We are moving to England! In August!! This is going to be CRAZY! I'm so excited :) I can not WAIT to see castles and museums and architecture and ALL the touristy things I've only seen in movies and books- in person!!! (I've never left the US!) Luckily I've been pruning Naomi for a few years with "Peppa Pig" (a cartoon on Nick Jr. featuring a British little pig family.) I always felt I was possibly "preparing her" when she watched that. Just thought that *maybe* one day such exposure could come in handy. :) And actually yesterday she repeated Peppa and said, "This is brilliant!" I can't wait for Bryson to get an accent seeing as how he will learn to talk over there! When I told Naomi Peppa lives in London she said she wants to go to London to visit Peppa. I said Peppa is not real and is just on TV but that we could still go to London and see castles like Peppa did! Now she's excited, too! Oh and she says she wants to go fishing because she keeps hearing me tell people we are going to Lakenheath....so she thinks we are going to a LAKE. Lakenheath is the name of the base the Bryant will be stationed at- but we will most likely live in a town called Bury St Edmunds. We will be there for THREE years! Visitors welcome!
This picture may not look like much to anyone else, but to me it is my "Ahhhhh" picture. My "I made it" (through another first year and halfway through another deployment) picture. Ironically it was taken on Jan 5- the day that marks four months that Bryant has been deployed and I've been on my own with both of these munchkins. I've been breathing easier lately; finally feeling "caught up" with things and just more relaxed. Now that Naomi and Bryce are one and (almost) four it really IS easier!! (Plus after 4 month it gets easier doing it alone, too.) All the exhaustion is worth it, though. I've always wanted this picture to be my life: My own two little kids eating their snacks at their little table together. Life's simple pleasures :)
By the way: the little brown chair is our newest furniture purchase- Bryson was always sitting in Naomi's little chair so we found him one. Except since it's new Naomi likes it and it's a little high for Bryson so he still picks her pink one ;)
