Christmas 2009

Aly opening her present from Mommy and daddy

Her favorite part of Christmas, eating the paper!

Playing with her computer Grandpa got her

We had to put the bow on her head, she didn't care at all.

Aly with Santa at Bass Pro Shop

I was cooking dinner and turned around and aly had pulled off her sock with her mouth! Crazy Kid!



Oh what a holiday this was!!! Aly cleaned up on presents. There are so many toys in our living room, we actually decided not to move my chair back in there after we moved the Christmas tree and made that Aly's corner!! We were at Dad's house on Christmas eve with the family and she had a great time. She got a talking bear, a laptop, her first bible, clothes and several other toys!!! Then Christmas day we went to JV's parents house and had another great day. Aly got a new exersaucer (which is so cool), more clothes, books, and many more things to play with and eat!!! She did pretty good with the presents and when she did get the paper off, it went straight into her mouth!!!

Santa also brought her a big fat cold!!! JV took her to the dr. yesterday and we were fully expecting for her to have 2 ear infections but it turns out its just a cold so they gave her another antibiotic so hopefully it will be gone soon!!! She weighted 17lbs 5oz yesterday, she is growing like a weed.

We think she might have a slight case of Acid reflux so we backed her bottles down to 6oz every 3 hours to help with the spit up and its seeming to work pretty well. She still isn't eating much solid food. She loves rice and applesauce, so who knows she might just eat applesauce till she is 5!!! But we are still trying!!

Things are going great with Shannon. She says she is really good. She takes her naps and plays and they have a good time. Her kids just love her. Ethan meets me at the door every afternoon with her bags like a good helper and even sometimes in the morning he wakes up early too. Morgan loves to play mommy with her. I love they can be involved with her and the older kids are going to be great with her development.

Aly is sitting up on her own now. She gets a little wobbly at times and falls over but for the most part she does really well. She is growing up so fast I can't believe it!!! WE are about to move her into a big car seat and put the infant carrier up, she is so heavy in that thing, I can barley carry her anymore!!!

Well thats about all for now, we are looking forward to her first New Years Celebration (which I'm sure she will sleep through) and we are so excited about what the new year holds!!!

Quick Update

Well we have finally made it out of the woods with this nasty cold and ear infections. We ended up having to do 3 days of shots of roseffin and it seems that finally kicked it. We worked with the breathing machine for about a week and I think she is doing well.

We moved Alyssa (aka fatty McButter pants) to a 8oz bottle last night and she slept from 9:00 till 6:30am when JV woke her up to eat before daycare!! Whoo hooo, that was a long few weeks of no sleep!

On another note, we found a very trustworthy friend who is going to keep Alyssa 3 days a week to get her out of daycare. I really like Five Star and have no problems with the teachers or Staff, but this poor little thing has been so sick we have to do something. Shannon has 2 little ones of her own, I believe they are 2 and 4 so she will be around other kids to socialize which is so important to me. Her mom also watches her nephew who is 3 and they get together several times per week so that will be a great addition. I have looked for about 3 weeks and out of everyone I spoke with they were all so nice but I didn't get that warm and fuzzy feeling. The one day (ironically the same day I scheduled me and Alyssa to get baptized at church) Shannon posted something about the little boy that she watches was going to be staying at home and she needed another child to love on, so there I was!!!! I'm super excited about this I think Shannon will be a great addition to Alyssa's day!!! and Alyssa to hers!!! She will start with Shannon on the 21st for a short week with Christmas!!!

We are so excited about Christmas. Alyssa has been getting small advent presents from Grammy and Grandpa and she (we) love them! Its nice to have a way to slowly bring in the holiday!!! We are going to get pictures taken with Santa tonight so I will post those soon!!!

Alyssa had a rough night Sunday night. She was coughing about 2 hours after we put her to bed so I went and checked on her and she was covered in throw up. Poor thing had it everywhere and didn't even know it. So we changed her clothes and put her in the pack n play in the bed room and tried again. Well about 10 mins later she did again. I never knew so much could come out of something so little. So I slept with her on the couch and she tried 2 more times but there was nothing left. Then the next morning she was fine as she could be. So we held off on the baby food once again. We started the peas again yesterday at daycare and she did really well. So who knows!!!!

Well thats about all for now!!! We love you!

Little Peanut is 5 months old!!!!

Aly Loves the saucer

At the dr. after her 3rd antibiotic shot for an ear infection. It was really bothering her can you tell?

Grandpa and Aly at Stone Mountain

Aly and Daddy

Oh where to start!!! So many things are changing!!! Well the best news of all is that I think Alyssa is finally over these ear infections( 5 dr. visits later) and this cold that has been kicking all of our butts for the past week and half. We ended up having to do a series of 3 shots, 3 days in a row. That ended yesterday. She hated the shots but I really think they worked!!! She has been on breathing treatments for about a week now and they are really helping too!!!

I am looking into moving her to a in home daycare and its been a difficult thing to deal with. There are pros and cons to both daycare centers and in home so we haven't made a decision yet. I have talked to several people but its hard to find that person that you trust enough.

Alyssa is changing so much. She smiles and laughs all the time. Now that she is feeling better she is back to her happy self!! She loves her feet, as you can see and now she has discovered that she has something fuzzy on her head and she tries to grab it but can't quite get it, its so funny!!! She is sitting up by her self most of the time. She tends to fall over a lot and she has to lean forward to keep her balance, but I feel like she's going to be crawling before we know it! She now weighs 16lbs and 4 ozs. She wearing her 6 months clothes and probably going to be in 9 months shortly. We have also been shopping for big girl car seats because she is going to out of her infant carrier probably by Feb.

We are going to attempt baby food again this weekend. We needed to wait until the medicines were out of her system to make sure we didn't have any reactions. She didn't do so well a month ago so we gave it some time. I think we are going to go with green beans this time and see what happens! I'm excited! She's really interested in food, she sits on my lap during dinner a lot (yes I know thats bad but she has an alarm clock that is tied with the oven and as soon as dinner is ready she is ready to be held) and she watches me eat every bit!!! I slip her some potatoes sometimes and she likes it! (she's not spoiled at all, I promise!!)

She is still sleeping good. We went through a rough patch while she was sick because she wouldn't sleep in her crib, so we are trying to transition her back in there! and now that she has her appetite back she is sleeping longer too.

Her first Thanksgiving was great, she managed to eat a few sweet potato bites so she had something to do!! We are so looking forward to Christmas. Grammy and I went shopping and got all of her Christmas clothes so she is ready to go!!! We went to Stone Mountain and tried to take some pictures for our Christmas card, but she wasn't feeling well so that didn't work out great! We did get one good one though in her dress Aunt Lane bought (so cute). We are going to go and see Santa one night next week hopefully so that will be fun!!!

Alyssa has really taken a interest in Marley too, when he gets close she reaches out to grab him, its so funny! He's so good with her, he just stands there and takes it! It won't be too long before she is chasing him every where and he's trying to get away!!

I think every night JV and I both say that she is the cutest, best thing in the world and we mean every bit of it!!! WE ARE SO IN LOVE WITH OUT PRINCESS!!!