Helper wants to feed the doggies.

New blogging app

I'm trying out a new blogging application. Hopefully things will appear more smoothly this way.

Matthew and I have been playing most of the day. Lots of wagon rides and playing outside with a quick trip to the dump. Tonight we go to a 3 hour FRG meeting. Hopefully Matthew behaves! And for my own sake I hope it doesn't last 3 hours that is too long to sit.

Sept 29

Matthew is doing so well with his new bedtime routine. I am so
relieved. We still need to work on naptime though. We will get there.
Today we finally got Matthew registered for cys on post hourly
daycare. This means I can plan on having Matthew be able to play
during the FRG meetings and if I just want to go grocery shopping and
give him a break. We also found out this week that Monday and Tuesday
there are open gymnastics times on post. As soon as I get my military
ID updated we can go do that. I'm sure Matthew would love crawling up
and down and through all the gymnastics toys. So we are getting
settled back into life here in TN. The floors are a wondeful
improvement. I wish we were not so far away from family is all.

I can't wait for Kevin to come home, this has been a long year.
Everyone keeps saying how fast it has gone by...it has been long for
me. But we are nearing the end! Yeah! The guys start shipping home
in November.

Funny story I was scolding Matthew for pushing buttons on the tv. He
had walked back up to it looking like he was going to pushing buttons
again. I pointed my finger at him and said sternly "do not push
buttons" he pointed right back at me and gave me a grunt. It was so
hilarious he was picking up on it the very first time. Takes all I've
got not to laugh at him sometimes.

Sent from my iPhone

Dance dance

Matthew running in his boots.

Our house

Truck boy

He loves tires and investigated all four of Kevin's tires.

Mower ride.

Emily and Matthew on the mower.

Digipro photos

Blogging amnesia

Well there has been a lot going on with this Laudermilk household as of late and I have been neglecting my blogging duties. So let's recap. In the past month Kevin was home and left to go back to work, visited college friends, my brother got married, Matthew had his one year pictures done, we packed our stuff from three houses and moved back home to TN. Needless to say it has been a busy couple of week.

So my wonderfuly helpful and talented handyman brother Levi drove all night with Matthew, myself, a trailer he built just for this trip and three, that's right all three dogs from NY to TN. It was a long night and besides one minor hiccup we made it without stopping for the night. We arrived Saturday morning. After we unloaded the trailer we weaved our way through the the boxes to the first soft piece of furniture we could find and crashed. We caught up on sleep every chance we got. Matthew however didn't share the same concern.

Sunday we started the project of the Demi-decade. And by "we" I mean Levi. I guess you could say I am the project supervisor. No real labor, but I get the glory from a job well done. The flooring is a laminate wood floor made by Armstrong. It has a rustic look to it and is on the darker side. It does not snap together smoothly like the laminate I have seen put together before. This takes twice as long...that means it will look twice as nice. After two days of diligently working Levi is half-way through the project. Meanwhile Matthew and I have been playing. Outside and slowly unpacking.

Matthew has had some weird goings on lately. He flared up with large hard red spots mostly on the left side of his face. The Dr says they are hives, a reaction from his 1 yr vaccines. For the next month he gets zyrtec to help kick these hives out the door. After another talk with the Dr today I was told I could give benadryl three times a day if I preferred (so tempting). Matthew has a new schedule to go with his new house.

6-7am wake up call

8am breakfast

10am snack

12-1 lunch

3pm snack

5pm dinner

6:45 bath

7:15 story time

8pm zzzzzzzzzzz

He is not a big snacker so I can't always get him to eat. Now that he has his new kick butt highchair he enjoys sitting down to eat much more. Our bedtime routine is much stricter also. While in NY he would fall asleep then I would put him in bed. But now for the third night he has informed me of his

disapproval of this new bedtime ritual. The first and second night took 45 mins until a worn out little boy finally fell asleep. Today was a triumphant 30 minutes without hardly any fight. When I layed him down the very first time he didn't get up, only layed there listening to me attempt to sing to him. I am proud of him.

I have been working out the kinks with this new iPhone. I am learning how to mobile blog through email, I hope it works!

Matt and Kristin's wedding from this weekend

Rome with Sarah and Tiffany

Friday afternoon Matthew and I drove to Rome to meet Sarah and Tiffany (two of my great friends from college). Once we got there they had quite the surprise instore for us. They had the dining room decorated all in the Cars theme, a huge Cars cake, and tons of presents. Matthew got a lawn mower, bath tub finger paint, markers, coloring book, 2 tonka trucks, 3 new DVDs, a new set of keys and a 'I love my Aunt' bib. We even got to meet Sarah's munchkin (her Fuzzy kid) named Jack, a very sweet Jack Russel puppy. He was great with the kids. We had so much fun!

We went shopping together, opened presents, played outside in the kiddie pool, Matthew mowed the grass with his new toy lawn mower, we ate dinner together, Matthew and Keagan (Tiffany's son) enjoyed the cake immensely, plus Matthew made a huge mess of his spaghetti dinner as well as the cake. So Matthew had a bath while we were there too.

It was so much fun and so great to get together with the girls from college. I never get tired of chatting with you girls because we never run out of stuff to talk about. Thanks for such a wonderful evening! Matthew had a blast too, Thank you.

NY State Fair

Levi took Matthew and I to the State Fair on Tuesday. We had fun walking around visiting all the animals. Matthew was happy he was carried just about everywhere.