Five Months

A bit late as usual, but here's how this girl is growing:


She loves to bury her head when she is being shy.
We are all enjoying how much fun it is to play with Elissa and can't believe how quickly she is growing.

Sick day

We have our fist official sick day. Alaina had a fever last night and a little this morning, I was suspecting a tummy bug that Harmonie's had, but it hasn't turned into much. She's been feeling fine most of the day and would rather be at school for the exciting event of mixing red and blue playdough for purple week. It looks like she'll be back tomorrow.

Her teacher told me yesterday how much Alaina has changed since she started school. She started off quite bossy, then lonely when none of the children wanted to play with her. So, she's learned a lot more flexibility and is getting along great. I love walking out of the school grounds and hearing all of the other little Preps calling "bye Alaina!"

The Best Bits

I don't have any exciting pictures to share, but I've decided that's a lame reason not to blog. What's been going on around here has been just getting by while trying to increase my milk supply. Some days seem to be better than others and we're not making a great deal of progress, but I bought a pump and that has helped a lot when Elissa is just to cranky about the slow trickle I have to offer. But, it does take a lot of time. I have developed an enormous respect for women who pump while working or other reasons. It's a big job, and formula is way too easy.

Hence, I'm feeling like I get nothing done, and still can't feed my baby. So, instead of thinking about what I can't do, I'm going to illustrate what I have done this week.

Monday: I swept and mopped the floor! That's a huge job and requires everything being picked up off the floor (or maybe some of it thrown on couches). But the best bits of Monday were: "riding" around on a toy horse, wearing a floppy pink hat (the driver has to wear the floppy pink hat) while a little boy held onto the seat of my pants and made my hoof noises as we ran around the half-mopped floor. The second moment I have been waiting most of my life for. I was making dinner and Alaina hopped in the brown chair, grabbed a lego "remote control" and said "Mummy, pretend you is a cooking show and I'm watching you." I put on the performance of my life! Pumpkin was never so exciting! Meatballs, never looked so tasty! But, my television career was short lived when she "clicked" me off, but not before Lincoln got to debut in a commercial break. The last highlight was expressing 2 oz that night quite easily. I think it's getting easier when I do it at the same time.

Tuesday: Went shopping and got some great deals on some meat. Unloaded the dishwasher and none of the dishes had powder left on them! (I switched brands) and got Alaina home with dry panties (that's as far as we got, but it's better than having to wash her seat cover) 2 of the three fell asleep in the car on the way home from getting Orvon. (That's a plus for me, but maybe a minus for Orvon because Lincoln wouldn't eat his dinner and got him up early). And I expressed 2 and a half oz. Yea!

Wednesday: I blogged! And Linc and I watched some guys using some sort of construction equipment in a nearby lot. Boy, the things I never knew I should study before becoming a Mum to a boy. I had far too few answers there. Aside from running a million errands and getting Laina and Daddy off, we haven't done much. Oh but I did express 2 oz. this morning. Maybe I'll go fold some laundry in the next hour before we have to go back to school. Maybe.