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January 7, 2003
Well, it has been eight weeks and I have been unsuccessful in my attempts to be moved to ToddlersToday. I will continue trying, so if you see my diary disappear - look for me there LOL
It is a new year and there is so much to look ahead to...
Alyssa is becoming quite the little girl. While she still refuses to walk (why walk when you can cruise and crawl at lightening speed??), she just looks so grown up. I began putting her hair in pigtails this weekend and it is just the cutest thing ever! She now has 15 teeth and is cutting her 16th. She eats anything we eat - including filet mignon on my birthday (which she LOVED - the girl has good taste, what can I say?) As of today, we are officially off of the bottle and onto the sippy cup completely. WHOO HOO!
Alyssa's vocabularly seems to be staying about the same - although this week, she began "MAMAMAMA". It's about time. How many months have I been waiting for her to figure out the "M" sound?? I keep hearing that their vocabularly explodes at around 18 months, so we'll see how that goes. And I'm sure one days she's going to shock me and just take off walking down the hallway. She's on her own timeline, and I'm fine with that.
One thing that I have had to really begin paying attention to is discipline. I have discovered that discipline, on a whole, is an unpopular subject. And as such, many parents just ignore it altogether, lest they "hurt Junior's feelings". I believe that children need to learn to respect authority and starting at this age. When Alyssa tests me, as she often does, she gets a stern "NO!" and if she doesn't stop immediately, a smack on the hand. I am fairly consistent with this and as a result, she rarely gets smacked because she LISTENS. She knows what "No" means and she knows that if she doesn't stop what she's doing, she is going to be corrected. We don't have issues of me not wanting to take her with me places because she is so well behaved. She doesn't tear things off of shelves in the stores. She doesn't scream and throw tantrums in line. A lot of moms that I know with babies this age are dealing with these issues right now. I know a lot of it is her disposition, but I believe that discipline has a lot to do with it, as well. She is constantly on the move exploring, and this little girl would railroad right over me if I let her - but who's the parent? She needs to learn that she is to submit to my authority. If we get this down now, hopefully it won't be a huge issue a year or two down the road. I read some interesting information on discipline at www.atriptothewoodshed.com - if anyone is interested. I know many of my readers share my parenting ideals and this site has some good info, althought I don't agree with 100% of it, obviously.
We had a quiet Christmas and this is probably the last we'll see of those! With moving closer to family, they're all anxious to spend the holidays with us. I haven't had a Christmas with family in 6 years - and that was extended family. I haven't had a Christmas with my brother in longer than that and he is very adament that next Christmas he and his family will be at OUR house. No arguing.
We are set to close on the inn in just over a week. There are a few fires popping up here at the last minute, but we're stomping them out as quickly as we can. We fly out to California on January 24 for an innkeeping conference. As soon as we return, construction will begin on the property out there. We close on it mid-March and I will be moving at that point. DH must stay behind to run the inn until the end of April. Things are coming together! Please be in prayer for us over the next couple of months.
Well, that's about all the update I have time for right now. Hopefully one day I'll get moved over to ToddlersToday... :-)
Christy & Alyssa 11/5/01
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