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Good News / Bad News

As most of you know, Jason has been suffering with a shoulder injury and today he was told that they suggest he waits another month before starting the course to give himself more time to heal. So, that's ANOTHER month away from us...but the somewhat good news is that it seems like his unit has had their deployment moved up to February of 2011 instead of 2012. That means that Jason would just join them when he is done training in October or November of 2011, which is less time deployed and closer to be home full time with us!!! But, then again, we're talking about the Army and anything can happen and change at a moments notice.

The other upside is that Jason will have a month with nothing to do up at Bragg and no roommate so the boys and I will travel up there for a couple of weeks in August. It will be fun to be up there with him for a bit and experience the active Army lifestyle. Plus, I'm hoping to check out the furniture stores up there and get some ideas of things to fill up the rest of this house!



Last week, Grandma Christy sent the boys some stuff in the mail and one of the things was a coloring book. Although it was for Jack, Ethan was keeping his eye on it. He wants to do everything that Jack does, so I had Jack give him a crayon and Ethan did his first coloring! Of course it was just basically a line but he did it none-the-less and LOVED it. They spent quite a bit of time on the floor together coloring.


It's great seeing Ethan starting to do all these things that he should be doing. Stuff that has been so long coming. He's pulling up a lot more (which is still not much) but with Ethan, he waits until he can do something perfectly before he does it at all. Our PT says that walking typically comes around age 2, so I know it's coming. I can't wait for it but at the same time, I know life will be even more challenging then!

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