Hello y'all. Michael has told me that he is leaving Iraq today. So I will not be around til he goes back, about 16 days. So I just thought I would tell ya'll.
After he is gone I will be posting all of our fun pictures from his visit with us. We are going to do alot of things.
I hope everyone has a great few weeks, and I will let y'all know when he is gone..
Before I forget to tell y'all, we chopped Ciarrah's hair off. It is really short she was not letting me comb it or even wash it. So we decided that it was time for it go, I will miss her long hair, but I really like her with the short hair I think she looks cute....
Today we had a great time. Except for missing daddy of course, but we still had fun.We had a great big family event dying Easter eggs. My mom, grandma, Aunt Kari, Krystal and her two boys, Landon and Calvin, my kids, my brother and his girlfriend, and of course my kids!! It was a blast. My cousin told me that Calvin was too young to die Easter eggs, but I convinced her to let him do it, and well I had to give a bath....He was covered in blue dye. He had a blast. I gave him a bath, but he had fun.Ciarrah loved it. Nothing unusual she had a blast last year, but this year she didn't want anyone to help go figure. But that is okay, cause I dyed some eggs, since last year daddy hogged all the fun. We had such a great time. It was nice having alot of the family around to do this. Since this will be our last holiday here. We will be in Texas for any other holidays so I am glad we got to have some family around for Ciarrah. I will be posting more pictures tomorrow, but I have some from tonight. I hope everyone has a great Easter. Oh and the most important news of all.....Michael will be home next week!! We are so excited. Ciarrah can't wait to see daddy!!
We have been very busy. I found out that Michael will be home in the middle of April for his r&r leave for 2 weeks. I am so very excited. We have been getting things ready for him to come home. We are staying in a hotel the entire 2 weeks that he is here, I am pretty darn excited. I can't wait. The other day Ciarrah comes up to me and tells me "Mommy, Daddy will be home very soon." I keep telling her yes he will be. We don't want to tell her to soon when he is coming, because things may change and she really doesn't understand next week or anything like that, she understand tomorrow and this is about it. lol. I feel that I have so much to do and not enough time to get it all done before he gets home. I still have to go get stuff that he wants, food wise. Cause I have to make him his favorite things to eat. But we have been very busy.Cooper seems to be doing much better. He is sleeping better at night, more awake during the day. So I am hoping when we go to the doctor tomorrow, they tell me he has gained some weight. We did go and see a foot doctor, he is a friend of mine. He looked at his feet and said the way the point outward is not normal, but he said we have to wait to see what happens when he starts walking. He said when he hips and all those part start to turn, his feet may turn, he said if not, he may need special soles in his shoes to help his feet turn in. So that is some good news about the little man.
Cooper sporting his hat On an even happier note, the housing office at Fort Hood called me today. The lady wanted to let me know that we are on the list and that I need to call her 45 days before I plan on moving down there and she will get me a house! I am so excited. I have been dealing with the housing office for a few months, kept getting the run around and I finally got a lady that does stuff very quickly. I just faxed all our paperwork into her on Tuesday and she already has it processed. I am s very pleased with her hard work getting it done so fast.I guess that is really all. Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Ciarrah posing for a quick pic
Today Cooper turned 4 months old. We of course did the doctor thing. We went and got shots, oh not so much fun, although I can't complain to much because they don't really bother him at all. But we also received some not so good news about him today. He has a sinus infection. Well in last 2 months he has only gained just over a pound. The doctor told me she is going to give him 2 weeks to put some weight on, since he always seems to be sick. If he does not put any weight then I guess she'll figure something else out. Then on top of that news....she noticed that when he is standing, with weight on his feet, his feet point outwards instead of straight ahead. So she said we are going to keep an eye on that. My old boss's husband is a foot doctor, so I am going to have him take a look at them, and see if it is any thing to worry about, since he'll do it for me. If there is then when we go back in 2 weeks, I'll talk to my doctor about putting in a referral to a foot doctor, so we get the problem corrected, if there is one. It feels like nothing seems to be going well for my little man. I mean we don't have it terrible, but it just seems like he can never get a break. Oh yeah she even thinks he sleeps way too much. He will sleep from 4pm to 9am, he will wake up to eat and then he's right back out again. He will even take a nap from about 10am to 12pm. So he really isn't awake very much. I try to keep him awake and keep him occupied, but he just seems to want to sleep. I guess that's all that is really going on at this very moment.
Today, up here in Nebraska, it is 81 degrees. Okay seriously I wish the weather would make up its mind. I mean I don't mind at all that it is that nice outside. I am in a tank top and shorts. I like being able to wear this type of clothing all the time, but last week it was pretty cold. Now this week it is suppose to be nice. On top of it all, I had surgery on Friday, which went well, and so I couldn't enjoy the nice weather. I have to take it easy so that pretty much means I am stuck in the house with the kids. Thank goodness Ciarrah went to school today, she got to enjoy this fresh air. I can really tell she enjoyed it. There is just something about little kids and pretty much the first warm day of the year, they get all excited. I really do love the weather today, and tomorrow is suppose to be just as nice. So that means that I plan on taking the kids outside and enjoy some of the weather. I really miss Texas weather. Already down where we are it is pretty warm. I don't care to much for the cold. Cooper has been doing much better. My mother-in-law kept him all night on Friday, the first night he has ever been away from me. It was an interesting night, good thing I was all drugged up, it didn't affect me much. Well I guess thats really all for now. Just wanted to tell ya'll about the weather we are experiencing up here. Hope everyone has a great week!!
Ciarrah and her bike, trying not to run it into Daddy's car!
Her other bike!
Cooper is finally all better. We just finished up breathing treatments this morning. I can totally tell he is feeling better. He is beginning to get back to sleeping almost all night. Last night he slept from midnight til seven this morning. It was so nice. Tuesday night he laughed for the first time, it was so cute!
Now only if Ciarrah would get better. She went out side this past weekend and played in the snow, that is all gone by the way, and well as a result she got a bad cough that keeps her up most of the night. We are doing breathing treatments with her right now.
Yesterday I went and booked our hotel for the 2 weeks that Michael will be home in May. The hotel is being very understanding about us not knowing an exact til the day he gets into the states. But I'm so happy we have our room booked and now all we have to do is wait, cause it will be 2 months til he's home, I'm very excited!!
Last night, I was making Cooper a bottle and some cereal. Ciarrah asked if she could feed him his cereal. So I told her she could. It was so funny watching her ATTEMPT to feed him. All he did was smile at her. He loves to look at her, he is always full of smiles. Although he spit some of it back out and well Ciarrah, apparently has a weak stomach, ended up making her self sick.
I hope everyone has a great weekend. We will we are going to get pictures taken on Sunday for Easter!
