we are PCSing to Ramstein,Germany

I checked my posts and found out that I've never post the news about where are we going for the first duty station. We are going to Ramstein,Germany.

Ramstein Air Base is the headquarter of the USAF in Europe and is also a NATO installation. Ramstein AB is part of the Kaiserslautern Military Community (KMC), where more than 16,400 American service members and more than 5,400 US civilian employees live and work. And KMC is the largest U.S. community overseas at 53,000 people.

We are all excited for the location we got. It's wondeful to be able to live in Europe. The the Ramstein AB is located at the south west Germany, at the Frence border and is about 1 hour away to Frankfurt, couple hours away to France, Switzerland, Austria.

Pat is finishing his last block on the 2nd of March. Then he has to take Security + class for 2 weeks and pass the test in order to go to Germany. The security + is a very hard course. 70% of the students took the test fail at the first time. If you did fail, you need to retake the course and the test. If you fail the 2nd time, you will be re-class which means you are not getting your job as you have but something else they assigned you. So pray for Pat that he will pass the test.

As for now, the security class is backed up due to the volume of student. Pat won't start the security + class until the 23rd of March. So he has 3 weeks gap in between which is a good thing, I think. So I will have more time to get everything ready to leave. But until Pat passes his test, everything can be changed. So we shall see.

【2Y1M】Finally......Ian can say more than one word at a time!

Ian is a slow learner. It's not becasue he can't pick up things quickly but don't want to. He is a very stubbern and strong-will kid. When I tried to teach him some vocabularies, he wouldn't say it unless he himself wants to. And most of the time, he won't. Especially when I tried to push him, he wouldn't even open his mouth.

But he likes technology. He likes to watch TV, using computer, and ipod. So I made some powerpoints for learning. And it does work that way. Now he can say more but not a whole lot.

Since then, there is often some interesting conversations happening between us. For example, one night we were driving home from base, due to the broken stereo, I told Ian this is Chinese-speaking time. We will only speak Chinese before we got home.

He said " NO!" of course.

I careless what he said and started to talk in Chinese randomly. Then I heard him say
" Mommy, stop it!"

He said " stop it" after every chinese word I said. It's amazing!! This is his first time saying that. I don't know he understand that means. Apparently, I was wrong.

I laughed so hard that I couldn't keep on. I knew I shouldn't laaugh but I can't help it. It's a funny conversation.