It's Been A Long Time....

So much has happened since I've last posted...some good, some bad! Let me bring you up to speed. Andy was suppose to leave on Saturday, February 20th. However, he got a call Saturday afternoon that their flight was being changed until Sunday. With mixed emotions about the change, we enjoyed a date night together. We were glad for additional time together, but ultimately it just gave us long to dread what was coming. We were to the point that we just wanted the deployment to get started so that it could get over. All of you military families out there, I'm sure you understand. You kinda have to go through it to fully understand what I mean. Anyways, I went in with him when he had to report and stayed until he had to load onto the bus. It was an abrupt goodbye (as we weren't exactly sure when loading the buses would occur), but that was best. Once he got on the bus, I left and headed to my good friend Sharon's. I spent the night there before driving to Waynesboro, PA the next day.

He arrived safely in Afghanistan and is making the best of the deployment. If anyone would like his address that has not yet gotten it, please email me :) Caden and I miss him terribly, but at doing well in his absence. We enjoy getting to talk to him frequently, which makes him feel closer.


We are fairly settled into our house. I have a lot of the unpacking done. There is still a lot to unpack, but right now that is all in the basement. I am able to go down there and work at organizing and unpacking things while Caden is napping. I'm hoping in the next month to get a lot of that accomplished. We'll see how that goes....

Caden and I have been battling sickness for almost the entire time Andy has been gone. I started out with Strep and then the next day Caden woke up with a fever. I took him to the pediatrician and found out he had an Ear Infection in his right ear. The day after his medicine was gone, he started running a high fever again. I took him back for his recheck the next day only to find that his ear seemed fine, but he had Strep. I also had bronchitis. Then we both got better from that and this past weekend he started running a high fever again. It would come and go. So yesterday I took him back to the doctor only to find out that he had fluid in his right ear, which (according to the dr) is the beginning of an ear infection. Yikes! So back on antibiotics he goes!

As of yesterday, he weighed 24 lbs. 12 oz. Back in February was the last time he was measured and he was 31 inches long! In a month he had grown 3/4 of an inch!

The funny thing about this is despite fevers and feeling yucky, he is always very pleasant at the drs office.

Even though he's been sick, he's still been full of life! He is an absolute blessing and I cannot imagine life without him. What a cutie!

Hope this finds all of you well and your health has been better than ours. We are hoping for warmer weather and good health soon!