I love my daughter. I fell in love with her the moment I found out I was pregnant. I never thought I would be able to love her anymore then I did at that very moment. But since that day I think my heart has grown a little each day in order to fit a little bit more love. Still today, I will look at her and just think how lucky I am. Not only do I have the most supportive, loving, caring, understanding, hardworking husband, I also have the MOST precious daughter. My favorite part of the day is sitting on the living room floor and watching her play. She will walk around and play with different toys, move things around, come up to my and sit on my lap, walk by me and pucker her lips and lean towards me when she wants a kiss, burry her head in my lap to cuddle, and giggle at just about everything. Her smile gives me chills. It reminds me how great life is. It makes me want to wake up every morning and work as hard as I can for her and our family. It reminds me how good people are. It brings me joy and makes everything negative seems so insignificant. It reminds me to love others and always look for the good, because it is there...
Bath time is one of the few times that Joe gets to spend time with Alyssa during the week since he works 5 AM-5 PM. Sometimes though I hang out in the bathroom with them because she is so stinking cute (and I don't get to see my husband a lot during he week). I realized that we hadn't taken any pictures of her in the bath since she has been in the big girl bath. She enjoys bath time so much more now that she can move around. She LOVES it! Can't you tell?
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| Day 5 |
This is from one of my favorite times of the day. This was todays after lunch right before her nap. Usually she is ready for her nap right after lunch of close to it. But today she just wanted to play. Usually when I ask her is she is ready to take a nap she will give Mack and kiss and then walk to her room. Today though, when I asked if she was ready for a nap she shook her head no and kept playing. So I let her. She was having quite the fun time. First she found Joe's wallet and put it in the trunk of her car. Then she out my scarf on. This picture was taken after she took the scarf off of her face, which is how she usually wears them. We aren't sure why, but she will find pretty much anything lying around, especially my scarves, and put them over her head and face and walk around and giggle and play. She will run into things (and the dog) and she just laughs. It is a rather good time for us as we watch. BEfore bed time today she was doing the same thing with my scarf. Then she found one of her hoodies and covered her face with it. That was a little more dangerous because she couldn't see anything at all and it was hard for her to take it off. I am sure she will grow out of this eventually, but we are enjoying it will it lasts :)
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| Day 6 |
I realized earlier today that I never finished my upload yesterday. OUr internet has been very slow lately. I started uploading to my blog yesterday and then decided to do the dishes while I waited. I forgot about it and just went to bed. So here is day 3 and 4.
Alyssa LOVES the stampers she got in her Christmas stocking. She will sit next to that poster board and just stamp it over and over again. Yesterday she was stamping then got her legos out and starting playing with them. She kept putting them on her head and trying to get them to stay there (I do that with her sometimes and she thinks it is hilarious) It is amazing how she is already repeating SO many things that she sees us do. The other day Joe said she pick up my hair straightener (which was unplugged) and put it up to her head like she was straightening her hair :) My favorite thing by far that she goes though is call for the dog. At first I realized that she started doing a kissing sound to call for him and patting her leg. I realized that is how I call for Mack. She will go to the back door and kiss and part her leg if he is outside. Recently She started standing at the back down stomping her foot, kissing, and patting her leg. I realized that when I want Mack to come in the house, but he won't, I tap my foot on the ground which usually gets him to come in the house. The pace at which she is learning is amazing! We have one SMART cookie on our hands :)
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| Day 3 |
One thing we have been trying to "teach" Alyssa lately is cleaning up her toys. It doesn't always turn out successfully, but I know it is a lifelong lesson she needs to learn. We don't always remember to have her clean them up at the end of the night, life kind of gets in the way. But I try to always remember to do it. Daddy usually cleans up the most, which I tell him he needs to slow down and let her do more, but she is helping so I know she understands. She might put some toys away then take a few out, but it is the process and idea of cleaning that she is learning.
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Day 4
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Nothing else too exciting here with us. But watching Alyssa grow and learn is WAY more exciting then anything I could imagine. I have realized that with all the exciting of everyday life I may not post everyday, but I will take pictures everyday and hopefully post at least every other day. I am happy that I am capturing our every day lives and taking time to reflect on them- that is already seeming to be more beneficial then I imagined.
