What goes vroom?

We've had a heck of a week here in California. We're moving to Lakeside, tomorrow, which I'm so excited about. The housing people pulled through, much to our apartment manager's dismay, and found us a place in a much nicer, safer neighborhood. I pick up the keys at 8:30 AM, yay!

Also, we sold Kiefer's car Tuesday morning. The performance and quality of his 97 Jetta had gone down hill since he got home from deployment. The clutch had to be replaced, the tires/alignment had to be redone, 2 windows stopped working, and the door lock broke, making the security system turn off the ignition switch, so at one point--Kiefer couldn't even drive his car. Well, Kiefer fixed all of those things and put it on Craigslist for just a little more than what we owed on it. Someone bought it Tuesday morning, and we've been looking at SUVs and trucks since last month in anticipation of selling his car.
We test drove quite a few, and couldn't figure out exactly what it is we were looking for. Then yesterday just for giggles, I went on to Cars.com and there was this ad for a pretty little 2008 Jeep Patriot. The price was significantly cut, because it was a car that had been on the lot for 45 days and was about to go to auction if they couldn't sell it, so we drove downtown to test drive it.
Then we bought it!
Her name is Jenny (said with a Forrest Gump accent) the Jeep. We really like her, ha. Hunter has tons of room in the backseat, which he was kind of squished in the Cavalier in his big Britax in that tiny back seat. She gets way better gas mileage than the Cavalier, at 24/29 mpg, compared to the Cavalier's 18/23 mpg. Since Kiefer will be carpooling mostly in the new neighborhood, and I have severe anxiety in the Cavalier since my wreck, she'll be my daily driver and our family vehicle, with Kiefer taking her whenever he needs the backseat (the seats lay down and can hold a kayak if we so choose, lol).
Obviously, we're very excited!
And Hunter? Well, he just wants to watch Mickey Mouse.

Not So Much Fun

I hate this state.

No really, I do.... No more "just give it a chance, you'll begin to love it." Bah humbug.
We had an attempted break in yesterday, and it was probably one of the scariest moments of my life.
Hunter and I were playing in our living room watching the television at 10:42 yesterday morning and Ryker (the boy I babysit) was asleep upstairs, when the alarm system started to sound. I ran upstairs with Hunter and locked the doors, and called 911. The 911 dispatcher had me go downstairs and check the house because the police had another call across town and were too busy to come out unless I could physically spot an intruder (I've complained to La Mesa PD about this) and I looked through the house (locked the boys upstairs), the only thing I could see was the door from the garage was unlocked but not open and the garage door was closed also. The screen door was cracked open but the sliding glass door was still closed in the kitchen. The dispatcher was nice enough to stay on the phone with me while I checked the house and got off the phone and called National Public Safety and they said they were sending a security guard out. After I called them, I hung up and called the apartment's office to let them know what was going on, she blew me off basically telling me it was the "crazy times" we were living in. About 30-35 minutes after, the security guard showed up, and was very polite and nice. He checked the garage and all rooms and closets, and gave me his card, checked my military i.d. and left.. I called Kiefer's squadron to tell him and they were so undermanned that he couldn't come home but he did call the management office and tell them they will be moving us to another site (the same people run all of the military housing in the city). So now we wait, to be told if we can get into different housing that we want, and if not we may be moving on to base. We're trying to avoid that though, because it's full BAH and that's an additional $500 than what we're paying now.
I'm just relieved we're all safe...

Pumpkin Patch Poky

Yesterday we took Hunter to Oma's Oldtime Pumpkin Patch. We had a blast, and he really seemed to enjoy himself. He got to ride a tractor (well, daddy held on), a milk truck, a (fake) cow, and pick out his own personal pumpkin.
We also had some friends and their brand new baby over last night. She's tinier than Hunter ever was, for sure! So cute. Hunter just looked at her like "what are you???" Haha. It was a nice night, the guys grilled steaks and then we played Marine Corps Monopoly. I lost terribly. I'm not good at that game at all. Kiefer won, which he has been bragging about all day.
Today we're off to the commissary as soon as Hunter is up from his nap (he's been down for an 1 1/2 hours now, which is terrific for him). The rest of the day I'll be cleaning, and Kiefer is going to change my oil and fix his window regulator in his car. Pretty boring day. :)
I'll wrap this up with more of my favorite pictures from the patch!

You are my sunshine

Hunter turned 10 months old Wednesday, and I cannot believe how fast these months have gone by. I found a video on my computer of him cooing when he was around 3 months old and my heart just melted. It seems like it was just yesterday...

And then this one this morning after his nap....

I cleaned out his closet and dresser this afternoon, boxing up all of the clothes that do not fit anymore and hanging up the new series of outfits. Anyhow, I was hanging up all his new 12-18 month clothes, and comparing it to some of his newborn stuff that was still laying around, of course I cried. I don't know when he grew, but he did! So I'm borrowing this idea from Kelly's Korner to give a bit of a run down of what Hunter's been up to lately!
So Mr. Hunter Scott:

• You weigh 23 lbs and 3 oz. (99 percentile)
  
• You measure around 31 1/2 inches, but I can't get the real length myself because you squirm so much! (80 percentile)
• You aren't allergic to anything, so far, and have tried all of the Gerber foods stages 1-3, and have started eating table foods more and more. You love to feed yourself, even though it's super messy for Mommy to clean up.
• You like foods we don't expect you to like. You love pickles, lemons and sauerkraut. You don't like bananas or applesauce.
  
• You're shaking your head "no" when you don't want something!
  
• You crawl fast enough to catch the cat and walk along the furniture. You stand on your own and clap your hands, too. You've tried taking a couple of steps, and have gotten to 3 steps, then you sit down and shake your head "no."
  
• When you're across the room and doing something Mommy or Daddy don't like and we say "Hunter, no." you simply wave at us and go back to what you were doing.
  
• You've started napping 1.5 hours twice a day, instead of your 3, 15 minute catnaps that you have been doing the last 10 months.
• You give high fives and low fives like no other.
• You love playing catch with Mommy and Daddy with your Fisher Price Roll-Around Balls. You throw it to us, we roll it to you, you throw it back.
• Oh, the Marines at Daddy's squadron taught you how to throw. It was nice of them. You like to throw. You throw your toys over the gate and down our stairs. You throw your pacifier at the cat and your food at the walls. You also threw a pickle at Daddy as he was coming up the stairs a couple of weeks ago, and that was pretty funny.
• You love your Mr. Bear that your Grandpa Paul got you and your stars blankey. You carry them with you and they go everywhere with you.
• You have more toys than an FAO Schwarz it seems somedays, but you really do seem to play with every one of them. You take each one out of your toy box, play with it for 2-3 minutes and move on to the next one, until the box is empty.
  
• Last night you learned how to climb on to the couch. Mommy is glad you learned how to climb down last month, otherwise we'd be in trouble.
• You climbed into your stroller this morning and you were jumping in it when Mommy caught you and put the stroller away. That's scary, you shouldn't do that!
  
• You love to chase the cat. You also play catch with her. Some days she takes naps with you, but only if Mommy is working in your room so she can watch. She slept with you a lot in the pack-and-play downstairs during the day, but now that it's not downstairs anymore, she can only sleep with you supervised.
• You chit chat as much as you can. We don't know what you're saying, but you mean do, and you mean it! You say dada when you're upset or in the car, mama when you're excited or bored and everything in between all the other times!
  
• Your eyes are still blue and we're starting to think they may stay that way. They're not dark, they aren't light, they are a very bright, vibrant blue.
• You are growing a lot of hair lately, and always wake up with it a mess. When we go out, Mommy likes to put it in a faux hawk with BabyRedken 11.
• You typically go to bed every night at 8:30 or 9:00 and sleep through the night most of the time. Lucky for us, you always seem to wake up on weekends, when we don't have to wake up early.
  
• You're working on your 7th and 8th teeth (on the bottom next to your center teeth) and bite HARD!
  
• We love you so much and are so thankful you were put into our lives!
  
  

Missing in Action?

I planned to post I swear! But recently I've been having some computer problems (thanks to Gerber Tiny Juice Bites and Hunter's obsession with my keyboard) and half my keyboard doesn't work right now... So I'm copy and pasting letters to type this. I'll post later.