Aliviah Grace

Aliviah got to experience band-aids for the first time tonight. She doesn’t like them. Walking through the parking lot she tripped over her new snazzy shoes, ripping her jeans and scraping her knee. As soon as she got to the car she whipped out her cell phone to call Maw-maw and tell her about her [...]

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Aliviah drew on the wall. Now when I usually wouldn’t be bragging about such a thing, might I point out the shape of an “A”.  Accident or pure genius?Well, I think that speaks for itself!

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 Since Andrew left for the field this afternoon and Aliviah and I didn’t have anything better to do, we headed to the park. Aliviah is a slide junkie. She loves, I mean LOVES the slides. For some reason though, when we were getting ready to leave she didn’t want to go down the slide. She was [...]

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This Christmas Mawmaw Bond got all the grandkids matching outfits. Since we were in California, Aliviah needs to be Photoshopped into the Christmas pictures. Yesterday I tried to get Aliviah to take a couple pictures. The only way I could get her to sit in the chair was to give her candy. I was going to [...]

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You know you’ve done good so far when you hear your daughter ask her teddy bear to get out of her chair with a very polite, “Down, please.” Then she threw him across the room….baby steps.

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It’s gotten cold in the high desert, making it hard to find things to do. We decided to try out hand at bowling while Uncle Joey visited. Andrew, having nothing to do when he returned to Iraq, became a professional bowler in Germany. He had the upper hand against Joey and I. I must say [...]

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Well, Uncle Joey has made it back to the cold state of Ohio. Before he left we took a trip to L.A., to visit Universal Studios Hollywood. We had a pretty good time. I finally got a picture with my real husband!

 The rides were a lot of fun. Aliviah even had a good time. Well, except [...]

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