Army time

Eric is away at his training at Fort Lewis :( We miss him, I know 1 month isn't the worst we have ever been separated, but it is still hard! Its actually harder at the age Eli is at, where he is very aware that daddy is gone, but yet I can't explain to him where he is! If I had to chose when Eric would deploy it would never be around this age! We are struggling alittle with my energy level and trying to fill in for daddy. Eli will come up to me while I'm laying on the couch and throw his toy at me, I know I should punish him for throwing toys at me, but I also know he is doing it to get me to play with him. oh well. We'll survive the month.

So about Eric's training: We never get to disclose very much info about what Eric does in his army life, because of the security of what he does. But with this new training, they are disclosing EVERYTHING on a blog, so it makes me so happy to be able to see pictures and here stories of whats going on. Not only do they have a blog, but facebook, flicker, twitter and youtube!! Overkill, maybe. The Leader Development and Assessment Course, also known as Operation Warrior Forge, is the capstone exercise on the way to becoming a U.S. Army lieutenant. Cadets from all over the country come to Fort Lewis between there Junior and Senior year of College/ROTC to do kind of a mini boot camp. Most of these "kids" are just college students, and don't have any real Army experience that Eric has, actually someone with 8 years enlisted service going back to College/ROTC to become an officer is very rare. But will make him that much better of an officer. So if your interested in checking out what he's doing you can go to

http://warriorforge.wordpress.com/

For blog sake, I'll throw in a picture of when Eric first started ROTC.

Ultrasound 21 wks

Well, we just came from the ultrasound. I told the tech as soon as I layed down, "We don't want to know the sex!" She was alittle shocked by my sureness, but said she would have us look away when the time came. When the time came to look away, I wasn't sure I wanted to do it. Even right as we walked out the door Eric said, "Are you sure you don't want to go back and ask?" I think it will be more fun in the delivery room, when the midwife gets to yell out what it is after the long anticipated 9 months.

I will give you these hints towards figuring out what the sex of this baby is:

The heart rate was 150

It didn't take her long to see what it was

This baby is alot more calm than Eli was in the womb, it just layed there and waved at us a few times.

So all in all the ultrasound went well, she didn't really tell us much, hopefully my midwife will go over all the normal stats about the baby next week. They are pretty sure my due date is closer to October 15 than the 24

Lets keep it stress free.

I am still alive. I know most of my friends would have thought I was out of the country for awhile, but really I was just out of touch? We have been so busy lately, I feel like we haven't spent time with anyone. Eric is extremely busy and stressed right now and will continue to be until he leaves for his big month training at Fort Lewis. So sorry to all who have called and it takes me weeks to get back- Amy don't give up on me!

On a happier note, we are having our ultrasound this week!!! But don't get to excited, we won't be finding out the sex! We want to have it be a surprise, I think it will give me something to look forward to in a hard labor. And we can probably get a good bet going on here about what it will be and when it will come :)

I promise belly pics are to come soon! For now, cute little pic of Eli and his pony ride at the Rose Festival.

And Eli "helping" Eric with a big term paper. They are smiling the same!