For the next few days I’m going to be busy getting everything ready for the move so I won’t be posting anything.  We won’t have internet for a while in our new place either so I will only get to post whenever I’m at my in-laws house until we get internet set up there.  I realize I haven’t posted very much in the last few days either so I will make up for it once everything gets set up in Spokane.  I’m pretty sure I’m going to get my cell phone number changed as well.  Hopefully I can get just the area code changed because I still have a Lewiston number and I haven’t lived there for 4 years.

Seeing little flurries outside the window this morning is very depressing.  There are two barbecues scheduled for today but is it going to be warm enough to go?  Thats right, no…

Today marks another one of those events that will probably be more fun for us just because it is with the first child. I must admit though that it is kind of cute. Ahnna has learned that she has a tongue. She has also learned that if she wants, she can stick it out on command and it is pretty funny. She has been doing it all day. I’m sure part of it is my fault since I have been sticking out my tongue at her since day 1. Somethings catch on faster than others. I was hoping that by now she’d be able to crawl some. Alas, I’m stuck with the fact that sometimes other abilities rear their head, or tongue, first.

Ahnna fooled us when she slept through the night for the first few months.  We were so thankful she was a sleeper.  Now is a different story especially since it has been getting lighter earlier.  She is up with the sun at 5:30.  The last week she has woken up two or three times at night and decided it is time to get up at 4am.  This morning was the last straw.  So far I’ve been to much of a softy to just let her cry but after her waking up every 2.5 hours, at 4am when she wanted to stay awake I just let her go. I already got up and fed her and changed her diaper so I wouldn’t worry that she was dirty or hungry.  I shut both her door and my door and she cried for 1/2 hour.  It wasn’t as hard or loud as I thought it was going to be.  I got up once to comfort her without picking her up so I’m proud of myself.  Maybe I can start getting her to sleep though the night again now that I can get through her crying for a while.

I looked at the calender yesterday and saw that Ahnna’s shots were today and not Tuesday so we were at the Doctors office waiting to be called back when a few different people started talking and making faces at Ahnna. I think its great fun when people say “oh she is such a doll!” What mother gets enough of that? However there was this old couple that I could tell really wanted to hold her. They made a few comments hinting to it without outright saying it so I didn’t hand her over. I feel kind of bad not letting them hold her but I don’t know them and it didn’t feel natural to say “here you go.” Looking back on it, it probably would have been fine, I just don’t like passing around my kid to just anyone who wants to hold her. I get that paranoid image in my head of someone running off with her.

When most kids get overly tired, they yell and scream and make their parents crazy. Not Ahnna - well she does that for a brief time, and the she gets slap happy (Nathan says she gets that from me). When she is almost asleep and something wakes her up she will kick and giggle until I go in there and put her pacifier in. At that time she will instantly get tired again and go to sleep. When we had stake conference, the Saturday night session lasted until 9:00 and she usually goes to bed at 8:30. She slept on the car ride home and she seemed really knocked out when we got home but I really needed to feed her one last time and change her diaper. Both hadn’t been done for hours. So I carefully started to undress her, trying not to bother her too much. She began to stir like she was getting upset but when I looked over she had a huge smile on her face. She got her second wind and was miss hyper baby until about 11:30. I tried to record her a bit but this brief video hardly does her real mood justice.

Ahnna is six months old today! At this point we decided she is not quite ready for solid food yet. We tried for a few days this week and she just didn’t want it. So we will just wait until she lets us know she is ready for it. She is sitting up really well and she is trying to get up on her knees whenever she is on her stomach. I bet she will be crawling by 7 months. Ahnna gets her next round of shots on Tuesday. There is nothing I dread more I know it’s a good thing she doesn’t see it coming but it makes me feel so bad that she goes into the Dr.’s office so happy and gets excited because she likes to get her clothes off and then WHAMO! pain in both legs for the rest of the day. Poor Baby…

Yesterday some friends at church organized a play group in the park at my complex.  It was just a little too cold for Ahnna’s taste I think.  The pictures here is about her mood the whole time but I still think she liked being outside because it was a big change for her.  There were a few other babies there who were not walking yet so they all sat on the blanket, it was pretty cute.

Ahnna officially has two bottom front teeth! She bit Nathan on Saturday so hard that she left little marks on his finger.

Usually when I get up in the middle of the night to feed Ahnna it takes me forever to get back to sleep. So this morning was no exception. It was about 5:30am and I am laying in bed and I felt a strange tickle on the back of my arm. I knew it was probably a bug but for some reason I didn’t want to reach over and swat it away. I think it is because if I did than it would confirm that there was something crawling on me, in my bed and that would freak me out. About a minute after that I finally went to itch the little tickle and it was a bug! Of course I flipped out and swiped it away onto some unknown area of my bed. Nathan woke up and I told him there was a bug. I did a quick look in the covers to see if I could find him and I couldn’t, so I tried to go back to sleep. The thought that there was a bug that might still be in the bed was too much so I told Nathan I had to turn on the lights and I found it and flicked it out. So once again I tried to go back to sleep, but the thought that there is a bug in the room that might get back on the bed was too much, so I went to sleep on the couch for a 1/2 hour before Ahnna got up for the morning. I am SUCH a wuss. On the bright side however, it was not a spider. If it was a spider the story would have been much much worse. I wasn’t even worried that it was a spider when I felt it because the whole time we have lived here I have only seen 2 spiders, and they were so teeny tiny that they didn’t even bug me. So the moral is, bugs are gross but spiders are Satan’s minions, thank goodness it was just a bug.