well i know my graphic artist brother won't appreciate this...

...but hopefully at least aunt jessica will think this is neat. i have ventured into the world of digital scrapbooking and this is my first real page. i'm actually quite surprised i like this so much since i really am not that big a fan of traditional scrapbooking. i'm looking into sites that print high quality 12 x 12 pics and if i like what i see i may just do a book for alice this way. click on pic to get a better view.

things are going well here. alice has been sleeping very well unswaddled for her naps for the past 4 days or so, and we're hoping this will help the transition at night time. her eye infection cleared up just as we made an appointment for her to see the doctor...go figure. the doc gave her a Rx just in case though, especially since she was still scratching her eyes like crazy. there is no sign of the infection as of this morning.

alice is becoming more and more independent as the days go by. she'll cry and cry when we hold her and as soon as we put her down she's a happy little bird again. so needless to say she spends a lot of time on a blanket on the floor surrounded by her toys. the little stinker is trying OH so hard to sit up by herself. she's still a ways from that as you can imagine, but the girl has some killer ab muscles! if she has something to grab on to (like mommy's fingers) she can easily pull herself up into a sitting position. we're working on that too, but she can only sit independently for a few seconds before she topples over. it's quite amusing actually. i'm sure before too long she'll have that down and it will be on to something else. she still has no interest in rolling over and honestly i'm not surprised. she doesn't spend a lot of time on her belly because it makes her puke every time... and not just a little bit either. i've tried everything i can think of to prevent that to no avail so we both just put up with it. hopefully she'll grow out of it before she starts to crawl.

in the meantime i'm enjoying the fact that she's immobile. once she rolls over she's that much closer to crawling, and then walking, and then running. i'm not ready for that just yet.