2 posts tagged “mail”
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.
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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