We're back!!

Yeah so remember when I am REALLY bad at journaling, apparnetly even in blog form. I could give the excuses of how we didn't have internet for the first 2 months in our new home, or how I kept starting blogs and then would be distractedby various things. But really it all comes down to the fact that I am horrible at journaling. But I ahve made a ....September resolution to keep up with this because I want to hear about all of your lives and it's not fair not to keep you informed of our lives.

So a 2 minute update: Our house is amazing( sometimes I just stare at my walls in glee), ArJay got into the police department at Tohono O'Odam and starts the Academy a week from Monday and is super excited espeically to "get buff" (I might have to start working out more now so I can be "super buff/hot" too), Alianna is the light of our lives when she isn't terrorizing us running around ( literally she's been walking since a few days before she turned nine months), and I have recently discovered how fun making hairbows and headbands are( I am offically a homemaker with my minivan, house, baby and crafts. But I refuse to wear mom jeans!)

I think that about covers it. I promise it'll be less cliff's notes next time becuase I won't be summing up 4 months!

Weight gain, new home, and other life changing events.

So Alianna had her 6 month doctor's appointment and the first thing the doctor asks me after the nurses have weighed her is about her eating habits. I'm thinking she must be really big as her father has affectionately starting calling her the "human garbage disposal". Come to find out she is actually small. She is 25 1/2 inches tall (which is quite tall,80th percentile)but only weighs 15lb 8 oz. It's still 40-50th percentile but the crux of the matter is that she only gained a pound in two months, her weight percentile dropped 30 %, and it's quite small for her height. I was baffled and tried to explain that I really am feeding my child. Then the doctor observed Alianna and deduced that she is just a very active baby and must have a high metabolism. As I breathed a sigh of relief that I am not starving my child, a tiny irritation set in. All the energy in the world plus high metabolism so that she can eat everything in sight and still lose weight......why can't I have that "problem".

Tomorrow we officially become homeowners and I think the realization has hit both ArJay and I hard. It's quite humorous how our personailty quirks present themselves in our reactions. While ArJay nearly left a permanent path in the floor yesterday from his restless and anxious pacing, I woke up at 3am in a frenzy because I thought we had missed our title appointment and thought we would be delayed in getting the house and I wouldn't be able to paint next weekend. And we wonder why Alianna looks at as like we're a couple of looney bins sometimes....

Meanwhile, Alianna doesn't seems to care where she is or who is with her as long as they keep the food coming, laugh at her every move, and give her something to gnaw on while we wait for this stupid tooth to come in. I'm beginning to feel like a moron when she gently grabs stranger's finger/head/nose then clamps on and all I can say is "sorry she's teething". I'm sure some of our friends are starting to think I haven't a clue either as she's been "teething" for months. Alas I still hold out hope that she will have at least one tooth in her prom pictures.

Home sweet home...nearly

We go every Sunday to check out the house before church and today everything was in. NO more concrete floors or voids for the dishwasher, it's all in baby! ArJay and I were acting like kids on the night before their first Disneyland trip. We were running around planning everything and soo excited about it we were not forming coherent sentences. We sign all the papers two weeks from tomorrow and I am counting the minutes.

Yes I am an lemming..

So I finally conformed and got a blog ( or is it set up a blog, not sure of the correct terminology). We just decided that our little girl is too cute and too much happens that we need to record and share. I also know myself and know how bad I am at journaling, hopefully I'll be able to keep this up

A couple of weeks ago I realized Alianna has never had professional pictures taken. Thus the above display of cuteness....