OHhhhh

Allie just got over having a high fever. It’s obvious when she’s sick because she gets whiny and clingy for several days. I put her down for a nap at 1:30 and she slept to 5:30. When she woke, Allie was all smiles again with lots of energy. The down side is that she was not quick to fall asleep at her 8:30 bed time. Instead she fought sleeping until 10:30.

I tried rocking her to sleep which she fought so I laid her down. Once Allie continued to cry/fake sob Kelli went in but gave up to let her work out sleeping on her own around 10:00. I then went in when I heard hear playing with the mobile. Indeed she was standing and playing so I laid her down and rubbed her back for little bit. She started to close her eyes so I started to leave. Allie, thinking I was gone, stood up to play with the mobile some more, so I walked back over. Surprised to see me and knowing she was busted, Allie gave a disappointed “oh”, like the “oh” you give if someone said they were winning a race and tripped at the very end and lost the race….yeah that “oh”.

I just laid her back down and walked out quickly because I was holding in laughing from her perfectly expressed “oh”. Surprisingly she did stay down and was out rather shortly.

Normal Day

Here is a picture that sums us up. I am tired. Allie is excited about something. Emma is bewildered. Kelli is behind the scenes keeping us in order.


By the way this picture was taken when we had approximately 8" of snow that night.

Update: Allie/Emma

Allie Update:
We got a couple inches of snow on 26 Jan 2009 in our area. Since this is her Allies first decent snow with a steady stream of big flakes where she can walk around, I took her outside. As soon as I set her down she froze and let the snow hit her face and just looked at me and smiled. Soon we got to walking around for an estimated 10 minutes. She had a stick and scratched at the snow, only to move onto to another area and repeat. She kept saying "Ho, Ho". It was awesome.

Emma Update:
Later this same night at 11:00 p.m., as I was doing homework. Kelli wanted Emma to stay awake so she put her on the floor next to me, on her belly. Let me preface, before I continue that Emma rolled over on our bed the previous night as I was folding laundry. Kelli was shocked but I played it down to the fact she was on a soft surface, and she couldn't do that on more firm surface. So she starts grunting and fussing then starts moving and rolls over and is calm. We were shocked becasue she's not 3 weeks old yet. So I chalk that up to an accident. I roll her over and Kelli and I watch as she repeats the same process but rolls over onto the other side. Oh, boy! Kelli thinks she is going to be athletic. I think she's part male anyway because she has a hairy back and hairy shoulders...poor girl. A third attempt was made but she started falling asleep when she found her hand and started sucking.

So that's the update.

Dark Pictures = Bad

My wife was not thrilled with the black picture of Allie. She said it looked creepy....hmmm.

So I decided to add that exact picture in not so creepy ways, starting with the original for reference. Click to enlarge.








And now for fun. We will take a picture of Allie and Kelli when we went to Relleke Pumpkin Farm. Click to enlarge.








This one is freaky...ehh

Nov 4th - A Big Deal

I would like to explain why Nov 4th was a big deal this year. I stayed home with Allie because we did not have a babysitter this particular day. It was a beautiful day in Historic Leclair.


Allie and I set out around 9am to do our public service and vote, technically she didn't vote, and on the way back we stopped and played in the gravel on the trail. Oh this gravel is fun. We'll call it "2ft of fun" because every 2ft we have to stop to play in the new gravel. Since we had no more obligations for the remainder of the day we took our time and played as much as we wanted.



Once we made it back home we swung for a while which is always a good time. Allie still has quandaries about walking into yard from the concrete especially now that there is fallen leaves. As long as she holds my hand she is fine to walk in the yard. Once she gets in the swing though, the higher the better!




After an action packed swinging, we set out to investigate the remaining flowers before the official "Cool Weather" hits and turns them brown. We even savored their last remaining scent,...they smelled like nothing at all to be quiet honest. However every time she leaned into the flower to put her nose near it, Allie would go "Mmmmmm."



So that was our day and it was a big deal. In fact, it took a 2.5 hour nap to recover. I used it to study for a Business Math test, unfortunately I wore myself out as well and fell asleep on my book for an hour.

Eat, no thanks, I'll Sleep

Allie after a busy morning in her highchair. By lunch she was whopped, she didn't even have turkey to make her fall asleep!

1 year pictures

We went to get Allies 1 year picture which turned out to be a mess. JC Penny's was not worth it...go figure. Instead I took Allie outside to capture some outside pictures that same day. Here is what I came up with.

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So the funny thing about taking these pictures was I swept the leaves into a pile and set her in the middle. She immediately started making a noise, that sounds like someone with sore muscles. Then, she wouldn't take one step which was funny becuase I got behind her. She wanted to see where I was so she was twisting all around. Good Stuff.

House Guests

Kelli's brother and son came to visit after a long time being unable to get away. It was fun and Braydon and Allie play very well together.

Bath Time!


Kelli made up a little snack and we had them watch 1,2,3's to wind down for the evening.

Occasionally they are so alike.

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We've Got a Diaper Down!

Kelli and I (along with some help from Ed R. and Mike H.) helped us work on my home this weekend. Kelli is attainment we tuck point the house and paint the brick becuase it looks horrible. This further translates into us needing to power wash the brick. (Thanks Ed, you did well.)

Mike H. helped to finish the the roof sofet and fascia. (Thanks Mike, it looks great)

After a lovely day of this work, Kelli and I were exhausted. I was already tired because my friend Josh E. came over Friday night for a little bonfire and beverages. (Thanks Josh, for not leaving until 3:30 AM.) So Saturday night I was truly was exhausted 9 pm.

Allie, on the other hand, was running around after her bath (with her diaper on), ...oh yeah, she's walking not really running, but certainly active. So we are discussing how good if feels to sit and who is going to sacrifice this comfort to go put Pajama's on Allie and give her the bottle.

As fate would have it Allie solved the dilemma for us. She came walking out of her room completely naked and holding her bottle with milk drips all around her mouth. I got up and went into her room and found a nice puddle of clear liquid on the wood floor with a book soaking up the mystery liquid.

Kelli now was up and we cleaned the mess got her PJ's on and gave her milk bottle to her.

Funny thing is we never found the diaper in her room it was in the living room, behind the chair which is off to the side of the living room near her bedroom door. SO we never noticed she walked into her room naked. All I can say is the writing is on the wall that kid #2 is going to wipe Kelli and I out completely.

Good Times

I wish every day was like this moment.

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Allie & Brayden

Cousin's at the Clubhouse

Leave it to Beaver

In addition to having a beaver at the clubhouse, we have a beaver in our house. Allie has been gnawing on her books. She has a couple out of commission and the latest casualty is “My Fluffy Bunny”. Sorry to whoever bought this for us. It was used in the most loving way a child with two huge teeth knows how.

Sweety

Yeah, I'm not going to stand a chance when it comes to her wanting something and being able to say no. I mean look at this face.

GO CUBS!

Visit from Reagan

My buddy Sam, his wife Jamie, and Sam’s parents brought over Reagan (Sam and Jamie’s little girl).



They are a little over one month apart so its nice to get them together as they will be able to be playmates. They were funny together and didn’t really know what to make of each other. Things were going well until I have Allie to Sam. Allie started crying then Reagan started crying and it got out of control with sobbing noise.
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Nice Sam, I hope your proud of your self....meany. :-)

Back Date: 13 April 2008

I need to get some other stories, but right now my world revolves around Allie so my apologies for another Allie post.

Bath time...how fun. My hope is that Allie likes and enjoys the water. I grew up in house that had a pool and loved it and my wife grew up in house that had a lake and she loved it. Both the pool and lake our still around so our hopes are that Allie is going to be as comfortable with water since she will get a decent exposure to water.

Well...let me tell you what happened at bath time. I was giving Allie a bath and she was putting her face in the water and blowing bubbles! She's almost 8 months old and I have no idea if this is normal, but it's awesome! Later she started drinking the water which went down the wrong pipe, she coughed but went back for more. So here are some pictures in order of the whole event of Allie blowing/putting her face in the water. (Click picture to enlarge)

Back Date: 07 April 2008

I'm not sure what my wife was doing with Allie, and I raised an eyebrow to this. However I'll give her the benefit of the doubt and assume it had something to do with fixing the axel on the Red Ryder Wagon.

Good Job Allie, you fixed it!!

Back Date: 04 April 2008

We had a farm meeting after work so Allie and her cousin Braydon were able to play around together while we went over business. He's 4 months older and now walking so Allie has trouble keeping up, but they are good around each other. They already have very different personalities. Allie can play with a toy for longer the 5 minutes and is content in area for more then 15 minutes. Braydon gets tired of a toy after 5 seconds and leaves the area after 15 seconds. It hilarious watching the two of them. On this night Braydon was walking, which looked like an impersonation of Frankenstein's walk. Mikey said you should see his legs without his pants on, because there is no bend at the knee's...it's funny.

Here is a picture of Allie trying to keep up with Braydon while Oma (Grandma in German) watches on.


And here is Mikey feeding Braydon.

Bloody Gumday

I'm so vary behind on Blogging.

This one is from April 05th:

Allie gets her first wound. Somehow she fell face first. (Kelli probably pushed her...again) Anyway, she didn't cry but she kept smacking her lips and Kelli noticed there was a blood spot on the carpet. When she looked at Allie her mouth was bloody. Eveidently her two front, and only, teeth cut her upper gum. I was out cutting grass, and Kelli's first reaction was to feed her so the liquid would subsided the bleeding.

When I came in my first reaction was to take a picture.

Then we gave her a wet wash cloth with an ice cube in the middle. The bleeding stopped, and both Allie and Kelli made it through without crying.

Also here is a picture from earlier in the day when Kelli was taking pictures of daffodil's from around the house.