Another not very exciting weekend around here. That's okay. It wasn't bad. Cory got on a bit of a cleaning kick yesterday and mopped the floors. Me, I've been keeping up with laundry fairly well :)

Last night we started to watch "We Were Soldiers". I really don't enjoy watching war movies because of the battle scenes, but this hasn't been horrible in that respect. We aren't too far into it yet thanks to children who don't stay asleep. I'm more into this movie than other war movies I've seen, though, and that's probably because my dad was a helicopter pilot during the Vietnam conflict and I grew up surrounded by books on Vietnam, my dad talking about some things and just knowing this was a very significant part of his life. My dad owns the book this movie is based on (of course) and actually ran around with one of the men written about in the book. There's a character based on this man in the movie, too, but it's a very small part and we haven't gotten to it yet.

My dad went to Vietnam in 1970, I believe, and was there a few years. I remember listening to some tapes he made while there that he sent back to his parents. It's a little hard to hear him talking because the background noise from the helicopters and such is so overwhelming. My dad flew in combat missions - dropping soliders off to fight, picked up wounded soldiers and did some night flights searching for people.

I have to say that I really admire people who feel such loyalty for their country that they're willing to die for whatever they're fighting for. I couldn't do that. I'm too much of a pacifist and probably a coward. I'm just in awe of people who join the military by their own free will - some almost 10 years younger than me (I'll be 27 in September) - to protect our country.

Oh, exciting child development news! Just a little bit ago, I was sitting at the computer while Cory and Cole were sitting on the ground near me. Cole was standing up near Cory and suddenly took a quick sideways step to reach for something. All on his own! Without holding on to anything! We don't think he even had a clue what he was doing, but it was so neat to see him take that step so naturally without thinking.