The Last Week

The last week was busy. One Wednesday, one of my best friends Cindy came out to see our new house and stayed the night. It was very nice seeing her. I can't wait until she is finally done with school this year, so she has more time to hang out. She might even be getting a job down in Orange County, which would be even better, then she can come and hang out all the time.

Thursday we went to Partyopolis with Aunt Maria and Quinn. It's a warehouse with a bunch of bounce houses. We stayed there about and hour. Ashlyn and Quinn had so much fun. Then we went to lunch and Maria and I had to ask ourselves, how are we going to do this when we both have one more. But really the kids were actually very good all day.

Friday night Jason and I went out for his friend, Ephraim's going away party. It was at a bar in Santa Monica, so Ashlyn had a over night at Nona and Papa's. For those of you that know we are trying again, we were unsuccessful last month, so needless to say I had a fun night out at the bar. It was nice seeing some friends we haven't seen for a while.

Saturday was Papa Joe's (Jason's Grandpa) 75th Birthday Party. It was a casino theme. It was a very nice day. Ashlyn got to hang out with her cousin Quinn and Nicole and see a bunch of her family. Jason had a nice day hanging out with his brother and his family playing craps and blackjack.

It was a very fun and busy week.

Disneyland with The Clark's and The Wallace's

Two weeks ago we spent the day at Disneyland with The Clark's and The Wallace's. Ashlyn just loves Mia as you can see from the pictures. It's nice that Annie and the girls have a season pass so we can meet there and hang out for the day. Ashlyn is so funny right now with the characters. She acts excited when she sees them, so we go up to them and then she doesn't want anything to do with them and acts very scared. Then when we go to walk away, she starts to reach out for the character. So I really don't know if she even knows what she wants. It is quite funny though.

Sleeping in Her Own Bed

Ashlyn used to be a great sleeper. She starting sleeping through the night, in her own bed, around 2 months old. She continued until about 8 months, when we went to Maui. I made the mistake of bringing her into our bed because she was waking up every 2 hours. Since then we have had a battle with Ashlyn sleeping in her own bed. She just didn't want to and we would usually give in and when she woke up around 2 am I would just bring her into our bed for the rest of the night. Well needless to say she's a restless sleeper and would kick and hit Jason throughout the night. So on January 1st, Jason decided we were going to let Ashlyn start crying it out in the middle of the night. I wasn't too happy about this new plan but I was working December 31st and January 1st & 2nd and wasn't going to be home. But to our surprise, Ashlyn decided it too was time to start sleeping in her bed all night long and for the last week she has been sleeping through the night without waking up. She's sleeping so well she didn't wake up until 8:30 am this morning.