2009 is going to be Crazy

Wow, 2009 is already starting out crazy!

Alexis had her 18 month well appt. last week. Everything is going good. She is 23.7 lbs and 33 inches long. According to her percentile she is tall and lean like daddy. I think she is creepy into that terrible two's stage. I have been having my work cut out for me=)

Cal went to back to work on Monday and we both have been adjusting back to it. His complaint...."I just can't get a snack anytime I want now." I am glad that is his only complaint. With him going back to work, I am getting back into working out. I have been doing an aerobics class then a yoga class on Monday and Friday and then on Wednesdays I have my spinning class, which I absolutely love. Alexis is in daycare while I work out. I am glad she is back in for a couple hours a week. I need that small break from her, as much as I am sure, she needs it from me. Plus, I think it helps so much in building up socialization skills and her immune system=)

And to add to the crazziness, Cal has volunteered me to be the Rear-Detachments FRG leader. I didn't really want to do it, but no one else is wanting to and the FRG is so important. For those that don't know what it is.....FRG stand for Family Readiness Group. It is a group for each company in the Army where the spouses get together to pass information and to support each other during deployments. Fortunately for me, Cal is not deploying this year becuase of his back, but he is now the head rear-d guy for his batallion. Rear detachment is a group of soldiers that stay at the homefront while the other soldiers deploy. Most of the time rear-d is made up of guys for various reasons cannot deploy (like Cal with his back). So overall, my job is to take care of the spouses whose husbands are on rear-d and also new guys checking into the Brigade. I'll have to orientate their spouses to the base, area, and Army lifestyle before their soldier deploys. I have my work cut out for me, but it will keep me busy and then when I do finally go back to work, it will look great on the resume.

Well to wrap up, here is a pic of Alexis and I at Chuck E Cheese's yesterday for a little girls birthday that we are in a playgroup with. Alexis was being a crank butt and didn't want to take this picture. And then I thought the pic was done being taken and looked up to see what it looked like, and as you can see the picture wasn't done being taken. I couldn't get Alexis to get another one done. So here is our end result