getting used to this

can you believe i've been thinking the last few minutes about all the stuff i want to talk about? i guess i think i have an audience here!

so anyway, cade is down for a nap. i can't believe how happy i am that he's sleeping through the night now. he's 13 months and until about 2 weeks ago, he'd only slept through the night about 3 or 4 times. and that was like 8pm til 4am...about 8-9 hours. now he'll sleep from 8am til 7ish. sometimes earlier, sometimes later.

however teething is a long process for him. i secretly think it's b/c he's male, that he's so fussy and grumpy from his teeth. he currently has 2 on the bottom and one on top. i think he's getting 1 or 2 more on the bottom and his other front top one. i remember reese got all 4 top ones at once but it didn't seem to bother her near this much. we're going on 8 days here with cade. arg.

rob is back at work. he's at the war college in newport, RI. only 3 months left there. :( i think this is harder on the wives, what with having to actually SEE our husbands and then when they go back to real work, having to adjust to navy life again. i know i got used to having my husbans home for 3 day weekends and by 4pm everyday. and the 2 months off for summer break was just unreal. we've realized that rob will NEVER have that again until he retires at around age 70. hope he made good use of it! rob has really enjoyed attending the college i think. the only bad part is that it's an hour away. with gas here in town about $2.65/gal (it went up 5 cents overnight), it's starting to concern us a bit. the part i miss is that all the wives are also an hour away so i'm really not getting to know any other women. but i'm not going to pack up, sell the house and relocate an hour away and then have to move back to this area in a year. (rob will return to the groton base this november, as an instructor for subschool.)

i imagine you'll find i'm pretty random when i type. since having kids, i've discovered i have a short attention span. i either get bored, get distracted, or get sleepy. i think i'm a night owl, trying to live with children who like to get up at 6am. i think this is a genetic trait from rob and i wonder why HE doesn't get up with them if he's so damn happy in the morning. at least he used to be. when we first started living together he was so happy in the am...now he's just your average grumpy person. :( makes me miss it, b/c i've always been grumpy and him being sunshiny in the morning made my mornings a little easier.

anyway, i better go shower while cade's sleeping. it's wonderful weather today, cool and partly cloudy...wonder what to do? the local park is closed (bastards)...it'd be neat to haul the kids to the zoo in RI. hmmm....wish i would have planned this better, then cade could have taken a nap in the car on the way there and rob could have met us afterward. :/ it's only an hour-ish away.

maybe i'll go research it...bye ;)