This is also more of a follow up to my most recent posts. Jacob is now regular crawling. Army crawling days are over. He started to do this at Easter. He would still revert to the army crawling every now and then, but now I don't see him revert to it at all anymore. He is trying to stand a lot more, so I know will be any day when he will be standing up on his own w/o holding onto something for support. He also is cutting his 7th tooth. It is on the bottom - to the left of the middle two. Emily had a great birthday party. Some of the people that RSVPd didn't show, but thats ok. She still had a great day. Princess Belle came by to wish her a happy birthday and stayed for an hour. She sang songs with the girls, did a craft (they made little magic wants - will post a pic), played a game (she would hide a rose taken from her hair and the girls would have to ask each other if they had the rose). They had a good time with the game, but Emily kept trying to cheat. She tried to keep peeking. She was supposed to be keeping her eyes closed. Belle also helped with the cake, then did a little ceremony and made all the little girls princesses. After Belle left Emily asked if all the princessess' are coming to her party. I told her no, just Belle. She was a little disapointed in that, but she got over it quickly. She thought she was so cool that Belle came to her party. It was pretty cute. Almost had a cake fiasco though. I had a lady that decorates cakes as a hobby making Emily's cake. I wanted a princess castle and I just knew I wouldn't have enough time to get it done on top of everything else I needed to do for the party. So that is why I outsourced it. Well, the cake lady called me at noon on Saturday to tell me that her son has been in the ER all morning due to a very high fever and that she was sorry but had no way to finish up the cake. So, there we were 2 hours till the party with no cake! Luckily, I had just recently found a cupcake bakery (signed up Pretson to do a cupcake decorating class there). So, I called these people. I explained to them my delimna. They were awesome! Was told everything would be ready in an hour. All the girls and all the parents that ate a cupcake loved them! So, it all worked out ok. Wasn't the cake I originally had planned but still worked out great! Dean has so far been pulled from the deployment list - yeah!!! So, unless things change - he will not be deploying! He is a little sad about this, but I think he will be ok! Preston is doing super great at school. He is getting green almost every day. (On a scale of green = best, yellow = need to do better, red = unacceptable behaviour, and black = you are being so bad you are not even on the chart). I hope the days of red and black are completely behind us. Don't like getting a phone call from the teacher to tell me how bad he is being in class. Not a good call. But, he seems to have gotten past all that and is doing such a great job. He has already been rewarded with Chuck E Cheese once for getting green two weeks in a row. He is trying to get his next two weeks in a row, so he can go again. This weekend is a carnival on the base. So, he is really excited about that. Emily just wants to ride the pony. She loves horses so much. So, will leave Jacob with Dean and take Preston and Emily to the carnival this weekend. Dean has no interest in going - that is why am leaving him with Jacob. Preston might just be tall enough to ride all the rides. If he isn't yet, he should get there pretty soon. He is getting so big. He still thinks fart sounds are the funniest things in the world! I think it is annoying, but I also will be sad when the day comes that he doesn't think they are that funny anymore. I hope I still have a few more years with his laugh! It will be a sad day when his voice starts to change and his laugh changes with it.
