Randy & Liz

Noah & Daddy on Skype!  This was one expensive phone call!!!

This summer Noah has decided that he likes to wear his sunglasses~ yay! 

Noah doing a little remodeling in the kitchen while I'll look away for .2 seconds.  Notice we don't have any cute little magnets on our fridge?  I just realized it today so I'm hoping they didn't go out with last weeks trash. 

The base library has a program called "United Through Reading" and I think it is amazing!  Randy went in and read a few books to Noah on camera and they created a DVD for us.  Now we have something to watch every night while I give him his milk and rock him to sleep.  We used to lay him in bed and he's fall asleep on his own, but I love that he's been falling asleep to Daddy's voice the last few nights! 

Just a random video from this week!

This week has been incredibly busy for us!  Noah started swim lessons and they are every afternoon here on base.  He loves it and he's definitely the only one in the class who makes shark sounds while he swims (doo-doot, doo-doot, doo-doot!).  It's really funny! 

Even though all the images were taken with my phone, I'm going to try to do better at posting images for Randy.  Our daytime/nighttime is about as opposite as could be with the time change.  I have no idea how often he'll be able to use a computer, but if he ever has down time during the day I want him to be able to look at new images of Noah and see what he's been up to. 

As for that expensive phone call, well it was pretty darn expensive!  Love if you are reading this before I have a chance to talk to you then surprise!  Don't worry though, I was able to get the balance lowered....much lower!  Anyway, what would you guess two Skype calls would cost from your husband who was in Ireland?  Double our normal bill?  No, it was more than double.  Hint: factor in that we didn't have an international data plan at the time.  Maybe a couple hundred dollars?  Nope~ $1500 something!

I nearly fell off the couch and couldn't do anything but laugh when the AT&T lady called me.  Are you serious?  $1500 for two phone calls?!  They had emailed me the day before asking that I call them due to "excessive international charges on our account".  I "knew" that phone call was probably going to cost $75-$100, but it was going to be the last phone we had for awhile so we didn't mind.  For every deployment we have always done this, but it has never been anywhere close to that amount!  She was really nice and helped me lower our bill by adding on the international data plan (which I can turn back off next month).  She told me the new amount, but I was just so thankful it wasn't $1500 anymore that I don't even remember what she said.  I'm guessing our bill will be about double though.  Live and learn right?!

We were SO happy to wake up to an email from him today!  He is safely where he will remain for the next 6-7 months.  They are busy taking over from the unit they are replacing so I'm guessing he is going to be pretty busy for awhile.  He said they do have phones, but he wasn't sure when they'd be able to use them.  I saw a good friend yesterday and her husband just got home about a week ago.  She received 6 phone calls the entire time her husband was gone.  I don't know where he was at exactly, but I pray Randy has better access to communication than that.  If not, how are we ever going to name this baby girl?

I just want to thank everyone again for the phone calls and the prayers!  I think the three of us are doing the best we can, but it's still just so heartbreaking at this point.  Noah misses his Daddy so much and asks for him all the time :(  Anyway, if you could keep the prayers coming that would be great! 


(It's late and I'm headed to bed so I didn't proof anything that I wrote~ sorry for all the typos!)