Boob

yep, "Boob"...that was my child's first word. Not so sure I'm too proud of it but she surely said it clear as day. Dave heard it as well. It was right when I was about to feed her so she knew what she was saying. When Alyssa is acting hungry we will say "you want some boobies?", just kidding around. And she has been saying bboo in response. Then the other day she completed the word, and said it a few times. Funny story for the baby book I guess. Hopefully "daddy" will come next...after Boob of course.

Bored...

I waited until today for the post because i knew i would have lots of free time and boredom. I have to stay home from 8 am til 7 pm to wait for the UPS guy to deliver my new computer (its almost 3 now and he's still not here!). They said they couldn't narrow the time down anymore and there has to be someone here to sign for it. I hope it gets here sooner and than later so I don't have to sit around ALL day. And once I get my new computer I can finally upload some pictures. I am using a computer now that we bought but are returning once we get the new one so i don't want to download pictures onto this computer.
So just like i thought, Alyssa is not 28 1/2 inches long. I measured her at home, the same way they do at the doctors office (mark at her head, mark at her foot, move her out of the way and measure between the marks). She is barely 27 3/4. That makes much more sense to me...I knew my girl wasn't tall and skinny. She is however thinning out a little since she is on the move non-stop now. She crawls behind me about as fast as I walk. When I do chores she just follows me around. She'd rather do that than play with her toys. Every day she will do something and I just look at her and think how old she is is getting. We joined a gym and theres a water fountain there she loves. When we walk by it on the way to the nursery she lunges for it and starts her licking.
The past few days she has really been resisting all solid food for some reason, maybe her belly hurts, i don't know. I feel like she is always going through a certain "phase" as far as eating and sleeping goes, both good and bad ones. Which is good since when she is in a difficult phase it makes it easier knowing that it will pass before long. Although time already moves to fast as it is so I try not to even wish the difficult phases away.
As I said last week I'm not going to discuss when Dave will be leaving and for those of you that know when he'll be gone please do not make comments that illude to the fact that hes gone. I appreciate the sympathy but I will jsut have to delete the post if i think it implies anything. Just for ALyssa's and my safety is all. Since the blog is public anyone can read it. It kind of freaked me out because someone left a really innapropriate comment once and it jsut goes to show that random people do read it unfortunately.
So we are starting to think about Alyssa's first birthday party already! We are thinking of Sept 5th since that works out best for Dave's schedule (well the military's schedule rather). Not sure of times and all. I'm pretty sure thats labor day weekend so if anyone wants to come, it gives plenty of travel time for out of towners. I can't beleive she is 9 months already, well 9 1/2 really. She has been here longer than i was pregnant with her now. Wow, that makes me remember how long pregnancy really was. We are starting to entertain the idea of number 2...not yet though, but soon...maybe...

Tall and Thin? Who, Alyssa??

I keep forgetting to post because we just have so much going on right now. Last weekend we had to go to MD last minute for my grandmother's funeral and now we are starting to prepare for Dave's DET (it stands for something meaning training for deployment...Deployment "not sure about the E" Training maybe?) I can not post anything online about when Dave's going because that is not safe for Alyssa and me. Dave and I have not been apart for more than 1 week straight since we met over 5 years ago! Crazy, I know, but true. Alyssa has not been away from him more than a few nights total since she's been born. It is going to be rough for us both and I am just trying to ignore it for now until he leaves and I'll deal with it then. I guess it will be "practice" for deployment...thats what the marine corps tells us as if that makes it any better. I'd rather not have the "practice". Same thing goes for deployment, I won't be discussing Dave on the blog at all, both of us could get in trouble for doing so. If you want any Dave updates you'll have to give me a call or email me at LindsayB727@yahoo.com and I can tell you what I know. We just bought 2 new laptops, one for dave and one for me/alyssa, so we can use the webcams when he's gone. I really want Alyssa to be able to see him as much as possible. I really think she's going to miss him, as much as she's capable of at her age. She gets so excited when we wait at the front door for him everyday when he comes home from work. She smiles bigger when she sees him than any other time. Alright enough about this, its making me think too much about everything...
So now Alyssa's issue is that she is getting stuck standing up. Remember I wrote a month or so ago that she got stuck sitting up, well that only lasted a few days. The standing up thing has lasted almost 2 weeks now. She knows how to sit back down she just doesnt. The second we go in and lay her on her belly, shes out. We've tried letting her stand there and cry to hopefully figure it out but I just feel too bad for my poor baby. If I have to go in and lay her back down, its not a big deal.
Her 9 month stats from her doctor's appt June 10th...19.5 lbs (60th percentile) and 28.5 inches (80th percentile). You're probably thinking I typed the percentiles in there backwards, but I didn't. Tall and thin? yea don't think so. She still gets comments all the time at how chubby she is and about her chunky legs. I do not think they measured her correctly. I measured her at 8 months for her baby book and she was only 27 in. Maybe she really has grown that much, but i dont think so. Maybe I'll measure her again myself. Either way, she's super healthy and the doctor said we are doing everything right. I am going to try and start cutting some breastfeedings out now since she's eating a lot of solids, I just don't know where to start. I feel like if i change her eating schedule I'll have to change her nap schedule. We'll see what I can come up with.
For now just pray for Dave that he'll be safe when he leaves...

Such a Trooper

We went to CA over the weekend to go to our friends', Goot and Michelle, wedding. It was at a beautiful country club and Dave was obsessed with the fact they had mountains there. It was so nice weather wise, mostly just because there was no humidity. I didn't sweat once while I was there...neither did Dave or Alyssa and they are some sweaty people. I was really worried about the time change with Alyssa but she did absolutely perfect. Seriously, perfect. She stayed up until 1 am (east coast time) friday night and 230 am Saturday night. Once we finally got back to the hotel to sleep, she went right down and slept through the night. She also napped great at the hotel during the day. She just adjusted so well. We missed our flight in CA and had to wait in the airport for 12 hours and then catch the red eye home. We spent most of the day in the USO (which is an awesome military resource by the way!) which had a crib for her to nap in. I put her in the moby wrap at 9 pm and she slept all night in it...through security, on the plane, off the plane, layover, on another flight. Each night though she only slept like 8-81/2 hours since when she woke up at 7-8 am in CA it was really like 10-11 to her east coast time...which is crazy late for a baby to sleep in!
And of course at the wedding, she was the little ham she always is and I'm pretty sure Michelle's step dad fell in love with her. It was great because guests at the wedding kept being like 'oh can i hold her' so we were like sure! and it gave us a chance to dance with each other.
We were also able to meet our friend's little boy, Chase, who was born like a month and a half before Alyssa. Alyssa loved him, a little more than he loved her back. She just crawled after him the whole time. He was a little faster though so when she would reach him she would grab him/tackle him. She is just such a rough kid. I was holding Chase and he was gently caressing my necklace, just checking it out. His mom, Jess, was holding Alyssa and she was yanking her earings, bouncing up and down, grabbing, etc. Alyssa also just gets louder by the day. That was everyone's comment over the weekend, how much she just babbles non-stop. There are times, like during the toasts at the wedding, I don't want her to babble so much. But at the same time I don't want to discourage her speech since all she is doing is saying new sounds and all to help her develop. She will respond to shhh somewhat but that child just wants to be heard. And we were also told multiple times that we are going to have our hands full in a few years, nothing we didn't already know. She seems to have a very similar personality that both Dave and I are told we had when we were little. Payback? i guess so.