Fun with the aunt November 10, 2008

On Saturday, we went and had Ariyana’s pictures done at the Mall of GA.  My sister Melissa met us there and took Ariyana for the day.  She said that Ariyana had a good time and was in a good mood.  They got back to Melissa’s place and she fed her lunch…Then she said Ariyana was just roaming around the apartment.  She kept running into the kitchen (probably trying to run in a circle from the living room to the kitchen because at our house you can do that).  Melissa said Ariyana would run in there and get to the door (laundry room at end of kitchen) and stop and just turn around.  And of course she had to play with all the cabinets and open and close them.  Ariyana’s next “toy” to play with at her aunt’s house was the remote to the TV….it is her favorite toy of all time.  She played with it for awhile and changed the channel and then she discovered another toy she wanted….the webcam.  Melissa was talking to Craig (her boyfriend) on it and Ariyana got interested.  Melissa said she waived to Craig on it.  Then she took the little camera ball and walked around with it.

Melissa also took some pictures of Ariyana in her Halloween outfit and a cute little christmas skirt Melissa had.  After that they headed to Melissa’s friend’s (Jennifer) house to celebrate Jennifer’s 30th birthday.  Ariyana fell asleep on the way there which was good because she took a 35 minute nap in the morning at 10:30 and hadn’t napped since then.  When they got there, Melissa said Ariyana was kind of shy.  It takes her a while to get unshy after she wakes up anyway and the fact that she didn’t know anyone probably didn’t help.  She was really quiet while they were there but wasn’t fussy so that was good.

We met Melissa back at the mall around 7pm and picked Ariyana back up.  We went out to eat, did some shopping, and saw a movie while they were gone, so it was nice for us too.  Ariyana slept on the way home, then ate and went to bed.  I know that she had such a great time, she was so happy.

Mule Camp Market and Pictures October 13, 2008

So this weekend was Mule Camp Market in Gainesville.  What is Mule Camp Market you ask??  Well it is a festival where lots of vendors get together and sell things.  They also have music, food, and games for the kids.  We took Ariyana there on Saturday and had a really good time.  My mom met us there too and went.  We walked around for a while shopping.  I bought my stepdad his Christmas gift….and he is really going to like it.  I also bought a little backpack to use as a diaper bag.  I have been trying to find one for a while so I was happy to find it.  Ariyana had a very good time at the festival.  We had her in the stroller but she wanted to walk.  We finally took her out of the stroller and let her walk around.  She walked for like 15 minutes.  We were walking down one of the aisles and there was music playing.  All of a sudden, she stopped walking and just started dancing.  One of the ladies at a booth saw her and started to dance too, which made Ariyana dance even more….it was so cute.  Then we got some food and of course Ariyana had to have some of everything we were eating.

Then Saturday night we went to our nephew’s 10th birthday party.  We had a really good time there.  While we were there, we were eating watermelon and I had cut some up for Ariyana.  She was eating them just fine, then my sister-in-law picked her up and i continued to feed her.  All of a sudden she acted like she was choking and then she just started throwing up….all in my hand and then in the kitchen sink.  Luckily we were standing in the kitchen next to the sink.  Other than that, the party was good.

On Sunday we went down to Melissa’s (my sister) to take Ariyana’s one year old pictures after church.  Ariyana still had her cough and it was still getting worse.  The church nursery said that they could tell Ariyana wasn’t feeling well.  They said she is always such a happy baby and today she was just clingy and not happy.  We asked them when she would move up to the next room there because the one she is in is for birth to crawlers and she is now walking.  They said that it was really up to us, but that we could keep her in that room for a little longer until she was good at walking.  They said the next room has some big kids and they are a little rougher so it would be good if Ariyana could hold her own before she moved up.  The lady that watched her during the service said that she didn’t want Ariyana to move to it because she really enjoyed watching her and would be jealous if she was over there.

After church we headed to Melissa’s house.  When we got there Ariyana went right to Melissa, which is usually a good sign that she will be okay for the pictures.  We decided to do the cupcake picture first just in case she wasn’t feeling well enough to do other pictures.  We put her in her white onsie and put the cupcake in front of her.  It was chocolate with pink icing.   She looked at it and put her finger in it.  Then she looked at her hand like what the crap is this on my hand.  She looked over at me and started to whine a little.  Then I took some icing and tried to put it in her mouth but she just turned away…I can’t believe Ariyana didn’t want food.  Anyway, then she stuck her foot in the icing and then her leg…..Needless to say she had it all over her leg but didn’t eat any.  After I washed all the icing off, we put her in the GT cheerleading outfit and took some pics.  She wouldn’t be still for them so we would stand her as far back on the paper as we could and then get out of the way and she would start walking toward Melissa and she would snap the pics.  Then we did some pictures in the Georgia cheerleading outfit and did the same thing. Then we put her birthday outfit on and finished up the session.  Through all this, her cough continued to get worse.

We got home and fed Ariyana dinner.  While I was feeding her she did the same thing as Saturday night, she acted like she was choking and then started throwing up everything.  It startled her so bad that she started crying….it was sad 😦  It was also the nastiest thing….she covered her whole high chair tray with throw up….I thought Zach and me were going to lose it too.  It was hard to swallow.  After we cleaned all that up and her, we decided to give her some puffs and cheerios (because they are a little more solid so if they came back up it wouldn’t be as nasty).  Well some of them came back up too.  It was a rough night to say the least.  Then she was so congested she couldn’t sleep, she was up til 1am crying.  She would stop if we held her but as soon as we put her down, she started to cry again.  I gave her a bottle at 12am because I thought she might be hungry since she didn’t keep her dinner down…It seemed to help her because from 12am to 1am she was awake but not crying….just laying in her crib talking to herself and animals.

Photo drama October 1, 2008

Okay sorry I haven’t written in forever, it has been crazy around here. I am not even sure what happened last week so I am just going to tell you about my photo drama that happened on Saturday. The bank where I work decided that they were going to get all the kids of the employees together to take a Christmas picture for the bank Christmas card. Well that is like 19 kids between the ages of 5 months and 13…..talk about a challenge. So Ariyana and I get there at like 12:45 (picture time is for 1) and at first she is a little shy. She wouldn’t even let me put her down. But after about 5 minutes, she was fine and walking all over the place. The santa that was coming to sit in the picture with the kids was a little late so we were there for like 30 minutes before picture time. Finally everyone gets there and they start lining the kids how they want them and they get to Ariyana and want her to sit on the floor near some of the other children. Well I sat her down and she started crying hysterically and crawling towards me. I picked her up, tried to calm her down, and put her back on the floor and before her bottom touched the ground she was crying again. This went on through the whole picture and I was getting upset….I really wanted her in the picture and couldn’t get her to sit there calmly. She sat there maybe a total of 30 seconds if you added every try together….It was horrible, I have never seen her like that before. Then when we finally got done with the group picture, they started taking individual pictures with santa. I waited like 10 minutes to let Ariyana recouperate from her trauma and sat her on santa’s lap…..it started all over, she started crying so hard. They took 2 pictures of her with santa crying and we left.

So Tuesday, they sent around the copy of the picture they were going to use for the Christmas card and Ariyana looked HORRIBLE in it….now don’t get me wrong she is my baby and I think she is adorable, but that was not my baby in that picture. They took lots of pictures of her and chopped them up and then cropped them together. She looked like a boy and a little distorted, it was not good at all. Everybody at work was like, “she doesn’t look like a boy” but I know they were just saying that to be nice. Then i sent the picture to Zach and he thought it looked horrible too. Now if Zach thinks it looks bad…..it is bad!!!!! I asked the lady at work if I could at least photoshop a bow into her hair so she didn’t look like a boy and she just laughed….she thought I was kidding but I was being totally serious. Zach and I discussed it and we are going to tell them if they use that picture, we just want them to take Ariyana out all together. It really looked bad.