We have a WONDERFUL announcement!

Today Alan was officially taken off of his medication! Which means that in two weeks he can come off of his monitor! This is such a blessing for us. I think for both Matt and me, we can finally feel like parents and not so much like his nurses. I know this sounds rather odd but we are just so excited to have a "normal" baby now. No more trying to force his disgusting caffiene down his throat. No more taking his monitor band off to put neosporin on his blisters under his arms. Hopefully in two weeks no more running into his bedroom because Alan's monitor band shifted and set off his alarm. I know that once he is off his monitor I will be a nervous wreck for the first few nights but I can deal with that.

Here is Alan in his big boy chair looking at one of his Baby Einstein books from "Aunt" Erinn and Julia! :)


Sporting our new outfit that Daddy got! Shame that he threw up all over it and Daddy couldn't see him in it. :(

Helping Mommy make brownies for Mr. Gavin and Miss Lesley. Yes he does look like he wants to dive right in and have some!

He is all ready to help...just don't take the chocolate from me! I want my chocolate! :)

Another great thing that has happened, Matt has taken his first two tests in Power School and received a 3.70 and 3.82 on them! He is currently third in his section for overall GPA. I am so very proud of him! Even if it means that I only get two seconds to talk to him each day. :)

Oh and on Monday we are going to have a really exciting day! Alan and I are going to have lunch and go to the outlet mall with Tina and her son Brayden. I met Tina on the Knot's Military Brides board and I actually knew her hubby when I was in the Navy. Our ceiling is getting fixed by people that ACTUALLY know what they are doing and our bathtub is also getting fixed. The caulking in our tub was cracking and water was leaking through it and getting under the tiles. Yes I know that tiled showers suck horribly. But they tried to come out and fix it earlier but that totally didn't work so they pulled all the old caulk out and are going to let it dry over the weekend. Then they will come and fix it on Monday. So it is a good thing that we are going out for lunch because Alan can't be in the apartment while they are working on everything.

Here is what our ceiling looks like. The dark area is the new water leak and the rectangle area that is a slightly darker shade is where they fixed it last week. All of that is coming out on Monday!

So that is all the excitement we have had in the last few hours. Today really was a rollercoaster of emotions. Matt and I are going to hang out on the couch now and decompress from the day.

The Ceiling is Falling! The Ceiling is Falling!

The ceiling is falling has been our "motto" for the past few weeks. Shortly after we moved into our new apartment in South Carolina, we got several inches of rain in a short amount of time causing our ceiling to leak. Long story short, we found out that someone in our building put a satelite dish right above the leaky spot...holes in shingles causes water to damage the boards under the shingles, water leakes through boards onto our ceiling and down the wall. The roofers came and fixed what they could of the roof until the dish was taken down and contractors came in and fixed our ceiling and wall. Sooo we THOUGHT everything was taken care of and no problems....right? Wrong. This past Friday we recieved over 6 inches of rain in less than 24 hours. Guess what started leaking? Yep that's right! Our ceiling started leaking and this time is was bad enough that the ceiling started cracking. YIKES! Water was dripping from the ceiling and down the back of the wall after they just came in and fixed everything. So looks like we are getting even more of our wall and ceiling fixed. At least they are really cooperative here about getting it done well. Not necessarily quickly but they do a good job on it. Now we have 2 holes and a decent sized brown spot on our ceiling and several brown spots on the wall from the water. The roof was totally fixed yesterday because the dish came down on Saturday. Next thing is the wall and ceiling but we have to wait for it to dry out a little bit before they come to fix it. Guess this time Alan and I will be out of the apartment for a full day. Lets hope that Amber doesn't have her baby before then so we have a place to stay. :) I feel like Chicken Little now.

So I decided to start blogging.

Since everyone else is doing the whole blogging thing I decided to jump on the bandwagon. Hopefully this is easier to do than sending out multiple emails on how everything is going at our house.
Currently, as some of you know, Alan is 4 months old! We went in for his 4 month well baby check up on Friday and he is 13 lbs and 24in. The Dr. was concerned about his gross motor skills or rather lack thereof. So we have someone from early intervention coming to do an evaluation of Alan this week. Depending on the results from the evaluation Alan may be starting physical or occupational therapy or both. But on a positive note, we will have the respiratory therapist come to check his apnea monitor tomorrow and we should know, hopefully this week ,when he can come off of the medication and monitor!! Matt and I are very excited about that.

Matthew started Nuclear Power School last Monday and had his first test today. We should find out how he did tonight or tomorrow morning. We are praying that he did well so he can come off of manditory study hours.