A blessed week

Well, I have not posted in a couple of weeks because there has been nothing of importance to talk about. Then it hit me.... the "nothing" IS important! We have had a couple of good weeks except for Ally's facial faux pas. She has not one but two eye injuries from school the past week or so. She does not know how to go slow and safe. She is always max speed with no stopping ability. I got a haircut that I really like. It is the shortest I have ever had my hair but I am wondering what took me so long to do it. I was able to get some spring cleaning done this weekend, Bryan did yard work, Ally visited he Granddad in Fayetteville, and all has been well. I just thank the good Lord for this blessing. I pray that He is blessing your family as well.

Mother of the year...HUH?

Well, for those few who read this, I was not imagining things when I smelled finger nail polish remover, only it was nail polish itself. YUP! all over the floor, tile, window and ALLY. An not just on her but in her, that's right, ( my head is hung in shame), she drank it! One quick call to poison control set me at ease thought when the gentleman on the other end said " Oh, well, ............." with such a big pause and such an apathetic vocal quality ( he was just trying to be calm, but me in my frantics, felt he should be listing things to do in lightning speed) I was reassured that she would live. Luckily it was a trial size bottle and not enough to harm! So for this I officially give myself the "Mother of the year" joke award.

On another note, Ally's heart appt at ACH this week went swimmingly. Heart is great and no surgery for at least 2 years! I used the word swim because we got to at the hotel. Ally absolutly loved it. Terrified at first, then mad because her floater kept turning her over, then complete bliss when mom put her in a "swimmer seat" so she could sit upright or lean over and "swim". We also went to the LR Zoo. It was a beautiful day, cool, and we all felt good. However it was school day and there were literally hundreds of groups of children, a zoo in a zoo I guess.

Finally, Mother's day was so much fun this year. No health concerns and a very attentive, sweet, handsome husband, and an oh so cutely dressed daughter at church with me made the day. A great lunch with my mom, a nap in the afternoon, and a beautiful bunch of flowers from Ally ( hand print flowers) and Dad ( the real thing). I couldn't have asked for more.....oh wait did I mention we sprung for a sitter and actually went out to eat sans baby? Ah that was the life, at least for a day. I hope all you other mothers were as lucky as I was.

And the drops just keep on comin'

I know it is spring but a couple of nice days without rain would be nice! Have you ever had one of those days where nothing is really wrong, but a bunch of little things seem to add up to the most horrible day or week ever. Well, that is my day. Oh well, I will live. Ally's world was rocked today when she was taken to another room for a while while her teacher had a meeting. She was so happy to see me that she jumped into my arms and shouted "bye" to the new teacher on her way out the door! An the tone of her bye absolutely said "thanks for nothin lady." It was not an honorable attitude, but pleasing to know that she does have her own personality and expresses it! Alright, I think I have had enough key strokes to calm down....half of them being the backspace from removing my innermost thoughts from the page.....God bless having a concience. I guess there is always something to give praise for. does anyone else smell nail polish remover??? guess I better check on Allybug....

All good things...

Well, nevermind the excitement about sleep in the last post. Ally is now awake, less than 20 minutes since I bragged about her going to sleep so well.....This too shall pass... I just really pray that it is not 5 years from now, or even worse, when she is out of the house before we actually sleep!

Consistency is key...

Okay, here it is, my second post in a week.... Aren't you proud ( probably more shock than pride). There really is not a lot to talk about today. It has been raining all weekend and I have had to work all weekend getting ready for our next trip to ACH. Ally has been fun this weekend though. We went to "Princess day" and Chick-fil-A and she sat on a horse for a picture. She seemed quite intimidated at first, not willing to pet the horse. But then she realized that it was the animal that we had pointed to quite often in the "Big Animal Book" and a loud squeal came out. We also decorated Daddy's birthday card today. We may have had a breakthrough with the sleeping thing tonight. During play time for an hour before bed time we went to bed. When the time came she said " Bed, bottle, Elmo," and WALKED to her room by herself and put her arms up toward the crib. She then went right to bed and is asleep right now. I hope this is the beginning of a love relationship with her crib! Next to conquer the bottle and move to the sippy cup all the time!

Another "step" in Ally's growth

This is one of Ally's first times walking on her own. The next day she took off and, well, hasn't stopped since.....

Walking

Well, the time has come....ALLY IS WALKING! actually, she went straight from scooting to walking and running in about 2-weeks. This is the fastest progression we have seen from her in her little delayed physical body, and we are stoked! She really skipped crawling, but is very capable of doing so. She also started saying 2-word phrases last weekend with "Look, Daddy!" She saw daddy outside working in his BEAUTIFUL garden and wanted to make sure that I saw him too! Things have been going very well here at home. The blessings from God have just been poured on us lately. I can't give enough praises. It also makes me leery about what tests may be waiting around the corner. What ever they are we will make it with His help. I just found out that people other than my mom read this.....Therefore, no more excuses.... more regular posts to come. Also I have included photos from Easter and Ally's first haircut. I didn't know the Easter Bunny could carry so much to one little girl!