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So I know it’s been quite a while since I’ve updated but you know, that’s how life is. It gets busy! So tonight you crawled for the first time, and Your mom, Pappa, and myself were here to see it. What’s funny is that if Crazy Aunt Jen had stayed just 10 minutes longer, she’d have seen it too!

 I was playing the piano, and your mom was on the couch doing Something. I think she was scrap booking. Anyway, your Pappa was sitting on the floor and he said ‘okay Alisa, let’s walk!’ and so he was crawling with you, and I’m playing the piano and I look over and you take one full step…. and then you take another full step (by step yes I mean crawling) and next thing you know, you’re doing it! So I run upstairs and get the digital camera which also records videos and we’ve got you crawling all over the place! It’s been just a matter of time for like a month now, I mean you’ve been getting up on your hands and knees and rocking, and you’d even move your right hand and do half crawling, but yo ujust wouldn’t move your left hand!

 We’re pretty excited but it’s also kinda scary… now you’re going to be Alllllllll over the entire house. I’ve got 110 DVD’s just lying on the ground, a DVD Player, my stereo speakers connected to the TV, and a Nintendo Wii! What are we going to do? One of the first things you’re going to have to learn is that touching Dad’s TV or Nintendo = Certain Doom! We certainly don’t want doom pending on you… so just make sure that you avoid the TV and nintendo. Okay and the DVD player, and the movies… so pretty much, don’t touch anything. Obviously that’s just not going to work.

 Wow how exciting is that, so now you’re crawling around… you love to wave to people and flail your hands about. Mom tries to teach you patty-cake but I don’t think you really quite understand how to do it.

 You know what’s really funny is that your pappa is always here when you learn something new. When you waved, when you crawled, pretty much everything except the first time you really consistently rolled over and that’s just because I made you do it

 I’m so excited at how big you’re getting. It’s like the fun just isn’t going to stop. I’m so proud of you.

You’re looking at me right now. Oh nevermind, it looks like you’re crawling towards mom. Completely. Wow! look at you go!!

That’s all I have to say for now. I love you ‘lissa bear!

Dad

Alissa,

 Last weekend you did something really neat! You perfected sitting up. What’s really odd about it is that you hadn’t tried it before. One minute you’re always lying on your back, the next minute your mom and I set you up and you’re completely sitting on your own. In fact, it took you like 10 minutes to fall over for the first time, and you weren’t even mad about it.

Most babies go through a series of steps for sitting up, such as “tripodding”. Babies lean forward on their hands and support themselves, and then slowly over time they push themselves up further and further until they’re ‘free sitting’. You bypassed all of this. You just started sitting up completely, supporting your own weight. you were even compensating your own weight when you started to drift. How crazy and cool is that? You’re way ahead of the times baby girl.

It’s actually kinda scary to think what’s going to be happening next. You’re not supposed to crawl for many more months, but we’ll have to see. I’m starting to think you’ll be early on that, too.

P.S… it looks like you’re going to be left handed. which is good, because historically the worlds most intelligent and successful people were left handed.

I love you!

Alissa,

Today was wonderful! Today was the first day you rolled over (about 5 minutes ago…10:00PM MST)!!!

your mom put you on a blanket in the living room in front of the TV saying “And now you’re going to be mad at mom because she’s going to put you on your tummy…. TUMMY TIME!”. And we were both watching you, and we noticed that you had pulled your right arm up above your head, and you began to kinda push your top weight in that direction. At that moment we both realized you could possibly roll over, and we saw you and so we started “Comeon’ Alissa! you can do it! Roll over! Kick that leg! Kick it!!!”

It took you a few seconds, but you were starting to fuss, so you “waa” and kicked, and “waa” and kicked, and “waaaaaa” and kicked, until you had completely turned over all on your own!

13 weeks and 6 days and you’re a rolling over baby! I’m so very proud of you.

You hold your head up so high now. I have to apologize to you, for not writing in your journal more frequently. I knew it was going to be hard, but I didn’t realize it would be this hard to set you down sometimes just to write in your journal!

You are just so big. You hold your head up so well on your very own. You like to look at us and make little “oohh” sounds, and talk to us. I swear your actually trying to communicate with us. you’re such a smart little baby.

When you kicked yourself over, you just kinda stared at the ceiling like “uh…. what the heck just happened???”… You didn’t smile or anything, nor did you frown. It’s like you were just amazed at what happened. probably like a “um… did I just do that? Or, who did that? what the heck?”

Now your mom is cleaning out your nose. that’s another event that has been taking place a lot lately. You seem to get really, really stuffy (did you get your dads allergies?) and so probably twice a day, especially just before bed and sometimes when you wake up, your mom has to take a blue bulb nose sucker thing, and suck out all the crap in your nose. Then she has to take little q-tips and stick it up in there and get the crap out. It’s actually really quite gross, but it’s necessary. you HATE it. I mean really… I don’t think i’ve ever heard such crying (except your mom says your immunizations were worse! good thing I was at work…).

A week ago or so you just stopped crying when mom cleans out your nose. I’m not sure if it’s because you know it needs to be done, or yo’ur ejust sick of crying about something you can’t fix.

Btw - If it’s the latter, than good for you. It’s a good life lesson to learn that you shouldn’t cry about things you can’t fix.

We are so proud of you Alissa. You are our sweet wonderful daughter and we’re amazed at every little thing and every little accomplishment that you make, on a daily basis.