Alison has new words now! She can say "Hi", "Bye-bye", "Mommy", "Daddy", "Please", "Yes", "Baby", and "Night-night". She just started saying all of these words basically over the last week. She has also been sick this week since saturday. She has 2 ear infections and a sinus infection. Poor girl has been miserable the whole weekend. We were finally able to go see the doctor today and got her some medicine. I will be so glad to get her feeling better. It just breaks my heart to see her in pain.

Alie took her first step! It was actually done on Dec. 6. She stepped from Mommy to Daddy, so neither one of us missed it. I also have some new pictures of Alie! Click on each picture to see the whole album.



Here are her halloween pictures, sorry they are so late!


:: I love pumpkins! ::



Alie and her new friend Katelynn. They get along so well!


:: Katelynn ::



This is how Alie looked this morning when I woke her up!


:: Rag-a-muffin ::

Alison has a new tooth in the front and she just cut one of her molars today. I can tell you this, she hasn't been a very happy kid the last day or two. I have been keeping her on tylenol, but it still doesn't work as well as I would like. She was incredibly cranky all day today. Poor girl!



Oh, and Alie has a new best friend! Katelynn is a 17 month old little girl that I have been watching for about 3 weeks now. She is a total sweetheart and she and Alie get along wonderfully. They have so much fun together that they cry at the end of the day when Katelynn leaves. Katelynn calls Alie GeeGee (G in gorilla sound). It is so cute, weird that she got that out of "Alie". I will get some pictures of Katelynn and Alie posted soon. I also have Alie's halloween pics that I still need to post. She was a big fat pumpkin.

I finally uploaded the pictures from Alie's birthday party. She recieved such nice gifts and had a wonderful time! To check it out, click on this picture... When you get to the new webpage, scroll down to the bottom and click on "photo gallery" to see all of the pictures.


:: Alie's Birthday Pics ::

I'll post Alie's birthday party pics today (Sunday). I know I have been putting it off. I have a lot of them, so I've been lazy about it.

Well, Alie's party went great...I just have to get the pics posted for you! I'll tell all about it once I can get them uploaded.

Today (10.15.03) is Alison's first birthday. We went to visit the doctor for her one year check up. She got 2 shots, but hardly even cried. We also went to my old work place and visited with old friends as well as invite most of them to her party. We are having her party on Saturday. I am so anxious to see how she will react to the whole thing. I hope she loves the whole day. It will be her first time to eat cake! I bet she will love it!



I took some pictures of her today, to document her special day. I am also including one of her at 6 mo. to get a comparison on how much she has grown. If you click on the picture, it will take to you an album of more pictures.




:: 6 months old ::


:: One year old ::





Oh, I forgot to post earlier this week about some of Alie's "first"... Sunday she got to ride in her big girl carseat facing foward. I think she really liked this, because she could see what was going on around her. She could also see me in the mirror and thought that was really great. She also went to the nursery at church for the first time. I thought she would have some detachment issues, ok, maybe I was hoping more than anything. :) She did really well though, not crying once. I think she was so focused on all the new things around her, that she didn't even realize mommy wasn't there. I am so very proud of her. I just love my little pumpkin head to pieces!!!