Squiget has a Stroller

Part 1 of Squiget's Supplies and Shipments has arrived! We've got the stroller, car seat, two car bases and a pack 'n play. Its definately starting to get real.... but my back and feet could have already told you that!

Settling in...

I'm sorry it has been a while since the last post, obviously there is a lot going on and with that means I should be posting updates more often instead of less, it unfortunately doesn't work that way. Geoff started work last week, he got assigned to a "scout" unit and will be in charge of 3 Bradleys and 5 Humvees. With this assignment comes more training including a safety course this week (learning how to give an IV and such) as well as a Scout Leaders Course that is 3 weeks long back in Knox. Just when we thought we were out of there for good! We're heading up next week, so it'll be May before we can truely sink in and call this place home.

I'm keeping busy unpacking, trying to hang pictures, enjoying the convenience that comes with having a dishwasher and washing machine our new place. It was an interesting first couple of weeks here for Squiget too. I woke up with horrible back pains our first week and had Geoff take me to the hospital, turns out that I had a bladder/kidney infection that had been building up since before the move and it had triggered contractions to start! After that got finished I was started another bout with throwing up and more pain and we came to find out that I was one of the lucky ones who develope Kidney Stones during pregnancy, JOY! There is not much we can do until Squiget gets here (but we're thankful that we get to wait 3 more motnhs for that instead of having him/her in the NICU right now) but the pain is under control and I'm learning how to deal with patience~

I'll post more when we've decorated, but here is our little house in what we'll call the "before" pictures: http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8BZMmzJw5aNIe&notag=1

Home Sweet Home

Its official! We are Texans!
Geoff and I survived the tour of the southern United States and made it to Fort Hood, Texas in one piece... complete with a tour of Graceland! We survived the 15 hours in a car, we survived the housing process on base and have even survived living out of a laundry basket for the past week! We got the keys to our new place on Thursday, picked paint colors and started the weekend long painting marathon on Friday, and are anxiously awaiting the delievery of our household goods tomorrow.
I'll post pictures as soon as my camera cords are unpacked but until then here are our new digits; our humble abode is located at 5756 24th Street, Fort Hood, TX 76544 and we're using our cell phones as our "local phones" so please keep in touch. More soon....

Squiget's Sonogram

Squiget had his/her mug shot taken today and I thought I'd share. YAY for being 24 weeks old!

Armor Ball

More Pictures of our night at the Armor Ball: http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8BZMmzJw5aNGm&notag=1

Me, Squiget and Lindsay

...and now you all see the current frumpiness complete with full panel elastic pants.... HOT!

Our Awesome Weekend

After 29 days straight without a day off Geoff finally got a day off... 4 actually! The Fort Knox big wigs gave the guys President's day so we hit the road Thursday night heading to NC so heres a quick overview of our FABULOUS weekend:
Friday: Arrive in NC 10am-ish, detour through Greensboro to try and visit Geoff's student teaching School, stop by my parents house to say hi and refuel. Headed to Elon in the afternoon to catch up with old friends; got to talk Army with Foley and AOII with Christia, got to relive Vesuvio's Pizza and Beer night with the Runkles and surprise the soon-to-be Rates with a late night drive by.
Saturday: We met up with the Hege's for an amazing double date complete with 3 orders of Chicken Crispers. They surprised us with quite possibly the cutest baby onesie of all time: Party at my Crib 2am! and a nice stroll through the streets of southpoint (complete with a Rocky Mountain Apple which is heaven on earth to this preggo-pop) Saturday evening Brian drove down from DC so we had a nice family bonding night.
Sunday: Surprise appearance at Westminster complete with brunch afterwards. Lazy afternoon on the couch flippping between golf , basketball and Daytona (Geoff got to momentarily live his redneck dream of being Ricky Bobby) Packed up the last of wedding presents, furniture and whatever else my parents had been storing for us and rested up for the long haul back.
Monday: drive, drive, rest stop, drive, rense and repeat

The greatest part of the weekend, besides getting long over due hugs from friends and family was that we OFFICALLY RECIEVED ORDERS! wwaahhooooooooo ~not gonna lie we both did a happy dance~ We are offically Fort Hood bound and have the papers to prove it. This morning I met with the base transport office and the movers will be here to pack us up and ship us out next Friday! I guess when it rains, it pours becuase all of a sudden life is really moving here, meetings to have, things to set up, moves to plan, Is to dot and Ts to cross... all of it exciting as we can finally look forward to the day where we get the keys to our first place!

HALF WAY THERE

We're into the 21st week of pregnancy~ YAY for being half way there! We had an ultrasound on Friday and everything is looking good. Squidget is 1 lb, 1 oz and boppin' away in there. They didn't give us a picture to scan so these are pictures of the x-ray film that I came home with. The top one has pictures of the spine and then a skull shot on bottom. The second picture is all of them, mostly head shots because they were mearsuring the size and the spine/ribs.... sorry that I can't do any better. Be patient because we should get a real picture at the end of the month.

Geoff has entered the last stage of his training, so we are getting ready to head out of Kentucky. Supposedly this part is suppose to be the most fun but I think he'd beg to differ that field time is never fun. The next month will certainly be trying but we'll see what this whole Army life and Army moves are all about!

Cravings

Since everyone has been asking I thought I'd share the recent changes in my diet. Call them cravings, call them comfort foods, who knows... all I know is right now the world revolves around Strawberry Fruit Roll-ups. I hadn't had then since 4th grade and they are a little smaller than I remember but oh so good.

Meal of choice for cravings:
Laura: barbeque from Mark's feedstore- A BBQ sandwich and spicy fries
Geoff: fondue from the Melting pot- those hes had to tone down the "french Quarter" spices when we share the pot- Squidget seems to like fondue too considering its the one meal that I could eat my fill of early on and not get sick!

Big Boy Toys

Boys don't grow up, but the size of their toys do!

Geoff wanted to make sure that I was going to post "something fun about him" every once in a while so here goes... Geoff's new toy! The 2007 Toyota Highlander, lovingly refered to as the lieutenant-mobile since all of the new LTs seemed to have spent their first couple of pay checks on new cars. After 2 days it already is covered with mud and filled with camo colored stuff, so we'll just say that he'd breaking it in nicely!

Date Night

As our time at Ft Knox draws to a close we've met a few friends who are also on their way to Ft Hood in March. Friday night we shared one of our favorite resturants/dining experiences with them as we introduced them to the wonderful world of fondue at the Melting Pot.

Pictured with Geoff and I are (left) Jamie and JP Policastro, and Dave and Melissa (soon-to-be) Danford... and of course, A WHOLE LOT OF CHOCOLATE!

Belly Pix

(beginning to show and now at 15 weeks) We've had a brief course in human psychology over the past few months.... we've learned that when people find out that they can't know the sex and possible names of the baby they immediately ask "well then can I at least see how big you're/she's getting?!?"

Another psychology lesson revolving around the pregnant woman is the urge for people to feel, rub, caress or even plain ole grab her stomach. As this is very tramatizing for said momma, due to growing uncomfortableness in her own skin, we've decided to kill two birds with one stone in this addition to the blog. Enjoy!