Um, can you get Belah down?

The other day Allen and I were in our bedroom and Alaina was playing in the living room. She loves to throw Belah in the air and see where she comes crashing down. This particular day there must have been a little more oomph in her throw because she came in the bedroom and said, "um can you get Belah down?" I said "where is she?" Alaina replied "up on the lamp." Well we do not have a lamp, just a ceiling fan way up on our 15 foot ceiling! Sure enough I look up and can just barely see Belah on a blade of the ceiling fan. After I took lots of pictures we decided to go ahead and get Belah down by turning on the ceiling fan. Belah flew right down and Alaina got such a kick out of it. It was really funny and I got a great laugh out of it.

Good times with Gramma

For those of you who don't know, mom came to visit me last week! Allen and I decided to do another cycle of in-vitro. Unfortunatley, when it came time to do the IVF, Allen was at sea. So mom came out to help me because one procedure knocked me out and the other one required 24 hours of bedrest. The IVF is done, I had 2 beautiful embryos implanted, and we find out if I am pregnant on Friday! It is going to be a long week! Alaina and I really enjoyed our time with mom here. We did a lot of relaxing, which was great, and we had a lot of fun playing on the Wii and going to the Virginia Aquarium. Thanks again mom for all of your help. I couldn't have done it without you!

Snow Day!

Well for once we got the snow that was predicted! Unfortunately Allen has to work today, but Alaina and I got out in the snow. She had so much fun throwing snow and making snow tracks. It was so cold and windy, but Alaina didn't want to come inside. That is until some snow smacked her in the face and she insisted on coming in and putting band-aids on her cheeks because they were red. But it was a lot of fun and now we are dry and warm and enjoying our snow day.

I Love Valentimes

Alaina and I made some Valentine decorations yesterday. I let her take full control, except I cut the hearts for her. She had so much fun gluing everything with way too much glue. And as she went along, she kept saying, "I love Valentimes" and "This is the best making Valentimes ever!". It was a lot of fun for both of us. I also included a pic of her in a Barbie cheerleader outfit that she got from Granny Flanny for Christmas. She looks really cute in it and her Barbie has a matching outfit!

Come on ride the train!

As most of you know, when Alaina was very small we bought her a Thomas the Train that she could ride on. Well we just got it all put together for her now that she is old enough to actually ride on it. She loves it so much that a lot of times I find her in her bedroom with the door closed going around and around on her train. What she also loves to do, since it is such a far distance, is hop on her train, ride it to her bookshelf to pick out her book, then get back on the train and ride it to her bed. The first time she did this was so hilarious that I had to get it on video.

The Clumsiest Girl

Chrisy and Alaina have a little joke that Alaina is the clumsiest girl in the world, as she has tendencies to fall for no reason. This is a trait definitely inherited from her Mama. Well we were sitting at her tiny table and I was taking video of her practicing her reading when, from her chair, she fell. It was so funny that I had to stop videoing and laugh. We both laughed and laughed. It was a funny funny moment. So, this video is for you Chrisy. I know you will enjoy it. (Sorry it is sideways)

Happy New Year!

I know I am a bit late, but Happy New Year! We had a wonderful holiday, we went home to Illinois and spent the holidays with our families. Santa came and brought Alaina way too many gifts! It was such a busy and fun trip. I was so sad to come back to Virginia!
Allen is back in the full swing of things on the ship. Again Alaina and I are trying to keep busy as Allen is working very long hours and preparing to start going to sea for various sea trials.
We took Alaina to Chuck E. Cheese for the first time. All that money spent, and the only thing she wanted to do was play on the slide in the toddler area that was free! But she had a great time and can't wait to go back.
Alaina is also learning to read. She loves to learn new words, she is very good at sounding them out. You can see it on her face the moment she actually gets it. It is so amazing. We are also working on teaching her to write all her letters. She loves to sit at her tiny table with her big oversized pencil and practice her reading and writing. She is getting so big I can't believe it!