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| Better late than never... ;-) |
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
The past 2 weeks!
We have been staying busy, busy, busy, but that is a good thing, because each busy day that we complete brings us one day closer to Nolan being home with us again!
We are still taking one day each week, where we just hang out at home... all day... That has been refreshing for both of us! :-)
On July 31, so this coming weekend, will be 4 months down!!
Sadly, if it was a "normal" 7 month deployment, we would be on the down hill to homecoming, but there are still 6 more months left... BOO! We are still hoping and praying for a miracle... that the guys come home anytime before their scheduled return date! :-)
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| July 11 Liam and I went to dinner with my friend, Amy, and on our way home... the Neon had a flat tire. USAA is awesome - they had a guy come change the tire, yet the spare wasn't exactly full of air, so the Neon had to be towed... Within the next week and a half, the Neon got a new tire, and my neighbor, Hilary, graciously took me to pick it back up! :-) |
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| Thoughts of crawling? Probably not, since he isn't in the usual yoga position while on his stomach, but it was still very neat to see him lift up his backside to reach for toys, and unfortunately face plant and end up on his stomach.... Just exploring what his arms and legs can do! :-) |
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| July 13 I found these toys on a craigslist of sorts, called Lejueneyardsales.com Roughly $36 worth of toys for $15 After a bleach/water bath, and letting them dry for a day, Liam seemed to very much enjoy them! Mostly for chewing on the drumsticks, but if I show him how to tap on the xylophone and the drum he will... which is really cool!  Jammin' on the piano! :-)
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| July 16 Playing in the front yard... feeling the grass and bouncing on Mom's knees! |
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| July 17 Liam recently realized he has HAIR! So, when he was getting full, notice the remains of green beans on him, he rubbed a bit of them in his hair! :-) |
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| July 19 Stomach sleeper now... at times... |
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| I still always lay him down on his back and if he ends up on his stomach, that works! |
Vacation Bible School
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| Inside out and upside down on Main street was the theme this year! I had said I did not want to teach, since I have Liam, but one of the teacher's had a medical issue the Thursday before VBS started, so I was asked to teach the 1st and 2nd grade class. I am glad I got to teach - it was a lot of fun! :-) |
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| My co-teacher, Maria, who is from Portugal and from the Catholic congregation of the Chapel! She was such a great help with all of the kids and adding insight to the lessons that we were learning, and most of all she was always more than willing to grab Liam (particularly during the 30 minute Bible Story lesson) when he would start to fuss or what not! |
When he got tired, I would rock him a bit in his car seat and he would be out! When he would wake up, someone would bring him to me outside (he would usually nap during our recreation time)
I feel so very blessed to have such an awesome church family, who truly loves me and Liam! And Nolan too! ;-)
I feel so very blessed to have such an awesome church family, who truly loves me and Liam! And Nolan too! ;-)
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| Our little family of 3 on the last day! Liam's hands are in his mouth A LOT these days... maybe he is cutting more teeth, so I am holding his arm down! haha As silly as it probably sounds, I was really sad that Nolan wasn't standing in the back (on the last day, when we sang the theme song for the parents) like he was last year! NEXT SUMMER! :-) (yes there is a silly tattoo on my arm, it was the theme of VBS) |
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| July 22 On the last day of VBS, when I went to take Liam out of the car, having driven from our house to the Chapel, which is at most 5 minutes, I noticed his foot! AGH! Thankfully it didn't seem to be bothering him, but it looked horrible! I called his doctor's office and since they could get us in, we went that afternoon. The doctor could not decide between a bug bit/rash and a burn!?? She said to keep an eye on it for the next 24 - 48 hrs and come back in if it got worse... I had dressed him, put him in the car seat, put the car seat in the car, drove to the Chapel and it appeared... Craziest thing ever! I am leaning more towards some sort of bug ? that was in the car? because ... |
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| 24 hours later... it was looking better... and 48 hours later, all seems fine! |
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| Just a funny picture... When I left the room, for a few minutes, Liam had toys all around him.... when I came back... they were all on his left side! |
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| Our neighborhood is being torn a part, literally, house by house.... it is really sad to have to drive by this everyday... We are still thinking we will move by the end of August... |
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| Dad sent us more goodies! Sandi and Liam are curious.. This time from Palma, Spain! |
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| Yummy packages! Silly Liam! |
I also need to take our monthly picture of Liam and his bear - hopefully today! Almost a week after his 7 month birthday... oh well! :-)
Hope everyone is having a great summer... July is almost done and we are welcoming August to come and go quickly too! ;-) Not to wish away time, but having Nolan home again is the end goal! :-)
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Baby Shower = Success! :-)
We all know that Nolan and I are not ones to host much of anything... it just really isn't our gift I guess you could say, but I successfully co-hosted (although I felt like I did a whole lot more, none the less ;-) ) a baby shower for my sweet, Aggie friend, Laura, and was quite pleased that it turned out great! :-)
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| Hostesses with Momma to Be, Laura... Katie, Laura, and Me All Aggies! |
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| Drinks! *Vintage sodas from Cracker Barrel* Someone said... "Beer at a baby shower?" Yes... beer at a baby shower, we are THAT classy ;-) |
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| A few decorations/gifts... :-) |
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| Pinwheels and cupcakes! I made the cupcakes... Katie made the pinwheels.. team effort! |
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| Yummy spread! I was very flattered that ALL of the artichoke spinach dip got eaten... :-) Nolan had made it before and we had brought it to a gathering at Laura's house previously and she loved it! :-) |
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| Slinky clothesline... better in theory... as you can see this is a clothes(less) clothesline.. |
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| Liam headed for a nap! All smiles behind that pacifier! :-) |
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| It's a Boy! banner that Katie made! |
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| The other side side "Patrick" |
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| Me and Liam :-) |
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| Staged photo of me at the shower... since I was taking all of the pictures... :-) |
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| Ultrasound, cracker jacks and blocks decorations... |
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| Balloons! I learned from personal experience that latex helium balloons only last 8 - 10 hours... Thus, being proactive and buying them the night before the shower = FAIL! LOL I went back and bought more 1 hour prior to the shower! AHHH! BUT Nolan did call on the way back, so I was able to chat with him while driving, so as to not focus so much on how big of a hurry I was in to get to the shower! :-) |
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| Love this little guy! |
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| Cupcakes from SCRATCH! Inga said they would be a labor of love... they definitely were... but were delicious! :-) |
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| Filled.... |
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| Homemade icing! Not applied with a butter knife = a first for me and FUN! :-) |
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Liam does this often... too cute!
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Wednesday, July 06, 2011
A few pictures...
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| 3 months down!!! TAKE 6 of Movie night picture... sodas, popcorn and theater candy!! We watched Outsourced on Netflix! |
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| Liam on his new play mats! Notice his left leg is getting ready for crawling! The right is still a bit of a flyer, but in time! :-) |
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| MANY have commented about how much hair Liam has... so I thought I would take a picture to show everyone! :-) (Okay really I took it to show Nolan, but I am sharing it with everyone else too! ;-) ) |
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| Here is a side view... :-) |
Nolan (and many others) just finished an exercise with Spain... called the Spanish PHIBLEX (amPHIbious BiLateral EXercise)...
If you "like" the USS Bataan (LHD 5) Facebook page, there are a few pictures of this... no Osprey pictures, but pictures none the less... :-) The ground guys did a beach landing... so says the Facebook page..
Nolan flew from the ship to land, to drop people and supplies off... those would be the times he was able to send a text or two before taking back off!
I spoke with base housing the other day and it looks like end of August is our new and realistic time frame for moving into the new neighborhood. I may have found a solution for the less than desirable 2 story homes' layout... there is a 1 story, ADA house, that my neighbor is slated to get... and she and her husband don't want it... so I think we are going to go talk to housing together and switch!
This would mean that our new house would be ALMOST identical in layout of our current home... it would just have a 2 car garage and 300 extra square feet than we have now! :-) I am kind of excited and hope that it works out! I am not looking forward to stairs with Liam...
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| Liam got his rattle stuck on his foot and still enjoyed it! Fun times! Sandi is right there with him (on the rug)... She hasn't tried to hang out on the new mats yet... |
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| Liam is waiting for his bottle to warm up... 30 seconds for a 6 oz bottle... Sandi brought me her peanut butter bone.. since I was near the pb jar and all! :-) |
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