6 posts tagged “alyona”
We did our photographs at JcPenneys. Honestly... I wasn't too happy with them, but I ordered some anyway. This is what I get for not going to a photographer and paying a little more. I just thought it may be easier to go to JcPenneys and do it and it always seems so busy, so I thought they must be decent. The lady used cheesy backgrounds. Thank god I jumped in and asked her to change them when she took pictures of Alyona, because she was using the tackiest blue background that totally didn't match her outfit! You know the kind they use on school photographs for a yearbook? The cheesy, cloudy blue? Seriously. Plus Syoma wasn't smiling in half of them because he wasn't prepared, but she didn't seem to want to re-take any photographs. I regret not being a tiny bit more pushy. Oh, and the photographer girl used props like a feather boa and pearls, which just screams cheap glamourshots and it's definately not the style I'd usually go for, but she still looks like a doll. But next time no JcPenneys! I'm just going to a photographer. I had actually found one I liked and tried to book an appointment with her, but unfortunately she was going out of town and will be out of town until January. So, I think in the spring I'll try to book an appointment with her. Oh, and to top it off we won't get out pictures back until the 8'th of January! They were supposed to be Christmas presents. I missed the before Christmas cut off by an hour! How unlucky!
I finally was able to watch The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe! I *loved* it. I don't know what took me so long to finally see it. Well, I had it in my netflix queue, but I still haven't watched the latest dvd that I received from there. Anyway, it was amazingly done, I thought. I loved the cast. The Queen was cast well, I think. I loved Mr. Thumnus! The husband loved it as well and now we're dying of anticipation to see the next one! And now I really have the urge to go to the library, which is where I found this dvd and go check out the books! I haven't read them in years! Cold Mountain is next on our list of dvd to watch that we've checked out from the library. I've heard alot of nice things about it, so I hope we enjoy it. I'm not a terribly huge fan of American Civil War movies, so we'll see. But it has a really good cast, so how can I refuse?
I really need to get into the Christmas mood and try to do decorations and finish Alyona's stocking, but I've been so tired. The house is literaly a disaster. I can't keep it clean and I've just been feeling very worn out the past few days. Today was exhausting. All of the picture nerves and Alyona was acting a little monsterish most of the day.
Anyway, I really feel like crashing. I think at this point I could fall asleep and not wake up for about a week. Yawn yawn yawn. Sleep tight everyone!
Alyona has been growing up a bunch in the past week. She desperately tries to say "roll it up" while playing patty cake. I'm excited about spending Christmas with her, even though she will be still a little bit young to enjoy it as much as I'd like. Next year she'll have more fun, I think. She walks so well. And she had her first American doctor appointment the other day and it went well. I'm so glad we picked the pediatrician that we did. He was so kind and playful with her and she actually stopped crying when he came in. He let her play with his stethoscope and gave her toys to play with and the clinic was warm, friendly and inviting and didn't give off the scary hospital vibe. I will also admit to be in complete glee when he told dh and I that we have done an excellent job and she looks healthy and beautiful. It made my year.
Yesterday was a good day for mail. I ordered some Japanese Craft Books from Saucy Louise on Etsy who lives in Japan and they came *so* fast. I placed the order on the first and I don't think she got it out until the 2'd or the 3'd of December, so that made it less than a week! I ordered two different book and you can click on my flickr album if you'd like to see the other one. She's giving free shipping for a limited time for the holidays, so a heads up if you'd like to order from her!
The other package was a shirt I ordered off of Cafe Press for Alyona as a Christmas present. It has Cheburashka on it, which is a Russian cartoon character...
I also got a few free samples that I didn't take pictures of.
I've been a little worried about how Alyona will be around the tree. I debated on putting one up almost because I'm afraid that she'll tear off the ornaments and lights and I have these daydream type nightmares where she pulls the tree over and it falls on her. I have a wicked imagination. I'll just try one anyways and I suppose I'll just have to teach her that yanking on a Christmas tree is a no-no.
Yesterday Alyona was in a bad mood. I wasn't sure what it was at first. I thought maybe she was just having a bad day. We went out with my dad to start my mobile plan and by the time we came home she was screaming. Literally. Non. Stop. Screaming. I started to worry. She started to have stomach problems and soon a horrible diaper rash appeared. I changed her diaper around ten times. Then she started vomiting. I held her in my arms and she calmed down a tiny bit, but every once in a while she'd start sobbing and then would vomit. It was hard to watch her so miserable. She wanted to do her usual naughty things, but I would watch her stop what she wanted to do (like throw things in the toilet) and cry her little heart out. I nursed her for a while and it didn't want to stay down either, so we decided around midnight to take her to the emergency room and make sure she was okay. We got in quickly and checked her out and everything was okay, though they worried about her being dehydrated. We gave her some medicine to help hydrate her and a little part of a tablet and she was soon feeling better, playing patty cake and ladushki and running around looking so sweet in her hospital gown. I was so worried about her being afraid in the hospital. She was so calm and well behaved. She loved the nurses and doctors and all the attention. She has such a flirtatious attitude that warms my heart. She seemed to feel better today and the hella big rash is still there, but it's slowly going away. I still have some of the ointment from the Emirates I brought with me and it works well. They diagnosed it as... some huge word and I'm much too lazy to jump up and find the paper, but basically it was the flu.
We went to Chili's today and she coloured on the paper and the table. I saved the paper. I'm going to hang it up on the refrigerator. Her little "artwork" is the second thing to make me feel like a real mother. It's funny, strange things shock me and then I think to myself "wow, I'm really a mama now!" Both occurred within two days. The first was when I had vomit all over me and I thought I'd die and then I reminded myself that I needed to stay calm not to upset her more. But after the seventh time or so it wasn't as bad as the first few times and I sort of got used to it. But I'm not looking forward to her being sick again. I wish her the best health. And not just because I dislike being vomited on!
I feel like I should be sleeping. It's 8:30 am on a sunday morning! Sleep, where are you? The cause: Alyona woke me up at 6:30. She hasn't woken me up that early in such a long time. She pulled my hair and nursed the entire night. So I gave up and just took her to the sitting room to see if she'd play since I wasn't getting sleep anyway and I hate the hair pulling!
Yesterday was tons of fun. We went to this fun park. And it was just fun to roller skate and bowl and I won four stuffed toys from those machines with a claw. That takes talent! And ohmygod my father's girlfriends daughter has cow-eyes like mine. I gave her over $10 for game tokens! Well, I used alot of the tokens as well. That's how I won everyone stuffed toys. Alyona got to keep the ugly witch and the doll with green hair.
I think I might even miss her the most sometimes. She's such a sweet person and quiet and I wish she was here. She's my brother in-law's fiance and she's from Ethiopia. We're trying to figure out a way to get them more close to us. Hopefuly we'll find some way to make it happen. My brother in-law does model making for buildings and he's actually don't quite a few really big ones in the Emirates and we wanted to try to find him work here in that area and since he has a few years of experience now and has worked on some good projects we think he should be able to find a job here. If someone would give him a working visa. I can't sponser him because he doesn't count as family technically and Syoma can't until he gets citizenship. I hate different countries! Why do there have to be visas? Why does everyone have to be so far away? It's such a bummer!
Syoma is working now. He started last week! He seems to be adjusting to it. For now he's still training. The training will last about four weeks. And it's paid training obviously!
I can't keep this little monster out of the fridge. She loves it. Lately since she knows it's not allowed to pull everything out (though she still does occasionally) she'll just sit there inside of it and laugh at me when I look. Look Mama! Aren't I hilarious or whaaaat? She's such a hoot sometimes. Last night her grandfather chased her all over the fun park. She had such a blast exploring and running around. She kept going towards the ski ball place and trying to take peoples balls. She got one from us and wouldn't let go of it. I had to take it away eventually and you should of heard the squeal. She did not want to part with it. At all. And note all the half empty bottles of pop on the side door. We can never finish a full bottle and then it gets stale so we buy a new one. Ha ha ha!
I'll post later today with a photo of my vintage christmas swap that will be going out tomorrow! I wished I would of taken pictures before I wrapped everything up. Oops!
Alyona is growing up. Everyday I notice something new. She's learned how to twirl. Today was full of twirling. I'd twirl, she'd smile, maybe laugh and then start to spin herself in circles. And she can hold the phone to her ear and try to say allo. For her birthday we presented her a little rocking horse, she was afraid of him, so we put it to good use by placing it in front of the refrigerator which worked at keeping her away from it... for a while. Lately she became less afraid and she'll go push on his ear and make him sing, run towards me with the biggest smile spread across her face. I really cherish watching her grow up and learning new things. It's the best feeling in the world. Really! Sometimes I think about how afraid I was when I found out I was pregnant and throughout the pregnancy about how it'd be to be a parent and literly sacrifice the rest of my life and alot of my feelings and selfishness, how I'd lose alot of freedom, but it didn't really effect me the way that I thought it would. Of course I have my moments where I'm ready to pull my hair out and put her on ebay, but those aren't as close together as I anticipated.
Halloween was fun. I went to the dentist earlier in the day for two
fillings and the left side of my face and tongue was completely numb
and it was impossible for me to take a drink without slobbering it all
over myself and when the numbness wore off my gums hurt alot from the
shots and where they put the filling. But I tried to ignore it and have
a good time. I dressed Alyona up as a pink bear. I liked the costume
because it's was a warm suit, not technically a costume, but I wasn't
afraid to take her around. We went to Marci's, who is my dad's
girlfriend. She has two younger children and an older daughter Ashley
who has adorable twin girls. We went with them to the mall to do a
"trunk or treat" and it was terrible. I hate crowded places and this
place was a disaster. I was so relieved when we were done there. We ran
home real quick and met back up and went door to door with Marci's
younger daughter, Ashley and her husband. We got looooots of candy.
Alyona's Hello Kitty bucket was completely full. We even got a
toothbrush from one family. I had always thought that people giving those out was a joke, like it never actually happened, but I stand corrected!
Today was a semi-exciting mail day. I ordered the first 21 episodes of a serial (tv show) called Ne Rodis Krasivoi on dvd and it finally came along with a dvd of a bunch of Russian music videos. A 163 to be exact. I'm still not quite sure what posessed me to buy that, but I did and I did like to watch a few of them. It has a zillion of videos, I still haven't looked through them all. I'm participating in a vintage swap as well and am waiting on something from that. And another Russian dvd and Big Love on dvd. I'm excited about Big Love especially! Such a great show!
I need to think about going to sleep sometime. I feel sleepy and I'm not sure what time Alyona will wake up tomorrow because she had a really weird schedule today. No naps. At all. Until the evening and then it was a pain in the neck to put her to sleep even though she was practically falling over from the tired. She'll probably wake up early tomorrow with my luck! Goodnight everyone!
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We moved to Utah on the 17'th of September. We're living in Logan now, which is north of Salt Lake City by an hour or so. It's really nice here. It's beautiful and it seems friendly.
Alyona turned 1 year old on the 10'th of this month. It was a fun party, even though alot of the people I wished could of been there weren't. She ate all of her cake and she smiled in amazement when everyone sang her happy birthday. It seems so impossible it's been a year since she was born, but at the same time it seems like I've always been her mother. If that makes any sense at all! She is a joy to be a mother to, even in the difficult times. She's been walking so much lately. She doesn't want to crawl anymore, just walk. She says mama and papa and she loves to play patty cake and ladushki. The only downside is she's been biting, which is arghhhh alot of the times, but we've working on stopping that.
Other than that... We have an empty extra room in our house and I really, really, really want to set up a place where I can put my sewing machine so I can get a start on my sewing. I have so many ideas going on that I need to get out.
Dh is supposed to get a call back on a job this next week. I really hope it all comes through! Cross your fingers!
