Being April

These last few days have been way stressful. We've been packing a lot, with tons of help from Heather and Daniel I think we might actually finish in time. Dean's last day of work was last Monday. This was his last day in the Army after over nine years. He has signed up to be in the Army reserves, and the plan was to go to school and then rejoin the army as an officer... but plans change... daily it seems. Dean got an email from the Green River WY police department the other day, and since then he has been thinking more and more that maybe he'll just go work for them instead of go up to BYU-I. Well, considering that moving day is in two days and tomorrow we're packing up the truck, we will still be going up to Rexburg, but we might only be there for six months. I guess it takes a lot of time for the police department to process applications, and do physical tests, and psychological analysis, and interviews etc. And Dean has to take a spelling t...

DJ is 22 months old now, he'll be turning two in November, but that isn't stopping him from having a two year old attitude. Every day is full of screaming and crying and me trying desperately to figure out just what it is that he wants. He's talking more and more when he's happy, but when he's upset about something he won't say a single word to give me a clue as to what is wrong. He will often reach for something that is just inches in front of him, but cry as though he just can't reach it, and if I try to hand it to him or move him closer to it he'll scream all the more. I finally just yesterday figured out that the tantrums that he has been throwing all week at naptime were not because he didn't want to take a nap, but because he didn't like the specific sippy cup that I gave him. Apparently he wants a specific kind of sippy cup when he goes to sleep, and as long as he has one of that kind, he's happy and goes to s...