Thirty-three Weeks Old!

This has been a pretty neat week for Lily! She is growing so fast!
She is soooo very close to crawling now! She goes from sitting on the floor to the crawling position now! And once she gets there she looks so determined! She rocks back and forth and today she picked up and moved one of her knees forward without falling on her face! So I'm sure it's going to just be a matter of days! :):):)
Her second tooth is just days away from breaking through as well!! She is getting the second bottom, front tooth! It will be so sweet to see her toothy smile grow! I still haven't been able to get a [natural] picture of her tooth yet since she rarely smiles at my camera big enough for anyone to see the tooth behind her big bottom lip! But I'll work on getting a picture this week!
Not much has been happening around here! Saturday we went to Smithfield, NC to watch Hunter play in a softball tournament and we hit up the outlet mall there! Thomas refused to let me spend any money on Lily... I had to buy myself clothes! I got a new pair of Capri's and a few new shirts! Nothing too exciting! It was too hard for me to get into it! I have lost some weight recently so it was nice to grab a smaller size! But it was just too hard not to buy Lily clothes! I just wanted to be done with the shopping lol!! Lily did great the whole time until right at the end she gave Thomas a little fit while I was trying on some clothes! But by the time we got back to the car she was passed out in her stroller!
Everything with Thomas' deployment is still up in the air. I haven't really written much about it since there's security issues... but there's a chance he might not be leaving at all now! A few weeks ago he was a proctor for a random drug test here on the base. Well, one of the guys he gave the test to came up positive for Cocaine!--For the second time!!! So the military is going to try him in court with in the next few months and Thomas is on administrative hold [or something like that] so that he can testify in the trial! So that means he's not allowed to leave! His squadron is going to try to work it out so that he can still deploy! So we just have to sit tight for the next few days and see what happens!
We really kind of need him to deploy, as silly as that might sound to a lot of people! We, in no way, want to be separated -for any length of time, even though his deployment would only be 2.5 months this time. But since our dog Rocco is obviously part pit bull we will have to live off base when we get to Arizona! We plan to rent when we get there so we're looking at first and last month's rent plus pet deposits on top of the cost of actually driving across the country [gas, hotel, food, a trailer, etc.]! So 4 months of tax free pay plus the few extra benefits he qualifies for would reallllly help us out!
So please just keep us in your prayers until we can get this figured out!