8 Months and change

Mr. B,

You still smile at me and your sister no matter what we may have done or not done for you. I was just thinking at dinner tonight how different my days would be if you were not so easy going and happy. Thank you! (Especially when I am 1V2)

This is how I have found you the past week and a half as your top two teeth are starting to pop through. It is usually your bib, but this day you just needed a little more I suppose. As soon as I took it out of your mouth you just smiled at me and shoved it back in. You are such a cute little stinker.

When the temperatures were hovering at the high 80's on Saturday I decided to let you and your sister splash and splash and dump and splash water all over. You LOVE splashing! You just hold your breath and smile every time the water would hit your face. As soon as you regained your composure, you were at it again.

Curious George is who you have become. Whatever I have or your sister, you want it and need to investigate. I love this about you. You will first test it out to see if it makes noise, then you will end up hitting yourself, and then you will taste it for good measure. It is so fun watching you learn about your surroundings.

You are still eating good, a little too good, because carrying you around has become more of a process for me.

You are still a rolling machine but have now figured out how to turn yourself around on your belly which gets you into everything!

You are sitting up great and have been for a while. Sometimes you will get a grin on your face and slowly start to fall backwards, then you catch yourself by flipping onto your belly. Funny kid.

Dadadada is still your favorite phrase to say, loudly mind you, and over n over n over. It is OK because Mamma is going to come soon.....right??

Thank you for waking me up each morning with your babbles, raspberries and that smile of yours.

I love you Big Boy!

Sesame Street

This week, the USO put on a FREE Sesame Street show at Langley. Once I heard Elmo and FREE, we were there! It was a packed house, but the USO did an amazing job. Miss A did not take her eyes off of the furry creatures for a second and Mr. B just hung out playing with the free Elmo spinner that Miss A got. It was only 30 minutes which was ideal considering the amount of children in one gymnasium.

Once Elmo appeared, she was hooked!

All the kids dancing, it was quite entertaining.

Something like that....

....is what I thought Air Force One and the President of the United States would look like. My Mother's Day was one of a kind in the sense that I, along with a handful of other viewers, got to see AFO land here at Langley AFB and watch as the POTUS deplaned and got escorted off (with 15-some motorcycles and around 20 other vehicles) to speak at a local graduation. SO cool!

The plane is really big, I knew it would be, but really, it is huge.

The POTUS looks just like pictures and TV have portrayed him.

Here is the guy who made this happen for us. A fellow pilot of Brad's who we were stationed with at Kadena. Thanks Blue for a once in a lifetime opportunity! It was fun to say ,"We are with that guy!"

Who knows, maybe one day this plane could be hers!

(Thanks Steph, for this photo).

All in all, I got to spend another day with a family I am blessed to call my own!

I hope every Mother, especially my own, had a beautiful day!

Bad boys, bad boys, whatcha gonna do when they come for you!

I get home from Music class today with the kids and as I am getting Miss A out of her carseat I hear a VERY close police siren and a lady on the megaphone saying, 'Please stop where you are'. Honestly, what would you do in this situation? Well, I froze and slightly turned around to see if she was talking to me. She was not thankfully, but she was talking to two men walking right along my street. I started rubbernecking, standing in my driveway watching this unfold, but then I see not one, not two, not three, not four, but 5 police cars start pulling up around these guys. I figured at that point, it might not be a good idea to be standing outside with a child in my arms. So, I did what any concerned parent/neighbor would do and watched from our front window. (Ohh, come on, you know you would have done the same thing too.....) Even more, I took a photo!

So, I am thinking I should either be really worried about who these two gentlemen were roaming our neighborhood with the need of 6 police cars to handle them OR I can chalk it up to the N.N. police officers being very thorough when they are handling a situation. I am choosing to believe scenerio number two to help me sleep better at night.

Little moments.....

The little moments of our days, captured to share with you.