seductive silent wine...

J left this morning for training, and they decided to come back on Thursday night rather than Wednesday night. Oh well! I'll catch up on playing on the Wii... heehee!

K took a huge fatty nap today. I laid her down at 2, she played in her crib until 3:30 and slept until 6! I ended up taking a nap too, and when she woke me up at 6, I couldn't tell if it was 6am or 6pm. I hate waking up confused like that! She is learning how to feed herself with a spoon/fork, and while it is awesome, it is so darn frustrating! She won't let me feed her... I can't even HELP her. She has to do it on her own. Or else she just plays with the food, flinging it everywhere and smooshing it in her hair and seat. She wore 3 different outfits today, lol! She'll get the hang of it, but until then, mealtime is killing me! She did drink out of an actual cup today though, and while she did pour most of it down the front of her shirt, she did get a couple good sips in there.

Stupid me, I forgot to plug in my car and start it up while it was so cold here (It got down to -30 one morning!) and now it won't start. I plugged it in and hopefully the battery is only dead from the cold... so if I can get a jump, I'm really hoping that it will work fine enough for me to take it to the autoparts place so I can replace the battery. I'm REALLY hoping that the fuel lines didn't freeze and broke because I tried to start it :( I've heard of that happening. I'm pretty sure that's not the case here though. We'll see! Payday is either tomorrow or Wednesday, so I'm not too concerned about fixing it.

I love payday :) I'm really excited about our financial situation- J gets paid so little in the Army but we are doing well. We had a couple of tricky months because of unexpected bills/ necessities but we got through it! I'm not the best at keeping track of our money (yeah, this is coming from the accounting student..........) and J is simply hopeless at it (LOL) but I'm getting better and more careful. We don't have a lot of extras or luxuries, but we are making it and that's all that counts :)

J and I have had a blast playing Need for Speed on the Wii. You hold the remote like how you would be holding a steering wheel (at 3 & 9) and steer like that. It's SO much fun! I have a Mitsubishi Eclipse, nicknamed The Pink Nightmare..... teehee! K was sooo cranky tonight. She didn't even want to eat, she just wanted to sleep. So we put her to bed early with a big bottle of milk- I didn't even brush her teeth as to not start a huge tantrum (I know.... so bad... but it's the first time I have done that since she has sprouted teeth!) She fell asleep really easily. Poor thing... I hope she's not coming down with a cold or something. We haven't even really been outside since it has been so cold lately. It warmed up to zero degrees today though.... so that's good! I hate that 0 degrees is considered "warm" as of late :(

J has to leave on Monday and be gone until Wednesday night for training. I hate when he is gone :( It's not too bad though, only 3 days. But it is boring when he's gone! Oh well.

Our leave date for Alaska did get pushed back, so now we aren't leaving until March 6th. And we're not sure if my mom can come up now.... which is a HUGE bummer. We'll get it figured out though. We've got plenty of time!

We watched Tropic Thunder last night. I thought it was going to be horrible, but I thought it was actually really funny! Ben Stiller is kinda "meh" in it though. Jack Black and Robert Downey Junior = hilarious! And Tom Cruise... I nearly peed myself laughing at him dancing. I don't think I've ever seen him in a big role in a comedy... he needs to do more of that kind of acting... it was SO funny.

J is sitting behind me and asked me what I'm doing. I said "I'm just blogging..." and he said "Oh! You're a blogger now? Are you saying bad stuff about me?" ....... lol.

I made the best dinner tonight! Tacos with homemade seasoning and Spanish rice... it was delicious! J loved it and said that it needs to be a dinner staple from now on... lol! I had a better day than yesterday. K slept until 10am (!!!) and took a nap from 4-5:30. J doesn't have to stay late at work anymore (Somebody high up found out that they were making everyone stay late and put an end to it!), so he was happy about that. Details are still sketchy on our move... but that doesn't surprise me!

I find that I'm having more up days than before. Is PPD finally starting to let up? I hope so! J and I want to have our children close together (if I got pregnant this month, I would be due in late September or early October... it would make K just under 2 years old, which I think is a good age for a sibling!). All of my sisters and I are 2.5 years apart from each other, and it worked out so well. I'm scared that when we have another baby I will have to go through all of this again.... I have an increased risk of having it again... but we'll see! We want to have another baby sooner rather than later, so I really want to just GET OVER IT. Easier said than done, lol.

I'm knitting a blanket for K and it is turning out beautifully! It is pink and soo soft. I think in the middle of it I'm going to stitch a K in it. I'm so excited... this is the biggest project I've ever worked on! And I'm working with bamboo knitting needles, which makes it THAT much cooler. Haha!

K has learned how to say "hello"... except she can't get the 'L' sound down, so it comes out "herro".... it's funny! My sister wants me to teach her how to say "pwned!" but when she tries, it comes out as "boo" lol. I've been patiently waiting for her to start walking, but it hasn't happened yet *sigh*. She's 14 months now, and I'm starting to worry. She was late crawling (9/10 months) so it's kind of expected that she would be a little late with walking, but she hasn't even taken her first steps yet. I'm worrying that she is delayed because there was a very minute possibility that her jaundice damaged her hearing/brain when she was a few days old.... I'm worrying over nothing, but still.

Okay... I need to shower and get to bed!

K will not stop crying. J's leave form was approved, so my mom and J's friend bought their plane tickets to come up to help us move. Now they are saying his leave form is no good, and he can't leave for a MONTH later than he was supposed to. I hate this lifestyle.