Thanksgiving

Grandma and Alyssa watching the parade at Disneyland.
We went to Newport beach California. It was so nice and warm. We went to Disneyland for one day. Alyssa did pretty good. Unfortunately she was asleep for the ride I wanted her to see (It's a small world). It was so cute all decorated for Christmas. Alyssa did enjoy the parade.

This is Alyssa watching the parade, I love her curious look.
This is at Laguna beach. I think these picture turned out really cool.

We had a fire at Laguna beach. It was cold but the fire kept us nice and warm. Hearing the ocean at night still by the fire roasting marshmallows, so nice!
We ran a turkey trot 10K in Dana point. I was a really nice run, it was along the ocean. The only problem was that there were 4000 people and the lanes we had to run in were so small it was hard to go the pace I wanted too because we had to run around people. We still did it in good time, Noelle of course finished before us.
Alyssa played with this flower and devoured it for about a half hour. This is at the pool.
In front of Snow Whites Adventure.
In line for its a small world. So cute, my favorite ride!

8 months of joy

Alyssa is 8 months old today! I cannot believe how time goes so fast. I think I will now think that for the rest of my life, she just continues to grow, develop and amaze us. She is such a wonderful joy to our family. Last week she started crawling on her hands and knees, with in 2 days she was done with that and now crawls on her feet and hands. As you can see in the picture below she is so interested in everything we do and never wants to be left out. (sounds like her Dad =) In this pictures Noelle is eating something and Alyssa couldn't stand it so crawled over and stood up and practically begged to have some.

She can stand for a second by her self!

Happy Halloween!!!

Fall

Alyssa on the move

So a few weeks ago Alyssa started scooting. At first it was more of an arms and leg scrambling motion but now she is coordinated, sometimes gets gets pretty high on her knees but it is still an army crawl. But she can sure get around. Yesterday she crawled over to the outlet and tried to stick her finger in it (time to baby proof)!

The other day Noelle and I were playing with Alyssa. She was so funny! Noelle would tease her by taking away the remote to the TV and Alyssa would laugh so hard. It was the funniest thing ever.

6 MONTHS!!!

Our princess Alyssa =)

Alyssa turned 6 months old yesterday. I just can't believe it. The time has gone so fast. She is the pride and joy of our world! We haven't had her 6 month apt yet so I don't know how much she weighs but I guess about 16 lbs. She is sitting up by her self. She loves eating fruits, and throws up vegtables if I try to feed them to her. It is pretty funny but gross to see pea vomit. I am trying to get her to sleep through the night with out the "cry it out method" which I tried one night but couldn't stand it, I could just feel my heart breaking. Last night she woke up twice but I only feed her once so that was an improvement from the night before when she woke up 5 times. My friend at work has an 8 month old baby who wakes up 2-3 times a night; so I don't feel so bad. Alyssa is now has to have a baby sitter a few times a week while Russ goes to school. I was really nervous about it but it has turned out to be great. The lady who watches her has one girl who is 1 month older than Alyssa and they just play together.

Ignore me in this photo, I didn' know that I was in it. We were trying to get a cute picture of her after her bath but she is making a funny face also. She looks cubby too. =)

FYI: We were driving home from dinner the other night and I saw a little boy on a bike jet out in front of the van in front of us. I knew that there wasn't going to be time to stop and that the boy would get hit. I saw him fly off his bike and hit the ground. He wasn't wearing a helmet. We stopped and I ran to the boy and kept his head still and waited for the ambulance. He seemed to be fine, he could move him legs and was talking but this traumatized me. I was sure he was going to die when I saw him get hit. I am glad that is he is ok but I will always have my children wear helemts no matter what!! And of course make sure they learn to look both ways before crossing the street. I hope that everyone else does too!