Park Time

I think Mark and I are creating a monster. Alaina gets to have atleast two recesses a day at school. Then she gets to go to Antioch Park after school with Mark. Then last night she also got to come to the park to watch me play kickball (aka Base Soccer). She played on the jungle gym. She clapped when other people clapped. She cheered when other people cheered. She got kisses from doggies. Then she slept. Dad got her home and to bed . . .man she played hard today. She really loves being outside. I wonder what it will be like when the summer starts to turn to fall and fall turns to winter. She will be couped up inside more often then not. But we have a few months before we have to worry about that :)

Regression or Progression

Alaina has somehow regressed into not putting herself back to sleep at 3:30a.m. or so we think. Last night was the third night in a row of her waking up around 3:30a.m.. I changed her diaper at 3:30 but it was only a little wet . . .barely. So with a dry diaper on, I put her back to bed. She fussed for a few minutes and put herself to sleep. She woke up a few times but fussed for a few minutes andput herself back to sleep again. So between the hours of 3:30 and 7:30 she didn't go pee at all in her new diaper. I am wondering if she has been telling us at 3:30 that she has to go pee. We didn't change her diaper right away this morning after we realized it was dry. About 15 minutes after she woke up (after I felt that she had a dry diaper) she had a MAJOR pee. I think she was holding the pee in. I think I will go out and buy a potty chair so she can get used to the idea. I know she is too young. But I am just curious if this is what she is telling us at 3:30am and at 7:30. Only time will tell. We shall see.

Alaina woke up at 3ish last night. Mark took first watch from 3-4 am. She was just wide awake. We think she hasn't been wanting to eat enought at dinner so she wakes up hungry for a "midnight snack" We don't want it to become a habit, but she won't go to sleep with out something. Last night she got a small bowl of cereal. I think we really need to watch the time of day that we give her juice since it makes her body think it is full. Sugar will do that to her. The food thing didn't help right away, On my watch from 4:30-5 she woke up again, but I changed her wet diaper. I think she was a little more comfty after that. But wake up time was a bit difficult on Mark and I because of the lack of sleep in the critical morning hours. Oh well, maybe she will eat well at daycare and be nice and tired for us tonight for bedtime. Bed time is 8pm!

Alaina has learned a new trick. She likes being on stage. I took this video last night. Keep watching and notice the first time she actually moves the Puppy food bin ALL the WAY back into the cubbie. Then she thinks she only has to "pretend" to move them to get some kudos from Mom and Dad. Ahh we are so easily trained.

Since moving into our new house, Alaina has been constantly practicing stairs and flipping light switches on and off. We all have adjusted well to our new house in Merriam. We have had a good Memorial Day. We had lunch with Aunt Erin and Uncle Ray. Alaina got to sit in a big girl chair (booster chair). She did pretty good, but got ansty toward the end of the meal. She was ready to go before everyone else.

She is learning new words everyday. As of late here is a list of the words that she uses.

Mama
Dadda
Mine
Papa
Puppy
BUBBLES - by far her favorite word.
Grandma
Hot
Bye-bye
Meow
Moo
Pants like a dog
Shoe
Tree
Hi

She also blows kisses
Waves Bye-bye
And many more things