Flowers

On Tuesday, Michael surprised me with 18 long stem roses. They are called Red Velvet Roses. They are beautiful. He had no reason for sending them to me. He said he sent them to me, because I deserve beautiful flowers. I love them. I think they are by far my favorite flowers.

Cooper is 7 months old

Cooper has turned 7 months old this weekend. He has been "army crawling" for about 2 months or so now. He is getting good at it. But this weekend, he has figured out to get up on all 4's. He has begun rockin' back n forth. It is quite cute. But now I am thinking that I am in big trouble. He is getting into everything already. He is moving all over the place. He is playing more and more with Ciarrah's toys, and she does not like it at all. She hates it when he touches any of her stuff. Although sometimes she will give him something to play with it is cute. He has decided that he wants to skip crawling and sitting and go straight to walking. He goes over to furniture and is trying to figure out how to pull himself up it is to cute. If you are letting him stand up, and he is near furniture he will reach out to the furniture and he will stand there. He can stand by himself. I keep telling him that he needs to wait a few months before he does any of that, but does he listen to mommy. NO. Cause apparently mommy doesn't know anything lol.

I leave you with a video of Cooper crawling...

...Random Thoughts...

I have been having lots of random thoughts lately so I thought I would share them with y'all.

*Cooper finally has been sleeping through the night. Without any help or doing anything different. Maybe the only thing we have been doing is we have been doing the exact same thing at the same time every night other than that, that is it. He sleeps 12 hours every night.

*We finally got our house, I am very excited, and very nervous. I am going to moving 1,000 miles away and the kids and I will be living alone for about the next 5 months.

*One of the guys Michael works with was looking at family pictures and said something like that Ciarrah has Michael smile. Now it is odd that he would say that cause considering that she isn't biologically his lots of people have noticed it as well. It's not like we tell people that she doesn't come from him, no one asks cause they just assume that she is his. Which is fine with me.

*Michael told me recently that when he comes home, we are having a BBQ for his entire Platoon, which is like 20 guys and their families, that is alot of people at my house. Now he has told me the number is down to about 10 guys and families, I am a little nervouse about that many people in my house at one time.

*I was driving back from Omaha the other day looking around and I realized just how boring and flat it really is here. I can't believe I have never noticed it before.

*Cooper FINALLY rolled over from his stomach to back today. He has been very lazy. The doctor told me that he could do this over a month ago and I am sure he could have, but he just seems to like to hang out and be lazy.

*Cooper still will not sit up on his own yet, I have no idea why.

*My mom tells me that Ciarrah is just like me and my brother, what I scary combination, she is like me because her feelings get hurt really easily and like my brother, in way too many ways to list, right now she likes to carry her smelly pee blankey around the house with her and she says it doesn't stink....

Okay I guess that is enough randomness for one day...It has been one of those weekends!!!
I have updated my photo albums on the side so check them out as well. Have a great week!!

Things Are Going Great

Things here are going really well. My sis-in-law has been here for the past week and a half. So we having been spending time with her and my nephew. It has been a lot of fun. We went to the zoo and just hung out at my in-laws house. I really like going over to my in-laws house. They do stuff together as a family it is a lot of fun. Well she left on Monday so now we are back to our boring lives lol.

I talked to housing today and we got a house. I am so excited. The people in it are moving out on the 9th of July. So we get to move in the 23rd of July. I have been filling out the pre-lease papers and all the fun stuff for them. It sure takes a lot of work to get a house at a military installation. But I am very happy that we got a house. It is in the neighborhood that we wanted as well. It is located near the PX, the commissary, the splash grounds, schools, and a bunch of other stuff. Now I need to start/finish packing up stuff to go with us. Since we are like 5 weeks away from moving!! That is so exciting to say. I can't wait to get back to Texas, where it is warm and we have a yard that Ciarrah can play in. She likes to go outside, but right now my moms house isn't fenced in so she doesn't get to go outside very much cause she doesn't listen very well.

Cooper has been having some sleep problems lately. He has not been wanting to sleep in his own bed, he wants to sleep in mine. So I ordered what Carey calls "The Hand" today, we should have it in a few days, we are going to give that a try to see if that will help him sleep better at night. Our pediatrician told me to let him cry himself to sleep, normally I would, but since him and Ciarrah share a room, that just isn't an option right, I don't want him to wake her cause she is very crabby when woken up. So we are going to give that a try, I hope it works, I need something to work. I can really tell that separation anxiety is kicking in with him as well, because every time I leave the room, he screams as if you are killing him, I hope he stops that soon, cause I may lose my mind.

Other than that things are going well. I hope everyone has a great weekend.