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August 2, 2000

Alexandria's big entertainment of late is her kiddie pool. She loves it!! The neighbors always know when she's in the water by her squeals of excitement echoing throughout the block! At the mere mention of swimming, my child starts ripping off her clothes in a frantic attempt to get into the water as fast as she can. She'll stay in her pool as long as I let her or when her lips start to turn blue. She cracks me up with her antics. For instance, before executing an action, she'll tell me what she's doing. I.E., "Alli swimming!" she says, and then lays flat out in the water kicking her legs and moving her arms (where did she learn that?!), or "Alli singing!" she says, and scoots over to the side of her pool to perform her rendition of "Baa baa black sheep."

Her daycare provider told me that Alli has no fear of the water and is always the first one lunging straight into the sprinklers or dunking her head in the water table and shaking her hair on any poor, unsuspecting bystanders. For the past few weeks, when I pick Alli up at the end of the day, I find a soaking wet and deliriously happy little girl. And this is the same child that screamed bloody murder at the sight of a regular swimming pool just a month ago???!!

I think Alli is also getting growing pains. Sometimes, she wakes up in the middle of the night to tell me her knees hurt. I remember doing the same thing and my parents rubbing my legs in the middle of the night. No fun! Isn't she too young for this?

We're attempting a major step this month! I've done the family bed thing with Alexandria since she was a newborn and it's worked out great for us. But I've been thinking that she needs to have her own "space" and since she's staying with her dad now, it'd be better if she slept in her own bed. So, I've been putting her down in her own bed at nights and letting her wake up on her own. So far, the latest she's slept by herself is 4 a.m.!! (That's a good thing!) At that point, I let her sneak back into my bed for her Momma snuggle (complete with the foot in my stomach and hand down my shirt) until the alarm jars me out of bed. The next step is breaking the last bottle ... she still has one right before bed. I'll attempt that the weekend after her birthday since it may be a long battle at bedtime!! This could be ugly....

We're doing the low-key thing this year for her birthday (the 15th) and Alli is already prancing around to her own song "Birthday cake, birthday cake, Alli birthday cake!"

Hope everyone is happy and healthy!

Chandra ~+~Alexandria