It's Jack's sleep in day, but when I wasn't looking Tre snuck into our room, woke him up, and asked Jack, "Will you take me to the birthday party instead of mommy!?" How can you resist that, so Jack woke up, and didn't get to sleep in and is taking him to the party.

It should hurt my feelings, but it doesn't. Our poor guy misses his daddy because he's gone so much. I don't blame him for wanting to go with Jack instead. I miss him too!

Funnies

So today I took Tre to get some new pj's since he only has two pair and even those are kind of short on him. Plus, it's pj day tomorrow at school, so I thought it was perfect timing.

Anyway, on the way home, a black Camaro wasn't letting me merge and she was quite blatant about it. I said, aloud, "what a B-i-t-c-h!" Not my proudest mothering moment, but at least I spelled it! A couple minutes later, Tre said, I don't like weird people that don't let you in the other lane!" I laughed a little and said that they were, in fact, weird! He said, "Yea, so lets call them a whole bunch of letters like N-o-s-e-p!" HAHAHAHA! I'm glad he can't spell and I'm glad he thought I just called the "black Camaro" a bunch of letters!

On another note, we had a casual dinner tonight and I told the kids if they ate all of their food they could have two cookies. Our crazy Tre said he only wants one cookie and will save the other one for tomorrow. What kid saves cookies? I thought they were all about instant gratification!!!!

Dear God...

Me: Okay, Tre, Say your prayers.

Tre: Now I lay me down to sleep... (he finishes)

Me: Do you want to add anything?

Tre: Like what?

Me: Like, Dear God, Please let Tre have a really good day at school tomorrow.

Tre. No. Like, Dear God, Please let Tre not have to go to school tomorrow.

Clever.

Thank you for my donut!

William is seriously sweet. Jack took the kids for donuts before school because he was going out of town. There were some in our fridge, but I guess they wanted fresh. Anyway, they get to the place right by our house and it was closed for the New Year week. Tre was super upset, but William comforted him with, "It's okay, buddy. We have some at home!" Jack went to another donut place anyway and this is a video from that.

P.S. Put a hooded sweatshirt or jacket on William and he won't take the hood off ALL day!

Goodbye 2010

On January 1, 2010, I had NO IDEA we would be out of the Navy and in the civilian world, living in Lafayette, in a new house, with a new job, and (pretty much) a new life. In January 2010, we were living in New Orleans, thinking we had at least 2 years left in the Navy and predicting a pretty uneventful year. It quickly changed and turned out to be a roller coaster ride!

January: Oblivious as to what's to come.

February: Found out Jack was selected for a year IA to Afghanistan

March - April: Trying to sell our house! (SO STRESSFUL)

May: Sold our house, moved to Lafayette and said goodbye to Jack

June - August: Jack was deployed, we found out he was getting out of the Navy and coming home.

September: Jack comes home and starts job search

October: William has surgery on his neck and Jack finds a job in Lafayette

November: Jack starts his job and we buy a house

December: Ahh... things have finally settled down and we are looking forward to staying in the same place for a LONG time for the first time in our married life!

We are looking forward to a boring 2011 (let's hope, anyway)!!