Staying busy!

Two more weeks down!! Yay! Time is flying by...somewhat!! Jacob & I have been trying to stay busy. The busier we are, the less we think about how much longer we have until our daddy comes home.

Jacob is 7 months now! Well 7.5...Oh my! He is growing too fast! What happened to my baby? He is now a very very active little guy. He is everywhere! Don't put him down somewhere and expect him to be there when you turn around.

Here is what he can do now at 7 months(I wish I would have done this every month)

- Rolls over like a pro, front to back, back to front
- Crawls....EVERYWHERE!
- Sit up on his own and get into the sitting position
- Stands up holding onto the couch for over a minute, tries to pull himself up but isn't strong enough yet
- Whines like a crazy fool!
- Babbles and I swear he says "ma ma"
- Now has 3 teeth - two on bottom and one on top. 4th top one coming in soon!
- Weighs 21.5lbs, and 29 inches long
- Can grab toys and pass them from each hand, loves to grab hair and jewelry!
- Loves to flirt with girls
- Micky Mouse Club House is his favorite show

Little man and I are in Atlanta right now visiting my parents. We have been here for about two weeks. My mom, Jacob, and I went to Florida this past weekend to visit my Grandma and Uncle. They had not met Jacob until now. Aaron and I unfortunately never had a chance to go down there when we moved back since we were busy with the house before he left.

It was really nice to see my family. My Grandma was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago. She has been doing kemo for a couple of weeks and has been very positive through out all of this. She had another kemo session on Friday when we were down there. It must have been stronger than the other weeks because now she is not feeling too well. She is very weak and not able to get up. It's been hard for her to eat or even keep anything down. My grandma is already skinny as a pole, so I can't imagine her not eating and losing more weight. She has another treatment for this Friday and then she is off next week. And after that, she has three more treatments until she is done with the kemo. She is seeing her doctor today, so hopefully he can figure out what she should do. I might head back to Gulfport to take care of some things, and then maybe head back here so I can go back down there. There might be a lot of driving in my future...

Aaron is doing good. He is now at another base working on a project for the duration of his deployment. He seems to be extremely busy and always working. I think this deployment is stressing him out. Every time I see him he looks tired and is starting to look a little thin. I am going to have to bake him some goodies and send them to him. Thankfully we only have about 4 months left. We are almost to the halfway mark. I know the holidays are going to be rough without Aaron, but hopefully with everything going on the time will fly by. And then we will be busy getting ready for him to come home and planning J's big first birthday bash.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been meaning to, but then when ever I get a free momment to myself I find something else to do. It seems like there is always something to do or something going on. Somethings broke, something needs to be cleaned, bills to pay, things to go and get, the list goes on. When you are a mom you don't get to wake up and enjoy the morning. You have to get up and hit the road running. I can't remember a day when I have woken up on my own. My alarm is now Jacob. He doesn't like mommy to sleep past 7am. But that's sleeping in for me!! Sometimes he's up at 5:30, and those days are hard!!!!!!! Especially when he doesn't want to nap.

Lately he has been teething hard core. One of his top teeth came in last week and he has another top tooth coming in next to it. He's been up during the middle of the night screaming, he's chewing like a monster on everything, and it takes me forever to feed him. So it hasn't really been much fun lately. He's also starting to get into this phase where he will start to whine and cry for me to pick him up, especially when we are in a store. I'm trying really hard not to make this a bad habit and let him think every time he cries he will get picked up. It's hard shopping carrying a 22lb baby around while pushing the stroller. So we basically end up leaving and coming back another day. I hate having him whine/cry in the store, but lately when people give me rude looks, I could care less. I was one of "those people" who hated when babies would cry in a store. But now I realize that he's just a baby, babies cry, that's just part of their day. I'm starting to get more confident in public with Jake and could care less if he's whining and someone gives me the stare down. They evidently aren't a mom and they don't understand. I've had so many other moms look at me and smile or help hold a door for me. They understand. It's like a secret committee. Only moms know what other moms go through.

Jake and I are heading back home tomorrow. I know my grass is needing to be cut by now. It's been almost 3 weeks since I've last cut it. I really do not want to head back. It's lonely being in that house. But I need to get back and take care of the house and go to some appointments next week. It's been great being at my parents house. Jacob LOVES his grandma and grandpa B. He's always playing with granny. She cracks him up. And every night at dinner Jake stares at grandpa. He seems fasinated with him. Jacob is probably going to be bored with having only his mommy around. But we might be back sooner than we thought so we can go take care of great grandma. I guess we'll see how things goes in the next few days.