My Leiutenant!

Remember awhile back when I faintly mentioned that Sean was studying for his Leiutenant's exam at work?  You guessed it, he passed! I'm so proud of him and Hunter is too of his daddy.  Sean has a ceremony that will take place to honor his recognition and we are all very excited.  Sean thought that he would be starting this position sometime later in the year but apparently he is starting in the middle of August! He has to go to a 2-week training program where he will need to go everyday (M-F, 9-5) compared to his usual schedule of 2-24 hour shifts a week.  Then he will go back to his usual schedule of the 2-24 hour shifts.  This is somewhat in the middle of us moving and me changing day care facilities for Hunter.  I was hoping that Sean wouldn't need to go every day for training because I wanted Hunter to start out slowly at the new day care and Sean would be able to be there and pick him up sooner than later when I would be able to get him at 5:30 pm.  We're hoping to be in our new house by the second week of August.  It was supposed to happen sooner but you know how these house "closings" go...the actual closing date is not what they say it will be...NEVER.  We do have good news on our house though, we will be closing on this one Wednesday so that will be an ease of mind to get one of our closings taken care of.  Since most likley we will be unable to close before we need to move out (August 1) we are planning to rent our new house from the sellers until we are able to close.  I'd rather be living in our new house than in our current one because we have been waiting forever for this! 

Proud of my daddy! Muah!





In the meantime, Hunter will be turning a year old in less than 2 months! Yikes! I am such a "Planner" that I actually started to freak out wondering what I was going to do for his birthday but not to worry, I have figured out what to do.  It is going to be inexpensive and it will involve the GiggleBellies! Sean and I are not the type to do something over-the-top and plus Hunter will not even remember this even though Sean and I will.  So, his birthday will be with family and some friends at our new house.  I just want Hunter to have a good time and dig into his cake and take some awesome pictures of him having fun.  That is all that matters to us.  I really can't believe that he is going to be a year old soon.  He is getting to be such a big boy. 

"Speckles"

Hunter has learned to nod his head "yes" or "no". He just learned the "yes" but knew "no" for awhile now.  I took some tips from his baby sign language book but that is pretty much the only thing that he understands now.  He is "cruising" but I like to say "surfing" because he really does "surf" from couch to loveseat to chaise to coffee table.  Sean and I think he may be walking on his own by the end of the month.  He is FINALLY starting to eat really good! Even though Hunter would eat solid food he would only eat maybe a total of 5 or 6 bites and that was it.  He loves his milk! Now, he is really eating his Puffs, Cheerios, pureed food (mostly table food of whatever we are eating that has texture), he is learning to eat fruit with his fingers instead of in the mesh feeder which he really does not want to part with.  So, overrall he is doing well.  We took him to get his shot that he was supposed to get at his 9 month appointment but since he was sick they didn't give it to him. At that time he weighed 17 pounds and when we took him he now weighs 19 pounds! So in one month he has gained 2 pounds! I knew that boy had to be gaining weight from all that he has started to eat.  Also, its hard to say but our breastfeeding days are over.  Hunter just didn't want to while we were on vacation and I wasn't going to argue with him over it.  He just loves his bottles of formula! It was a good run...10 months.  Even though I'm a little sad because I wanted to make it to a year, I'm still proud of us. 

My new wagon Daddy got for me.  He looks so big!