Without A House

Well, we are officially "without out a house" now and are in phase two of our move (phase one was getting out of San Antonio and phase two is dropping off B's truck in Dallas to be shipped to AK). Anyway, we are without a house...definitely not homeless, though. Home is where the heart is, right? I've been trying to instill this nugget of wisdom in Boo this last week. He's had a terrilbe time adjusting to seeing all of his comforts packed up and shipped to AK. He even woke up one night yelling, "Where's Alaska?" Poor fella.  I keep telling him that as long as we're all together, everything is okay. Now, every time I tell him that, I get a lump in my throat thinking about what I will tell him when B-man deploys to Afghanistan and we're not all together. But, (in my best Scarlet voice), "I won't think about that now...I'll think about that tomorrow".

It's defnitely been an adventure thus far and we're not even out of Texas yet. I've been snapping pics with my iPhone (love that thing, btw) so I'm finally taking some time to share them here.

I'm not taking the time to do all of my fancy editing, enlarging, and centering of text/pics. Please forgive me!

Sitting in the jogging stroller watching TV upstairs while all of his surroundings were being packed.

Lil Bit has no routine so she's not upset by the move and is happy as a clam to just lie on the floor on this packing paper and try to figure out how to eat it.

Napping on the floor of our closet.

These boxes were a TOTAL life saver. B-man and I got super sick Tuesday and spent the night and part of Wednesday practicing our dinosaur call. Not good. Thankfully these boxes kept Boo entertained while we laid on the floor.

Hotel bath!

I can only send a few pics at a time from my iphone, so that's it for this post.

They're here...

The movers are here!

Mama's Lil Helpah...

...is feeling much bettah!

Second iPhone Attempt

How do you know you have a Sicky Boo?

Mothers and Others

At church today, the preacher made a point of saying Happy Mother's and Others Day to all of the women in the congregation. I've never heard it described like that before, but I really liked the sentiment. To all of the mothers, grandmothers, mother-in-laws, great grandmothers, aunts, "aunts", teachers, and friends who help to raise up our children, thank you! It really does take all of us, doesn't it (Dads and others too, of course)?

My first born, my son...sweet and sensitive! I love you so!

My daughter...who loves to smile and who doesn't want to miss a thing. I love you too!
(She's laughing at Boo in this pic)

Melt my heart!My favorite part of the day was when Boo said, "Mama, thank you for being your Mama, Mama!"

The pic below was just too cool not to share. Uncle A just got back from a trip to Australia, to see E. They went snorkeling and got this awesome photo. 

The fish in the photo is a Wrasse fish and E appropriately named him Wally the Wrasse.

I'm not sure how much blogging I will get done in the next few weeks. Packers come on Wednesday to work on our permanent storage items. I can't believe it's finally here! We won't leave Texas for another 2 weeks though.

Oh, Aunt L...Bit has brown eyes and Boo has blue eyes!

Fondue and PT

We're sooooo busy and our time is short there in Texas. I'm stealing a few minutes to post this blog update and then, it's back to work!

This past Monday, my Texas Momtourage bid my pal, and fellow zulily addict, Carrie and myself farewell at The Melting Pot. I love that place! We had a great fondue meal... I mean, when you start with cheese fondue and end with chocolate fondue, you just can't go wrong. So! much! fun! They gave me a photo book capturing all of the fun times we've had since we've been here. It really touched me. We've made so many good friends and great memories in the short two years that we've been here. Carrie and her family are headed up to West Point in June. Thanks Ladies...a million times over! I'm really going to miss y'all.

I wish I had a good segue for the second half of this post, but I don't. I just wanted to document Bit's time in physical therapy. She's doing really well and the PT said she didn't think she needed to follow up in Alaska at this time. Her last visit is on Tuesday a week and we'll get her final head measurements then.

"Look how far to the left I can look!"

"Do y'all mind? I'm trying to eat this toy!"

"Eh, these keys will do."

Who's a big girl?

Okay, back to work!