Chilling with a Good Book

We bought Emma a little couch because they were on sale and we had a 15% off coupon (gotta love those coupons). She likes to sit on it and look at her books. She use to just look at the front cover and the back cover. She is now finally starting to look at the pages. It is neat to watch her just sit on her couch for several minutes looking at books. She gets into her basket full of books and pulls one out and looks at it then when she is finished she gets another one. I hope that she continues to enjoy looking and eventually reading books.

Emma also likes to throw balls, crawl after them, pick them up and then do it all over again. She is definitly growing up and is becoming very mobile.

Our New House

As you know we are building a new home. They say that it will be done by July 20th but I have some reservations about that. As you can see they are not even ready to pour the slab. I am worried. The only thing that gives me hope is that when I went Friday to look and see what they had done some lots were ready and had the cement trucks there pouring and when we went on Saturday those slabs were poured and framing was being done. So it can be done quick but I hope they hurry. We are so excited to move into a home. We have new neighbors above us and the kids think that they hall way is their personal runway. It will be nice not to have common walls and Emma wont wake up when people jump and run above her room.

What a Month (really the last 3 weeks)

Things have been a little crazy for us over the last month. We were not sure if Lee was going to get the job in Augusta, so we decided that we would look into moving to Missouri. Since Lee had orders to go there in July, this would be the safe bet. This way we could understand the area and determine what we want in a home. So over Memorial Day Weekend we took a short trip (14 hours) to Missouri. It was a really disappointing trip at first, because there was nothing we liked. Finally on the last day we came across one home we really liked and a neighborhood we would love to live in. The rest of the week Lee was dealing with the last week of his Captain's Career Course, which ended on Friday with his graduation Ceremony. Lee finished 5th overall in his academic class ranking. Sorry, but his graduation ceremony is on the video camera and Lee has not reinstalled the software since he crashed my computer.

On the day of Lee's graduation we get an e-mail from the realtor in Missouri that the house we liked dropped another $10,000 in their asking price. This made things rather rough for me. What are we supposed to do? Lee has not had a chance to interview, and we have all ready lost one home we really liked.

Lee started his next class this last week; S6 course (it is supposed to teach him how to be a Battalion Signal Officer) and he got a call letting him know his interview for the job in Augusta would be later in the week. After some last minute changes of time, Lee finally got to interview. As it turned out, he was the only interviewee because unless he didn't want the job, it was all ready his. That evening we went to visit the developer in the area we previously looked at and signed for a home. We will meet with the mortgage broker on Monday to finalize and then our home will soon start to be built. We are told that it will take about 30-45 days to complete our home.

News about Emma is pretty dull. She had a 9 month checkup the day after we returned from Missouri, and the only concern the doctor had was her progress of how she is growing. She grew maybe and inch over the last 3 months, and the doctor is worried. He thinks it may be because she was measure incorrectly during her 6 month visit, but to be sure it is not a thyroid problem or anemic he wanted to draw some blood from Emma. Lee couldn't be there because of some school things, so with the assistance of a nurse and the lab tech, we were all able to hold Emma still enough to attempt to draw blood on the left arm. After failing to draw any, we moved on to the right arm. Success but she really made the three of us work for it.

Emma's latest trick is to play peek-a-boo with herself. She will grad a large cloth or blanket and cover her head up then pull it away to show herself to anyone willing to watch. She loves to play this game. She is also learning how to walk along the front of the couch or any other piece of furniture that she can stand in front of. We will work on getting a few videos up this week, once Lee installs the software I need.