What a Monkey!

My house is just about all packed up now. Whew it's been a long 2 weeks! I still have some stuff left, and a whole lotta house cleaning to do, but it wont be long now till it's all done. I hate thinking that once all these packed boxes are in the new house, I just have to empty them. I'm sure it wont take me 2 weeks to unpack though....I hope, anyways...



My house is a disaster, despite almost everything being packed. Tomorrow is going to be another long day of sorting through what needs to be packed and what needs to be thrown away....or something.

Today, Alexis and I shared Grilled Cheese for lunch!



Sometimes I find it hard to believe that she can eat real people food now, and I wish that she was still too small for anything but baby food. People don't lie when they tell you your babies grow too fast! I still can't believe I am a Mommy sometimes, let alone to a one year old! My God, the year went too fast, and I hope the time slows down soon, so that she isn't 10 before I know it!

She decided today was the day that she would like Apple Juice! It only took about 3 months for her to like it, and today, was the day! She still made that awful this is nasty face, but then decided it wasn't so bad!



She also decided that today was the day to teach herself to climb on everything! She is getting to be such a monkey these days, wanting to get into everything and all this climbing has made me realize how big she is getting...!!

first, it was her music table


then, it was in her basket


And then...she climbed into the rocking chair, all by herself, like the big girl she is!!


and she was SO proud herself, and I was SO proud of her!


I was supposed to get the keys to my new house tonight, but for some reason the landlord didn't bring me them. Hopefully tomorrow. My parents want to see the place tomorrow....but I guess we'll see!

Tomorrow is a new day, I suppose we'll have to see what sort of adventures it brings to us!

xoxo

Dancing Queen

Today I took a break from packing after work, and went to my parents house for dinner. It was good just to feel normal again and relax for an evening with the most important people in my life and eat great food!

My Mom played one of her favorite songs for Alexis, called Pretty Blue Eyes, and Alexis gave Gramma and Grampa a little show by "dancing" to it! On her bum on course! She sways back and forth over and over again, and then claps and does it all over again! It's seriously the cutest thing in the world! And my parents just loved it! She is very entertaining, that's for sure! And I was so proud of my little "dancer"!

I am going to take the next couple days to finish packing everything that I have left of this house to do. There isn't much, that's for sure, and my kitchen is filled with a ton of boxes. It's so hard to think that next week I probably wont be living here. Oh my, I'm going to miss it here. But good things come out of every change in life somehow, so we'll have to see where this takes us.

Sorry for the crappy post and no pictures...

xoxo

Why We Love Alisha

I spent my day off packing again. My friend Alisha came over to give me a hand and I hope she knows how much I appreciate it! She is one of those friends you have no idea what you would do without, and I am so lucky to have her in my life! And so is Alexis! She has helped me SO much with Alexis since the day she was born and was there for me through the whole year, and the love she has for my little love is like she is her own, and I love her for that!


Alisha was there when I gave birth!


2 months old!


5 months old!


10 months old!


and this was yesterday! They`re having a tea party!

And I know that there will be SO many more great memories with her! Alexis is such a lucky little girl to have Alisha around! They have so much fun together already, I can`t even imagine the stuff Alexis is going to learn from and do with her!
Anyways...so thanx Alisha, for EVERYTHING!! =) xoxoxo

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Although I spent most of the day packing, like I have the last few days, I always make sure to make time for baby girl! Today we played in my bed for a while! Airplane rides and kisses and tickles! Oh, the tickles! Lots of tickles and so many laughs!



I could live off the sound of her laugh, I love it so much!

The last few days, since I`ve been so busy packing, I have realized just how independent Alexis is. She has been able to entertain herself for a lot of the time, and always lets me know when she is done doing her own thing and wants me to play with her. I watched her today, from a distance, pretending to pack, just crawl around the house, find all her random toys sprawled out on the kitchen floor, open books and talk to herself as if she`s reading them, climb into her balls and throw them around, look out the window in the tv room, try to climb onto the couch...etc. I`m happy that she is able to entertain herself so well, for such a great amount of time, although it kind of makes me miss the days when she was small and always needed me, but this is all just part of growing up, and every kid needs their own space and independence.

Alexis finally drinks water. It`s one of those things that I have been trying to a long time, and it just never happened, and then all of a sudden, she will drink it no problem! She is really picky! She still wont drink juice. I have tried apple juice over and over again, and she just hates the stuff...hopefully soon though!
AND she finally understands a sippy cup! That one took a while too, although I know she still prefers her bottle, but one day soon, she`ll get used to it too.



Nite nite!! xoxo

My Little Walker

I put packing aside for the evening when I got home from work today, so that I could spend some much needed time with Alexis. I missed her a whole lot at work today, and wanted nothing more than to come home and snuggle her up!

She walked around the kitchen with her walker about 80 times before she got bored with it. She is so cute when she walks! She jibber jabbers and sticks out her tongue and bounces along. I am in no hurry for her to start walking what-so-ever, but I enjoy watching her be so proud of herself as she walks around the house pushing her toy, as I clap and say all those proud Mommy comments the whole time!



I sat her in a box to play in while I was making dinner tonight. She made it look like the best thing in the world had just happened to her, she was so happy! She'd sit in it and stand up and over and over again, sit, stand, sit, stand! It was entertaining to watch just how exciting a simple box was! And I got to make dinner without having to worry that she'd be getting into something...like the dog food...lol



If I'm going to survive at work tomorrow, I better get some sleep!




Nite Nite! Xoxo

Packing and Pony Tails

I thought packing would be difficult with a one year old around. Thinking that she would take everything out of boxes that I had just packed and everything would have to be done twice. But as it turns out, she likes to sit in boxes that are filled with things, rather than take the stuff out before getting into them! And she is so proud of herself when she climbs in a box and sits there, and she giggles and grins her pretty little grin at me! I had 4 boxes going at once, in the middle of her bedroom, all for just her books, and she would climb on one and then into the next one without touching the floor! What a little monkey she is! She just loved it though! At least packing is keeping her entertained, and I don't feel like I'm not spending any time with her, because she is still with me through the whole day while I pack, and we sang songs and danced to some music and we made packing a fun time! Who knew packing could be fun!?

We took a break together, and she sat in front of the mirror while I put a pony tail in her hair!


What did you do to my hair?!?!

She stared at herself and then looked at me with her big toothless smile and then back at herself in the mirror. God, she is too cute for words!




after playing with her hair so much, she just ended up with Einstein hair!

We went to my parents house for a visit tonight. I love going there because Alexis loves her gramma and grampa Sooo much! And it was nice for me to get out of this house and just have a break from my world.

Anyways...bedtime, work tomorrow...and I'll leave you with a picture that Always makes me laugh!


Liam - 4 months old and Alexis - 9 months old
Alexis needs to stop hogging all the toys and let Liam have a few!!

For the Love of the Chair!

see her new little toofer?!

I started packing today. Not a lot though. Just some movies and CD's. I tried to imagine Alexis and I living in our soon-to-be new house, and I guess I'm feeling a little better about it now. I'm trying to think of all the up-sides to it, and sure I'll miss it where we are now, but it's not as bad as I'm thinking it is. It's not like I am moving somewhere where I would HAVE to drive to see my parents. It IS in walking distance, since I am not lazy...it's just a little farther, that's all.



My little Love helping me pack!!

Alexis' new favorite thing the last couple weeks is playing in her chair. When she was real small, she lived in this chair!


In her chair at 19 Days Old


Lovin' her chair, and her giraffe, at almost 3 months old


Playing Peek-a-boo in her chair, at 6 months


And now, at 12 months, playing in it as if it's a playground...lol

It's seriously crazy how this chair will keep her occupied for a good 45 minutes at a time! Bouncing in it on her knees and turning around and sitting in it and turning around and facing the wrong way and rocking it and doing it over and over and over again! Who needs toys when you have a chair....seriously!?! She just has the grandest ol' time playing in this chair! Man, it would be GREAT to be a year old! lol

Tonight is her first night off of formula. I don't think it's going to change much, now that I think about it. She'll drink homo milk when she wakes up. I'm not going to take away her bottle. I don't think she is the kind of baby that will go for the whole cry-it-out crap, and honestly, it's just not in me to do it, no matter what age she is...so...looks like I have a long time ahead of me before I get a full night of sleep, but at least I'm feeling like I'm not being a bad mom.



This week coming up is my first week I have to work 4 days. I'm not looking forward to it, because I have little time with my love. Working definitely makes me realize how important time is with her though. It still is disappointing thinking that I will be missing out on 32 hours with her in one week, but I can't not do it, no matter what. =(

I have a whole lotta packing to do in the next week. The next time Matt comes home, he says we are moving. I'm gonna try my hardest to get as much done as possible, but I wont count on it being a lot. Gotta make time for loves and snuggles with my love every day!

Anyways..if I want to stay sane..it's bedtime!

A 3rd Tooth!

Alexis' 3rd tooth poked through today. She's only had 2 teeth for 3 months, and to be honest, I liked it that way! She is going to have teeth for the rest of her life, I am trying to enjoy her toothless grins before she has a mouthful of teeth.
It kind of makes sense now, why Alexis woke up EVERY freakin' hour on the hour last night. I thought she just wanted to kill me, but nope....just going through pain. Poor girl. And poor Mommy, who had to get up at 6am and go to work after not getting more than 50 minutes of sleep in a row all night. Eek.

It's a good thing I can get through the days well without much sleep, otherwise I would have died by now. It's been over a year now since I've gotten a full night of sleep, and boy do I envy mother's who have babies with good sleeping habits. I am starting to get tired now though. I feel it in my bones. Stupid work.

Matt said his 2nd day with Alexis went well. And by the look of her room when I got home, it looked like a friggin' tornado went through it. I'm glad the days for him went well though and he was still happy by the end of the day. Still wish I had Nanny cams though!

Tonight is Alexis' last night on formula. She's only been drinking formula at night for a while now and drinks Homo milk during the day. It's going to be rough for a couple days until she gets used to not having it at night anymore, especially because she still wakes up SO much for a bottle every night. I guess we'll have to see how things go, now that I'm taking that away from her. I'm guessing it probably wont go well.

It sucks on days that I work...I have noooooothing to say...and no pictures to post...lame..I suck.

Moving?!

It is final.
The thing I never wanted to happen.
We are moving.
Yep.

The decision was made yesterday and we now have until August 15th to get our butts out of this house and into the new one. I am really unhappy about all of this, but sometimes you have to do things you don't want to, and unfortunately, this happens to be one of them. I'm sure once I am moved into the new house, I will find reasons to be happy about it, but for now, I see no up-sides to it. Every little thing, right down to the smallest details, just all doesn't make sense as to why we're leaving this place. But Matt will be Matt, and when he said if we don't take this house, we are still going to move, why not take it, knowing that it's a house, and not a crappy little 2 bedroom apartment?

Anyways...I don't want to think about it right now. It just makes me sad.

Today was the first day Alexis had with Matt. He said it went well. I'm hoping it went well. There's always something I hate about when I'm not here and someone else is watching my baby...it's the fact that I'm not here, and I have no idea what goes on and what they did all day. Not that I want to snoop, but I wish I had Nanny cams! just to see what goes on when I'm not around...haha!

Tomorrow I have my first 7am shift at work instead of 8. It's sad that I wont have that half an hour before work with Alexis now, but at least I will have an extra hour after work with her! Matt had me pick out Alexis' outfit for the day. He said he wouldn't know what to wear on her...Picking out her outfit every day is one of my favorite things...hahah! I know, I'm such a loser...


My baby girl is a Mini-Me...and I can't get over it!!

Bedtime for me! nite nite
xoxo

Alexis' First Trip to the Zoo

The Zoo ended up being a great trip! It wasn't too hot and it never rained, and Alexis loved just about all of it! She didn't have a nap all day, I was surprised she got through it all in a pretty good mood!
The Peterborough Zoo isn't as great as I thought it would be. There is probably only about 20 different animals there, but Alexis liked looking at everything, and seeing all the different animals, so it was well worth it's suckiness!


Daddy with all of his Kids

I think the best part of the Zoo today was the train ride. It was short and sweet, and Alexis loved every minute of it...minus the tunnel, where she grabbed me around my neck really tight!


In the tunnel
(sorry for the crappy quality picture)

Other than that though, she loved the train ride a lot!! And I think I looked at her more than I looked around at what she was seeing, but it was well worth it, seeing how happy she was!




I'm pretty sure that I've posted this picture already before on this blog, but because I now have a Daddy picture to match, I want to post both! I am kind of happy that I have both now!


KISSES


Alexis usually loves water more than anything, but I find that when she is tired, she hates it, other than her bath. She was too tired today to enjoy water twice, and too stubborn to miss anything to sleep. The poor girl!




But the day ended with a small nap on the ride home, and wind in her hair, which she loves loves loves!



Back to reality tomorrow in the crappy world of work, and it's Matt's first day to be with Alexis for the first time all day...we'll see how it goes...

But for now...nite nite!


Xoxo

Lamest Post Ever

Tomorrow we are taking Alexis to the Zoo for the first time! I've never been to the Peterborough Zoo, and I'm sure it's not nearly as exciting as the Toronto Zoo, but it's still a Zoo and it still has animals and Alexis will love it no matter what! I am super excited to finally get to take her! I've been wanting to do a fun trip somewhere for her for a while now, and well...I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve!
I just hope this damn headache decides to go away so I'm not feeling like crap all day. Yep. 4 days now with a freakin' headache...ugh.



So, it looks like we're moving. I'm not really sure how I'm feeling about the whole thing, so I really wont go into detail on the whole situation. We went to look at the house tonight, and I guess it's not that bad. I don't think it's nearly as nice as the place we have now, but it's a house, not a duplex, it has a fenced in backyard, and it has central air. I guess those are the selling points. I am going to have to do a major paint job in Alexis' room, because the 2 kids rooms are just ummm...shrek color. Ew. I think I need to think about it more before I can really decide how I feel about moving. But for now, it really sucks.

Better go to bed or I'll be super tired tomorrow. Sorry for the crappy post!
xoxo

Time with Grampa!

Oh my God, can my child seriously sleep through the night soon? Please? Alexis had such a bad night last night, and when she woke up this morning, it was earlier than it should have been. I was just relieved that today wasn't a work day, and spent the morning in my pj's, drinking really crappy coffee, and trying my hardest to keep a cranky girl occupied before nap time. Eek. By nap time I got another headache, and probably should have taken a nap with her, but I got sucked into a really stupid Family Channel movie! Yep, I've always been a sucker for dumb little girl movies. I guess I just never grew up....

Today we went to hang out with my Dad for a while, while my Mom was at work. I love watching my Dad with Alexis. Just seeing the way they love each other and interact together, just feels incredible. I love every second of it! We spent our time in the garage, which is probably my Dad's favorite place in his house. He went around the garage carrying Alexis in one arm and opening tool boxes with his free hand, showing her all his tools and letting her touch them, and telling her what they were! All she wanted to do, was put everything in her mouth! But it was cute! He always says he can't wait till she's a little bigger and he can teach her how to use all his tools and she can be his little helper, and I'm sure she will love that!

My Mom bought my Dad a new tractor the other day, and of course, my Dad had to show Alexis! And let me tell you how proud he looked when he set her in the seat and she touched the steering wheel! The smile on his face was full of love for my little girl, and it just gets me every time!!

See the smile on his face when he looks at her! I love it!


Tomorrow is another day of work for me. Another day of leaving my baby girl, missing some smiles and giggles and snuggles and kisses, just to stand on my feet, serve assholes their damn coffee in really uncomfortable shoes for 8 hours.
Another day, another dollar right? Boooo. Mommy's should get Maternity Leave till their baby goes to school.

Spaghetti anyone?!


My landlord called me tonight to tell me that she has another place available. They own quite a few houses in Trenton and just bought this place not too long ago. They knew that I was looking for a 3 bedroom place so that Alexis could have her own room, and this place they are offering to us is a 3 bedroom, and it's a whole house...with a small backyard. And they are willing to rent it to us at the same amount that we pay where we are now. So, we'd be upgrading, which is what I wanted, and staying at the same cost, which seems like such a great deal to me. I thought for sure that Matt wouldn't go for it, because he really wants to downgrade his expenses, but he said we are going to look at the place on Wednesday.

It's hard for me to think about moving. I love where I live. I love this house. I remember the first time I walked into this place, and the second I saw it, I knew it was home. I had to live here, and I have felt that way since we moved here. It's home. It's where Alexis has lived her first year of her life. Where she learned how to go up and down (as of today!) or 2 steps from our tv room to our bedroom, where she learned how to crawl, and so on and so on! It is a 10 minute walk to my parents house, which I LOVE more than anything because I LOVE to see them whenever I feel like it. It's a 10 minute walk to work and a 5 minute walk to downtown. Everything about this place, I love SO SO much, and now that Alexis has a giant room, it doesn't even seem like she has to share a room with the boys, and I love it. So, why move? It's far from work, from downtown and even farther to my parents house. I guess we'll have to see when we go see it on Wednesday if we like it or not.


Till next time...


Xoxo

The Sidewalk Sale

Despite waking up with a crappy headache, and it staying with me all day, I got myself up and took Alexis to the sidewalk sale this morning.

When I was a teenager, the sidewalk sale was the best thing the summer offered to us Trenton folk. My friends and I would go down there 3 days straight and hang out there all day till the whole thing was over. It was awesome! And every year since then, I find myself still looking forward to it, even though it's not as close to being as great as it was.



It's where everyone in our small town goes at the same time. Alexis really likes to look at all the people and watch everyone and see other kids walking by, who always comment on how cute she is! Today she got at least 6 Oh my God, she's so cute! comments and I always smile my I'm such a proud Mommy smile, and think I know!

Alexis and I watched the finals for Trenton Idol. Haha, I know, sounds lame, but these people were actually good! I especially loved the kids who sang! As soon as we got there, one little girl sang Alexis' song! Tomorrow from the movie Annie! She just loves the song because I sing it to her constantly. When Alexis heard the song, she looked at me and was so confused because I wasn't singing...so cute!

We had a day, just her and I! Where we shared a Sausage and a Snow Cone!

Listened to random people sing for the title of becoming Trenton Idol, while sitting in the middle of the street! There's something great about sitting in the middle of the street where cars are usually rushing by or stopped in traffic, and for some reason, I enjoyed it.


Alexis liked it too, me thinks! She was just a chillin'!


My Daddy is my favorite person in the world! And he just happens to be Alexis' favorite too! (Pretty sure I mentioned that in a previous post) Without him, life would just not go on. And so today when I saw this shirt, I had to scoop it up for Alexis even though it wont fit for a while. I just thought it was perfect!


Well, I'm hoping I can sleep this headache off, because it has been lingering with me all effing day, and well...that's just lame. Tomorrow is a new day and it shall bring us new adventures!
Cheers to Pretty little smiles!


Nite nite! XoXo