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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
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!
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!
Friday, April 3, 2009
NEW PICTURES
Weeks 28-30 pictures are now all posted!
Just scroll on down and check out weeks 30 and 29... week 28 is on the next page! Just hit OLDER POSTS at the bottom right!
I'm getting through tthe rest slowly but surely!
I hope to be caught up by the end of the week!
Pray for me lol!
ALSO*** I posted about MOVING TO ARIZONA!!
enjoy.
comment!
Just scroll on down and check out weeks 30 and 29... week 28 is on the next page! Just hit OLDER POSTS at the bottom right!
I'm getting through tthe rest slowly but surely!
I hope to be caught up by the end of the week!
Pray for me lol!
ALSO*** I posted about MOVING TO ARIZONA!!
enjoy.
comment!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Catching Up!
I have been sooo out of it the last few weeks! And for that I am truely sorry!
It has been harder than I thought it would be to balance photography, Lily and the rest of my life! Thomas is taking online classes to finish his degree and is busy with school work almost as soon as he walks in the door from real work! The week that I started falling behind I had three photoshoots to edit before I could leave for our two week vacation in Jacksonville! I was swamped! I had every intent to keep up with Lily's blog but it was just too much for me! I finished the last shoot 20 minutes before we got on the road! I guess I'm taking this all with the "live and learn" kind of attitude! The older Lily gets, the greater her demands are on me and on my free time! I am trying so hard to learn to balance out my life right now and I appologize that you all are paying the price in some ways! I hate keeping Lily's pictures from you all but I hope that seeing the slew of them that I am going to be posting over the next few days will help you to forgive me!!
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Ok! ...Now for all of the Lily updates that I have missed! I'm not even going to try and remember what weeks any of this all happened in, so I'm just going to lump it all into one post! So sorry about that!
Lily hasn't started crawling yet and she doesn't have any new teeth! ...Nothing very exciting! But we have really enjoyed the last 3 weeks we've had together!
Thomas has been spending as much time as he can with Lily since he will be deploying soon! They are so great to see together! She loves him so much! She loves his attention too! She is starting to show a ton of peronality... both good and bad sides of it! She sits in my lap and just stares at him. If he's out of her direct eyeline, she'll bend around my arms or lean forward to peek around the lamp so that she can just stare at him! She is very patient! She sits there with a tiny smile on her lips until he feels her looking at him and looks over... then the most beautiful grin rushes across her face and she buries her face in my chest! I am soooo content in that moment!
She reached out to him for the first time a few weeks back! I was sitting with her on the couch and Thomas walked around the corner and she lifted her hands to him, squeeling! I about had a heart attack and curled her close to my chest! I couldn't believe that she had reached out to HIM and not to me for her first time! I was super jealous! But he loved it and scooped her out of my arms with a huge, proud grin on his face!
She is really starting to enjoy spending some alone time with herself! She loves jumping in her jumper-roo or walking allll over the house in her walker! She can sit and play with her toys forever before she starts getting antsy! And last week she started to actually watch cartoons! She walks right up to the TV -in her walker-and just watches everything across the screen! Now I really have to pay attention to what is on and to how long she sits infront of it lol! But it's so amazing to see!
We spent the last two weeks in Jacksonville for Thomas' block leave! We spent our first three nights at his dad and step-mom's house! It was the first time we'd staied with them in a year or so, so it was a nice change! They took a few days off from work and we went bowling and watched a ton of movies! Lily did great and I know everyone enjoyed being able to be together! We had lots of good talks and lots of laughs!
Thomas' mom came for a visit! We spent the day eating and shopping and taking pictures and enjoying each others company! She spoiled Lily with all the new dresses she bought her!
--Ugh, clothes... that's definately something we are not hurting for! [Thankfully]
Lily has soooo many clothes for the next 6 months! But I can never say no to hand-me-downs, just incase there is an adorable new outfit in there!--
The rest of our time was spent with my parents and Hunter! Haley came for the weekend and it was sooo great to be able to spend time with her! I really do miss her so much! We just chatted all weekend and started dreaming about our professional colaboration someday down the road! [Haley is a graphic design major at ECU and with me hoping to not fall flat on my face in the photography world... our partnership is inevitable!]
Thomas and I were able to go to the movies alone one night! I can't remember what we saw but it was just nice to be able to get out of the house together! Ecspecially after the pumping ordeal I had to deal with all day! It seems that I'm not "pumpable"! Not that it matters! ...Once I finally managed to get a few ounces, Lily wouldn't take a bottle lol!!!
We decided to stay in and rent a PPV movie the next night! We rented TWILIGHT! And it all went down hill form there! The movie was a 24 hour rental so my mom wanted to watch it the next night... well we started it and she was too tired to watch and went to bed! So I just watched it again since there was nothing on T.V.! The next day she started telling me how great the books were so Thomas ran out and bought the first one for me! I stayed up alllll night reading it! I loved it! I HAD to have the second book! I put Lily to bed and stayed up allll night again reading the second book and bought the third that morning! Haley was in town so it took me longer to read it but as soon as I was done Thomas was off to buy me the fourth! Oh, and we watched the movie AGAIN since Haley and Hunter had never seen it! It was all a little silly! I just couldn't put the books down! I finally finished the last one tonight and have to say that I am both happy and sad about it! I'm happy since I can finally have my life back lol! I've never really been that wrapped up in anything like that! And it's hard enough to keep up with every day life without wondering about vampires and warewolves in the back of my mind all day! But it is always a little sad when the story is over! Atleast I can look forward to the rest of the movies!
Now I promise to spend the rest of the week in the 'real world' updating the past few weeks of Lily Pictures!!!
It has been harder than I thought it would be to balance photography, Lily and the rest of my life! Thomas is taking online classes to finish his degree and is busy with school work almost as soon as he walks in the door from real work! The week that I started falling behind I had three photoshoots to edit before I could leave for our two week vacation in Jacksonville! I was swamped! I had every intent to keep up with Lily's blog but it was just too much for me! I finished the last shoot 20 minutes before we got on the road! I guess I'm taking this all with the "live and learn" kind of attitude! The older Lily gets, the greater her demands are on me and on my free time! I am trying so hard to learn to balance out my life right now and I appologize that you all are paying the price in some ways! I hate keeping Lily's pictures from you all but I hope that seeing the slew of them that I am going to be posting over the next few days will help you to forgive me!!
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Ok! ...Now for all of the Lily updates that I have missed! I'm not even going to try and remember what weeks any of this all happened in, so I'm just going to lump it all into one post! So sorry about that!
Lily hasn't started crawling yet and she doesn't have any new teeth! ...Nothing very exciting! But we have really enjoyed the last 3 weeks we've had together!
Thomas has been spending as much time as he can with Lily since he will be deploying soon! They are so great to see together! She loves him so much! She loves his attention too! She is starting to show a ton of peronality... both good and bad sides of it! She sits in my lap and just stares at him. If he's out of her direct eyeline, she'll bend around my arms or lean forward to peek around the lamp so that she can just stare at him! She is very patient! She sits there with a tiny smile on her lips until he feels her looking at him and looks over... then the most beautiful grin rushes across her face and she buries her face in my chest! I am soooo content in that moment!
She reached out to him for the first time a few weeks back! I was sitting with her on the couch and Thomas walked around the corner and she lifted her hands to him, squeeling! I about had a heart attack and curled her close to my chest! I couldn't believe that she had reached out to HIM and not to me for her first time! I was super jealous! But he loved it and scooped her out of my arms with a huge, proud grin on his face!
She is really starting to enjoy spending some alone time with herself! She loves jumping in her jumper-roo or walking allll over the house in her walker! She can sit and play with her toys forever before she starts getting antsy! And last week she started to actually watch cartoons! She walks right up to the TV -in her walker-and just watches everything across the screen! Now I really have to pay attention to what is on and to how long she sits infront of it lol! But it's so amazing to see!
We spent the last two weeks in Jacksonville for Thomas' block leave! We spent our first three nights at his dad and step-mom's house! It was the first time we'd staied with them in a year or so, so it was a nice change! They took a few days off from work and we went bowling and watched a ton of movies! Lily did great and I know everyone enjoyed being able to be together! We had lots of good talks and lots of laughs!
Thomas' mom came for a visit! We spent the day eating and shopping and taking pictures and enjoying each others company! She spoiled Lily with all the new dresses she bought her!
--Ugh, clothes... that's definately something we are not hurting for! [Thankfully]
Lily has soooo many clothes for the next 6 months! But I can never say no to hand-me-downs, just incase there is an adorable new outfit in there!--
The rest of our time was spent with my parents and Hunter! Haley came for the weekend and it was sooo great to be able to spend time with her! I really do miss her so much! We just chatted all weekend and started dreaming about our professional colaboration someday down the road! [Haley is a graphic design major at ECU and with me hoping to not fall flat on my face in the photography world... our partnership is inevitable!]
Thomas and I were able to go to the movies alone one night! I can't remember what we saw but it was just nice to be able to get out of the house together! Ecspecially after the pumping ordeal I had to deal with all day! It seems that I'm not "pumpable"! Not that it matters! ...Once I finally managed to get a few ounces, Lily wouldn't take a bottle lol!!!
We decided to stay in and rent a PPV movie the next night! We rented TWILIGHT! And it all went down hill form there! The movie was a 24 hour rental so my mom wanted to watch it the next night... well we started it and she was too tired to watch and went to bed! So I just watched it again since there was nothing on T.V.! The next day she started telling me how great the books were so Thomas ran out and bought the first one for me! I stayed up alllll night reading it! I loved it! I HAD to have the second book! I put Lily to bed and stayed up allll night again reading the second book and bought the third that morning! Haley was in town so it took me longer to read it but as soon as I was done Thomas was off to buy me the fourth! Oh, and we watched the movie AGAIN since Haley and Hunter had never seen it! It was all a little silly! I just couldn't put the books down! I finally finished the last one tonight and have to say that I am both happy and sad about it! I'm happy since I can finally have my life back lol! I've never really been that wrapped up in anything like that! And it's hard enough to keep up with every day life without wondering about vampires and warewolves in the back of my mind all day! But it is always a little sad when the story is over! Atleast I can look forward to the rest of the movies!
Now I promise to spend the rest of the week in the 'real world' updating the past few weeks of Lily Pictures!!!
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