Nursery, and the past 2 months

Sirron has kept herself very busy working around the house the past couple of months. She waters our sod daily (we do have grass now), and has planted several plants to spruce up our home's exterior. She has also been piecing Caroline's room together for the past several weeks. Different pieces of her furniture have come in at different times, and her friend Jill has used her artistic skills to customize several nick-nacks in the room. It is coming together, but until it is complete, Sirron doesn't want to show pictures of the entire room...they will be coming soon though.

I recently completed the first phase of flight school, which had absolutely nothing to do with flying. The 4-week course was an overview of various, basic officer skills. One practical portion of the course was dunker training, or Helicopter Overwater Survival Training. For this training, we were placed in a helicopter simulator, submerged in water, then flipped upside down, while strapped in a seat. After flipping, we had to unstrap and get out of the helicopter. This training gave a lot of people problems, including me. I had to go back for some remedial training, and still have to complete the course before I leave Fort Rucker, so there is no hurry, but I want to get it done soon. The best thing about the 4-week class was that it allowed me to meet a lot of people here in Alabama. For the first 6 weeks I was here, I only knew a handful of people, either from Arkansas or from a previous army course. Now, I don't go anywhere without knowing several people, which is always nice.

Sirron made her final trip to Alabama before Caroline is born this past week. We went to Birmingham to the Mc Wane Science Center in downtown. It's a lot like Mid-America museum in Arkansas...a lot of hands-on, fun stuff that explains scientific processes. We had a lot of fun just being goofy.

My next course is SERE school, and it starts on September 7th. It is 21 days straight, during which I will have no contact with the outside world. When I get done on September 27th, Sirron will be at 38 weeks, so we will be waiting for the next couple of weeks for Caroline to come, and I will be making the trip home. We have decided that we will be giving birth at St. Vincent's in Little Rock. Sirron was able to get a tour of their birthing wing and get all of her questions answered, and we are very pleased with them. The pictures below are of the room where Caroline will be born.

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