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yes, for those of you who don't know yet, teege started walking. i was griping at christmas b/c my cousins son is 2 months younger than teege, has twice as many teeth and toddles along like he's been walking all his short little life. 3 days later teege took his first steps.
sadly there is no video yet. it comes and goes in such short spurts still that it's not easy to capture.
here's how it happened:
TJ was sitting in his recliner watching football.
i was lazily sprawled out on the living room floor kind of playing toys, kind of sleeping, kind of watching whatever football game was on. and teege was happily cruising 'round and 'round the coffee table like he was on a mission to get somewhere.
i open one of my eyes to peek up at him and see what he was up to, and he's coming straight at me, doing this Frankenstein walk towards me -about 4 full steps -and then falls right on top of me.he won't ,however, walk when placed on his feet from being held.
he prefers to pull up on something on his own (mr. independent) and then take off. if he is already standing he will walk to someone if asked, but there are times when he just takes off -sometimes in dangerous directions like from the coffee table over to the fireplace. our hearth is the kind that is one row of bricks -that sit directly on the floor, so they make a little step. as of right now i hate them! but have no idea how to make them less dangerous. i do have a rather thick flannel body pillow that is serving as padding. til he gets steady on his feet that may have to do.

TJ left for OK yesterday evening. he stopped and had dinner with a buddy in dallas and ended up spending the night. once he got to where he was going this morning he discovers that he can't check in to his new residence until 3pm. had we known this he would have just stayed home an extra night. POO!

we still haven't decided what to do about me going up there this month. bottom line: this phase of school is the toughest. it's all class room. no field work. though there will be live fire practices -which any visiting families can attend. anyway, it's FA(field artillery) which means that almost all of the stuff he is learning is involved with calculus in one way or another. this part of OBC has the highest failure rate - and if he fails, he doesn't get to come home and go back when this part of the course repeats itself. he has to stay. finish up the course. and start over. i guess this helps guarantee one passing the 2nd time around.
which means........
he won't be home til september ,just in time for him to deploy. no coming home for the birth of our new baby girl (which i had a dream turned out to be a boy last night.WOW! i just remembered that!)
so please pray that it's not as hard as it sounds.
TJ is very smart. he's like a sponge. he has the great ability to soak up information around him and never forget it. he knows things that i don't remember anything about! i don't have a doubt that he can't make it. but he does. he really wants to pass the first time.
which is why i may not go up and visit.
my dr is fine with it. she just warned me that i would have to stop a lot more b/c of having teege with me and being pregnant. and that i'd feel very crampy and aggrivated. she said i could fly if i wanted to. it wouldn't be worth it b/c i'd have to check a play pen and a stroller and all other kinds of shit. and i just think us being there won't be worth it for many reasons. most being of the nature that even though we'd see TJ in the evenings, he will be studying like MAD! and there are several social events this phase - he had to take his CLASS A's and his DRESS BLUES - and i couldn't go as his date b/c i wouldn't have anyone to leave teege with.
he's already considering just coming home for whatever 4 day holiday he gets this month(presidents day is it?)


the crib is all put together and looking beautiful! we ordered the bedding and it should be here no later than wednesday.YAY! all the furniture in there is rearranged how it should be -the nursery is dbling as a guest room b/c we had to leave the full sized bed in there for company.
so now i just have to paint the dresser really.
after we put our lovely brand new black crib together i noticed how really bad beat up that black dresser is.
it's a very sturdy dresser. i don't think a tornado could tear the thing apart. but it is beat up b/c it is from TJ's childhood days. nothing a fresh coat of glossy paint can't fix.

and i need to get the drawer pulls that match the bedding theme. which at one point i know i saw them for sale for 20$ for a set of 2. your kidding!!i would need 2 sets! all they are are simple red butterflies. i was going to check out home depot and places like that for something similar, but then found the same drawer pulls on amazon for half. so it'll work out fine.
the dresser has 6 drawers but only the top 2 have handles. the others have a lip that curls out at the top -simply grab and pull. i may stencil something on a few of those. well see how adventurous i feel when i get to that.

oh, and the bed that is staying in that room. yeah. it needs some serious redecorating. we have a Texas comforter on it with matching sheets and a blue dust ruffle.this room was serving as TJ's room/office so it had all of his stuff from his apartment before we got married(the hall bath matches) and there are 2 things on the wall that will have to stay if i can't find a place to hang them elsewhere.but it wouldn't be the end of the world if they stayed.
i've already told TJ i'm redoing the bed. the comforter is horribly faded and old. which makes it very nice and comfy! but it has to be changed. for the sake of it being a little girls room i just have the horrible urge for EVERYTHING TO MATCH!
i have a down comforter in the closet with a cream colored duvet on it that will fit that bed. i'm thinking i'll use that and pair it with some red throw pillows and a new red dust ruffel. red that matches the crib of course.once the bedding comes i'm headed to target with the crib sheet stuffed in my purse so i can match fabric colors.and throw pillows and a new dust ruffle won't cost that much.i don't have expensive taste. i was going to buy new sheets too, then decided that was plain silly b/c we have plenty of spare sets of sheets and they'll be covered up anyway so who cares if they match.
TJ was teasing me about having $ signs in my eyes the other day when i was planning all this b/c his pay raise is finally taking affect either this pay period or the next - and it's a rather healthy change in his paycheck. plus all the back pay from sept. that we've been waiting on(it took them almost 5 months to change his orders and his rank status.which i though was redicilous.
some of that money can afford to be spent. it's not like i've been waiting to purchase a 4o0$ pair of shoes - it's going towards the new baby! i bet i can manage to dress up the new bed AND fix up the dresser for 100$. less than that hopefully. much less than that.
and then of course we still have to pay off the stupid carpet we had put in.
and after that, we plan on living off of what he was normally bringing home before all these changes were made, and saving half of his raise, and putting the other half on the stupid charged up credit card we have.

oh, one more thing:
i'm on my amazon tirade again. and i know that ya'll probably don't really care about this, but having a stinky diaper pail stinking up the house no matter how much bleach you pour in it is terrible!i had to have a new one -especially since i'll have 2 kids in diapers before long anyway.
so,
i had decided to invest in a new diaper genie. the one we had was my sister in laws- she used it on 2 kids- and it was the very first model ever made - so it was old. and stinky. very stinky!
we've been using it for over a year(which means it had been serving it's purpose for at least 7 years, and serving it well) when one day i just couldn't get the stink out. teege's room smelled of dirty diapers all the time! i bleached and bleached the diaper pail!i put it in other parts of the house and it just stunk to high heaven! it had those special bags that were supposed to hold the scent in and once placed in the pail you twisted the lid and the bag sealed itself off.
i checked amazon first b/c though i have had my moments where i have choked on how much more they were selling an item for than another place i have still found mostly good deals in my amazon shopping days.
the highest end model of the diaper genie - the one that is hands free and has stuff built in to the plastic to help trap odors -they had it on amazon for 100$.
"well i guess i just won't buy one. we'll just start carrying all the diapers out to the dumpster at the end of the day."
the following day i was at walmart.i decided to check and see how much they carried it for. and i bought the same model diaper genie for 40$. and target had it for the same price.
that's a 60$ difference plus shipping. i just couldn't get over it!
and now my house smells happily like, well, house now. instead of poo.
Yay for me!