Oh, Blog how I have ignored thee....and for this I apologize.  It has been a crazy month.  Zack left on the 26th for 3 weeks at sea.  I was not super excited about doing this single parent thing again only after him being home for 30 days.  We were beginning to mesh as a family....but can you imagine living with someone for 30 days in a row?!  This concept is foreign to us as it is to many military families.  We were beginning to feel that edge where I was thinking...okay it's time for you to go back out to sea....as I am sure he was probably thinking...thank goodness I'm going out to sea soon!  And yes I know it sounds horrible but it's the truth...so don't judge!  He will come home and have duty and we will spend the next 4mths together as a family...as he will not go back out to sea until we go to Japan.  4mths straight without him going out to sea!  It should be very interesting in deed!  I do love having him home, though.  We never take each other for granted and we enjoy that "honeymoon stage" every time he comes back.  And speaking of him coming back...on the 18th(a duty day for him)...so the 19th we will see him and it will be #2 baby bean time!  We have planned it out so that it will not interfere with us PCSing and with what we can gather of the underway schedule of the Washington...how strange it is to say the Washington and not the Truman.  Since I have no readers to this blog and have successfully hidden it this far from our families I can divulge that information to you my non-existent readers!  We plan on celebrating Noah's birthday(Zack will miss it on the 12th), go on a date night(to make up for him missing Valentine's Day) and then it will be baby bean time.  We are super excited and have been ready to start trying for months.  Noah is growing up so fast and amazes me everyday.  He is learning so fast and I often get comments about him...asking questions about his development and exactly how old he is.  I'd like to think that it is because I am a great mom and work with him everyday...but I think most of the credit goes to God.  Noah has always been an observer and just takes it all in...he is soaking up his surroundings all the time.  This week we have added more signs to go along with his interests and a few for everyday tasks.  His new thing this week is pointing out eyes and ears.  He can say both of those and find them on him, me, and toys.  A smart boy we have.