We had a beautiful day outside. After church and after Alexis' nap, we went to the park to play, because it was like 50 degrees, but it felt like summer! Anyway, we stayed at the overcrowded park for a while,and then we went home and let Alexis ride her bike in the driveway, or actually scoot around on her bike, then we went to the back yard and played for two hours. All in all we were outside for about 3 hours, and she still cried when we came in. It was just nice being able to relax outside with my beautiful family, and gear up before this crazy and busy week starts. Hopefully, I will have some more interesting and good updates by the end of it. :)

Breaking Away...Slowly

When Alexis turned 18 months old she became a different child in many ways. She got incredibly clingy, and the terrible two's set in with a vengeance. Yelling, throwing, hitting, and the worst, banging her head on the floor. She wouldn't behave in church, and she most definitely wouldn't go to class on her own. She wanted me to stay in there with her. I blame this also on the fact that we had switched churches, and Mommy was a little nervous about putting her in class with people she didn't know. Anyway, we started going to ladies bible class on Tuesdays, which was for two hours and she cried the whole two hours the first time. Then she cried off and on. At Wednesday night class she cried the whole time, and then she started crying on and off after a few weeks. Now, she will only cry while she sees me (to try to get me to stay, faker!), and she stayed the whole time with no tears, last Sunday she went to Children's Church and class with no tears. In fact, I went to check on her in between church and class, and she barely knew I was there. I walked in and she said, "Hi, Mommy!" Then she started playing with her new friends, and talking to the other moms that were in there, and she wasn't too concerned with me. I told her bye when I went to class, but I don't think she heard me. :) I'm glad that it seems that we are starting to get out of this stage. It will make things a lot easier on all of us.

This is CRAZY!!!!!

Well, after our last snow storm I was ready for spring. I'm ready for flip flops, shorts, and the sun. I'm ready to go to the park to play, and fly kites, and everything else that comes with spring. This morning I woke up to 2-3 inches of snow. *Sigh* It kinda started snowing/sleeting for about an hour, and then the heavens opened up! It has been snowing huge flakes for about two hours and it's coming down hard! I checked about an hour ago and we had 4 inches. It's been snowing even harder since, so there's no telling how much we have now. They have predicted 10-15 inches of snow for us. We were suppose to have a doctor appointment for Lex today, but when we got there it was closed. So, when we got home Michael made a rather large snowman. It took a bunch of our front yard snow, and took up the grass. Now you can't even tell that we used any snow! Also, the snowman fell over, but when we brought Alexis inside she started bawling and yelling " noman...noman...noman!" It took me 30 minutes and Tinker Bell to calm her down. It's insane at how much snow is out side right now.When Alexis wakes up from her nap we are going to go outside to play. I hope she can walk in it! And while this is not considered a huge snow storm up north, for us Arkansans...it's a blizzard!

Big Girl!!

Recently after fear of Alexis toppling out over the side of her crib we carefully weighed the options of putting her in her big girl bed about 4 months sooner than we originally planned. I was more afraid of her getting up out of her big girl bed and having hysterical fits once I shut the door, but after measuring, reading, and more measuring we decided that it was just too dangerous to leave her in the crib. So out came the huge box of big girl furniture and we put together her new bed, which is of course Tinker Bell. I was dreading the first night in her new bed because I just knew she was going to be up and down all night.I thought it would be worse than when she was a brand new baby because now she can talk.And she was really always a good sleeper. Anyway, So we tucked her in (sorta) and shut the door. And....off she slept the whole night! WOOHOO!!I woke up before she did (which is rare), and laid in bed thinking about how wonderful my daughter's sleeping habits were. But, I was also aware that nap time may be a different story. It wasn't thankfully! She slept her whole nap in her bed! She's had a pretty easy time transitioning into being a big girl. She thought it was the most fun thing ever when we were putting her bed together, and she ran and played in it for about a half an hour before we finally got her settled down enough to go to bed. I asked her that now that she was a big girl could we give the baby bed to a little brother or sister someday. She promptly answered "NO!!!!!". Well, thankfully we're not expecting another baby anytime soon. She may have some jealousy problems. :)She has gotten out of her bed a few times when she wasn't quite ready to take a nap yet. But, she just played with Tink's Cafe, and then put herself back in her bed, covered up, and took a nice long nap! We are so blessed!!! I hope ALL of our children's sleeping habits are this wonderful!I will post some pics later, and there's a video of Alexis playing in her new bed on our you tube stream...or whatever it's called.