Nick and Jen Lloyd

Nick and I have officially moved out of our very first home together at Fort Meade. Nick is headed for Fort Bragg to do some training and then to deploy. I am headed for my parents’ house in Idaho. My Dad and I will be driving across the country.

We had the world’s slowest movers who forgot tons of stuff. And then we got a flat tire right before we were supposed to have our check out inspection. THEN, Nick finds out that he doesn’t leave for training until next week, on his birthday! He was supposed to leave today so we had it all timed out and now he has to live in the barracks for a week!

We got everything worked out and now I’m dreading what’s next…saying goodbye is so hard.

This year for halloween Jonah was a bat and Nick and I dressed up as each other. (Sadly I don’t have a good photo of us dressed as each other so you’ll just have to take my word that it was pretty funny.) Nick carved sponge bob on his pumpkin and I carved a ghost, which I just realized I did last year too. Oops. We went to a friends’ house last night all dressed up but then tonight we stayed home and hid from the trick or treaters. I guess that was our “trick”, no treats here! We can’t wait for next year when we will get to parade Jonah around the neighborhood asking for candy that we will eat most of. mwahaha…happy halloween!

Between Nick and I we completely ruined the yummy apples that we got at the farm where we got the pumpkins…first, Nick burned the caramel. Then, he decided it might be nice to try apple slices, but we soon found out that caramel doesn’t stick well to the inside flesh of the apple. Then, I melted the chocolate and in an attempt to make it thinner, I added milk, BIG mistake, it makes the chocolate really grainy and gross. So…between the two of us, this is what we did…

Nick and I attempting to get an Anne Geddes shot of Jonah for Halloween…turned out pretty well actually! This was the biggest pumpkin we could find at the pumpkin patch yesterday and he almost didn’t fit…

Last night in the middle of the night, I rolled over and just as I did, Nick JUMPED out of bed and jumped up and down yelling in fright. Once he calmed down and crawled back into bed I asked him what the heck he was doing…he said he thought there had been a giant squid. I laughed so hard. In the morning, he had no idea what I was talking about. It was great.

On Saturday we headed out to Larriland Farms where you can pick your own pumpkin. Nick has never seen a pumpkin on the vine (or so he says, he might just not remember!) so it was a new experience for him. I found a cute pumpkin hat for Jonah for halloween so of course he had to wear it! So much fun! Hopefully we can find a pumpkin patch wherever we live and make it a tradition!

I went to a huge children’s consignment sale today and here are a few of the goodies I found for just a few dollars….

And the verdict is in…Jonah LOVES his solid foods!!! We tried Rice cereal tonight and he was reaching for the spoon for more! No funny faces or anything! Next week, Carrots!