Wyatt has Arrived!

December 16, 2008 at 17:04, or for you non-military people that's 5:04 pm, Wyatt Lee Deeds entered the world. He weighed 8lbs and 4 oz., was 20 inches long, and came out just blaring and ready to take on the world.

Sorry there are no birthing photos--Michael forgot the camera! (Not that I could put those photos on the internet anyway). But here he is just after. Look at my beautiful boy!

Okay, the true story is Michael didn't forget the camera...we just didn't have time to grab it. My water broke and 34 minutes later my son was born! He sure knew what he wanted.

The hospital was quite an adventure...we were there for 48 hours because of some scares about infection, but we are home now and everyone is well.

He has had his first check up and all is well. I am feeling tired, but happy and proud! He is worth every minute of lost sleep!

On Friday, my dad, Michelle and Andrea arrived to welcome him and we had an early Christmas. It was a surprise and a blessing. For those that know my dad, you can believe that he was too excited to wait and just started handing us presents. It was a great moment, surrounded by my family.

Today, I took my visitors shopping and for a brief tour of the base. I just finished giving Wyatt his first bath, and he demonstrated his powerful lungs!

For now, we are all fighting over face time with the baby...no one can seem to hold him enough. Thank you for all the gifts, cards, and well wishes. We love you all and can't wait for you to meet our new bundle of joy!

a baby update...

hey everyone, I thought it was about time I give y'all an update on how the baby is doing. He is kicking more and getting bigger with every month that goes by. I'm seven months pregnant now, three more months to go. My due date is now December 16 2008. I have been trying to call everyone a lot more, but I know that I need to get better. Please don't be affraid to call me. If I don't answer, than leave a message and I will call you back ASAP. Anyway, some of you have been asking about what I still need for the baby (Michelle). And if you really want to know, than here it is: a Ebony/black changing table, a ebony crib, a crib mattress, crib sheets---green, yellow, blue. Some wood shelves, rocking chair pad---yellow, blue, green., a breast pump, bottles, bips, diapers, baby food, baby onientment, baby powder, and baby tylenol. All I need clothing wise for the baby is: long sleeve onesies 0-3, 3-6, 6-9 white and colored, chort sleeve onesies 9-12: white, sleepers 3-6,6-9, 9-12., short sleeve onesies 6-9 colored, 24 months pants, 24 months long sleeve onsies, 24 month over shirts/sweaters/sweatshirts/tshirts, and 18 months shorts, spring/summer jackets, long sleeve, short sleeve onesies. I hope that helps.......
love you all, kari

The hurricane!!!!!

You are all probably wondering how the DEED's are doing? We are fine, the hurricane didn't hit very hard here in Fort Polk. We got a lot of rain and 60 mph winds but that is about it. Our power is on and we are back to work. Even though, I never stopped working over our training holiday because of the prep work that had to be done for the hurricane. My unit was the hurricane relief so we had to make sure that everyone had updated shoots and records, so if we got a call for a mission then we would be able to go. We never got called out, but we did have to do post detail. Which means that we had to clean up the debree from the post.
This hurricane wasn't much damage just lost hours of sleep. I am still trying to play catch up, but it's not working. When I try to sleep it just makes me more tired when I wake. Any way I have to run. Love you all....

try to make a new home..

Michael and I have made a new start in life, we have joined each other in the walk of life. On May 19, 2008, Michael and I got married by the justice of the peace; in Vernon Parish, LA. And before we got married we found out that we were pregnant.

So on, May 23, we moved into our new home. A two story, two bedroom, one and half bath house, on post; it's small but it works for us. When we first moved in we had to sleep on our pt mates because we had no bed, then our neighbor allowed us to borrow their air mattress, until the bed we ordered came in.

For a while all we had in the house was a bed, some borrowed folding chairs, a folding table, a toast, a couple cups, and some other little things. These few things in the home, got us by until June 21, when we could go back to Michigan and Indian to get our furniture, clothes, and other belongings. Living off those little things helped, but it was difficult; just like the move back down here from up North.

Because I was pregnant, I couldn't do a lot of driving, us most of the driving was left to Michael. And by the end of the trip he was hurting, but we made it back to LA safely. When we got home we slept for awhile, but the next day we still had to wake up, because we knew the work wasn't over. We had to unpack everything now, it took about three days to get a good majority of the stuff unpacked, but we were in no rush to get everything unpacked. So we didn't put everything away at first. The little bit that we left, we put away a bit at a time. But now it is August, and we finally have almost everything put away.

But the work never ends for a new, growing family. Now that the house is all settled in, it is time to get the babies room ready. Painting the walls (yellow and green), painting the furniture (Ebony black), painting the shelves and small accent pieces (little peacock blue). Along with the painting of the room comes the prepping of the room, the gathering of baby bedding, clothing, stuffed animals, decor', and decorations. It may not sound like a lot, but when you are four months pregnant and still working, it is a lot of work just to try and find the time and energy to do these tasks.

Slowly but surely, Michael and I are battling the baby room and baby shopping, one day at a time. Usually on weekends, we make time to do a little bit of work here and there on the room and we travel a little ways to go shopping for baby gear and maternity clothes.

I know that I promised to write a list of things that Michael and I need and or want for the baby and for ourselves, So here it is. A couple of things we could use for your home is some kitchen appliances (like a blender), receipt book would be nice, a kitchen rug, a swifer for the floor, a dresser for our room, a power drill, a dart board case, bedding (comforter, sheets, blankets, etc.), good bathing towels, window treatments/valences, DVD/VHS player, DVD/CD holder, TV stand, scrapbook supplies: stickers, stamps, templates, albums, etc.. And that is about it for the home, but of course now comes the baby supplies. I have a wedding registry made at target, and somewhere else that I can't remember right now... I will tell you all when I think about it.

Because we have been saving for a car we have not had much money to go shopping for the baby. We have bought some clothing, some stuffed animals, some pant, and a baby book. But other then that the babies room needs a lot more. The only reason I am telling you all of this is not for you to fell bad for us but for you to know that whatever help you can give us would be much appreciated.

We have been doing a lot of price shopping, so we know what kind of things we like for the baby. And they are: a pack and play(has a built in play yard, a bassinet, a changing station, and a modile), a changing table/dresser combo, a convertible crib (at least a 2-1 crid to toddler bed), bouncy, boppy for feeding, highchair, traveling stroller (it has a stroller and a car seat that can go right into the stroller for easy transportation), glider for the babies room (black, green, tan, blue, or yellow), baby carrier(on the belly), breast pump, baby bottles, diapers, etc.. I am registered at target and at Babies'r'us for little Wyatt.

If you are afraid to buy my something because you think I might get doubles and you can tell everyone to go online and order something, if they are planing on ordering, or you can always send money. We love money because we can then get exactly what we want and we can get it when we want. But gifts are more then welcome. I don't want to sound despite but we would love the support anyway you can give it.

Because I am away from home and from family, I feel like my son is going to miss out on a very important part of my life, my family. So even just pictures of yourself and your families would be amazing.

With All Our Love,
Kari D. Deeds and Michael L. Deeds.