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Too Good To Be True...

Since Alaina can climb over the top of her crib, we took off the front and converted it to the next step. She woke up the first nite @ 3 a.m. crying trying to find her way back to it, so I went against what I always say about co-sleeping and put her in the bed with me for the remainder of the nite---hey I was tired and not too sure I could have functioned enough to put her back in her bed either. She hasn't been up at 3 a.m. since she was 5 days old!

The second nite, she did good and slept till morning, but woke up with a whimper so I was in there before she had a chance to escape or wander.

Third nite's a charm???? She was up at 6 a.m.!!!! I could hear her moving around, so I went to check on her and she seemed wide awake. She greeted me with her two-syllable "hi-eee." I told her it was too early to be up and asked her if she needed a new diaper. "Ka-eee" is her new "yes." It sounds so cute like you just came up with the greatest idea ever and she is agreeing to it. Anyway, I changed her diaper and she tells me, "mok, mok" and signs for milk. So we go in the kitchen and get a drink of milk. She has still not convinced me to get up @ 6 a.m. so I take her back to her big girl bed and lay her down and tell her it is TOO EARLY to get up. I walk away back to my room with my fingers crossed---it worked!!! She went back to sleep---and so did I.
Then I can hear her again. I look at the clock anticipating it to only read 15 minutes later; but it was 2 hours later!!! Well, I had gone to get her the first 2 nights, so I decided to wait and see what she would do---would she get out and come to my room, would she just mozey on into the living room? I was anxious to find out---so I layed there for a little while. Pretty soon it's A HALF HOUR LATER---what could she be doing...so I sneak to the cracked door.

I almost gave myself away and laughed outloud, but knew that I must go sneak the camera and capture this moment....



I found her sitting in her bed with a PILE of books------AND WEARING HER SUNGLASSES!!!! By the time I got the camera, she heard me and was on her way out, but I still got pics of the evidence.

This was TWO Saturdays ago, and she has slept every nite through. She even goes down and stays in it without whining or playing. It is just too good to be true, so I am waiting for all hell to break loose and go through some 'stage' of anti-bedtime. Also, I have had to go back to work, so 6 a.m. would feel like sleeping in now!

Twins

Alaina is becoming more and more aware of her attire. Each morning when she wakes up, she says, "dress, dress..." and she doesn't mean get dressed, she means: get a dress out of closet and put it on me! And 9 times out of 10 she already has a specific dress in mind.

Well now it's even that way for Jammies. She insisted on wearing the matching outfit to "Ocki" the other nite; even though they were too big. PS--Ocki is her baby.....it looks like Barack Obama, so we named it Baracki, but she calls it Ocki.

She even read a story to Ocki before bed.

Yee-haw!!!

All the girls went to a Gretchen Wilson concert for Live on the Levee. We were total posers with our cowgirl hats and cowboy boots.

The hat has since been retired to Alaina.

Evann's birthday fun!

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Citygarden

We visited te Citygarden earlier this week.

Laine loved the water.

We didn't know there was water,

so we didn't come prepared--hence the diaper and dress.

Ahhahahaha, I will splash you!!!

Wow, I can touch the bottom.

Mommy tried to stay dry on the rocks---but Laine got some splashes in.

She couldn't figure this one out.

It was animated so it looked like the people were walking--

but they weren't going anywhere!?!?!

Laine waited and waited for the water to squirt back up.

It got her by surprise a few times!

4th of July

Laine had a great Fourth of July.

She loved the fireworks.
I covered her ears for some, and then she started covering them on her own.

It was rather cute.

Christmas in July

So, I know it's REALLY late, but I just got time to play around with some video making software, and I have been making videos like crazy--no, not those kind you perverts!!!!!

I stumbled across some Christmas footage and made a Christmas one. It's only 1 minute long and not that great because I didn't do much customizing, I literally spent 10 minutes on it, but I still think it looks good.

Please comment to let me know if it worked...

Can't wait for Christmas 2009!!! We'll be building a SANDman instead of a SNOWman since we leave for Jamaica on Christmas morning!!!!!!!!!!

Having a Six Flags Day!!!!

Laine LOVES Six Flags!!! She knows we are there as soon as we enter Allenton and it is in view. We've been several times already this summer. She even loves the water park. She can just wade around in the huge kiddie part.

She has 2 favorites over in the ride park....the balloons and the boat.


This is the boat ride that Daddy won't ride with us because it makes him sick---sissy.


And here are the balloons---they spin in a giant circle and go up in the air and each balloon spins round and round.



This is not a look of fear....this is her scream. The first few times she road it she just laughed and laughed, until one time we rode across from two little screamers who were throwing their hands in the air and screaming at the top of their lungs with excitement. She stared and stared at them; I thought they were scaring her [or hurting her ears] but then all of of sudden Laine throws her hands into the air and screams!!! Now whenever you ask her what she does @ Six Flags, she raises her hands up and screams!

She also loves loves the slide on the tree house. Over and over again, she never tires of it.

Of course we have to do the carousel every time, too.

Here she is hanging out on the train.