All settled in

We are finally all settled into our new home! I will be sending out cards in the near future that will give you our new address as well. We are loving the new home and all the SPACE that goes with it! We were getting cramped in our little townhome.
Our townhouse is up for sale and looks really nice- it is all freshly painted, new carpet downstairs and has some new appliances in it as well! It is so nice- I hate to leave it looking so pretty! But someone will get a really nice new townhouse and it is offically move in ready!
We had a great Christmas as well! The family decided we would spend it at the beach and it was great idea and maybe a new family tradition- it was a blast! It was not crowed either and we got to swim in indoor pools every day! Wilson had a blast with Shelby Grace and Mollie!
And last but not least Wilson turned the big 2 yesterday! I can not believe he is 2 years old! How the time flies. His big present from us was a train table. I will have to post pictures of it- he was speechless and is loving playing with it!
I promise to post some pictures tonight of everything as well!
Happy 2010 everyone!

Our new home

We are moving on Thanksgiving Day! New house here we come!

Here is our back yard


Portion of the bonus room that is not complete yet.




My Jacuzzi tub!!!!!



This is Wilson's room for now. We will move him out when Eric comes back and then we can keep it for Baby Bruce number 2 at some point and time.







My wonderful new kitchen!!!

We are so excited! Anyone want a little townhouse?

Moving for real?

For real! We were notified of a new house coming up for sale right across the street from the last house we just tried to buy. THis one comes with a lot less stress and issues! A slam dunk beautful house!!! I am so excited. WE are going to close before December 5th! Alderburgh COurt here we come!!

My first Trick or Treat

Here I am on my way-

Don't we look cute?

Otis was Darth Vador!

I got to play in the water in the sink before we left and I had a blast!

Mommy took me to florence for some trick or treat. Aunt Celena boasted about her big neighborhood and it was all true! She had tons of people and tons of candy!! I had a blast and can not wait to go back next year. We had the star wars theme this year if you can tell. One downside- it was really hot!

Sad news.

Well, looks like we are staying put for the time being. We are staying in our house. The seller we had has made some stupid decisions. WIth his poor decision making abilites and also the fact that the house appriased $9000 under contract, we are staying put. So, we are staying home in our lilttle townhouse. One day we will move. One day.

some more pictures

Looking down from the second floor.

THe den and its one red wall.

CHEESE! Pj day at school was GREAT!

Mommy and Baby Wilson.

this is my blue hiar for Sprirt week at school. Read below to find out what happend to all of my blond hair!

Mommy and me posing for a picture

See my new bald head?

THis was all of my blond hair! This is me at BOO AT THE ZOO in Columbia, SC. I had a blast! I am going to be Chewbaca for Halloween.

So what happened to all of my hair? Well, Mommy and AUnt Celena had a little groomer shaver thing and they were trying to get the hair around my ears and shape up my hair at the back of my neck. I asked to look at the shaver groomer tool thing and I wanted to help them out. I took the groomer thing and went from the front of my hair to as far back as I could reach!!! I helped to cut my hair. BUt mommy did not like the new do I had created, so she and AUnt Celena had to shape up my whole head. I a, happy to report that I do have some hair now, it is slowly growing back. I guess mommy learned her lesson- pay the $20 for someone to help cut my hair.

BOO AT THE ZOO!

We headed to Columbia, SC with the family and went to Boo at the Zoo. We had a great time and enjoyed it. It was a little cold and raininy, but we had a blast!!! Now I am so ready for Halloween!!

Here I am munching on some marshmellows!


Chewy on the run!

Nanna, me and Mollie posing on the lion

Smile!!!!

Mommy and me.

HOw in the world can people be so dirty

How can they? and as a parent- who in the world would let their child own some chickens in their room? I went into out what will be new home to find a complete mess. But with some love and care it will look beautiful and will give us room to add another little brucey at some time down the road. HEre are some pictures from the house.

OK I need to be a better blogger

SO here is my promise to update at least once a week.

We do have some exciting things happening. We are MOVING!!! Yup, to a bigger house- much bigger. We will have a 3 car gargae that is bigger than our current house- how very exciting- more room. We have lived in the little townhouse for 8 years and it is finally time to have some more space. The new house is actually in the same neighborhood and is less than a 1/2 mile from the townhouse. We are moving to where many of our friends in the neighborhood live and honestly we could not be more excited. Right now I am waiting to get into the house to see it for the first time (yes, I have never seen this house before). We are so excited to be getting a house on this street- we have been wanting to move there for a few years and have been waiting for a house to come available. We are aiming for a move the first week in november. YEAH!

This weekend was so much fun- my mom, sister and her 2 daughters came up and helped us get the house packed and I am pretty much packed! :) ALL DONE as Wilson would say. NOw we just have to take it all out of the house. Wilson had so much fun. He got some CARS bedroom shoes today and they have not come off of his feet today. I hoep that we can get them off tomorrow in time to go to school!

I hope that everyone else is doing well. Enjoy some pictures of my fast growing little monster!

Changes and more changes

Eric is coming home!! We are doing a complete job and career change for Eric. He is going to work for ITT and will be working on computers. HE will still be working over seas though. But we are getting so excited. He should be getting ready to get on a plane sometime shortly to begin his long jounrey home. It is a long flight from Dubai!
Eric will be home for a week and then off to GA for a week and then off ot Kuwait and then we do not know at the moment.
Wilson is going to be so excited. Eric can not wait to play with little boy.
In April we hope to be buying a new home- it is in the same neighborhood- just at the cul-de-sac where all of our friends are. It will be nice to actually have some space.
I am going to head to bed now. We will do posts while Eric is home!
It is play time!
We also have our first class at the little gym on Friday- looking forward to it! I hope that wilson likes it too

Gracious be times flies by

Hello all! I am so bad at this I think I am making it on here once a month.

Nana was down to visit for 2 whole weeks and left on Sunday. Wilson got quite sick with really high fevers on me for a few days ina row, so she came home with us and loved him all until he was better again.

The tubes still seem to be doing their job alright. His speeh has grown so much. He will now go to the door and demand to go outside! He loves to talk a nightly walk around the block at night with me and Otis. It is our little ritual and it gets him good and sleepy as well. But he can make it all around the block now. Over the past few days he is also started to become quite my little shadow and he will follow me everywhere. I think it is cute. But best of all he is starting to come up and give hugs to everyone including Otis!

Eric is doing good too. We miss him so much and can not wait for him to come home.

Well, I am going to go run and hop into bed. Here are some pictures from W and Nannas time together

New ears and where in the world is daddy?

Well, finally- W got tubes in his ears. It only took 4 months of continous ear infections to get tubes, but they are in there. We also had some GREAT news from today as well- we went to the same ENT that we saw in th every beginning with Wilsona dn his cleft pallate issues. We dicided to skip Duke b/c the ENT there was not to swift and we really liked the guy in Cary. But I asked him to look in W's mouth today to see what he thought- and AMAZINGLY- the child's mouth has grown together and fixed itself!!!! How amazing is that! My prayers have been answered. We still may have some speech issues- but it is unlikely. BUt his mouth and muscles have amazingly corrected themselves. I was so happy to hear that. Poor thing- we took the child in this morning with a fever and anothe rreally bad ear infection and his nose and eyes were pouring out gunk again- but after the tubes went in- no more runny eyes or nose! I did not wipe his nosie all afternoon!!! It was so nice! But Nanna is here all week to give him some extra love as well.
Eric was home and his 10 days have come and gone. We are so sad. It was so nice to have him back home. Wilson knew who he was as soon as he saw him in the airport. He kept saying daddy over and over again. Wilson loves him so much. But nonetheless- Eric had to go back to work :(. He left SUnday and he should be sleeping in a hotel room in Dubai right now. He will fly out tomorrow to Baghad and then on into the base. AT latest he will be home in August- but he will probably be getting a job through a company called ITT and he will have to come home and fly back there. It takes him 14 hours to get from Atlanta to Dubai... Long long flight. I will post pictures a little later this week of our time with Eric. We miss him so so much....
Well I think that is it for now. I am going to turn in- we all had a very early morning today!

What a weekend!

Aunt Frankie, Mommy, and Aunt Shannon.

The Amptheater. It is so pretty at Meredith right now... Spring is just so pretty.

Walking around.

Mommy and I facing down a goose. I should be able to pet them I think.

Mommy and me!

Saturday was so busy! I got to have Ms. Rebekah over to watch me and I got to go o the playground and do so many other fun things. THen mommy came to get me and I spent the whoel day with AUnt Shannon and Aunt Frankie. Mommy and the aunts looked hot b/c they had all gotten their hair done. But after sandwiches we went to visit Meredith College, even though I can not go there I had so much fun walking around and seeing everything. I even got hissed at by a silly goose. Mommy says that they are mean duckies- I must agree, they do not play like Otis the dog.

Sunday we walked around a lake with Otis and took a nice long nap. Then we went to dinner and came home and i got to swing. I got to play with one of my firends from school while I was there!

Well, we are going to go get some sleep now. Mommy says that daddy will be home this time next week. I am really exited. I love to talk to him onthe phoen but it will be super fun to have him back home!

Pictures

This is us standing on the porch of Boone Plantation. Here we are outside of the Auquarium with Mr. Frog!

Here is the finished product of the first hair cut~~

He even got to eat animal crackers while getting his hair cut. How fantastic!

Wilson loves to talk on the phone. I started the phone thing b/c he and eric chat when Eric calls in. Wilson walks around going "Hey Dadddy." and of course when Eric gets on the phone he is either quiet or telling Eric about something else and then when I take the phoen back it is always "hey Daddy!" But WIlson loves to chat on the phone- he will tell you all about his day if you let him! I think he looks like the little kid on the E*Trade commercials. I can hear him say "Hey girl, can I hit you back later?"

TIme flies

Oh my goodness, has it really been since Febuary that we posted something- where in the world did all of February go and where is March going?
We were actually really busy in February.
For most of February Wilson was between Raleigh and staying in Florence. Nanna and Aunt Celena came up to go to Duke with us for our check up with he cleft pallate team. We were anxious to go esp. since Wilson has had so many ear infections. But alas, his ears were of course clear that day! But we are not "offically" let go from duke, but it is looking like they will elect not to do surgery on him- whatever muscle issues he has along his pallate will be fine and he should be able to live a normal life with what he has- the next biggest indicator will be his speech development and if we have problems with that then his mouth will need to be fixed.
We have had many many ear infections (we have been ear infection free for 2 weeks now!!) and even a bought with pink eye- ever try to put eye drops in a 14 month old? That was a trial.
March has been a hard month- I feel like we have been holed up in our house most of this month from all the RAIN we have been getting! Good gracious! Rain for days at a time. I am thankful for the rain, but most of all thankful that it is no longer the cold rain, but it is warmer now.
Eric is still in Iraq and is doing okay. He is rather tan and we all got to see eachother via our webcams a few weeks ago. It was the first time we have seen eachother since he left in December. He is coming home in a few weeks- APRIL 12!!! This is our anniversary and I am so excited about it. I can not wait to see him and he can not wait to see W and me!
How am I doing? I am doing good. I have lost a total of 18 lbs and 17 inches. I am down 2 sizes. I can not believe it! I have been doing good. I am actually in Raleigh for the next 5 or 6 weeks- longest stretch since Eric left. I usually end up going home to Florence almost every other weekend. My family has been fantastic in helping with everything.
My most fun time over the past few months was the trip taht Frank, Katie, Shannon and I took to Charleston. We had a beautiful weekend down there. We treated ourselves to one of the best dinners i have had in a long time at SNOB and just had a great time being together again. It was so nice to stay up late and just gab and laugh. It was just so nice to get away and just be by ourselves- no children.
This last Saturday we had a very special visit from AUnt Kelli and uncle Dino. THey dropped by for the day to visit and as always it was a pleasure to see them. WE love them so much and wish that they lived closer.
Saturday Frankie, Shannon and I have a girlie day at Jenny's to get our hair done! I will post pictures of our adventures. I have so many grey hairs!
Well, I am off to go to bed. Sorry for the time in between posts- I will keep this updated more often- Hope you are all doing well!

Long time no blog

Goodness. What a few weeks. We went to Florence to help Celena celebrate her birthday and then we have also been fighting ear infection after ear infection... Then we are headed back to Duke in a few weeks for another round of checkups and deciding what to do or what not to do.

Eric is still overseas and he is doing good. We get to talk almost every other day. I hold the phone up to WIlson's ear when he calls and this week Wilson has actually started to talk back to Eric- Eric really likes that.

Wilson is now walking. You can see on his face when he is deciding to choose to walk or crawl. He looks so cute when he walks. He really just amazes me. He is so much like Eric in all ways. His little personality is so Eric. He is just a silly baby boy. He loves his classroom at preschool and he is just simply amazing.

It is tough being a parent, but it really is just the best thing in the world.

I am still doing Jenny Craig (and yes, the food is good- there are a few things I don;t like- but most of it is pretty good and very easy to fix!) and I am at a total of 12 lbs! I gave lost one whole size!!

Well that is about it for now. I am going to go to sleep now. Good night!

how pretty!!








Scary lady painting in science building