Thursday, July 16, 2009
Forty-seven Weeks Old!
It has been a long week!! But I am sooo thankful to my mom for coming and spending some time with us over the weekend anddd to my friends here! You ladies really have helped the time fly and I have enjoyed every second with you:)
So, My mom came down Friday night and staied through Saturday! It was a really relaxed visit. We laid around the house and pigged out on chips and candy and watched t.v.! It was really nice! Then we went to Wal-mart on Saturday and bought a bunch of stuff for Thomas' homecoming... things to make his sign and some other decorations for the front of the house! We made the sign that afternoon adn I am soo happy with it! It is the third sign we've had. I bought the first one and made the one from last year which was a borderline disater! So I was really proud of the one we made this year!! It was hard to have my mom leave. As much as I wanted to get back to Fayetteville and to be in my own space I realllly do miss having my family around us. Hopefully they will all come down in a week or two to visit us!
Oh, speaking of visits! Thomas and I decided that we are NOT going to be visiting Jacksonville on his block leave. With Lily just now getting settled back in here and with us trying to get her familiar with Thomas again, we decided that it would just be too troublesome for us to uproot again and go to Jacksonville for a week. SOOO, we are letting everyone [right now, in this blog] that you are MORE than welcomed to come visit us! Please just give us a few days to spend together as a family. But we would love nothing more than to have you come for a day or two to welcome Thomas home! We will be in Jacksonville for Lily's birthday next month. I am in the process [slow of course] of planning her birthday party. We will have the "big one" in Jacksonville probably the weekend of the 21st and then have a cookout here at our house for our friends here on her actual birthday [the 20th]. I planned on making invitations and sending those out in the next week or so. Please feel free to email me your address if you know that I don't have it so I can get an invite in the mail for you... we'd love to have you:)
Ok! Big news on Thomas' homecoming! He was supposed to be here today. Right now actually. But there was bad weather and the plane that was coming to pick them up had to turn around. Sooo... a bit of a delay but I got a call from him this morning and he was about to get on a plane! I recieved an update this afternoon confirming that at this point they are set to be home tomorrow morning! I am beyond excited! Life is flying by but I am so thankful to have gotten through another deployment. With all 3 of his tours he has been deployed a total of one year! I am so proud of him and his squadron. They make an enormous impact on our freedoms.
So, We are in the last leg. A little over 12 hours from now he SHOULD BE holding his baby girl again:):)
And, now back to Lily! This has been a crazy week for her. She had her 9 month check up [oops lol] on Monday. She is doing great. She's 50% for height and 30% for weight. She's started to even out and has lost some baby chunck since she's started crawling. She had a little inflamation in one ear and a sinus infection so she had to take some meds for a few days but it cleared up almost immediately! I was thankful for that! She is still loving being home. She pretty much has free reign of the front half of the house. she plays in the living room and both hallways and just has a ball! She has really started to pay attention to the TV when it's on. So I've started cutting back on the amount of time it's on and only have it on noggin now. She loves to listen to music. She sings and has started to "dance". She gets up on her knees and bounces and claps her hands:):) I love it!
She's also started liking purses! She started rummaging through my diaper bag the other day and slung the strap over her shoulder and tried to crawl away with it but it was too heavy! Now she has one that she plays with all the time! It's still amazing that she's old enough to comprhende things like that and mimic me! But I love that she is starting to show her personality and individuality and independence! She is an amazing baby girl and I feel so blessed to see her grow into the beautiful little girl I know she will be!
So, My mom came down Friday night and staied through Saturday! It was a really relaxed visit. We laid around the house and pigged out on chips and candy and watched t.v.! It was really nice! Then we went to Wal-mart on Saturday and bought a bunch of stuff for Thomas' homecoming... things to make his sign and some other decorations for the front of the house! We made the sign that afternoon adn I am soo happy with it! It is the third sign we've had. I bought the first one and made the one from last year which was a borderline disater! So I was really proud of the one we made this year!! It was hard to have my mom leave. As much as I wanted to get back to Fayetteville and to be in my own space I realllly do miss having my family around us. Hopefully they will all come down in a week or two to visit us!
Oh, speaking of visits! Thomas and I decided that we are NOT going to be visiting Jacksonville on his block leave. With Lily just now getting settled back in here and with us trying to get her familiar with Thomas again, we decided that it would just be too troublesome for us to uproot again and go to Jacksonville for a week. SOOO, we are letting everyone [right now, in this blog] that you are MORE than welcomed to come visit us! Please just give us a few days to spend together as a family. But we would love nothing more than to have you come for a day or two to welcome Thomas home! We will be in Jacksonville for Lily's birthday next month. I am in the process [slow of course] of planning her birthday party. We will have the "big one" in Jacksonville probably the weekend of the 21st and then have a cookout here at our house for our friends here on her actual birthday [the 20th]. I planned on making invitations and sending those out in the next week or so. Please feel free to email me your address if you know that I don't have it so I can get an invite in the mail for you... we'd love to have you:)
Ok! Big news on Thomas' homecoming! He was supposed to be here today. Right now actually. But there was bad weather and the plane that was coming to pick them up had to turn around. Sooo... a bit of a delay but I got a call from him this morning and he was about to get on a plane! I recieved an update this afternoon confirming that at this point they are set to be home tomorrow morning! I am beyond excited! Life is flying by but I am so thankful to have gotten through another deployment. With all 3 of his tours he has been deployed a total of one year! I am so proud of him and his squadron. They make an enormous impact on our freedoms.
So, We are in the last leg. A little over 12 hours from now he SHOULD BE holding his baby girl again:):)
And, now back to Lily! This has been a crazy week for her. She had her 9 month check up [oops lol] on Monday. She is doing great. She's 50% for height and 30% for weight. She's started to even out and has lost some baby chunck since she's started crawling. She had a little inflamation in one ear and a sinus infection so she had to take some meds for a few days but it cleared up almost immediately! I was thankful for that! She is still loving being home. She pretty much has free reign of the front half of the house. she plays in the living room and both hallways and just has a ball! She has really started to pay attention to the TV when it's on. So I've started cutting back on the amount of time it's on and only have it on noggin now. She loves to listen to music. She sings and has started to "dance". She gets up on her knees and bounces and claps her hands:):) I love it!
She's also started liking purses! She started rummaging through my diaper bag the other day and slung the strap over her shoulder and tried to crawl away with it but it was too heavy! Now she has one that she plays with all the time! It's still amazing that she's old enough to comprhende things like that and mimic me! But I love that she is starting to show her personality and individuality and independence! She is an amazing baby girl and I feel so blessed to see her grow into the beautiful little girl I know she will be!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Forty-six Weeks Old!
Well, this was our last week in Jacksonville! We drove home on Monday. Thomas will be home verry soon:)
Leaving Jacksonville was bitter sweet. It's amazing how much you appreciate your crapy base housing once your confind to your old bedroom at your mother's house;) It was an amazing experience. Lily got to spend quality time with most of her family. And really grew to love them. As well as the wonderful ladies in the Centerview nursery:) I will always be greatful for the time we got to spend with everyone! But my goodness! It's good to be home:) Lily has thrived here! She is laughing and talking soo much more. And crawls all over the place:) But she is being a little extra clingy. She cries when I leave the room and wants to be held randomly. I'm pretty sure that's just some abandonment issues since everyone she's been living with for the past few months just dissappeared after one of her naps lol! But I'm hoping that once Thomas gets home and her and I start getting together with my friends and their kids that she will calm down and settle in in that sense! We'll see! And honestly, I'm kindof enjoying the extra cuddle time!
Lily's sleep schedlue has taken on a whole new pattern! I'm thinking that it's probably temporary... a growth spurt probably. But she's been waking up between 6 and 7 each morning. Napping from 9 to noon and then again from 3-5 and going to bed between 7 and 8 at night! I wish I could say that I've been taking advantage of all those long naps! But I haven't! I still have a ton of laundry to get folded and put away. I think I'm not stressing over it very much because it's all clean lol! I'm almost ready to just turn our guest room into a huge "closet" and leave all the clothes in there lol. But I doubt Thomas would like that very much.
Like I mentioned before. Thomas is coming home soon! We are both very excited to have our little family together again! It's only been a few months but he's really missed a lot of Lily's changes. I don't think there's any way for me to explain "her" to him. Just like last year when he was coming home to a 9 months pregnant wife. There was no way to prepare him for that. So I'm anxious to see how he reacts to her! I know he loves her! It will just be fun to see the shock on his face the first time she throws a fit or pushes herself out of his arms and crawls away from him lol! But who knows... maybe she will fall in love and never leave his lap!? God help me if that's the case! She's already spoiled enough as it is lol!
Leaving Jacksonville was bitter sweet. It's amazing how much you appreciate your crapy base housing once your confind to your old bedroom at your mother's house;) It was an amazing experience. Lily got to spend quality time with most of her family. And really grew to love them. As well as the wonderful ladies in the Centerview nursery:) I will always be greatful for the time we got to spend with everyone! But my goodness! It's good to be home:) Lily has thrived here! She is laughing and talking soo much more. And crawls all over the place:) But she is being a little extra clingy. She cries when I leave the room and wants to be held randomly. I'm pretty sure that's just some abandonment issues since everyone she's been living with for the past few months just dissappeared after one of her naps lol! But I'm hoping that once Thomas gets home and her and I start getting together with my friends and their kids that she will calm down and settle in in that sense! We'll see! And honestly, I'm kindof enjoying the extra cuddle time!
Lily's sleep schedlue has taken on a whole new pattern! I'm thinking that it's probably temporary... a growth spurt probably. But she's been waking up between 6 and 7 each morning. Napping from 9 to noon and then again from 3-5 and going to bed between 7 and 8 at night! I wish I could say that I've been taking advantage of all those long naps! But I haven't! I still have a ton of laundry to get folded and put away. I think I'm not stressing over it very much because it's all clean lol! I'm almost ready to just turn our guest room into a huge "closet" and leave all the clothes in there lol. But I doubt Thomas would like that very much.
Like I mentioned before. Thomas is coming home soon! We are both very excited to have our little family together again! It's only been a few months but he's really missed a lot of Lily's changes. I don't think there's any way for me to explain "her" to him. Just like last year when he was coming home to a 9 months pregnant wife. There was no way to prepare him for that. So I'm anxious to see how he reacts to her! I know he loves her! It will just be fun to see the shock on his face the first time she throws a fit or pushes herself out of his arms and crawls away from him lol! But who knows... maybe she will fall in love and never leave his lap!? God help me if that's the case! She's already spoiled enough as it is lol!
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