I have a climber

This is what happens when she gets upon the table and get down. Actually she was still smiling when I first went over there, but when I decided to turn back to get my phone, that was when she got upset.

She climbs on the table (as shown!) into the window sills (the high ones and the low ones), she can make it upon to Alli's bed without any assistance now! She can climb upon the couch in the playroom. She can almost make it into the rocking chair. Alli likes to help her out. I caught her halfway onto the kitchen counter one day. We used to leave a chair there for Alli, now we have to move it away from the counters. If she gets too quiet I get up and start looking around for her on things.

She definitely keeps me busy!!

Happy (late) Birthday to Piper!!

Yesterday was Piper's first birthday! Since we had her party last weekend, we didn't do anything too special. We were all up the night before at about 3 a.m. for what turned into family movie time. We were all kind of tired. We did get pictures made! I'm not on the PC so I can't upload the photos, but you can see them here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=137761&id=825875743&l=33799dd60c

Thursday, she really started taking some steps! Thankfully I caught it on the phone for everyone to see, because she hasn't done it too much since then.

She is now completely weaned. It is really bittersweet. I miss the bonding that takes place while breastfeeding. So far she has not taken to drinking milk. I've tried all the tricks we had to use with Allisyn and so far, nothing is working. I'm not too worried about it yet, I'm sure she will get there!

She is a climber. She loves climbing the stairs. She loves climbing the steps onto Allisyn's bed. She likes climbing onto the dinning room chairs and then onto the dinning room table.

She absolutely adores her big sister! She is very much a daddy's girl too. She is very sweet and loving. She is an animal lover just like her sister! She gets very mad if someone goes out in the backyard and doesn't take her with them to see the dogs. She loves petting the cats and all put one of them let her! Puck lets her get closer than he did Alli at that age.

She loves music! Any music will catch her attention. She will bounce and clap if it she really likes it!

I can't believe she is already 1! It went by way too fast!!

Lesson learned

So, I tried to blog this from my iPhone and I couldn't get it to work.

Lesson learned today if crying it out did not work out for your first child, chances are high that it won't work for your second. If only for the first getting upset that the second is upset.

We are working on weaning. It isn't going very well. Piper was awake from 3 to 8ish this morning. Michael was up with her the whole time. I went back to sleep about 6. Michael and Piper went back to sleep a little after 8 and slept until 10. Needless to say we had a tired and cranky Piper. She fell asleep during a drive just to wake up when we got home.

I tried letting her cry it out a little, but she just screams and gets overly worked up. Add that to Alli crying because her baby sister is so upset, and I broke. She ended up falling asleep in my arms.

Maybe someday my children will fall asleep on their own....

Some more Randomness

We celebrated Piper's first birthday this past weekend. Her actual birthday is this Friday, but Michael has to work next weekend. It actually went pretty well.

Allisyn can finally say all her alphabet without mixing up letters or leaving out HIJK!!

Piper is still almost walking! I'm giving up on trying to guess when it is going to happen because she seems to like to prove me wrong.

My mother is huge dork. Not only did she get a tattoo at the age of 52, she got it impulsively and picked something out AT the tattoo parlor. If your are going to get ink done put some thought into it and come up with something unique. Don't go in because your friend is doing it and get some random butterfly tattoo when you've never shown any special interest in butterflies. Also, she has yet to tell her mother. Ummm, hello? What is she? Like 12? Backing off the subject before I go on rant about her mom that will make people think I am a horrible person.

I ordered my iPhone! I will probably be wishing I would have waited it out and gone it and got in store, but I was too excited when it let me do it a day early! Maybe I will be able to blog more since I'm on my phone way more than I am on the laptop.