one of my favorite pictures

I had to post this picture since its one of my favorite right now. Maddie is such a daddies girl!

The countdown has began for us!

More adventures in the belly

Here are more picture of my every growing belly.......

27 weeks and 4 days

30 weeks 2 days

The dreaded "D" word

Now when you hear the "D" word most people would think divorce but not to a military wife that dreaded "D" word is deployment. The "D" word as hit our household within the last week or so ( it added to the horrible cough that is plaguing this house as well.)
Cody will be leaving to play in the sandbox soon, We know somewhat of a date but I will not post it or even tell people due to OPSEC ( its basically the hush hush rule in the miltary.) All I will say is around the end of the month there will be one less person in this house for 6 to 7 months. I am sad that Cody won't be here for Kalab's birth but as we decided I would rather have him miss the younger part of his life then when he is learning all the milestones which if he didn't go now he would miss during a later deployment. My family will be comming to help me ( and that means Amber too if I have to tell my parents to pack her in a suitcase and sent her she will be comming I miss my niece and I guess I miss my sister too but just a little bit :D )with the birth and a few weeks after. Cody might even be able to watch the whole birth via webcam lucky him huh.
Now I have had many people ask me how I am feeling about this and as for right now I am doing ok , it hasn't really hit me all together as of yet but give me a few weeks and I know it will. I know I am going to miss him like crazy even the times when he drives me nuts to the point I want to scream and pull out my hair. Cody explained to Maddie that he is leaving for a while but I don't she quite understands right now which is ok Im not sure how much she will really understand of it but I am going to make sure she knows what is going on and daddy will be home in a short time. Kane on the other hand, I told Cody he is going with him I will even go buy him a flack jacket. Kane would have all those guys to play with it would be like heaven for him. Cody thought I was joking when I told him but he will realize otherwise when he gets a HUGE package that says live animal on it LOL.( Im kidding he is staying here with me, he is the protector of the family well he thinks he is.)
I am hoping with school, Maddie , Kalab and Kane I will stay busy and this deployment will fly by. Im just not looking forward to be begining.

Maddie's first day of school

The day we all have been waiting for ( ok I know Maddie and I have been waiting for it.) The first day of school for Maddie. I wanted to make sure I was up around 630 so that everything was ready but between the alarm clock and the dog I was up long before.

Maddie was up around the time cody was getting ready to leave for work so she made sure to let daddy know that she was going to school today, then she proceeded to everyone in the house which at the time was me and the dog, knew that it was the day for school. We got ready and walked to school, its not too far from the house so I figured it walk would do me some good and I knew she wouldn't have a problem with it. Of course it had rained all weekend so Maddie decided on the walk she would find all the puddle she could to jump in not matter if mom told her to stop or not. Once we made it in the school building she darted off to her classroom ripped her back pack and coat off and headed right to the toys. Her teacher came over and spoke with me about the class and all the fun school stuff she would be doing. I got ready to leave and told Maddie I was going and she could have cared less she was dancing. I finally got her to come over and give me a hug a half sided "ok mom you can leave now" hug and she was back to dancing.

I got to go out with some other moms for coffee while maddie was in school which was nice, it seemed so strange not to have her with me, but I could get use to it :)

A few hours later I went to pick her up from school....... He teacher let me know that while playing outside maddie found the slide with the puddle at the bottom and decided that was the slide she wanted so she slid down it and right into the puddle, I was glad they told me to pack extra clothes for her. Maddie didn't really want to leave but I told she would come back again on wednesday so she seemed to be ok with leaving after that. We got home and she told me about class and they called grandma and grandpa Groves to tell them along with auntie amer. As I was talking to my mom on the phone I looked over to see this..........

I guess it was a busy day for her.

oh back to schoo..... back to schoo....

I got my lunch packed..... my boots tied tight..... I hope I don't get in a fight. (Name the movie. come I know you all know it)

So I am going to back to school. Yes I chose to do this only a few months before Kalab gets here, call me crazy but I figured now is as good as time as any( now I am just hoping that he will stay in my belly until after finals and not be like this sister and come the week BEFORE finals.) I am having mixed feelings about it all, I really don't mind school I just hate now that most of my classes are going to be on line. Cody has been telling me for months now I need to get my degree done since I am only a yr or less away from it Oh and he thinks I am going to be his "suga momma" when I finally get my LCSW ( Clinical social worker Licence.) He doesn't realize that its going to be a WHILE before I get that.
Maddie is also going to be going to school as well. She is going to be starting a half day pre-school here on base. She is very excited about it as am I, hell 4 hrs of Maddie free time every Mon, Wed and Fri. will be great.
I guess now that Cody is done with school is mine and Maddie's turn to go :) What a adventure this will be ........

Something I realized......

So today was Kane's first day of puppy training classes and I must say he did very well, he is a smarter dog then he leads on to be. After class We went to Petsmart to get a few things. I swear every person in there commented about his size, "Yes he is only 6 months old. I know he is a big dog." It dawned on me that our little family has a underlined theme we seem to like things big, as in bigger than the norm. Im sure you all know Cody is 6'5 , if not then now you do :) and I am 5'9. We both get the comments quite frequently that we are tall. ( amazing isn't it?) Many people will ask me how old Maddie is, when I tell them she is 3 the next thing I here is "Wow she is tall for her age." and I usually comeback with "yup she gets that from her dad." and now hearing the comments about Kane it made me laugh to think about this theme and a tid bit worried..... Is Kalab going to come out being 3 feet tall? who knows with our record, but lets hope he doesn't get to be the short one of the family.

Adventures in the belly

So my sister told me I needed to post some picture of my ever expanding belly, which Cody tells me I already look bigger then I did when I was 8 months pregnant with Maddie, Yeah he is really good at making a pregnant girl feel so good about herself.... good thing I ignored him :) I just hit 25 weeks today so I will make sure to add more pictures when I take them

So here we go.......

11 Weeks

13-14 weeks

17 weeks

21 weeks- Its a Boy... don't mind the face I dunno what my deal was that day

24 weeks