Bath Time!

Tommy LOVES being in the bath tub. When we start getting him ready to get in, he gets so excited! So today Justin put him in and then blew bubbles for him to play with. He didn't really know what to think of them. He now says mama, dada, shakes his head no, clicks his tongue when we do, waves, and pulls himself up and stands, and dances. We just can't believe how fast he's learning things! It's really hard for me too, because now when I put him to bed, he says mama over and over. It just breaks my heart! He has 4 teeth in, and he's getting more so he has a hard time sleeping without a little infant's tylenol. But he's really interested in food, and he eats well. He wants to eat whatever we're eating, but his favorite thing is baby carrots. Here is a video of Tommy saying mama and climbing on a box!

Justin's Graduation

Justin graduated July 10th! The ceremony was really good. In the beginning they had a short movie play, with real clips of soldiers in Iraq and interviews. It was so good that I teared up. After that they had a guest speaker, I can't remember his name but he was of very high rank and very important here at Redstone Arsenal. Then they had the soldiers come up and get their diplomas. I have a video of it, but it's not loading right. So here are some pictures instead.

There wasn't a huge crowd there, but there were only 25 graduates so they weren't expecting a lot of people. It lasted about an hour, and during the whole thing Tommy was saying "dada". Afterwards we got a lot of people coming up to us and talking about it.

So Justin is done with training! It seemed like it would never end, his training was the longest training there is, which was 10 months. So we're all coming down to AZ on the 23rd to pick up furniture and see family, we get back to Alabama on the 28th, we have our things here being picked up on the 29th, and we leave for Germany on the 30th. So we're going to be pretty busy at the end of this month. Right now we're waiting for me and Tommy's passport. We're not sure if they will be here in time. If not, Justin will have to leave without us, and Tommy and I will leave as soon as our passports come in. We're really hoping that's not going to happen. But they should get here in time.