Graduation from Initiation

Yeah! It's finally done. Sylvin got his Graduation day/ceremony yesterday and is now a very proud "initiatied Chief" In the Coast Guard you have a choice to be either initiated or not. I guess Navy Chiefs don't have a choice. But anyway, this was something Sylvin wanted to do and be a part of. It's been a very long month but now it's over and we got to celebrate last night. The Chief's mess gave all the initatied Chief's an appreciation dinner. It was held at the Pacific Island Club in Tumon. The touristy part of town. Very nice hotel and it was a nice dinner. There were Chiefs, Senior and Master Chiefs there along with some Officers as well to help celebrate. They even recoginized the spouses with an official certificate. During the ceremony Chief TJ (I don't want to use last names here), (Sylvin's sponser, and they served together on the Reliance) and I got to pin Sylvin's initiated anchors on him. The video is of that event.
We got to sit down and mingle with alot of the people there. Met some nice folks. We even met a lady that actually grew up down the road from Sylvin's best friend Ron in Puerto Rico. I guess Ron has been telling her about us and she's been asking around about us and we finally ran into her last night. Her name is Silga. Her husband is in the CG too. Just goes to show you how small the CG really is. It's a great honor to be a part of something so important. I'm very proud of Sylvin. Oh, there was even a lady there that writes for the Stars and Stripes and she loves submitting stories related to the CG, she took a quote from Sylvin and myself. We'll see it it gets accepted or not.
On a lighter note, Syani has learned how to take off her diapers all by herself. I walked in to check on them the other night and stepped right in the middle of the squishy discarded diaper on the floor. I looked in Sy's crib and no baby.....I started to freak until I spotted both of them in Eve's crib. Sy had no pants or diaper on....and Eve had pants but no shirt on! Sy had CLIMBED over the end of her crib into Eve's. UT OH, you say, yeah...me too! The next night Sy again ripped off her diaper, and was crying so I ran in as fast as I could to find her sitting on the floor next to their cribs. I'm flipping out and calmed her down. Put her diaper back on and put her back in the crib, but put down two big fluffy comforters next to to their cribs in case she climbed out again. Well needless to say she hasn't tried that again. I'm hoping it scared her enough to not do it again. But she's still ripping her diapers off. So I got out the "500 mile a hour tape". Duct tape is the coolest invention EVER! We'll see how long that will outsmart her. Gonna have to potty train them and get em into toddler beds soon. My babies are growing up!
Love to you all.
As soon as I get some photos together I'll post an album to photbucket of the Graduation. So check back for them.