21 With 5 Years Experience

Update since last blog. Let's see. We now have 75% of this deployment completed. Maybe more depending on when they actually leave the sandbox. I have already started my "Welcome Home" checklist. Im totally stoked and we are more than half way done with the month ofAugust.

AJ is loving school and doing pretty well. He's definitely a talker which seems to cause some small issues at school but he's working on that. The boys and I went to his Open House night. He was so excited to show me everything that they do in his class. I still can't believe how big he is. Some of the things that come out of his mouth are very grown up. We still do "Pool Wednesdays," and this past Wednesday he learned the breast stroke.

Michael is super fresh. He's just a few days shy of 14 months. Which means we will be going back to the doctor this week for shots and a weight

check. I love how he will eat just about anything, especially fruit! AJ hates fruit unless it's in a cup ie smoothie, juice, ice cream. But not my Michael. Lately we are working on his language arts. Physically hes developing wonderfully. He's hit every milestone. His language seems to be a bit slower which is so different then where AJ was at 14 months.

I just celebrate my 26th Birthday, aka 21 with 5 years experience. I was very lucky to have some great friends and family that were caring enough to send me things through the mail. It was sort of depressing in a way. There was no birthday dinner or cake. I took AJ to school, cleaned the house, took care of Michael, went to open house, grabbed McDonalds for dinner, came home, got the boys to bed and called it a night. Luckily for them. Atleast I wasn't alone. On the bright side Im down 2 lbs of my 15 lbs goal. I have to start putting together that scrapbook for Rob. I can not wait to have my man home. Some days can't go fast enough!