Alice in October

I asked Bryan what I should write about Alice this month on the blog and he said “that she was horrible.” She did bite Norah several times, was quite whiny, prone to tantrums and (or because) she decided napping was optional, but even sohow can you look at this face and say that? 

Alice can now climb out of her crib so easily that it is jeopardizing her naps. I think she has had as many days without naps as she has had with naps the last two weeks. Her bedroom has two doors (one to the bathroom) and neither of them shut very well so that makes it tricky to even keep her in her room. We might try a baby gate or childproofing the door knobs . . . Alice has also sleep-climbed out of her crib and sleepwalked around the house twice.

Alice still isn’t talking as much as I feel like she should be but she’s slowly adding to her repertoire. She said a lot of new words on our vacation and the other day she said her first two word combo: Daddy ho” for daddy home. She says NO and “uh uh” all the time to me. She sings a lot – especially in her car seat – and its so adorable. She moves her head from side to side and closes her eyes when she’s really getting into it.

Alice loves horses and she always points out when she sees a “Nay.” We took her for a short horse ride last Saturday at the zoo and she was very eager to get on. I was impressed considering she’s often too chicken to pet dogs.             

This is Alice wearing her costume at story time