Summer's almost over

This is a few of my closest friends here: Bonny, Christina, Angela, and Michelle. Mandy and Jessica couldn't make it to this breakfast playdate, but they should also be in this pic too. (yes, they all sit up straight and look nice and tall, and I'm the short sloucher on the end)


This is Joey's Diego table he got from Mommy and Daddy for his birthday. He never eats off of it, he only eats at the coffee table in the living room.

Everytime he has to wash his hands, he never wants to give up the water time. So I let him sit in the kitchen sink for a few minutes playing with my dirty dishes. He he.
And getting himself soaked.





We might not have many beach days left this year, so we hope to take advantage of all the good weather we get. This is Joey with his buddy Adison today.

Couldn't resist using the styling benefits of ocean water to keep that mohawk stylish.


I love this picture. You can't see it in this shot, but he has his toy monkey and his toy bear in the bucket of water and is hiding them under the water saying "where'd they go mommy?" (well, not exactly like that, but that's what he was trying to say.) It made him happy. He loves his toy monkey. It's always been his favorite animal. When he wants to play animals, he always gives me the bear and him the monkey.



Hilarious profile shot of my little man.


We don't get a lot of contact with Earl, and haven't for quite some time now. He was going through weeks of long hours, then we he finally got a little less busy, he lost the internet he was using to contact me so often. Now he has to use the public computers and system, which apparently doesn't work very well, so he rarely gets to email, and we NEVER get to chat online anymore like we used to. :-( He does call occassionally now, so that's nice, but the Webcam and voice chat online was even better. But he'll be coming home in just a little over a month!

Pictures from our Ft Bragg visit

Here are a few more photos from our time at Angie's, with Angie and Sandrina.






His swimsuit with built in floaties^
(Doesn't really work)


The arm floaties work the best.









Sandrina chilling in front of the TV.

I felt like a silly foreign tourist, taking pictures at the mall, but he had to bring "Green Daddy" and I didn't want to miss any cute moments. Above, he put Green Daddy in the backseat as he drove the truck at the mall (we didn't have any coins, he just got in them and pretended. I don't think he knows they're supposed to move).

Driving a helicopter^



He saw this machine with the stuffed animals inside. He came over to our table, picked up Green Daddy, took him over to the machine, and held him up to see the other stuffed animals. It was the cutest thing, but I didn't have my camera ready.

He's practicing making a two with his fingers. He can do it by himself now.

In the bathtub last night.


Today, watching TV. We haven't done much anything else the past 2 days because of the storms.

I wasn't in the mood to take pictures, but Joey also had a little 'incident' tonight. He was playing quietly in the bath tub, and I went to check my email. When I came back in, he had dumped probably half the water that was in the tub, onto my bathroom floor, along with all 100 bath toys he had in the tub with him. Ugh!

"We Are Family...I got all my sisters with me..."

Okay, so I don't have ALL my sisters with me, but I got to spend the last week with 2 of them, and of course Josiah. We updated his mohawk, so it really looks like a mohawk now:





Loved having you at my house Sandrina! Thanks for keeping us company for a couple weeks. We'll miss you.
And thanks for having us at your house Angie! Have fun in Asheville, and hurry back to us. Me and Joey want to watch his new movies with you. :-)

The Mohawk

I know this isn't a popular decision, but I gave Joey a mohawk yesterday. Well, I took him to get a mohawk, I didn't cut it myself.

Sleepy and grumpy.

After the haircut, they let him put his hand in and grab a toy from the surprise chest. He didn't want to be surprised, he wanted to see what he wanted.

That's how they styled it at the kids salon, but obviously we won't be spiking it like that everyday. I probably could have waited till his hair had gotten a little longer, but it's cute. It definitely matches his crazy personality.

More of Sandrina's Visit

Look at us 3 brown-eyed cuties. :-) Okay, so 2 of them are cuties. 1 of them is an aging former-cutie. He he

On this day, he insisted on taking "green daddy" to the beach.

He can now (usually) make a "2" with his fingers when he's trying to show you he is 2 years old. (He usually needs just a little help getting his thumb to hold down those other fingers). But he does say 2 when you ask him how old he is. And he knows that his mommy and daddy are 29, and that Sandrina is 14. That boy has a good memory.

He knows his name is Joey Roberts, and he can also say Josiah Roberts. He calls me Mommy Roberts, but also sometimes says Gail Roberts. And he knows his daddy's other name is Earl Roberts, not just Daddy Roberts. Ha! he cracks me up.

He still talks in his sleep. He's still in the crib (I can't imagine ever getting him to stay in bed once he switches to a big boy bed).

Right now, our plans are going to be for Earl to get stationed overseas doing MSG duty at an embassy. This will only happen if we can work it around my back surgery, and if the timing works out. I am trying to schedule my surgery sooner rather than later, so that I can be recovered in time to move after Earl completes the 8 week MSG school in VA next year (sometime around March possibly). I will keep updating as we get more information. Right now, everything is up in the air, and nothing is in writing. Earl's orders got denied to stay here at Lejeune, since they don't have any spots for his rank at the moment to be an instructor at SOI here, so that's how all our plans went astray. God must have chuckled a little when He watched us make these plans, us thinking we'd be in this same spot for at least 6 more years. He he. We're trying to roll with the punches and not let it stress us out too bad. But we will be sad to move so far away from family and friends for 3 years. That will be tough. But if there's a chance we'd get stationed somewhere like California or somewhere equally as far, then I'd rather get take the opportunity to live overseas. If we're going to have to be far away from family, then might as well enjoy the perks of military life, and get to see another country. Keep us in your prayers. Love to all!