Our Girls is 7 Months!

Seven months seem so crazy to me. It's one month past six and closer to being one. She is now closer to one then she is to being newborn. She has seemed to grow up so much just in the past month. She finally discovered a love for food. Before she refused everything. I tried with fruit puree at four months, five and then finally around six she decided eating was fun! She is so close to crawling and currently army crawls and rolls all over the house, grabbing everything in sight that is either brothers or not a toy. Whenever she wakes up from a nap or in the morning I find her on all fours just rocking, and sometimes screaming. Her only and first word is dadada. And she loves to be outside. She and Kien are just starting to really interact and play together and it is the sweetest thing. These are the best moments as a mom and the reason I love having two and would consider having three. I have been taking monthly photos of her and I'm going to wait until this Sunday when she is all dressed up in her Easter outfit. Speaking of Easter I am going to post later on what I am filling their baskets with this year.

Today we went for a walk and had lunch and played at the park. Kien ran around with friends and Hannah got to swing for the first time...which she loved! We also went swimming with some friends later and the pool was so warm compared to the last time we went and she was in love with the water, kicking her legs and splashing.

I am still struggling so much with our upcoming move. I will post more on that in an upcoming post. On Thursdays I am going to start posting five things I am thankful for that day so here is what I am thankful for now.

1. My beautiful children who make my life so full, I am so blessed to be their mama.
2. My faith.
3. Friends who are supportive and who love my children.
4. My dad who will find a way to help me whenever I need.
5. The military. I have a love/hate relationship with this one. But the military is what gives us the life we have which means security when so many people don't have that right now. And it has given me some of the most supportive and amazing friends I could have asked for who understand what I am going through because they have been there too.

Is this real life?

Brian and I have talked a lot about what would be best for our family, for the future. His first enlistment was coming to an end this April, but we knew he needed to stay in because getting out right now would be way too risky especially without a college degree. Some good friends of ours are doing recruiting. You have to get accepted, and it is a very stressful job. It would mean we could choose off of a list where we want to go and no deployments. To us this sounded perfect. We have been wanting to move closer to his family in Florida and have our kids grow up with their cousins and know his family well. On Friday Brian had a meeting with someone who's approval he needed to apply. If she said okay he would next meet with the commander. He called me after his meeting and said it went great. He told me she thought he would be perfect for recruiting and just what they were looking for and he scheduled his appointment with the commander for Tuesday. He also told me one of his best friends here and his wife got orders to Germany. I thought that was awesome, but told him thank gosh it's not us. I do not want to go to Germany, I do not want to go over seas. He was excited about how good his meeting had gone and we hung up. Twenty minutes later I got the call. You are going to be so mad. What...what..I ask. We are going to Germany. With that a million thoughts rushed through my mind. But I don't want to go...but wow living in Europe, but I really don't want to go.

We are going. In August to be specific and for three years. We have talked about it all weekend. I have cried a little, we have gotten excited. And I have had to break the news to people and sometimes it kind of broke my heart. I hate making people sad. And I am such a homebody. I got homesick when I moved 45 minutes away from my hometown. I'm obsessed with my momma. Still, almost 22 and I have to talk to her everyday. That's the part that makes me the saddest. I can't imagine leaving my friends and family. I can't imagine my children not having family around them for big events. Christmas, their birthdays. But then I go back to what an amazing and life changing (one in a lifetime) experience this will be. It is going to be so hard. We still have six months, but every time I think about leaving I want to cry. We have so much to do and six months seems far away, but it isn't. I am a true believer that things happen for a reason and that our lives take a specific path meant just for us. I know I will be fine even though now I feel like I won't be. I am just going to take a deep breath, make tons of lists and try to spend every minute with my friends and family that I can. Wish me luck and I will have lots more to come!