Downhill side of deployment!

Whew! It has been a crazy few months, so now that I am back to my blogging routine I will make up for lost time in a nut shell.

We will start with Parker...

Our sweet boy is 4 months old now! He is such his daddy's child, at least as far as his attitude goes. His personality shines through more and more everyday. If he doesn't want his pacifier he will spit it at least 6 inches away from his mouth, so he will pretty much tell you what he wants, and what he abosolutely will not tolerate. He is weighing in now at 16 lbs and is 25 inches tall. We got the go ahead to start on some baby food. So far he has done well with the rice cereal, and we started sweet potatoes, but he doesn't seem too fond of those. He is also starting to figure out how to sit up, granted he can't do it on his own yet, but he does refuse to lay down. If he is awake he better be sitting up. haha! He loves talking to his daddy on the webcam, they sit there and laugh at each other and talk more than me and him do (well not really, but they talk alot!) Parker did just recently take his first airplane trip to Montana, he did SO well! It gave me hope for our trip to Hawaii, which by the way is in 3 months! He hung out with his second cousins, great aunt and uncle, as well as his great grandparents, and saw his first substatial snow.

Now onto Caleb

Our soldier is doing pretty well over in the sandbox. He is working night shifts on ECP and seems to be enjoying it. He says he prefers it over his motor-pool job. He is pretty exhausted 90% of the time though, that's what you get when you work as hard as he does. We are all looking forward to his redeployment which is roughly 5 months away (WHOOHOO!) From what I've heard from him he has been working out quite a bit and I am sad to say that he will look way better than me when we go to the beach... *sigh* oh well. Good job hubs!

Last but not least... Me

I am doing very well, just trucking through deployment and getting things ready to go back home to Hawaii. Have I mentioned that its 3 months away? :) I have been trying to lose some weight and so far I have lost 5 lbs... only 10 more until I reach my ideal weight. Can someone please give me some inspiration? Parker is definitely giving me a run for my money, thank goodness my mom is here to help out. One awesome thing that has happened for me in the past week or so, is my AMAZING husband told me to go out and buy a Macbook! I listened, and I absolutely LOVE it! Thank you hubby!

As a whole, our little family is doing very well, just getting the last bit of deployment out of the way and looking forward to all being together again. Thank you for all the prayers and support we have received!