doctor was able to finally remove all the pieces of hair that were cutting off the circulation in his toe.  It must've been on a long time because the wound was already starting to get infected.  I felt like such a bad mom.

this is after it got fixed!  took a while for it to look normal

Both the doctor and nurse kept telling me it wasn't my fault, but he's my baby and I didn't notice he was hurting for a long time.  He's doing much better now and so am I.