Gardening is good for the soul

Sara & Piero hae a little garden of their own. We have been enjoying lettuce that they pick for us from their garden. There are also carrots (too tiny right now) and broccoli and some other yummy stuff.

My little swimmer

Sara has been taking more swim classes and doing very well. Here are some of the latest videos. Since these were taken, she has also learned to put her hear in the water as she swims and she jumped off the diving board without any help! Well, her teacher was in the water to catch her, but she jumped by herself.

Graduation from Basic Training!

Giampiero graduated from Basic Training! He has 7 more weeks (maybe more) of Advanced Training. Tentatively the next graduation is set for September 11th. This means he is now officially a soldier. With graduation from Basic, he gets "Family Day" which is really Fri., Sat., Sun. (reporting back Sunday afternoon). But unfortunately no family was able to go out there. I am too far along in pregnancy to fly. To celebrate, we got him a motel room for the weekend and he is happy to be able to get rest, watch TV, swim, and walk 5 miles to Walmart. :) It's not what I wanted to give him, but at least he isn't getting barked at by drill sargents!

His friend Pvt. Tyson was able to have photos taken by his wife and she e-mailed them to me. :)

Newest Family Update...

Giampiero is back to training. He's with the Delta Company which is supposed to graduate 9/11 then there is a possibility he will need an additional 2 weeks training for the strycker. They are rumored to be stationed at Fort Bliss, TX. (Next to El Paso) He's much happier being in training again! His friend, Pvt. Ackermann, misses him but at least they get to see eachother at church!

You can write to him at the address below: (Remember, standard sized envelopes only.)

PVT. Scattolon, Giampiero M.
Delta Co. 2-81 AR
2nd PLT (Savages)
3576 Wilson Rd.
Fort Knox, KY 40121-5728

I am still pregnant. *sigh* but the count down has started. I am now on Dr. appts. every 2 weeks & I have to count kicks every day. Everything is looking good. I am just tired alot, I still have wierd pains, but all the tests are showing up normal. I guess that means I will just have to put up with it until I have the baby. Oh well, there are worse things in life. :) I am starting to get a little anxious that I won't have everything ready. I am trying to organize what I have and I wrote a list of what I still need. I thought I was pretty well prepared until I started making that stupid list. I forgot how much stuff newborns need.

Sara Gianelle is still taking her swim classes and she's doing REALLY well. I wasn't going to sign her up again, but her progress is so good and she likes it so much, I can't help myself. She is getting ready to start kindergarten (yes again) here in Enoch. We didn't continue with Kindergarten when we got here since she wouldn't have started here until this year anyway. She's excited. She is even more anxious to have her little sister arrive. She had a dream about her and told me what she looked like in the dream. She was a little light and a little brown like Daddy, she had eyes that were a little chinese like her Daddy and she had brown hair like her Daddy. But she was blonde. :) So she basically doesn''t look a thing like e according to Sara. I think Sara is just Daddy's girl. Ít's ok. He deserves to be her hero.

Piero is not taking swim classes anymore because he kept fighting with me about getting in the water the last 3 days he was signed up. Now he cries that he wants to be in the water. There is no winning. Either way he's complaining. I just think he's not mature enough for the swim class right now. He will do better in a year. He is talking up a storm and quoting movies all the time. He is excited for his baby sister to come. He talks to her via my belly button and asks when she's going to come out to play with him.

My parent's, sister, niece, and brother that live with us are all well. They keep pretty busy. My mom is busier now than before she retired!

Cedar Breaks

Independence Day fun

What could get better than a parade, a mud pit, and fireworks? Well, we also got to talk to Pvt. Daddy on the phone. The kids and adults loved the parade, but for different reasons. The kids got candy, water, and otterpops thrown to them, so they were thrilled. We were amazed at the difference between the parades here and what we would get back in So. Cal. People would never be allowed to throuw candy and stuff or squirt water guns and throw water balloons and the spectators. They would be afraid of law suits. But here, we had some spectators prepared to fight back. They had brought super soakers and buckets of water to reload to attack the would be attackers. (We want to do that next year). It was a blast.

Swim lessons

We started swim lessons this week. Sara is doing really well. She is excited because she found out her teacher used to be a soldier. Piero hasn't quite started as well. I had to go in the water with him the first day, but he's done better every day since. He is learning how to listen & follow instruction.