January

I thought January would just drag and and be the longest month waiting for Ken to come home. It actually flew by so I'm hoping February and March do too. Then we'll be a complete family again. I've been busy this month working on our house we're building in Bozeman. When Ken gets back we'll be moving there for at least two years. He got a job working at the college for ROTC. It should be a pretty laid back job as far as army jobs go. While in Bozeman on R&R we did a little house shopping. We found out it's actually cheaper to build than to buy. We'll get the house we want in the area we want to live. It's been a little bit of a headache though. I'm going Sunday to spend a couple of days picking out everything for the house. The architect is finishing up the final plans and we have a builder picked and ready to go. We're hoping it'll be done by early June.

I'm 31 weeks today and have still been feeling good. I had an ultrasound this week and the baby's head is down so hopefully he'll stay that way. Baby Kynlie came home the end of January from her long stay in Bismarck and it's been so nice having them back. My sister is going back to work the end of February and I'm going to take care of Kynlie until my baby comes. I'll get a head start on what it's like having a toddler and infant.

Last weekend we took a 3 day trip to Billings with my good friend Christina and her girls. Our friend Laurie Quenzer and her daughter came up and met us there too. It was nice getting out of town with all the kiddos. We swam, shopped, went to a movie, played at Chuckie Cheese and just hung out and relaxed. It was a perfect way to end the month.


Matthew has been doing awesome. He's such an easy going, laid back little boy. His mouth jabbers constantly and I love hearing what he comes up with. He's not too sure about his baby cousin Kynlie. We haven't got him to hold her yet. If he doesn't want to do something he tells me "No way, Jose". He's always playing with me, my mom or my dad. He's went from calling my dad "pappa" to "pop" and now it's "poppy". I think it's because he experiments with what to call me too. It's either "mamma", "mom", and more recently "mommy". He's even called me "mamma Gina" a couple of times. He's going to miss grandma and grandpa terribly when we move. He thinks daddy's coming home to live in grandma and pappa's house.

We have less than 2 months until Ken gets back. We're in countdown mode now. He said he hasn't slept good the whole time he's been gone. I told him that won't change when he gets back since we'll have a newborn!