Holy busy month, Batman.

The official start to summer came barreling in and hasn’t slowed down since.

We kicked off the month celebrating Taz’s 8th birthday. I’m still in awe that she’s 8 and has changed so much.

My Gramps and Grammys celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary and the rehab center threw them a little personal party.

Then we celebrated Little Man’s 2nd birthday! It definitely doesn’t feel like he should be 2 already.

Little Man also had his 2 year check up and his last scheduled vaccine until school (minus the flu shot he gets every year). He now weighs 26.8lbs and is 34 inches tall.

His doctor this visit did an excellent job making me feel like the worst mom ever because he’s not saying 50 words yet and he has been sleeping in our bed. I was unimpressed with her bedside manner, to say the least. But, we did get a referral to a speech therapist for an evaluation, just to make sure there isn’t anything developmentally going on.

Thankfully that visit went smoothly and the therapist thinks he’s just a late talker. We will start going to therapy twice a week in July. Hopefully after a few sessions, we’ll have the tools to help him gain more words and use them more regularly. He has picked up a few words this month (within days of getting evaluated) and uses them like he should.

Of course my parents came to visit and helped us celebrate with a back yard party the following weekend.

We had a John Deere themed party this year as he’s obsessed with his tractors.

After his party, we were invited to a pool party as a last hurrah for our friends the Hozas. Sadly (for us) they moved to Georgia so our usual plans of boating at the end of June/early July have been thwarted. We really miss them and hope they have the best of luck in their new place!

Later, we didn’t do much to celebrate Father’s Day, but we did squeeze in a Daddy and Me photo shoot as a benefit for a local soldier/dad battling leukemia.

Those two really hammed it up and had a great time in their Ninja Turtle RSVLTS.

The weather has been extremely hot and dry, so a good chunk of the month has been spent playing in the water.

The rest of the month was a bunch of appointments for myself, Indie, and the Mister with not much room for anything else.

The Mister had his formal hearing with the medical board. He was found fit for duty, so we are thankful for that! The only downside is that now he can receive orders to move again and is deployable. We are hoping to stick it out here so our next move will be our last, but as ever, it’s just a wait and see.

It’s just nice to have an answer and not be in a constant state of limbo. Now it’ll just be the normal state of hurry up and wait. Haha.

July is looking like it’ll be another toned down month. We’re reworking our budget so there won’t be room for many extra excursions for awhile. Plus, gas prices are sky-high so we don’t need to be out all over the place. We’ll be doing enough running around the next few weeks anyway with Little Man’s speech therapy sessions, in addition to working on getting him used to his own bed again. Hoping for a smooth transition and that he’ll take to therapy without much hardship (he’s so dang smart, I think he’ll be fine!).

Until then,

Cheers!

–A. xoxo