What's Going On

I know, I know. It's been quite a long time since I update this. In my defense... I have felt like poo and we have been busy busy busy!

Lets start with the fun stuff... the Junior Updates!

Almost two weeks ago he had his 15month check up. Boy where does the time go?! He is still in the top 90% overall, 96% for both height and weight and his head circ was 91%. Since then he seems to be developing a larger vocabulary, in the past couple days saying "Mama" much more (which makes me happy :) ) as well as "all done", "bath" (on occasion but he signs it regularly through out the day). After visiting our wonderful friends, the Laz family (more to come on this) he has been walking around saying "uke" (aka Duke - their beloved male golden retriever). The way he pronounces Duke is actually pretty comical because he has not seemed to have a problem pronouncing the D sound. Tonight we had chinese for dinner and he got to sit in an actual booster seat! This after doing wonderful on our trip sitting at the table of family on a phone book or a box. Overall he's a very happy kid who is learning things left and right and never ceases to amaze his father and I.

Chris finally recieved his orders last week. We are finally go for our move to FL! We will be leaving Corpus on Nov 11th. Both Chris and I are extreamly excited and can't wait to get this move over with! We Chris decided to move ourselves this time as opposed to having the Navy move us. The theory being that half our junk stuff is still in boxes in storage anyway, it shouldn't be that hard (can anyone hear my insane laughter???)

The Friday before last we left to go house hunting in Pensacola. It was a whirlwind of a trip and we managed to get a house all set up. This will be the first time we will be living off base the entire time we are there. After getting the house taken care of we took off to visit Aunt Claire, Uncle Bill, Cousins Will, Connie and little William in Louisiana. We had a wonderful time meeting up with them and it was all the first time our "southern" cousins got to meet Junior. William and Junior got along famously after both of them learning to "share". ;)

After visiting all our Louisiana family we ventured to points northward in Little Rock. Auntie Kim (as she choose to be called) and "Uncky John" (as Auntie Kim called him to Junior) have been long time family friends. (At one point both Chris and I worked for them, you could say they helped us grow up ;) ) We had a lovely visit with them, and it was also the first time they got to meet Junior as well. Junior loved on all three of John and Kim's four legged children, developing a very good relationship with Duke. (Pictures to follow in the next post) Junior also got to play the piano for the first time as well. That was pretty entertaining. Junior also attempted to "feed" our camera to Duke... there are no pictures of this however.

Overall, a week in the car went much better then we expected and Junior traveled quite well. Despite the total and complete upheaval of having no schedule (so to speak) and being in a different place every couple of nights. Chris and I didn't do too bad about freaking out over little things. Junior's first real road trip vacation (of sorts) went over well!