My mother says "Genius", I say "Nightmare"

So my 'angel baby' has learned to climb. And pull herself up and stand against things. My mom says that she's a genius. I, however, live in fear of falls and head knocks. Both of which we have already experienced, at least three times a day. Oh, and no matter how often she crawls head first into anything, she expects it not to be there.
But she is so smart, too. She hears and understands when I say no. She stops nd looks at me. She crawls out of our bedroom if I leave the door open a little bit. It is so cute!
She'll crawl into our bathroom before I realize it and when I go to get her she crawls like crazy to get away from me, giggling like a loon. So adorable!

This was a draft I evidently never posted, so here it is. I have to go finish the other one.

It's a girl! Or it is until it's born.....

The ultrasound yesterday confirmed Dr. Suarez's assessment that the baby is a girl. She was extremely active the whole time. She directly kicked the doppler thingy several times and was moving constantly. After the first ultrasound with Faith, she barely moved much at all. She just happened to be in a good position to say she was a girl when they did the last ultrasound.
And I love my doctor this time around and will so be recommending her and coming back to her the next time around. Which I hope is like five years in the future this time, not 13 months.
I have two names in mind, but I have to hold on to them for a bit until Dustin decides what he thinks.
Thanks for being interested, y'all.

Angela ships out today. She leaves at 1900 hours and will arrive in Iraq around the same time tomorrow. She'll have a couple days to adjust and then I don't know exactly where she'll be but she'll be doing convoy security.
I am terrified and doing y best to leave it all to God. Which is a lot easier to say than to do.
Just wanted to say.

Another day, another thing goes wrong....

Dustin took today off to work on the steering on his truck. He got only so far and now he's stuck. Or was at two p.m. when he called home. I was hoping when he said he was taking off to do that, that it would all be so easy. Should have known it wouldn't be!
More later.
He fixed it! Then he came home for about thirty minutes and left again to go to class. Now he's home and we're about to go to bed. But hey, tomorrow, I have an appointment and we have grocery shopping to do and someone promised me he'd take me to Hobby Lobby!

Halloween 2008

So, it was Faith's first Halloween. I'm not much of a costume or Halloween kind of girl, but my baby girl will know how to have fun. And besides, her costume was too cute not to use it.

This was not her costume. This is her Halloween day outfit. It was so she could be cute all day. Plus, I just got a whole bunch of clothes and this onesie was part of it and you can't really wear something like that more than once.

These socks were in the dollar bins at Target. They were so cute. She wore them all day. Grandpa said she was the cutest pumpkin he'd ever seen. Of course, she's the cutest everything anyone has ever seen, so it's not too much of a stretch for her! LOL

She was a ladybug and just so cute.

Getting Colder........

I love, love, love this time of year. A little Valley Girl, I know, but it's true!
Winter air is so crisp, so pure, you can almost smell the spices of the season. Aahhh! I love it.
Plus, pregnancy has this *wonderful* side effect of making you so hot you want to die and winter fixes that right up! It's a good time to be knocked up. Almost like I planned it........
My lovely immobile daughter has morphed into the creepy-crawly baby that always wants her mommy and can now get to her anywhere there's an open door. Right now she's mad because I sent her down to type. She has nice cute clothes, but I'm scraping the bottom to find different warm clothes for her.
I've started on her room. Well, I cleaned out the closet anyway. And managed to go through all of her clothes in storage and found out she has a complete wardrobe for one and two and the beginningd of a good one for three and two whole outfits for four. She also has a decent amount of clothes for 6-9 mos. The only problem is that she has one outfit for 9-12 mos. But since she can styill wear some of her 3-6 mos clothes, I think it might take her a bit more than a month to grow out of the stuff she's just barely grown into, giving me time to find and buy more clothes when I need to.
Oh and I'm looking for a crib, hopefully with a mattress and preferably for less than a hundred dollars. Or if you find this better or sooner, bunk beds with mattresses. Just keep an eye out and let me know, would ya?
Love y'all

October, October

Dustin has a motorbike. It's not a motorcycle because it is a bike with a motor on it. It's really neat and he's really cute about it. It has broken in different ways on him twice now. Boy, was that fun! (Imagine an eye roll here) But it works now, so all is well again on the home front.
Faith has a tooth now. And the next one is coming in right alongside it. It's so cute and I'm so proud! Now, if she'll just sit up! LOL
Hey, we'll FINALLY have hard-copy pictures of Faith whenever we get them from the store. Yay! I know, it sounds a little silly, but it is actually a great feat for us. Now I need to transfer the ones from the computer to a disc and get THOSE developed. And finally start a baby picture album. Sometime before the next one arrives, hopefully.
Oh, and I now have the sinus infection that my beloved one so graciously passed on to me. If only I had some vacation time I could take!
Anyway, October is off to a stellar start! Here's hoping the rest of it turns out a bit better........