Moving...ugh...

Well we will be moving in 2 months. I am so excited. I can't wait to get back to Texas. I miss living in my own house with my own things! Well my excitement is very short lived, only because I can't figure out to move the kids and our stuff down there. I had every intention of renting one of those U-Haul trailers and hooking it up to the back of my car. Well when I told my husband this, he had a meltdown. He told me no, because it would wreck his "baby". He loves this car and I understand that, but man. I just don't have enough stuff to rent a U-haul truck and move it down there. I am torn with what to do. I don't know if I should just fit as much as I can in the car and mail the rest down, and then just buy a crib and mattress and all the other stuff that we need. I am just torn with what to do. Ahh I am in need of a great master plan. Any ideas. Well off to more planning and thinking and packing.
~UPDATE~
My dad has offered to drive my stuff down in his van the weekend after I leave and bring it down to me. So that solves my problem. Now I don't have to worry about getting rid of stuff and finding new stuff. That is a lot easier on me. I don't have that much stuff, so it will all fit in the back of his van!! Then I am hiring a moving company to move all my stuff from storage into our house on post!!

Cooper's Update

Today I took Cooper to his 6 month check-up. I am very happy that he has put on almost 4 lbs in 2 months. He is now up to 16lbs. He is almost 27inches long. He is a growing little boy. He does however, have an ear infection, poor little guy. Although, it is only the first one, Ciarrah had already had about 8 by the time she was his age, so I am hoping that he doesn't have a lot of them like her.

We also got some great news. We are going to start transitioning him back to regular formula. We are going to go to soy first then go to milk-based formula. I am very happy about this because his formula he is on now is very expensive and it has an awful odor.
Other than that things have been going good. We are getting ready to head back to Texas in July. I can't wait to get back. Michael was telling me today, that he thinks we will be going to Fort Stewart, GA. I am pretty excited because that is right on the ocean. We are going to the beach when he gets home for good, for a week I am pretty excited!

Well I hope everyone has a great week!!

Cooper's First Pic of his teeth

Ciarrah swinging...she loves to do this

Yesterday and then some

Yesterday was a pretty good day!


Ciarrah brought me home pretty flowers and a nice card. She picked them both out all on her own! She is becoming such a big girl! We went out for dinner with my parents that night. Ciarrah was not a very good girl. I have no idea what her deal was, but she wouldn't sit down to eat dinner. She had an attitude all night. So when we got home, off to bed she went!

Cooper is getting his first 2 teeth, at the same time. (pic below) He is not crabby, he is very happy. He does not have any of the things that many people associate with teething, so I am very happy about that. This was taking on Sat. and this morning I looked in his mouth, and they are almost all the way out! I am so very excited!!


Well I hope everyone has a great week!

Well He is Gone Now

Well after 17 days of having Michael home he went back to Iraq yesterday. It was a hard day for us all. Ciarrah kept saying that he couldn't go back to work that he had to stay home with us. I wish it were that easy. It about broke his heart having to listen to her tell him that. My parents went with all of us to the airport, they stayed with Ciarrah while I walked back with him through security and watched him board the plane. Ciarrah didn't want to go cause she knew he was leaving she is too smart for her own good lol. Cooper seems to be okay, I guess though he doesn't really understand. We are getting through things one day at a time.

This time if felt a little harder for me to let him go than the first time. I am not really sure why, but it did. I think it may have been because I watched him REALLY bond with Cooper and Cooper really bonded with him. Ciarrah and him had a great time, she really loves her daddy and misses him. Well me, I had a hard time, it will just take time to readjust to him not being here again. Sometimes I wish we didn't have the opportunity to have 2 weeks leave, because I think it makes it more difficult on all of us involved.

We did have a great time while he was here though. We did lots of stuff as a family. Check out the pics. For Michael's bday we went to the casino. It was a great time. Michael had never been to a casino before so it was a lot of fun. Although he sucks at gambling lol. He lost every time he played. He played slots and blackjack and lost alot of money, but hey it was his bday so its all good. Also while he was home, we got to drink together. We have never drank together only because shortly after we moved in together I got pregnant and after I was done being pregnant, well he was getting ready to leave. So we got to actually drink together it was fun time. We did get new family pictures as well. Take a look

Family Pics 2009

I hope everyone has a great week. Make sure you check out the pics! There are some great ones there as well.