I try to keep my blog full of photos that are not just of Alana. I’m pretty sure that no one, other than my family, enjoys looking at photos of Alana quite as much as I do. As a result, I try to keep the blog about our family, not just our daughter. It’s important to me to document our entire family and our times together, both for my blog audience’s sake and for Alana’s sake. I want her to look back at photos of herself, but more importantly, of our family interaction and the love between us. I love when we have sessions with Amber Holritz, because those are the times I get to post photos of all 3 of us together, which is my favorite kind.
But since I enjoy taking photos of everyday moments and memories, there are bound to be posts with just alana…and this is one of them! Brace yourself, there are a lot this time…I’ve been snapping lots of “firsts” from the past few weeks!
The first “first” that I have continually forgotten to blog about was from a whole month ago! One morning I suddenly heard a loud “thud!” I ran into Alana’s nursery to see her walking toward me! Woa! It totally freaked me out to see her out of her crib – she’d used her bumper to give her just enough lift to escape! I couldn’t believe she wasn’t crying; just casually walking toward her door with a sense of accomplishment. Needless to say, the bumper came out of the crib that day and poor Alana is sleeping with a very bare crib now. Thankfully, no more crib stunts since then.
Now for some photos…
Alana is becoming more independent and as a result, wants to walk around when we’re shopping. She doesn’t like to sit in the shopping cart, and sometimes she doesn’t even want to be held…she wants to explore. So, when I’m not in a hurry I’ll let her play a bit. This particular day, Kellie and I were at Target and we let Alana run around a bit. She ended up in this aisle, determined to get onto this cute little stool. Thanks to Kellie for these…
Now for some fun-around-the-house shots! Alana still loves her paci, but Rich and I try to only give it her her for naps and night time. But sometimes she manages to find them (we have four right now) around the house. When she does, she gets deliriously happy…
This next series was all Aunt Pixie’s doing. She thought it would be funny to put my fleece jacket on Alana, so I grabbed my camera. She looked like a little Jedi Knight. We laughed. It was funny. Profound, I know.
Then I grabbed a few photos of Alana’s first tatoo and her first boo-boo…which she amassed simultaneously.
Rich and I went to the dentist for our six month cleaning and while we were there, our rockstar dentist, Tim Blackiston, hooked Alana up with her first toothbrush (a pink Disney princess one, no less) and a matching tatoo…which he put on her himself! What kind of dentist takes a break in the middle of his day to put a Disney Princess tatoo on a kiddo? Oh ya. Tim is the man! He’s an awesome friend and the best dentist ever!
And as for her first official boo-boo (at least the first one that we had to put a band-aid on), she’d gotten an infection on her poor little pointer finger. Nick, Amber and I all worked to get it disinfected and then got it in a band-aid. She’s pretty proud to sport her first boo-boo…and I’m glad I remembered to take a photo of it!
And now that Alana knows how to get onto chairs by herself, she enjoys sneaking up to use the iMac. Thankfully this time it was turned off…otherwise she tends to open and close applications at random! She loves the mouse!
She’s such a stinker! Check out her face when I caught her at the computer!
We’ve had some problems with ants this past week, and this is Alana’s dainty little way of holding her hands when she wants me to get them away! She’s interested in watching them but doesn’t want them touching her!
Roses in the front yard…
Another first! Her first painted toenails! Fun summertime girliness
And here is my only appearance in this blog post!
Be sure to head over to Rich’s blog later tonight to check out our trip to the aquarium from yesterday morning! He got some amazing shots of our experience!
Happy Memorial Day, everyone!
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