Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Tag! I'm it!

I did not know that tag was played in the blogger world. You learn something new every day don't you? Well, here it goes. Eight things that you may or may not know about Cassie.

1. I am deathly terrified of worms. So much so that I will not go outside after it rains. If I see one on the sidewalk in front of me I walk in the street or literally jump over it. This one time, my senior year of high school, it rained. On this particularly rainy day all of the worms on the block decided to come and play on my street. When I looked outside and saw all of them, waiting to attack me when I came out, I went back in my house and woke my dad up to drive me to school. Here's the kicker. We lived 10 houses away from the high school. Do you all want to know why my yard looks the way it does? WORMS! I am afraid to pull weeds because of what may be attached to the end of the root! (But, be proud. I have been doing yard work for the last couple weeks. It about kills me, but I'm starting to do it.)

2. I LOVE Pepsi! I would call me an addict, actually. The deciding factor on where I go to lunch is whether they have Coke or Pepsi. I tend to frequent Taco Bell, Sconecutter, Arby's, Arctic Circle and Subway for that reason. I have been known to go to Burger King for their french fries, then either go to Maverick for my Pepsi, or hit another drive up at one of the previously mentioned establishments. Maverick, by the way, has the best fountain beverages.

3. I can not eat yogurt, pudding, cream cheese or anything else with that thick, coats your throat texture. I gag if I try.

4. I have been playing the piano for over two decades. I love to play in front of people, but still get nervous when I perform. It makes me more nervous to play in front of 1 or 2 people than it does to play in front of 200.

5. While I am constantly telling my husband that his Xbox is a waste of time and money, I have been known to get it out and play Guitar Hero or Tetris while Alyssa is taking her nap. I would like to call myself the Tetris Champion.

6. I don't believe in seeing any of the following numbers on a clock twice in one day: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8. I'm ok with staying up until one in the morning. But if you call my house before 8:30 or 9:00 in the morning I'll most likely still be in bed. And we have trained Miss Alyss to do the same. I purposely make all our doctor appointments for the afternoon just so I don't have to set an alarm in the morning and get my can out of bed.

7. I can't believe that I'm actually about to admit to this to some of you, but here it goes. In 7th grade at girls camp, I out belched the young men's president in a contest around the camp fire. Not very lady like, I know. I'm a changed woman, I try to have manners now. It certainly isn't something I hope to be reading on Alyssa's blog in 20 years. But don't the scriptures tell us not to hide our talents?

8. I'm a control freak, but I'm not. I don't necessarily have to make all the decisions, but if there is a "plan", it can not be changed without me having some kind of small mental breakdown or anxiety attack. Things can be left out of the "plan", but no additions. It throws me off. When something gets added to my "plan" I tend to shut down and not do anything at all. This makes me somewhat not dependable. However, I don't always have to have a "plan." But I have to know that there is no "plan" and then don't try to make one. When I look at the great plan of my life and all the changes and additions and subtractions.....I think I'll go to bed.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

18 months already?

My sweet little Alyssa will be 18 months old TOMORROW!!! I can't believe how fast the time goes. We took her to nursery for the first time today. She was such a champ. It was harder on me than it was her! I took her to her little class and she got right down on the floor. She stood there for a few minutes, checking things out, but didn't really care that I was there. So, I sneaked out the other door. Of course I thought I should check on her about every 15 minutes, not that I needed to, she has fantastic teachers. But it was so cute. She was sitting at this table for snack time and her little chin was only like 3 inches above the table. The next time I checked she was under the table, then she was playing with clay. Of course she had to be climbing on chairs, too. Big shocker. The last few times I looked in she was sitting quite contently on Brother Royce's lap. That did shock me! She never holds still!!! I'm going to send her up to sit with him in Sacrament Meeting! After church was over I went to pick her up and she ran over to me. She did notice I had left! That made me feel a little better. Hopefully she loves nursery as much next week as she did this week. My little Alyssa, such a big girl. I just love her!

Our Little Climber

Can you believe this!?!?!




That's right ladies and gents, she is inside my dryer! If you'll notice, she can stand straight up in the thing with absolutely no problem. Alyssa always like to help me with the laundry, and she's getting quite good at it, too. I'll open the dryer, she'll pull out the clothes and put them in a basket. Then I will hand her clothes from the washing machine, that she also puts in the basket with the dry clothes. While doing the laundry a few weeks ago I wised up. I took the basket of dry, yummy clean smelling laundry into my bedroom. When I returned.... Well you saw what happened. She just climbed right up in there all by her big girl self. The dryer is not the only thing she climbs on....



In addition to her crib and baby doll's stroller, she has recently added kitchen chairs, stairs, book shelves and my favorite, her pink 4 wheeler. I wish I had a picture of that one. (You can see part of the 4 wheeler in the background right above) She stands straight up on the seat, takes her hands off the handle bars and dances. There is no picture of this because I'm afraid if I left to grab my camera my next picture would be of her first trip to the ER.

Saturday, March 24, 2007

I LOVE.....




Spaghettio's, Ravioli and anything with red sauce that I can paint on my face.


Bananas, but don't try to cut them up for me. I'm a big girl and can eat it myself. I also enjoy smashing them between my fingers then pulling my hair.


Strawberries that are bigger than my hands. YUM!

Blueberries! They're my favorite.

As you can probably guess, we do a lot of bathing after meal time in this house. This little sweetheart is SO independent. About the only thing that we can help her eat is yogurt, and that's only because I refuse to let her smear that all over her cute little self. Hopefully we'll be mastering the spoon/fork thing soon. But until then......

Sunday, March 4, 2007

A Musical Genius




Anytime I sit down to play the piano, this is where Alyssa goes. Right next to mommy. She already knows how to clap and count! Well, clap anyway. Hopefully in 5 years she will still love sitting there as much as she does now.

Alyssa has entered the "climbing" stage of life. It's wonderful. We bought her a mini-grand piano for her birthday, which she loves to play. The other day I heard her in her room doing her little "eh, eh" and knew she was trying to get to something that must have been out of reach. I headed down the hall to help her and what did I find? Alyssa, standing straight up on the keyboard of her piano! The keys are only 3 inches long!!!! Her little heels didn't even have anything to support them. She was trying to take the coat hooks off her wall. Luckily, the little tyke didn't fall. Thank goodness for good balance.

Friday, March 2, 2007

These are the Days of My Life

Ok, so I've never really seen an episode of Days of Our Lives, my soap of choice is All My Children. But for the time being I only have one child and All My Child sounds funny, and I couldn't think of anything else to call this lovely blog other than The Days of My Life. So there you have it, you inquisitive minded people.
I'm starting this blog for a couple reasons. First of all, I stink at journal writing, but I'm on the computer everyday. We'll see if I can actually do something productive on here other than order pictures of Lyssa-Lou from the Wal-mart. Second, everyone else has a blog, why shouldn't I? If everyone else jumped off a cliff would I do it? It depends what's at the bottom.