The last month

Last month the Caudle clan got to go to Portland for Easter. Lucy and I went home before Kyle started his finals so he could have some quiet around the house to study and stuff. We both very much agree that it's impossible for either of us to get anything done when the other one is home. It's just so much more fun to hang out with each other or play with Lucy than it is to do grown up stuff. Anyways I was home for about 5 days before Kyle joined us. My Kyle-less time was mostly spent with my family. Lucy got to spend some quality time with Grandma Lori and Uncle Nicky which she so much adored. We also discovered that her stranger anxiety has pretty much developed into facial hair anxiety. Weird I know. My dad has grown a goatee since the last time we were home and she was terrified of it. Anytime she was around him she would not take her eyes off of it. It was kind of funny actually. But since the whole reason we decided to go home was because Kyle's brother Don is getting deployed and that would be the last time we see him until next spring when Kyle got there it was all his family all the time. It was during Easter weekend so we had fun with an Easter egg hunt, family dinners, church and lots of games (and of course Blazer games.) Also thanks to my wonderful sister in law Vivienne we started a hopefully annual family Easter program. Being home makes us both so excited for next month to be able to be in Portland for the whole summer. I miss both of our families like crazy all the time and I wish so much that Lucy could be around her cousins more. Only a year left I guess then we'll be back. At least Lucy won't even be 2 yet. It's all for the best though! I just have to keep telling myself that this is where we need to be right now and we'll see where life takes us later on. For now I'll be counting down the days until we go home again in June!

I also celebrated my 22nd birthday on the 28th. It was pretty low key which is fine with me. Kyle let me sleep in and got up with Lucy and made me breakfast. Then for Lunch we went out to eat to a steak place and it was delicious. Kyle unfortunately had to work from 3-1030 so it was just me and my Lu for the rest of the day. I'm not complaining though she's pretty good company. It sure beat my last 2 birthdays though. Two years ago Kyle had just gotten home from his mission so we hadn't been together for my birthday in a long time. I took the day off of work and we planned a fun day to just spend together and he ended up with food poisoning all day long. It was a blast. Then last year I was so pregnant and emotional. I had just developed my awful pregnancy rash and I was miserably itching from head to toe. I had a doctor appt that day and I was looking forward to it all week because I thought that they were going to help me. So I go in and almost break down crying telling the midwife about how misserable I am and she totally didn't believe me. She just said I don't think it's what you think (which it totally was) and she just said lets see you in a week or so and see how you're doing. That alone ruined my day because I knew I was going to be miserable for the next week before she believed me. I sat on the couch crying and watching tv the rest of the day. By the way when I went in the next week she still didn't believe me and set me up with a dermatologist who ended up doing a biopsy and we confirmed I was right the whole time. Anyways! To make a long story longer this year was much better. I keep thinking to myself that I got engaged at 19, married at 20, first baby at 21 what's in store for 22???

Lucy is now 10 months old and learning something new everyday. Her favorite thing to do right now is dancing. Anytime she hears anything with any sort of a beat she's dancing to it. Even hymns at church. We found these toy maracas yesterday and now she loves to shake those while she's dancing. She's also getting really close to walking. She's cruising all around the furniture, pushes things by walking and can walk holding only one of my hands. We'll see when she decides to do it on her own. We also rearranged our living room today for the probably 6th time in the last 3 months trying to keep up with her every growing urge to get into anything possible.

Kyle has started spring term and it's so relaxed and wonderful. He only has 2 classes. He is working a lot more too which is also wonderful. The weather has been so nice lately that Lucy and I have been taking jogs down to campus twice a day to bring him lunch and dinner. So we get to see him and I get my exercise in! His work is also so relaxed that we end up just hanging out with him for like an hour and Lu just gets to crawl around in the classrooms he cleans. He's also on inter-mural softball and ultimate frisbee teams and we have gotten to go to some of his day time games which has been fun.

Well that's pretty much our life right now!