Our Advanced Skills Child Allyson

Jamie and I were looking at the progress of Allyson today and only have one more week until the official results. This is kind of like training for the Olympics as the work can be pretty difficult each day. Allyson knows the extra work she puts into this will be well worth the effort.

In one more week, Allyson is working to be able to Smile, Laugh and Hold the Head at a 45 degree angle. This would put her into the category of being able to do things that most kids have not mastered.

The smiles from Allyson are getting close. Jamie needs to be able to finish better on her jokes as Allyson does not seem to be totally sold on the humor.

Laughing will soon follow as soon as we can get some solid smiles out of her.

She has great strength with the head and I think that we will have no issues with Master Skill #3 when the official results come out next week.

Beyond all those measures, Allyson has mastered the skill of getting proud parents who love her so much! She has us learned to work us over and become an expert in the ability to get our attention with everything she does.

She's Stylin' Now!

Emily LOVES to play dress up. She loves it so much that we would find her wearing interesting outfits at 10:00 at night while she was supposed to be asleep. We finally put locks on her drawers so she would sleep instead of changing her clothes. But occasionally she gets "open drawer day" and this is the kind of outfits she puts together. I think she gets her sense of style from her daddy?! This one is actually very mild, the skirt actually matches the shirt somewhat. Her favorite outfits are very crazy. But she thinks she looks beautiful and that's all that matters!

Allyson's First Bath

Allyson's bath was a huge success and we plan to do it again as parents. Jamie prepared the water which was just right but we made the mistake of waiting too long. Allyson let us know right away that the water was too cold. So I came to the rescue and rushed some warmer water into her bath to complete a great experience for Allyson.

We couldn't give her first bath until the umbilical cord fell off which was last night. I'm not sure where it ended up and I'm just hoping that Emily did not get ahold of it.

Allyson is still eating a lot which makes us think that the size of the bathtub for Allyson may be outgrown very soon and we may have to upgrade her to the human size tub in the near future.

I can never get Emily to keep her "footy" pajamas on. She always wants to wear her princess dress up clothes to bed. But for some reason, last night she kept them on. So Ally and Emily had on similar pajamas. They looked really cute all cuddled up and warm. And this is a rare glimpse of Ally's eyes open. She really has very pretty eyes when she decides to wake up. I think it had to do with the fact that Emily was holding her. She already loves to stare at her big sister when she is around. I think Ally finds her more entertaining than the rest of us!

Big sister at last!

Emily's first meeting with her new baby sister was on January 11th and she loves her new little Ally. She wants to hold her a lot and her biggest concern is that Ally has no teeth. I think that really worries her! Both of them are doing really well and have settled nicely into their new roles as big and little sister.