week one down

Well Monday marked our survival of week one of this deployment. All is well for the most part, of course Julian ask about his dad every single day and went through his stage of not wanting to eat, or sleep like he usually would, but is doing much better now. I have been doing my best to keep busy to help time to pass quickly and not get sad or depressed.

Before Josh left we made video's of him talking and reading to Julian, and also made him a build a bear with Josh's voice in it. He plays with his bear all the time and laughs every time he presses the hand by accident. I havent put any of the movies on just yet.. everything is still raw, and last time he was away for a while i played a home video and Julian got really upset when it ended, so I am holding off until things get settled in better before playing any of the videos.

Also before he left we made a box and decorated it.. and i put a hold bunch of activity ideas in it for when times start getting slow, or we start getting sad, or bored...

The first week i pulled, plant flowers with Julian. Well of course i couldnt go out side and plant anything with the cold weather that has been around.. so I got some little clay pots, soil and seeds, and we planted them. and it looks like we might have green thumbs after all!

yesterday & this morning

Yesterday was a boring day in our household.. it consist of alot of sitting around, studing, watching tv and laziness. I started to get stir crazy and needed to get out when a friend asked us to go to the park! I threw clothes on Julian and we headed out the door, it was the perfect excuse to get out the house. We went to monsanto park, unforuntinally our friend and her boys werent able to join us, but we still had a blast. Julian is getting older and is loving playing on playgrounds

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Julian was able to climb up the steps himself, and he would go slide down the slide. Of course i couldnt get a picture of him going down because i was supporting him to make sure he didnt fall off.


After the park, we had dinner at Melissa's house and then came home for bed time! & of course i had to stay up to do homework. That is- until i all of a sudden started having a killer headache and upset stomach..when put me to bed way earlier than i had planned.

BUT i am feeling brand new this morning, i think i was just totally over yesterday and needing some rest.... Well this morning, Julian and i were doing our normal, breakfast, cartoons, and me on my pc checking out email, school stuff, and facebook.. when he came to the stool i was sitting on bouncing up and down, and making a yelling noise, like he wanted my attention... and then he would run to the window... so i went to see what he was tring to show me..

and this is what i saw...

HAHAHAHA, what the heck!? I know my neighbors have alot of land behind my yard and they have horses but i didnt know they have chickens.. and if this is their chickens.. are are running lose! LOL Julian stood at the window and watched them until they left- and when they did leave he cried. Poor thing.. he loves animals nowa days... i really do need to get him a pet dog or something.

play off's

Sunday, Mom had a big cook out over at her house, Lots of yummy food! It was nice outside, so of course thats where Julian wanted to spend his time.





What a cheeseball! huh? yeah well he was doing all these cute things- while tring to get my moms glasses off her face! which he succeeded in doing. haha..


I hurried to snap a picture because he looked so nerdy! :P hahaha- he just loves attention!


Julian is getting so big! Just in the last month i have been living in Louisiana, is says Nana, puppy, i love you, & JUST said mawmaw for the first time a few days ago. He has become so independent, he tries to put on his own shoes, shirts and even when im changing his diaper, he pulls a wipe and tries to clean himself. haha. He is just growing so so fast! crazy to think hes almost a year and half old. It wont be too long before I'll have to start thinking about his next birthday party theme!

Well we all aree well aware of the saints WINNING the play off's and if that wasnt enough excitment... My sister in law texted me not long after the game telling me..YES THE SAINTS GAME LITERALLY PUT ME INTO LABOR! ahh.. i thought i was with out a doubt going to have heart failure that night.

and sure enough, the next morning, Monday January 25 at 8:26.. the beautiful, perfect Avery came into the world weighing 7 pounds and 5 oz. 20.5 inches long.

:) Congrads to Cherish and Josh, I know yall will make terrific parents! & i can not wait to meet you sweet bundle of love!

busybusy bubble bee-funfun fun as can be!

whew! its only Saturday night? Really? It feels like Wendesday, man i need to relax for the remainder of this weekend!
Thursday we went to visit Grandmaw Connie in Baton Rouge. We went out to eat lunch, and also went shopping for Julian some summer clothes that he was in dier need for.
Friday we visited Melissa, and ended up sleeping there last night. She has Julian the cutest RaceCar bed in her room- & he slept so well in it! :) This morning, Melissa Julian and I went to do our income tax then brought Julian to Mawmaw Linda's so us girls could go do some shopping-- well for Melissa to go do some shopping should I say! haha. After running the roads, we went back to Mawmaw linda's. Julian had sat on her lap and cut the grass with her..well... the lawn mower actually put Julian to sleep- so yeah. And we got there just as he was waking up!.. He loves the freedom of playing outside...so thats what we did while our clothes washed and mawmaw cooked cornish hens and wild rice!..
here are a fre pictures..

Mawmaw yelled HI to Julian from the kitchen window- and his little face lite up!..

here he is waving to her and saying, "HEYYYY"


Finally she was done all that cooking and came outside to play! haha..here is Julian going baazerk with the wind chines mawmaw was introducing to him!

&& here they are laughing, a Julian attempts being gentle..haha yeahhhh RIGHT!

:)

perfect weather

It was beautiful outside today. I happen to see the nasty weather headed this way for tomorow, so i figured i'd bring Julian outdoors today! he loves to play outside, since he wasnt able to do it much when we lived in the apartment!
So i packed up his block wagon, some trucks, and his 4 wheeler and we spend qt time getting some fresh air out in the back yard.

Mindy checked the mail for me today, and was nice enough to bring me my much needed debit card! Julian and Kenzie get along so well!... HM, well i was showing Mindy something on the computer i believe when we realized the kids were mighty quiet. YEAH well this is what we found!.. Julian and Kenzie had got in my cupboard and spilt my coffee creamer ALL ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR and from the looks of the evidence, and the amount of creamer i found in Julians diaper- THEY HAD A BLAST!