Moving to San Antonio

Well I am all moved in!! We have been here for about 2 months. Danette is here now helping me decorate. Cameron is in Peru for his new job. It's hard him being gone all of the time because I haven't made any friends. I know that it will get easier. The drive out here was definitely interesting.. Liam got sick with a really bad cold and was wheezing. We stopped in Nashville overnight to see Johnny and Megan and he got worse there so we took him into the emergency room. They put him on a antibotic. My poor baby had the worst diarreah on the trip. We had to stop and gas stations to change him. Cameron would hold him while I wiped him down. Lets just say it got very tricky. When we finally got here and were looking at places to stay he had accident all over Cameron's shirt in the rental house we were looking at. I had to change him on the floor. It was horrible. Thank goodness he got better quick. He just started crawling a few weeks ago and got his first two teeth 2 weeks ago. Any day is will be walking too. It's like all of a sudden he is doing everything at once. He is growing so, so, fast. Landon just started preschool this week. He is doing great!! His teachers are wonderful. We took him to walmart and he got to pick out a new lunch box and thermis with a back pack. I was so excited for him to go and make friends. It will be a good transition before he goes to kindergarden. I am looking foward to Camerons time off for Labor Day so we can spend some time with each other.

Cam's home

Well Cameron gave me a huge surprise last week when he called me from Haiti to tell me he would be on a plane the next day to come home. I was shocked and very excited. He got the job in San Antonio so that was why they decided to send hime home 2 weeks early. I was very hesistent about moving only because I hate leaving family. It's a great job opportunity for him and I really do not like Fayetteville. North Carolina will always be home for me though. I have really realized that with all of the traveling I have done in the past couple of years. I am a little nervous about all of the traveling that Cam will be doing with this new job. Having him gone for 3 months to Haiti was hard. It is only a 12 month contract so if we hate it I guess we can leave. He is supposed to get his orders on Friday that tell us when to move. I am really dreading that 19 hour drive out to Texas!! We are selling the Taurus before we leave so we can ride together out there. That will make it a lot easier especially since Liam is still a baby. Speaking of which I need to get his pictures done this week. He will be 8 months old soon and I was supposed to do them a month ago. The reason why I waited was because he just now learned how to sit up. I wanted him to able to have the same picture as Landon when he was a baby. So I am still making all of his baby food homemade. He really does well on it. He only breaks out when he eats plums. Landon has been doing great now that Cameron is back home. He went through a really angry phase. Not good! I am so glad to see him happy now. He can be so sweet. He tells me a hundred times a day how much he loves me with hugs to go with it. I love how affectionate he is.

Cameron will finally be coming home

Thank goodness, we have a date for redeployment! May 1st he should be back from Haiti. That's about 3 weeks from now. I am trying to fill my days with lots of things to do to make time go by really fast. Lately that hasn't been to hard because the boys are exhausting. I love them so much and everything I do is so worth it but it doesn't make it any less tiring. I think I feel a little over whelmed because I am doing it all by myself. Not having Cam here has been hard. I will be so glad when he comes home and things are back to normal. So I have started making my own baby food. Liam loves it. All of the rashes that he got when he ate the Gerber food went away. Right now in the freezer I have plums, bananas, green beans, carrots, and sweet potatoes. He finally knows how to eat from a spoon now too. That took a little longer than I thought it would. He has a doctors a appointment on Monday and I can't wait to see how much he has grown. He is wearing all 18 month clothes and he just turned 7 months old today. My sweet baby, I wish he could stay little forever. I love snuggle time with him. Everyday I make sure that I have quiet time with him and rock him in his nursery. He loves it when I sing and smiles away. I cherish those sweet moments. He still doesn't have any teeth. Craziness! I thought for sure they would have come in by now. By I have to say I love that toothless smile! Well Landon has said some crazy things this week. He put on Cam's Army knee pads with goggles and held a gun and fell asleep on my bed. When I woke him the only way I could get him to take it off was to call him soldier Landon. He then replied" Aye aye Captain Mommy!" He says the silliest things!

Teething Liam

Liam's first teeth should be coming in any day. At least I am hoping. He is very crabby. I know he is in so much pain. I give him Tylenol but I don't want to over give it to him and he develops a tolerance. Trying to get him to fall asleep for nap time is a little difficult. I have to hold him upright and rock him while singing to him the whole time. That seems to be the trick. Sometimes it takes him 15 mins and sometimes it can take up to 45. The real tricky part is carrying him from my arms to his crib without waking him. I am getting really good at walking VERY slow!! I was talking to Kristen yesterday and asked if she had any of Ethan's 18 month clothes she wanted to give me. She was shocked that Liam is 5 months old and is wearing 18 months!! I guess I am too. My little baby is growing so fast. I am pretty sure he weighs over 20 lbs by now. I am really trying to give him baby food everyday but he hates it!! Even fruit. I think I am going to start making my own, maybe he will like it more. Well Danette is still here visiting but is leaving this Tuesday. I have been able to get in a lot of appointments while she is here. I had my first cavity filling this week. The one is still bothering me. I think something might be wrong. If it still hurts on Monday I will go back. I also have scheduled the boy's Easter pictures to be taken on Tuesday! I can't wait!! They are going to be super cute!

Trying to stay busy

Cameron has been gone now for over a month to Haiti. Today is my birthday and he was able to call me. I haven't spoken to him since he left a month ago. I am really hoping he comes home in the next month or two. It's hard with him being gone. Danette has been staying with me so it's is nice to have her company. Liam has been in a little bit of pain lately because I think he is getting his first tooth. His cheeks will get really flushed and he jams his fist in his mouth. I feel so bad for him knowing he is in pain. Even though his mouth is causing him discomfort he is the most smiley baby. All you have to do is make eye contact with him and he makes a big smile and laughs. He thinks Landon is so funny. He stares a lot and him and Lola. He is at the stage right now where he can't sit up or crawl so it can be hard to keep him entertained. I am in no rush to have him start doing anything though. I wish he could stay this size forever. He is such a great baby. Landon was funny tonight... He was crying in the bath tub and I came in to find out what was wrong and he said "You need to make the water come back on because it has reach my nipples"!!! He says the funniest things. He told me the other day that my shirt was very stylish! He is only 3 and saying these funny things. He is the most lovable child ever. I love how affectionate he is. He always tell me he loves me and how beautiful I am. He gives me lots of hugs and loves to snuggle with me. He comes into my room every morning and puts his arms around me. I cherish these moments. I worry about him though with Cameron leaving so sudden and Landon missing him so much. I think he is okay and just try and talk to him about it. I will be glad to have Cameron back home to have a sense of normalcy.

Cameron's deployment

Well Cameron has been gone now for almost 3 weeks. He is serving a deployment to Haiti. It was so hard to say goodbye. I miss him so much. The Insomnia has been horrible since he has left. I finally went to the doctor yesterday for some prescription sleep pills. I am hoping those will help me. It's hard to take care of the boys when you only get at most 2 or 3 hours of sleep. Danette flew in a couple of days ago and it has been nice to have someone around to talk to. Cameron and I have only been able to email back and forth. No phones yet. Hopefully soon though. We are definitely going to get out of the military this fall when his contract ends. I am ready to move on. Well I recently took Liam back to the doctors. He needed his 4 month shots because he couldn't get them last time because he was so sick. We finally figured out why he was so wheezy and always has chest congestion. Dr. Lambert told me to try and change his formula because it looked to her that he had reflux. He was spitting up way more than normal. I put him on a Soy formula at first but then he became extremely constipated. At one point I changed his diaper and there was blood in it and all over the baby wipe. I decided that wasn't going to work. So I slowly put him on the formula that Landon was on. It cleared up his congestion and he was no longer constipated. I guess changing the formula did the trick. I get sad sometimes that I could not continue to breast feed him. I know that is best for him. It EXTREMELY painful with him being tongue tied. At his doctors appt. he weighed 19lbs!! Landon didn't weigh 19lbs until he turned 1. I love my chubby baby!

Shadows

Landon today started to really notice his shadows. When I was in Liam's room changing his diaper Landon comes in and tells me to look on the wall. He said "Mommy it's my shadow"! I asked him what his shadows name was and he said "Landon Dean Ek". I thought for sure I would have had some other name but no. He liked to put his hand out and then make it disappear laughing the whole time. It was super cute! Lately he really likes to stare at himself in the mirror too. He smiles at himself and tells me he is handsome. I always agree. When we finish brushing his teeth he likes to look over them making sure the"buggies" are all gone. Poor Liam lately has had a bad case of eczema. His skin especially on his legs feels like sand paper. Every night we grease him up with aquafor. It helps but I need to take him to the doctor. I am calling on Monday. Hopefully we will get a weight check to see how much he has gained. I bet he weighs 18lbs already. He feels so heavy. This week he is in nine month clothes. The six month stuff is to small. He is only 3 months old. Craziness!!!