Just life

So... pretty much every day is the same for me, so I never feel like I have much going on, but all of my days are pretty full. Being a mom is a full time job and I am loving it. Still struggling in the sleep department, but things are getting better. We all had a bout of illness last week, but it is coming to a close. I started DJ on his first solids a bit ago, he has fun with it, but I don't know how much of it actually makes it to his stomach. Still working with DJ on rolling over. He's done it a couple of times without help, but usually he just has no interest. I think he may be teething, but his gums look completely normal. He just drools a lot and chews on everything, and has been really irritable. He went almost a week smiling very infrequently except when he was in the bathtub, I always get lots of smiles during his baths. Yesterday I got my happy baby back though, it was wonderful.

I've all but given up on my class, I'm not really getting anything out of it, but I'm still doing well enough to make sure that I pass. Less than a month left, then I get to put this behind me. Although, I really ought to be puttin gmore effort into it, especially because I'M GOING TO GERMANY!!! They had told us that we would be going to Alaska, but apparently the Alaska assignment went to someone else, and so Dean requested Germany, and his request got approved, and the official orders came yesterday. So, we'll be heading for Germany next February, and staying for a year. This means that Dean will have to extend his contract with the army a few months, but that's not too long, and then he'll be getting out for good.

Edited later that day:
So... I was told a few weeks ago that I was going to Alaska. At first I was nervous and worried, but after a few days, the idea grew on me and I was excited to go. About a week later I was told that we weren't going to Alaska... disappointment... but this was broken a few hours later when I was told of the possibility that we might go to Germany. I refused to get my hopes up until the orders came through. Then the orders did, and I was very very excited. But then this morning we found out that this Germany trip wouldn't be one year like we thought. It's gonna be three... including another deployment for Dean. We had been planning on going this one year and then Dean getting out of the army forever. No more deployments. But if we go to Germany, it would be three years including another deployment...disappointment... I don't want to do this again. So after some discussion and prayer we decided that we won't be going to go to Germany after all... disappointment... Because Dean is so close to the end of his contract he'll probably be able to get out of this assignment, we're lucky that we have this option, and we're not stuck. We will get another opportunity to go visit Germany sometime, but I can't help but being disappointed.