For lack of a better title Aug 23 .2012

Its so funny how Emmy acts when Im TRYING to get a photo of her LOL... She will be in the cutest pose..as SOON as I get up to get my camera she ..rolls over or moves.

Thats okay though:) She cooperated SOME:) Like above:)
other times I get some liek below..but those are great too:)

 

Dustin has been begging to go Chuckie Cheese for like a month now.. so tonight I talked Ryan into it.. after all..its not every Thursday that he doesn't have work and we have the time...

Now we are home and I need to desperately get to packing some more... I have 5 of the plastic totes full and the house doesn't look like its missing a THING.

Opp leave

Its been a busy week. HA not
Ryan has the week off, its his "opportunity leave" before deployment.I wish we could make a flying trip home. But it means we need to get as much done this week as we can because we don't really have a date of when he will be leaving. (Not that it'll be posted when we do ! OPSEC ! So please don't ask me when he is leaving.. because the only answer I can give is .. too soon:(
I signed up a while back to start some doing some reviews and got an email today that Id be receiving plastic storage boxes from http://www.packaways.com/ soon. They should get here just in time to pack them full of stuff to go into storage. So that's great:)

Dustin has become obsessed with Ryan's army gear:) He is growing up to be such a little ham:)
Last night he "gave" Emmy one of his old spiderman pj tops to wear :) So they could match.

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Chicken Nugget Soup

Thats is what Dustin wanted for lunch... I gave him the choice between chicken noodle soup and chicken nuggets and french fries.. and his response? Chicken nugget soup.
He is such  a ham sometimes..
Em is on the VERGE of potty training.. she tells me when she needs to pooop..but not pee..
She will sit on the potty.. get up there with help from a stool but no help from me. ...but she just sits there.. so I guess thats a start LOL. Then she always tells me when she need a changed diaper..
Itll be nice  to eventually not be changing a diaper lol

Creeping Deployment.. Stay away!

That's what I think this deployment is doing, its creeping up... and soo fast. Ryan brought home the daddy dolls and some Comfort bear package for the kids today. The bear had a bomber helmet , goggles, and scarf lol Airborne symbol I suppose. 

Another birthday has come and gone for me.. I'm now 26. I sure feel that old sometime.. but most days I feel.............. OLDER LOL . My baby boy is now 4! And my girl will be 2 in OCT! My babies aren't babies anymore:( Since Ryan is deploying, we will be moving back to Alabama to be around family while he is gone. I look forward to the being around them part..not so much to him being gone for almost a year:( .

Dustin is in a afraid of the dark phase...actually we are up right now. The routine has become, Ryan takes Emmy to bed with him and I stay up with Dustin. He is watching cartoon (yes I know my 4 year old up at 11pm isnt good). Usually I lay in bed with him until he falls asleep and then go to bed with Ryan and Emmy (her bed is "sidecar"ed with ours, though she doesn't sleep in it much).


Emmy is now a weaned toddler(from breastfeeding)! We started weaning when we went home for block leave in July and just completely weaned about a week ago. Im relieved 
and sad all at the same time. Breastfeeding that long was a new experience for me and I canNOT say that I regret it. IF(thats a BIG if) we had another child, I wouldnt change and would probably breastfeed the same length of time.
We started cloth diapers with Emmy kinda late compared to most (close to her 1 year birthday). I tried just about everything before sticking with RAR (rumparooz) for daytime and Ecoposh for nighttime. But recently we have REdiscovered gdiapers and love them now!

Well now that Dustins drifted off to sleep here by me on the couch, I guess it's time to carry him to his bed (He is really getting to big for me to do that these days.. he is a whopping 40 lbs)

Overwhelmed

Thats how I feel some days.. I havent been on here to post in over a month now..
In that short amount of time, My baby girl turned one!

I just cant believe it. She had her first Halloween the other night.. It was also Dustins first time trick or treating.. His first year he was so little .. we went to a fall fest but he doesnt remember then last year we went to my churchs but he didnt dress up.. This year was big for him:) He was elmo and Emmy was a pumpkin.

Catch up

So a lot has happened in the two months I havent posted..
We had Dustin's birthday party right after my last post.. I believe Ryan's idea to buy him a bicycle was the best ever.. he LOVES riding his bike and asks to everyday! He even brings it inside and rides in a circle around the kitchen/living room area. Of course now he has a NEW one lol.. he was so rough on the first one that something went wrong .. Im not quite sure what *tire/ axle something LOL Ryan handles that stuff* and it was cheaper to buy a NEW bike then to buy a wheel for this one!  so we bought a bigger one he can grow a little into and not be too big for..

My baby boy is growing up so fast! He sleeps in his bed in his room now..most of the night lol. He still usually ends up in bed with us.. but I dont complain:) Ill take snuggles while I can get em!

The end of July we got to go home :) for two whole weeks! Which FLEW BY!

In August we celebrated 5 years of marriage:) went out riding on the motorcycle  and out to eat without the kids for a first... it was nice:)

My parents just came and stayed for labor day weekend and Ryan's mom and stepdad are supposed to be coming very soon!:)

Em is super close to being a full fledged toddler.. taking 4 and 5 steps by herself:)

She's growing up wayyyy too fast!

I've started looking for a job up here, even though I'll cry when I have to leave my kids. :) 

I've made some GREAT friends up here:) and look forward to our time here:) I feel like we are FINALLY getting settled.