too many things at once!!

hello!

well, today was just -- busy. I got a bit of cleaning done, and then I played with Travis for a little bit. Tried to find that damn scan disk that i lost-- I got nowhere. I then found out my parents were going out tonight with the next door neighbors-- Mike and Mel. So i had to finish cleaning for them in case they ended up coming over afterwards.

..So my parents end up going out. Kimo is all pissed off because of it, and Travis of course wants to play with him. Well Kimo nearly bit the crap out of him. So I'm like freaking out. (If you knew Kimo, you would understand) Well, then i'm cleaning out the bathroom, after i separate the dog and the baby and then Travis starts acting up. I start putting things in the drawers, and then he kept opening them, so then i put his potty all back together and clean it-- and then turn around, and Travis had put a tube of toothpaste and nail clippers down the toilet. FUN STUFF right there. Then I'm telling him that he shouldn't do that, and he goes and kicks me. I say NO and he goes and bites me. I put him in time out. He laughs about it. Again. FUN STUFF.

I decided to bring him upstairs with me, while i go through Tyler and I's clothes so that we can get rid of some. Well, i'm doing this out in the hallway where our big chest of clothes is. Travis is in my room, as I am thinking he is playing. I go to check on him, and he pulled ALLLLL of the clean clothes that i just folded and put in the hamper and on the bed and threw them ALLLL over the place. yes, yes he did. Then i'm telling him he needs to help clean them up with me. He does so. I go back out to the hallway, and notice that Kimo has pooped alll over Tyler's clothes and allll down the stairs. So i go to clean all of that up. I finish and then come back upstairs-- well-- Travis apparently wanted to read a book and couldn't decide on which one...so he just took 3 shelves of books off the shelves..... omg. By this time I had enough. It was about 9:00ish.. and so i lay Travis down and he fell asleep after about 20 min. 10 minutes later i get that call from Tyler. He sounds horrible. I hate hearing that sadness in his voice. It just makes it harder for me to ignore my feelings. His first sergeant apparently pulled him out today and says "wow, i had no idea that you are the colonel's son in law" .. yeeahhh. haha. my dad had called him today about the graduation. :P

But anyway, he only had about 5 min. to talk because he had a million things to do. :/ he couldn't hold it together this time. I told him that I was thinking i was just going to fly out a few times rather than move down there. Because it really would save a lot of money. That's when he broke down. I told him tho that i was gunna be out there for my bday-- and thanksgiving and he would be home for xmas. He told me how much he loved me.. which is always sooo good to hear. He sounds a lot worse than me. Then again-- he's not really BUSY right now. It's all the waiting around in a room thing right now. When he gets to basic, that'll keep his mind off of us for a little bit. It was good hearing his voice for the 5 min. that i did though. It reminds me that I will be getting out of here soon.

Anyway-- after getting off of the phone with him..my parents came home. They decided to go out for a "cigar"-- meaning my mom had to have a cig. and my dad had the cigar. Which then made Kimo go crazy-- and wake the baby. So now he is up. So now i can't go to bed until he falls asleep. I guess that's what I am going to go do now!

Gnight!

Make the time go by faster...

Today was just, depressing. I woke up. Fed Travis-- TRIED to feed Travis. He didn't really want anything to eat. We then went to pick up JJ from summer school around 10ish. I was pretty good with keeping my mind off of Tyler. I cleaned a little bit, organized our stuff from the wedding/honeymoon. Then came time for me to look at some of the pictures from the camera scan disks-- where the videos Tyler made for Travis are as well. I picked up the scan disk, then got sidetracked by Travis. Then about an hour later, completely realized I had NO idea where the disk went. I have been looking ALL day. This small disk has every picture on it from the past month plus the videos from Travis. I have NEVER lost something like this. I have been freaking out all day, tearing the couch apart, looking in the bathroom, and through Travis' toys. NOWHERE. I HATE myself for this. I am so mad that I can't find it. It kills me.





Anyway, moving on. Well, the day went on, and I am good up until about 5ish-- then I get antsy, and can't seem to get my mind off of Tyler. I think Travis noticed. We were upstairs in our room. I was cleaning and he was playing. I sat down at one point looking at a picture of us, and wanted to cry... but held it in (yay me!) and Travis came up behind me and wrap his arms around me, and laid his head down on my back.... he's never done that before. It made my day. It made me smile. He then just tilted his head and smiled and yelled "dad dad dad dad dad" haha. It's so weird how babies can sense those things. Absolutely amazing though. God, if he wasn't here with me, i'd be going crazy right now. Here's a picture of him today riding on his little 4 wheeler that Ty and I got him for xmas:





Then I finally get a call from Tyler at about 8pmish. He had called me last night-- and went to "bed".. well, tried to. He told me that as soon as he got off the phone with me, he had just gotten comfortable and one of the drill seargants came in and made them all clean for 3 hours. ouch. espec. because he got up at 3:30 this morning. He then had to go get stuff ready for tomorrow and get a shower and whatnot and then was gunna call me back.

In that time, Travis was absolutely restless and refusing to go to bed. I think because he wanted his daddy. :/ I finally ended up taking him for a walk. We got in and around 9:30-- he FINALLY fell asleep. Which was good because that's when Tyler called me back to say goodnight. This time, the homesickness was coming back. He couldn't hold it in this time... thankfully the guys were all pretty much asleep. He really misses us. We miss him too. He says the stress of the drill seargents arent anywhere near as bad as the homesickness. He didn't really want to get off the phone. But he DEF. needs to get some sleep. I will most likely talk to him tomorrow. After that though-- who knows because that's the day he goes over the the basic training area. :( I'm pretty scared. I'm not really ready for it. But anyway-- well, it's 10:30-- and Trav gets up early, sooo i'm gunna head to bed!!

gnight!!

Jess

The first day

Well, today was the first day we went without Tyler. I think that it was ok for the first half of the morning. My mom and I were talking about maybe it would be a good idea to move down to Georgia for 3 months. So I started looking at apartments. It sucks though because they are either overpriced or right in the middle of Augusta-- which isn't really that nice of a place. When I used to live there, I remember our house was always being broken into. I will keep looking though, I still have about 2 months to really find a place.

Well, this morning when I went to change Travis' diaper, I took it off, and he got up and walked over to a bunch of his folded clean clothes and peed all over them. Then looked at me and smiled. As if I don't have enough laundry to do as it is! He also at one point saw our car, and pointed to it and started yelling for his daddy. :/ I wish he knew what was going on, so that he can know that he WILL be back. I show him his picture all the time. He always smiles. When Tyler called today, he was smiling and pointing to the phone when Tyler was talking to him.

I slept about half the day with Travis. Didn't have much as an appetite either. I try not to think that it's so far away. I try to just think about other things and keep my mind off of him. I wanted to him call all day. My phone has been glued to my hip all day just waiting for him to call. I hadn't spoke with him since 11:30 last night when he was leaving from the airport to go to Fort Jackson. He called me finally at 6:00. He wasn't doing so well. Of course, the first day is always the worst. He was shaken up. EXTREMELY homesick. He couldn't even talk to me for more than a few minutes-- so he went to take a shower to calm down a little bit. I had to hold in my feelings at that point because I know that he has it a lot harder. :/

While he was taking a shower, I was giving Travis a bath. He didn't want a bath today. He was refusing to sit down. If you have ever tried giving Travis a bath, you would know that it takes 2 people. Without Tyler around, it was just an absolute nightmare. Thank GOD he gave me a break afterwards when I was putting lotion and powder on him. Afterwards, he got his burst of energy as always and was wandering around the house aimlessly.

Tyler called back about 40 minutes later. He was a little better, but was saying that more than anything he wanted Travis and I to move down there. He said he wanted to come back home. He will get over that in a few days though. I HOPE! I hope that he enjoys it (as much as he can.) He just says he can't wait to see us at graduation. He really misses Travis. That's the hardest thing for him, is being away from Travis. God, I can't wait to see what Travis is going to be like when he has those days where he's just a daddy's boy, and wants noone but daddy. Blahh, I am dreading it. Anyway, Tyler hadn't had more than 3 hours of sleep for the past 3 days, so he ended up going to bed around 8pm. Most of the guys had already been asleep. Tomorrow he is getting his ACU's. Today he got his haircut, new running shoes, his PT uniform, dental checkup, shots, a camelback and all of that fun stuff. Tomorrow is more paperwork too. Fun stuff, but he should be able to call me for the next 2 days, and then after that-- who knows.

Travis is now just falling asleep it's 9:30. I am feeling SO tired. I don't know why. I guess it's because i'm sad. My body does that a lot, I feel like I have no energy in me. This is going to be SO hard for me. Hopefully the time will just fly by. I guess I will head to bed. I think tomorrow I will take Travis to the park! :)

gnight!

Jess

Shipping off to Basic!

Hello--

So i decided to start this blog because while Tyler (my husband) is away at basic training-- and I don't want him to miss a thing. In case the letters i write to him don't get to him, he will be able to sit and read these when he gets back.

well, lets see. I am 20 years old. I have a 15 month old son. I have been an army brat my entire life-- and have sworn to myself i would NEVER marry into the military. Yet, here I am today-- as my husband ships off to basic and AIT for the army. It began about a year again when he swore into the delayed entry program. Now that he just graduated from high school, here he is today-- shipping off. This morning-- we got to MEPS in Syracuse, and they were doing all of the physicals and paperwork and breifings and whatnot. Then it was Tyler's turn to do the last bit of paperwork-- well now this became a VERY HECTIC day after this. He came back out and said that he is NOT an E-2. Apparently, his seargent had lied and said he did the advance PT test. Tyler was told he didn't need to do that. So it turned into a REALLLYYY big mess. I called my dad (who happens to be a colonel in the army) and he got mad-- and called everyone and started going off. So they stopped everything that was going on to deal with this whole thing. There were questions of if he can get promoted and if he would still ship today. It was very long and stressful. Tyler's recruiter is def. going to be in BIG trouble for this, especially because he had even signed a sworn statement saying Tyler took the advanced PT test. But anyway-- in the end after about 3 hours of everything being delayed-- he got sworn in-- which i have NEVER been so proud of him than i was at that moment. To think of everything he's accomplished in the past year, he's just an amazing person. Then he got the promotion and then we rushed to the airport to meet him there. We got there and hung out with him for about and hour and a half. Travis was very upset when we had to say goodbye to him. I wasn't as bad as I thought I was going to be, at that moment. Later on though-- it hit me. Having your best friend go away for 6 whole months is a lot. I guess I should probably get used to it though.

Travis has all of this energy. Tyler is usually the one to put him to sleep because he's the only one that can get him to sleep instantly. Blahh. He's such a daddy's boy. Tyler made some videos of himself for Travis to watch. So I will show him those everyday. Anywaay-- it's 10:32 pm and Travis is just now falling asleep. I think after this long day today-- I am going to go to bed as well. Hopefully I will hear from Tyler tonight. He said he was going to try to call but he has NO idea where he is going. I hate that. Not knowing where he's going, if he's ok, who he's with. It drives me crazy. Anyway-- I really hope that these 2 months go by really fast!!!

Gnight All!!