PFC McCready (FIGURATIVELY) died today in class... he forgot to take off his phase badge upon approaching "the machine" and in a real situation could have caused an electrical arc. Now his battle buddy has to carry him to and from the classroom. When doing formation, instead of acknowledging he or the other dead are there they tell of their tragic death... Now all that's left is the weight on his battle buddy's shoulders. At least until Friday.
In other news, our beautiful daughter has turned one and started walking! What a joy! She also ditched the bottle and the sippy cup for straws! Why is she trying to grow up so fast! I just bought sippy cups too. I guess they go in the box for the next kid in the family. She is doing so well with straws in only two days that she drank her first Apple Juice Capri Sun through that tiny coffee straw and didn't squeeze the pouch and make it rain. She also had a wellness visit and went through the procedure of getting tubes put in her ears. Rough start to her week. She is 30 1/2 inches long and weighs 20 lbs.
Length = between percentile 75 and 90
Weight = between percentile 25 and 50
She's going to be a model!
I have started my school semester and am already asking myself "what am I doing?!" I was crazy last semester when I took 19 hours, now I am taking 16 and working. Please pray the Lord gives me strength to get through my 16 hour course load, work, and doing all the things a full time mom has to do.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Family Day and Graduation
Georgia…is sticky. For the entire duration of the trip I felt like I covered myself in soap and didn't wash it off.
I met Sir at the airport because for some reason he didn’t have room for a car seat. That’s okay anyways, because Babygirl’s Nana is a grandmother of eight and you can always count on her to be prepared and on time! Nana swung us by the airport and made sure we got checked in okay. The kind man at the desk checked our luggage for free! In security check I found out that anyone could kidnap my child and fly her across America because I didn’t have to verify her identity. They did require her stroller to go on the conveyer belt and her little baby shoes! They took her bottle to run a test on the milk, like I would give anything explosive to my infant for her to drink, and then we were on our way! Oh yeah…we had to wait thirty minutes for grandpa…which tells you exactly how the entire trip went. But that’s nothing compared to the security check at the Columbus Airport in Georgia! I am now intimately familiar with the staff. They did a pat down on myself and the baby. They even checked her diaper! The unwanted delay made Sir very angry because he got us to the airport late and we were weighing him down.
The time I had with my husband was well worth the annoyances, as was the graduation ceremony itself. PFC McCready was elected to be in the Lineage Squad…on merit of his average height and shoe size. He donned a WWI uniform! We got to kidnap him from approximately 1130 to 2030 on both family day and graduation day. Now we won’t be able to visit him for a while. He is currently stationed in Fort Gordon, Augusta, GA. He discovered where to get free internet, so he can set up the occasional Skype date. His first, we hope, will be on August 20th. We will be celebrating Babygirl’s first birthday with family that day.
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