January 2009

Lots happened in January. Alizah was baptized Jan 3 during Epiphany service. I got to participate in my friend's home birth watching her boys and doing a little bit of acupressure. There is nothing like hearing that first cry and seeing the boy's faces light right up! It was a baby sister.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAYNA! (The girls are laughing at Uncle Zach-- he does look really funny!) Just before Rayna turned 3, she gave up her pac. We had many struggles about it and then 1 day I decided to look for youtube videos showing kids saying bye bye to their pacifiers. It was awesome! We watched some of the videos several times, her favorite was one of the boy throwing his pac in the pool (she liked the music that went along with it). Watching the videos was great because it opened conversation about how she was feeling about it. That night she decided it would be okay to give the pac to the pac fairy so she could give it to a baby who didn't have all its teeth like Alizah. So we took her to store the next day to exchange the pac for a cuddly cat and the clerk gave the pac to the pac fairy. Yeah! No fights or sadness about it!

Rayna went to the dentist for the first time. She was a little scared but we did some EFT and she sat up in the chair and let the hygentist show her the tools and tickle her teeth. Laying back in the chair was just for the photo though. And she let the dentist check her teeth at the end too.

We had so many cold cold subzero days so we had to get creative. Dress up days, painting, puzzles, forts, bouncing on the bed, towers, farm, books, song, play dough, cooking, baths.................!!!!!

This month we are all in swim lessons. Rayna has a teacher and she loves it! She likes "chop chop timber" and "3 green and speckled frogs." Tomorrow is her last day, she is still deciding if she is going to put her head all the way under. Alizah loves the water. Our instructor is giving me lots of fun ideas of how to participate in the water with Alizah. We are going to try out our skills in Wisconsin Dells on Friday (Levi has a big conference and we get to come play with him after his big presentation).

I see the photos of Alizah didn't get posted, so my next blog will have to be all about Alizah.