ZOO

Here's the pics I promised forever ago from Dominik's zoo visit. He had a great time throwing the bark and I couldn't resist putting him in the clam shell since he is my little pearl. Since my last post, I went to that school I mentioned and graduated. We sat in class and played with pig parts the whole time. They had pig's feet that we practiced suturing on and then we did a venous cutdown which is cutting into the ankle to find the major vein in there. Then, you carefully cut it with a surgical blade until you can get an IV catheter in there. It's pretty much the last option to give a person fluids when all other methods have failed so needless to say, I'll probably never do this in reality. We also got to cut up a pig's heart and then we were lucky enough to get lungs and trachea all attached together so we could practice intubation. Overall it was pretty cool except for that horrible dead pig smell.
Dominik is finally getting all his molars in so he has been whiny and irratable lately. It's irritating quite often, but we try to be understanding because I'm sure it's pretty painful for him. Hopefully the whole process will be over soon so I can get my sweet guy back and he can feel better.
Other than that, just dreading the upcoming annual training. This means 2 weeks where I pretty much won't see my boys except maybe a day here or there. We are being forced to stay in barracks on base because the people up north don't get to home at night so it's not fair. I thought we all got over things like that not being fair in high school, but I guess not. Boo!!
Well, guess I'll get back to being lazy.

Off To School I Go

Nope, no new pics. Sorry for my laziness. I will try and get a few tonight. My little man is almost to the point where he wants to walk all the time. He can make it all the way from the living room into the kitchen before falling down. He's getting pretty darn good at walking and it's oh so cute. He just hasn't quite figured out how to turn around once he reaches a dead end. He should be running around everywhere by the time our family reunion rolls around. I'm very excited about taking him to the beach for a few days and I'm sure he will have a great time playing with the sand. I even bought him some little swim trunks with lizards all over them so he will be all handsome.
As for the title of this story, I have to go to CA for 6 days in order to complete another phase of my Sergeant's school. I guess it won't be too horrible but I still don't want to leave my boys behind as this is the first time I will be away from Dominik for more than 2 days. This year is so crazy that I won't get to see him a bunch this summer. Our 2 weeks of training in June we all have to stay on base so I won't see my boys, plus I have to go to MA for 11 days in July to do more training and then AR in Dec for even more training. After that though, I should get a break for awhile. That's the biggest thing I hate about the military is that you have to leave your family behind a lot. Once I get my 20 yrs in (in 10 more yrs) I am going to retire and do a fun job while I collect my retirement paycheck. Enough is enough.
WEll, guess that's enough blabbing for now. I will post some pics tonight which is the real reason you all read my blog anyways. =0)