Alli's First Night In Her New Bed

She picked out the red sheets and Lightning McQueen (Cars) comforter.

Alli's First Haircut

Alli's hair has finally reached the point where we thought we could cut it without having her look like a little boy. And since Kim and I both had haircuts scheduled at the same time, we thought it might be fun to have a whole-family haircut day. Stacy did an awesome job on Alli's hair, and Alli was such a big girl, sitting nice and still in the chair the entire time Stacy cut it.

And, in typical Guerrette style, the camera and video camera were going the whole time!

Alli's Getting a Bed

We've know for several months that Alli could climb out of her crib. The first few times she did it were out of frustration, tantrum really, when we put her in time-out in her crib (a bad practice that we stopped shortly after starting). We weren't too worried, however, because we stopped punishing her by putting her in her crib, and she stopped climbing out.

We knew it wouldn't last. For the past couple of nights, Alli has been climbing out of her crib because she wasn't ready to go to sleep. Jenny and I would put her to bed, then a couple minutes later we'd hear her door open and hear her walk into the kitchen to tell us something. I think we both laughed a litte, regained composure, and told Alli that she wasn't allowed to climb out of bed. That didn't really work as she's been getting out of bed 2 or 3 times per night. She asked that we keep her door open when we put her in her crib. We obliged thinking that would keep her happy enough to keep her in bed. Sometimes we'll check on her after 5 or ten minutes only to find her standing in her doorway, listening to us.

This morning, the girl who normally wakes up at 6am-ish, walked into our room at 7:30am. She's so cute. Jenny and I both said, "Good morning, Alli!" She ran to me at the side of the bed closest to the door and said, "Daddy, I poopied." Jenny and I laughed.

-- Kim