Pictures

I finally charged the batteries for my camera, so here are some cute pictures of the kids! Will hooked up Lauren's Peek-A-Block Wagon to his Winnie the Pooh car as a "coal tender" and took Lauren for a ride around the house.
Mollie enjoying a Chew-ee. Isn't she getting big? She is recovering from her surgery where she was fixed twice - she was spayed and she had her hernia fixed. She is so happy that her hernia is gone (it was about the size of a tennis ball) and she is overdoing it a bit - trying to tackle stairs and running around. Lauren is now crawling - well scooting around. She has started to pull up her knees a bit, but she mostly pulls with her hands and pushes with her legs if she wants to get somewhere. This is just a "sequence" picture of Lauren crawling. She's almost 7 months. Will just loves his puppy - sometimes a little too much. Mollie is a bit of a mama's girl, but she just loves her kids, too.

Joe and I visited Will's preschool last night for orientation. It was strange to be on the other side of things! He is going to have a great time and I know he's going to make wonderful friends. We found out his teacher and his classmates (all of which I was very excited about!) and we even brought him home a t-shirt with his school's name on it! He was very excited about that.

Joe left this morning for his BNCOC (I think that's what it is) school. It stands for Basic Non-Commissioned Officers something - National Guard school to be promoted. He will be gone for two weeks down in Mississippi tackling various Army classes, etc. He was very excited that he didn't have to bring his field gear to this school. At PLDC he got a ton of ant bites from their field training. We will miss Daddy while he is gone! Luckily, my mom is flying up here on Monday to help out with Will, Lauren, and Mollie (the latter being the most work!). It will be great to see Mom and I know that we'll get a lot done while she's here. She's already told me that I get time off during the day to do whatever I want - I'm going to try to get caught up on my scrapbooking. I need to finish Will's toddler book and start his preschool book (I've scrapbooked through Christmas 2006) and I need to get caught up on Lauren's baby book (I've scrapbooked all the "before" pages, her birth, family, and coming home pages). Well, I better go get ready for the day.