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Wednesday, 15 June 2005
work
I have actually had some work to do this week. It's amazing. It will probably only last a week, but at least I have something to do.

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Monday, 13 June 2005
sleeping
I know I talk about sleep a lot, but it's a major topic at our house. When you're not getting any, it's always on your mind.

This weekend was a good one. Friday night, Ally went to bed at 9 with about 10 minutes of crying. She woke up a coulpe times in a 45 minute span, but went back to sleep when I told her to. The last time she woke up, I went in and checked on her. She was still asleep, but yelling anyway. I just patted her back and she settled down. maybe she was having a bad dream? Saturday night, she was really ready for bed. We had gone out to dinner and some other stuff and got back home around 9. She stayed upstairs with G'ma Darra while I helped Rob put on some more lotion. By the time I went up to get her, she was waving nigh-night to everything she could see. She laid down and slept til 6:45 in the morning. Last night she was pretty tired too. at 8:15, I told her to come with me and went down the stairs to go outside and water the plants. She passed her pillow on the way and picked it up to bring with us. She thought we were going to bed already. I held her off until about 8:45 and she went to bed with no trouble and slept til 5:20 this morning. Yay!

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Knight's Action Park
I planned to go to Kinghts Action Park yesterday morning, but it was cloudy and hazy all morning. I piddled around all morning and when Ally woke up from her nap, it looked a little more sunny, so we decided to go. She was very excited when we got close enough that she could see the pools. First, I let her get in a big one by the lazy river. It slopes in and goes to about 18 inches or maybe 2 feet deep. She lept wanting to go in deeper than I wanted her too, and chase the big kids. So we went further in to the kids area - "Seal Bay". The water there was 12 to 18 inches, but she didn't mind at all. She walked right in. First, there were some kids jumping on a floating turtle and falling off into the water. She thought that was hilarious. She laughed and laughed.

It took her a little while to realize that she could stand up in the water. She'd walk a little then slip. I was holding both her hands, so when that happened, I just lifted a little and she floated. She didn't realize she could put her feet back down. But once she got past that, there was no stopping her. She refused to let me hold onto her a couple times. But, she'd get walking too fast and her feet would go out from under her. So I had to get as close as she would let me so I could catch her. We wandered around and played in the water for a while.

Then we went down some slides together. She wanted to go down one that I was too big for (according to the lifeguard). It was barely even a slope over a distance of about 6 feet. So I helped her walk up the rampto it, and she climbed over the edges and sat down while I ran back to the bottom to catch her. I shouldn't have bothered to run. It took her about 5 minutes just to get into sliding position. Then, she sat there and yelled at me to get out of her way, because she didn't want me to catch her. I had to move to the side and she proceeded to scoot down. She finally got to the end and I helped her slide off. When we went to yet another slide, a lady offered to watch her climb up while I waited in the water, so I didn't have to worry as much. Then, her daughter (maybe 3 years old) took over. She grabbed Ally's hand and tried to drag her around everywhere. She helped her climb up ladders, and sit down to slide. She even tried to push me away once. I had to tell her to give Ally some space. ALly didn't seem to mind though.

I finally asked someone what time it was. It was 6:20 and Ally hadn't eaten supper yet. I had no idea. We left the house at 4:30. So I asked Ally if she was hungry, and she signed "eat, eat, eat". She didn't throw a fit when we changed clothes and left, but you could tell that she wasn't thrilled about it, she was just too hungry to stay.

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Sunday, 12 June 2005
the mall (Fluff-N-Stuff)
Last night we went to the mall for supper at Ruby Tuesday's. I thought for sure Ally would sit down and eat, because it was kinda past her supper time.
I was wrong. AShe played for a while. She ate some fruit. Abou the time we got our food, she was starting to climb around in the booth and really get in trouble. Darra ate quickly and then took her for a walk around the mall. Rob and I got to eat and then went to find them. We found them sitting outside the restaurant with a new stuffed pig. I guess they ran into the fluff-N-Stuff booth and Ally picked out a pig. You get to pick their outfit and a bunch of stuff to customize your animal. Darra said she let Ally pick the outfit. She asked Ally "Do you want this one" and Ally said "No-no-no" about 30 times. Finally Darra asked and Ally took the outfit. She picked pink pajamas with a hat. I guess Ally was really hesitant to let the guy stuff it, but he promised to give it back, so she gave it to him. She was giving it lots of hugs all the way home, and putting his hat on and taking it off and putting it on her head. She slept with him the rest of the weekend.

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Saturday, 11 June 2005
sun poisoning
Last night sucked. Especially for Rob. To start with, someone didn't come in to work, so he had to stay over til 5 pm. He got home about the same time his mom got here. She came up to help us plant our new stuff. Our neighborhood garage sale was this weekend, so when everyone got here we took a walk around the neighborhood. We came home and were deciding what to have for supper when Rob came downstairs to get ready. His sunburn was starting to hurt from walking around and sweating, so he did the same thing he did every night since he got sunburned. He started rubbing some aloe/lidocaine stuff on it. It stung, so he tried some regular lotion. It hurt. So he wiped it all off and still hurt. He called me down to help, and started to freak out a little from the pain. I tried lots of stuff, but nothing worked. We were about to go to the ER, but first I went upstairs and sent his Mom down. She figured out that it was sun poisoning set in. She made him take some benadryl and calmed him down a little. They rubbed baby lotion on and it soothed him a little. He was still in a lot of pain, but the benadryl seemed to be helping. We sent about 2 hours dealing with it and went through almost a whole bottle of baby lotion. I've never seen Rob in so much pain. His back wasn't just burnt anymore, it was spreading. You could see it moving around his sides and down his arms. The next day, he was feeling a little better. He stayed on benadryl and rubbed lots of lotion on, and now it's gone back to a regular sunburn. I believe he'll wear sunblock next time.

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Friday, 10 June 2005
plants
We got the plants we ordered online yesterday. They screwed up the order though. Last week, we received an email telling us they were out of one thing we ordered. Even so, we still didn't get everything. The deal was you order $110 and get 25 free hibiscus flowers. We thought they were pretty, so got a couple extra things to pad our total. They were out of one thing we ordered, but said they would ship the free stuff anyway. They didn't. They ran out of the free stuff too. Then, they only sent 2 of one thing instead of 4. I called and complained. They offered to send me the missing stuff and send some burning bush instead of the hibiscus. Then, I talked to Rob, and realized that we have no use for them, so I called the nursery back and told them that. I asked for a shipping label so I could send the 2 things I ordered extra because I didn't need them if they weren't getting me the flowers. They said they don't do that, but could refund that part anyway and I could keep it as a free gift. So Basically, I ended up with most of the plants that I wanted originally, and I got the stuff I liked enough to buy for free. I'm almost satisfied.

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books
There was a book fair at Revenue yesterday, so I got Ally a couple new books. She wasn't thrilled about leaving day care, and wanted to get down and play instead of sitting in her car seat. I sat her down and gave her a new book though, and she instantly calmed down and sat quietly all the way home checking it out. She's a strange kid.

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sleeping
Ally cried for about 10 minutes last night at bedtime. I stood at the door and told her to lay down and she did. She woke up once, but I didn't even have to get up. I told her to lay down from bed and she did. I'm not sure why I always have to tell her to, but it's getting better.

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Thursday, 9 June 2005
sunburn
We bought some plants for our yard, and yesterday, Rob was digging holes for them. He thought it would be a good time to work on his tan a little, so he took his shirt off. 4 hours later, he's a little sore. His back is almost purple. I was rubbing aloe gel on him most of the evening. Crazy husband!

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storm
Yesterday, I left my liittle cubicle in the basement and walked out to the hall. The sky looked really dark, so I went back to get an umbrella. By the time I got to the daycare, it looked like the rain would let loose any second. Ally was still haveing snack (ice cream), so I let her eat a little more. It wasn't very long, but I shouldn't have even done that. We were just washing her hands when it started pouring down rain. I could see through the windows a little, but didn't notice how bad it was until we walked to the front door. There were lots of parents standing there with their kids waiting for it to let up a little. We waited a little while, but decided it wasn't going to get any better, so I tucked Ally's head down on my shoulder and ran to the car. I was just parked by the curb, but got soaking wet. I jumped in the car and shut the door behind me and looked at Ally. She was loving it. She had a giant grin on her face. Her hair was all wet down on her head. When I looked at her she started giggling. Crazy kid.

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Wednesday, 8 June 2005
More Melmo
Rob and I wanted to sit down to supper last night, and Ally had gotten over her tantrum and played for a while, so we stuck the Elmo DVD in for her. She was standing right next to the TV, so we made her back up. I drug her little couch over far enough away. She sat down on the couch and threw an arm over Tickle-Me-Elmo's shoulder and sat for a while. Every once in a while, she would rearrange him. Sometimes she'd switch sides of the couch with him - sometimes she'd sit him on her lap. She got up once and hugged him and danced a little. I don't set her down in front of the TV often, but it's sure nice to have a break occasionally.

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timeout
Yesterday we had to institute a timeout. Ally wanted a snack right when we got home. We had trouble before with her eating snacks and not eating supper anymore, so I told her no. Then we went outside, but she wanted to get in the pool. She wouldn't let me set her down anywhere else, so we came back in. Then, she didn't want me to do anything at all without her. If I didn't pick her up, she stood at my feet yelling. Rob decided that she should sit until she could stop crying. So I sat her on the couch and let her cry. She sat really still and screamed for a while. Then she stopped. I told her she could get down if she wanted to, and went on wit h what I was doing, but she didn't. After a while I asked Rob if he thought I should let her sit, or what. I thought maybe she didn't know timeout was over. He walked over to her and asked her if she wanted to get down. She started screaming again. I think she was just sitting there saving her strength for when someone was listening. Anyway, she eventually got over it.

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Tuesday, 7 June 2005
watering the flowers
A week or so ago, a lady at work gave me a bunch of hostas and day lilies that she thinned out of her flowerbed. I haven't separated them out yet, because I don't know where I'm going to put them yet. For now, I planted them in buckets sitting on our patio. They needed watered last night, so I grabbed another bucket and got some water out of Ally's little pool and watered them. This weekend, Ally helped G'ma Darra water her flowers, so she decided to help me too. At first I worried we would water them too much, but when I saw her technique, I realized that would not be an issue. She dunked the bucket in her pool them dumped half the water out when she picked it up out of the water. More spilled on the way to the flowers. Then, she watered them by dumping the bucket from the far side, so most of the water soaked her belly instead. Good thing we were still wearing our swimsuits. She's such a good helper.

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swimming
We got in our pool last night. The thermometers said 80 and 82 degrees, so the water temp might have been somewhere around there. It was a little chilly at first, but get comfy pretty quick. Ally loved to have me lift her over the side, let her walk down the deck to the ladder and jump back in to me. By jumping, I mean this: She bends her knees and puts her arms out, expecting me to jump her. She had a lot of fun. I also put her stacking cups in the water with us, and she played for a while filling and dumping them. She amused herself by filling one up and dumping it down my swimsuit.

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supper
Lately, Ally wants to sit in the big chairs instead of her booster, so when she gets hungry, she climbs up in one (I think she's getter taller again). Last night, she put Elmo in her booster, and dragged a chair over next to him and climbed up. She wanted Elmo to eat supper with her. I gave her a peanut butter sandwich torn in half and some applesauce for supper. I looked over a minute later, and half the sandwich was sitting in front of Elmo. I told her Elmo wasn't hungry, but she didn't believe me cause she put it back in front of him again. Then she was trying to give him spoonfuls of applesauce. Mostly it ended up sliding off the spoon and landing on the table. I had to wipe a big glob of it off one of Elmo's eyeballs though. A monster's got to eat!

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Monday, 6 June 2005
socks
I tried to put sandals on Ally Sunday. She absolutely threw a fit. I got them on, but she was yanking on her foot trying to get them back off. i put socks on first, and she didn't care anymore. She just didn't like her feet to be in shoes without socks. She's awfully opinionated

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hoppy toad
This weekend, Rob Ally, and I were out in the yard. There was a little hoppy toad jumping by, so I pointed it out to Ally. She didn't really see it very well, so Rob picked it up and held it for her. She was curious, and stuck out her finder to touch it. As soon as she did, it jumped off Rob's hand. She jumped back a little, then decided it was funny. Rob picked it back up, but she didn't want to touch it again. She just babbled a lot and pointed to it.

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sleeping
one word - screaming

Thursday night, Ally rocked to sleep, and woke up at 3 and screamed til around 5.

Friday night, Ally screamed herself to sleep from 9:30 to after 10, but slept til 6.

Saturday night, Ally went to sleep while we weren't there, so I doubt she screamed, but she woke up at 3 and screamed a little over an hour before we gave in and I rocked her back to sleep.

Sunday, she went to sleep in the car on the way home. We got home around 11:30, and put her in the crib and didn't hear from her until 5.

Her sleep schedule is way off from traveling. There was too much excitement for her to want to sleep much.

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weekend overview
Short story - We were on the go all weekend.

Long story - Rob left for Robinson Thursday morning, leaving me to ride home with Darra (who was in town for a meeting). When he got to town, he started trying to organize getting ARCH helicopter to land at the Palestine benefit for Darron. He found them a landing site, but wasn't sure it was big enough, so when I got to town at 4 or so, he came back to get my camera to go back to Palestine to take pictures. Darra drove me and Ally into town and dropped us off at the grandparents' to visit for s little bit while she drove with Rob. They came and got us and we went to dinner. Then we had to download the pictures and email them to the helicopter people. Unfortunately, we were in Robinson, so technology failed us. Every technological device we had malfunctioned in some way. The process became overly complicated. We finally got it accomplished, and I went to sleep and Rob went to see Andy. Friday, Rob had to do more helicopter stuff, then came home to work on the deck with Bill. They studied and figured and scratched their heads. Darra and I went to Wal-Mart. Bill took a break and Rob went fishing. They must have figured out the way they wanted it to go, because they started in working. Saturday morning, they started in bright and early (around 9). I didn't do a while lot because Ally would just get in their way. The grandparents came out around 11 though and kept her occupied. I started helping carry boards around. They started Ally swinging, and she fell asleep, so I got to work a while. Rob and I quit around 2 so we could go over to one of Darron's benefits. It was pretty lame, but I think they raised quite a bit of money. Bill and Brad finished the supports for the deck while we were gone, so when we got back, Bill was ready to relax for dinner. We had plans to meet Andy later, and Bob was coming into town for supper. Darra and Bill took Ally and went to supper, leaving us to wait for Bob to get to town. We had almost an hour of quiet (not rushing around everywhere) to ourselves without the baby. Sunday, Rob helped put the decking on the top. We went to visit Bob and Glinda at the grandparents for a little while. That evening, we went to the bowling benefit for a little bit, then to dinner, gave the baby back to Darra and Bill again, went back to the benefit to bowl a game then got the baby and left town. My back hurts from riding in the car all weekend. Rob's legs hurt from driving. But, it was good to see everyone, and we (mostly Rob) helped Bill a lot with the deck - which was the main point.

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road trips
Ally did really well on the road this weekend. On Thursday afternoon, we left at naptime for G'ma Darra's house in Robinson. She slept almost the whole way down. She road around in the car quite a bit while we were there (out to lunch, in town to see great-grandparents, back to Dara's, to the store, etc), so she got tired of getting in the car. But, we'd tell her where we were going, and she usually calmed down. We waited to leave until Sunday night so she could sleep all the way back too. For once, that actually went according to plan. Ally fell asleep a little after 9 and when we got home at 11:30 she was still sleeping.

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