Tonight

Tonight was hard. Alyssa screamed from 6:45-7:15. She ate and promptly feel asleep until 7:58, she then screamed until 9:00. The only time she would stop is to breathe and throw up. It was just me home tonight, and that made it even tougher. I guess all that bragging about how good of a baby she is got to her head. I felt like a bad mom when after about 35 minutes of it, I had to put her down in her crib and come downstairs for ten minutes. But I knew if I didn't neither one of us would be productive in getting her to sleep.
She is now upstairs asleep, hopefully it stays that way until her midnight feeding.

School is out for the summer

What more do I need to post? School is out, no more baby sitters for Alyssa for 9 weeks. Chris has Monday off so it is a three day weekend for us. Life is good right now!

Sleeping through the night?

Nope Alyssa is still not sleeping through the night. She gets up at least twice. However I'm not sleeping through the night either. I wake up at least 3 or 4 times. I lay there awake listening to the baby monitor sometimes even getting up to check on her. She will be sound asleep, and I know that I should be too so that I can get up when she gets up, however I can't go back to sleep. I have been known to lay awake for up to 45 minutes waiting for her to wake up. My goal for the summer is to not wake up until she does.
Going to bed at night is its own challenge. She will go down just fine, but then 30-45 minutes later she is awake and it takes us another hour to get her to finally go back to sleep and stay asleep. That is something else we will work on this summer.

Did I mention summer starts in 3 days!?

Friday

It is Friday and a three day weekend. I love four day weekends with a passion. It makes Sundays so great! Chris and I were going to go down to the lake this weekend but since it hasn't been warm (up until the last two days) we figured we would stay home and finish all the projects we have started but haven't finished in the last few months. It should be a nice relaxing weekend. Hopefully Alyssa is as happy as we are to be spending 3 whole days together.

Only Wednesday

Today is only Wednesday. Why is it when you want something so badly it takes forever to get here? There are only 9 days total, 6 school days left of school! I can't wait, this group has been hard, not as hard as last year but hard. I am ready to say good-bye to this group and get a new group. Even if that group will be third graders and in 2 years I will have this group back again.
Today when I went to drop Alyssa off there were some pictures waiting for me, my sister-in-law watched Alyssa on Saturday for Chris and I. While she was here she had a 3 hour photo shoot with her good friend Mary of Alyssa they took over 90 pictures. Some of the pictures turned out great. I will post some today and then the rest you will have to wait until Sunday when I post picasa pictures.

Alone

I sit here in my PJ's on the couch, no dog, no Chris, no Alyssa. Chris has taken the dog and Alyssa for a walk. This is the first time I have had the house to myself since she was born. It is really nice. I know I probably only have another 2 minutes, but I might have to suggest this more often. I love my daughter, husband and dog to death. But peace and quiet for just 15 minutes (especially after the day I had) is amazing!
Can't even write any more just have to sit here and enjoy the house, because before I know it, it will be back to normal and Alyssa will need to be fed and changed, Vinnie will need attention and the couch will grow cold again where my butt has sat for the last 15 minutes!

High Pitched Squeal

Alyssa has found her high voice. Not only has she found it, but she LOVES to try it out. She found it on Sunday while taking to her Elephant on her swing. Since then she doesn't "talk" in her lower pitches, everything is high. This morning in the bathroom it got very loud as it was echoing off the walls. She loves to squeal and then look at you to see if you heard her. I'm hoping it is just a short phase and she will go back to lower pitches before my ear drums explode. And though my ears are ringing I can't help but have the biggest smile on my face because she is happy about it.
She is also rolling like a champ. Tonight I had her on the floor and she was rolling from her back to her front, and then front to back. I told Chris we better watch out because before we know it she will be rolling after things!
In other news I will not be teaching 1st grade next year. I got called to the principals office today and was informed that next year I will be teaching 3rd grade. While part of me is excited to be teaching 3rd grade again, another part of me is dissapointed because I was looking foward to being able to use my same lesson plans from this year. Ohh Well I'm up for the challage, but first I need about 9 weeks off with my daughter and her high pitched squeals!

* No picture tonight because I am on Chris' computer and he doesn't seem to have any saved!

Night Out

Our night out was great. First we went shopping for a new couch. We spent about 2 hours in the store. We picked out stuff we liked, then waited and waited for the guy that had introduced himself to us ( he was making another sale) Finally we just asked another guy to help us. He answered all our questions, then told us the totals for what we were looking for. We thanked him and left with the total to talk about.
The whole way to dinner we had to talk do we want a fence or furniture. Our final choice was to make a budget, Chris figure out a deck configuration and us get a quote on a fence. Then we will make the choice.
Dinner was wonderful. I love the melting pot. Their cheese is to die for. The main meal is good and the dessert is like going to heaven. It took us 2 and a half hours to eat dinner. We then went to on of our favorite burrito places to get lunch for Sunday, then home we came.
As much of both of us enjoyed our night out without Alyssa we were happy to come home to her. We really didn't talk about her all that much while we were out either, which was kind of surprising.
Now we have a busy week of decision making ending in what do to for memorial day weekend. Do we stay home or go to the lake?

Happy Ann To Me.

So yesterday was Chris' and my 5Th Ann. Since I was first pregnant I had all these dreams of shipping Alyssa off for the day and having this romantic day with Chris. Now that she is here and the day is here I have to say I'm sad to be leaving her from 1-8. I know she will be in good hands but I only get the weekend with her and now I'm leaving her!
Chris and I are going furniture shopping, renew our cell phone plan then out to the Melting Pot for dinner. Does that sound romantic enough? I guess when you become a mom and dad things change! And to be honest I don't mind I love being a mom.

On another note Alyssa has taught herself to put herself to sleep. We have tired to rock her to sleep the last 3 nights and she wants nothing to do with it. She wants to be put down and fall asleep on her own. I knew she would out grow the cuddling stage, but I didn't think it would be this fast! She is now rolling over as well. She didn't read the rule book though. She is supposed to roll from her stomach to her back first, however she is going from her back to her stomach. Once she is on her stomach she doesn't want to go back to her back so we aren't as fast rolling the other way!

Well off to shower and get ready for my romantic day!

Soap Box

*climbing up on my soap box, standing taller, clearing throat waiting for the audience to go silent*
E-mail. It is such a funny thing. For some it is the only way they talk to certain people. For some it is just a place for conformation to go when you buy something, and for others it is a social place to talk to others and get and share info.
My mom sent out an e-mail that stirred up a lot of drama. I think it is funny, because I read it and didn't really give it a second thought, it was one of many forwards I get in a week. Each person has their own reason for sending the ones that they do.
*stepping down off soap box and going back to rocking her daughter to sleep*
But the main point is who has the right to tell you what to send and what not to send? I mean if I want to send something that is my personal choice and right. Freedom of speech right? I can't go to the post office and tell them I don't like Shop and Save, so stop sending me those ads. I can't tell the credit cards that their ads offend me and to stop sending them. I can put my phone number on the do not call list, however every year I still get calls for Mayor or Fire Chief.
So the question out there to all of my 3 readers. Can you really tell people what they are allowed to send you?

Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers! I had a good first mothers day. It was also Chris' birthday today, so it was to celebrations in one. We didn't do anything to big. We cleaned the house we took a long nap and we went to his moms house to celebrate mother's day with the rest of the family.
I am looking forward to another day off tomorrow!

My feet are going to fall off

Last night I went to the zoo with Alyssa and mother in law, 2 sister in laws a niece and nephew. It was a lot of fun, but I ended up with blisters on my feet. We didn't get home until almost 10pm. I then turned around and got up at 6:20 this morning so that I could take Alyssa to walk a 5k. I was told no strollers ( which was a lie) so I walked 3.1 miles with a baby strapped to my chest. My calves, feet, and legs are already sore. I now have blisters on the top AND bottom of my feet. Good thing I have Monday off!
She is still asleep from our busy two days. She has now been asleep 3 hours and 45 min. I'm sure she will be awake soon and very hungry!
Till then I'm going to lay here and relax.

Work?

So I have now been at work for about 25 minutes. What have I done? I have checked my e-mail. I have talked to all of the other first grade teachers and I have put my lunch in the fridge.
Have I touched the work that needs to be graded? Nope. Have I worked on getting the new corners organized that I want to start on Tuesday? Nope. Have I checked all the blogs I follow? Yep. Have I showed two people adorable videos of Alyssa? Yep. And now I'm typing this. I can NOT wait until summer. 15 more days counting today! I can do it.
So now I'm really going to go tackle that work that is piled on my desk. :-)Without a picture of Alyssa today because I don't have that many saved on my work computer. :-(

Germs

Alyssa has been sick twice, now Chris and I have been sick twice. Before she was born I had gone about a year without getting sick and Chris had gone about 6 months. I guess it goes to show you how much we cuddle our baby. She seems to be feeling much better today. She didn't really have a stuffy nose and was just a little cranky. Chris and I are dieing though we have different symptoms. His seems to be more allergy, stuffy nose, head cold. Mine is just a sore throat that makes it hurt to talk, swallow or do anything. We will see how long this last!

Sick Again

Alyssa is sick again. She has a runny nose and keeps coughing as it all drains down her throat. She was crabby all day yesterday and though the sitter said that she was good for her today she slept a lot. I hope she sleeps well tonight and it doesn't last as long as her last cold.
Come on summer!!

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Weekends

I told Chris yesterday morning that I have always looked forward to Saturday's.  Now I look forward to them even more.  Walking up with Alyssa laying there smiling is great!  

  We put a new toy together for her yesterday.  She is still a little small for it, but she seems to like it for short periods of time.  I even made my mom get on line so that she could see her in it.  

  Now we just have to catch her rolling over on camera.  She has done it a few times on the couch and yesterday she did it all by herself on the floor.  To bad I was too busy opening a box and did not see her do it!