We've loved having our precious Samantha here!! Eric still has mixed feelings about her, but loves holding her when it comes time to say prayers at night. If one of us is snuggling Samantha for longer then he would like, he comes over picks her up and brings her (with a little help) to the other parent so he can snuggle instead. Eric is also learning all of her cries and will come running with whatever he thinks she needs. Most of the time it's exactly what she wants, and sometimes it's him running to steal her binky. Matt has loved having her here and has been smitten since the moment she arrived! If she makes any noise at all he jumps to take care of her! It's adorable!
So far she's doing pretty good about sleeping at night, we've been lucky so far, the most she's ever waken up has been twice! I feel so incredibly blessed that both of my kids are good sleepers. And a little shocked that they can both sleep through artillery rounds that shake the house but wake up the second you open their bedroom door... go figure... I'm hoping that I will be able to get the princess sleeping all night before we start the trek home but if not we will survive.
Other then the addition of a new little angel, things have been pretty slow around here. I'm starting to miss more things about home (ie family, having a normal size fridge and freezer, my own washer dryer, Zupas, Cafe Rio, GOOD Chinese food, my bed...) and having only 75 days left here isn't helping my wish to be home! However, I've enjoyed the time here with with just our little family. It's been a huge change to live outside of Utah for me. I'm starting to feel more comfortable with Lawton, however I'm still very cautious about what we do at night. I'm also very very grateful to be LDS and not interested in getting drunk, as most of the problems that military personnel have had with people from Lawton has happened either at a bar, near a bar, or when someone was drunk. So I've felt very blessed to not have to worry as much about the potential of problems from there. Other then that I think that it's been good to have this time for Matt and I, but I'm ready for it to be over and to be back home in my own space and with my family. I didn't know what it meant to be homesick really until I came here. But the princess is calling for some attention so I'll try writing again soon!
