Weekly post-rough week!

I want to start doing a weekly post so I can stay up on life and not spend so much time trying to play catch up. Hopefully I can stay on top of it :)

This week has been a bit rough for Aleana, she is cutting her two top canines and has not been sleeping well. A few night this past week she has woken up at about 5:30 and has had a really hard time going back to sleep.  We rock her, give her drinks, teething tablets and eventually end up giving her a cup of milk to get her to go back to sleep.  One night Curt was up with her for a couple hours and then I can and got her to sleep. Then a couple night I was up with her and Curt came in to put her to sleep. One morning she went back to sleep for about a half hour and the next morning she did not go back to sleep until her nap which she took early around 10:00 and did not take another one.  She has been a tired little girl all week and her naps have been messed up too!

 On top of all this on Wednesday we went with Curt to young men's and young women's at the archery range, I went in to go shoot while Curt stayed out in the hall where they have classes and watched Aleana.  She climbed up a few stairs then slipped and rolled while coming down.  Curt caught her before she fell all the way down but she did hit her mouth and got a cut up lip. Curt felt so bad that he was not able to prevent it from happening.  She cried for a while but was alright other then when the salt from her snacks got into the cut. She also kept scraping the cut with her teeth and poking it with her finger because it was something new. She did not sleep well that night, I don't know if she was in pain or what.

 Thursday we went down with Curt to Ogden for an interview at Mckay Dee Hospital.  Aleana and I went to play with Kathy and Layla while he was at his interview.  Aleana had been up since 5:30 with only a 30 min nap and she did not fall asleep in the car.  She was actually pretty happy and willing to play with Layla until the end when she up playing Kathy's key board and got a paper cut from turning the pages in one of her music books.  She did not notice she cut her self until I noticed blood on her face and hand.  We pulled her down and cleaned her up and put a Band-Aid on her finger.  She did not like me cleaning of her finger, but worst of all was the Band-Aid.  She looked at it after Kathy put it on her finger and just began to bawl. When it fell off later when Curt came to get us and he tried to put it back on she started to cry and would not let him.  We got her in the car seat and thought she would just crash out but she stayed awake until after we stopped at Burger King for lunch.  She wanted some fries and wanted them dipped in the sauce.  It was sad but kind of funny, she was half asleep eating fries and crying because the salt and fry sauce was hurting her cut but she did not want to stop eating.  I was glad when she was finished and finally fell asleep.  When we got home after taking Curt back to work I just sat in the car with her because I did not want to risk her waking up.  When she woke up we ran inside got some lunch changed her diaper and left to catch the last 10 mins of our mommy and me dance class.  She cried a lot of the time so maybe it was not worth going, hopefully it will go better next week.

Friday morning was the morning she did not go back to sleep until 10:00 and she only slept about 1 1/2 hours in stead of 2.  We still had our play date with my friend Liz and her little boy, but she was a bit grumpy and by end she was crying.  I tried to put her to sleep after they left but of course she did not go down for a nap.  I was supposed to take dinner to a neighbor but I did not get it there till almost 7 because of Aleana's help and a few other complications.  I think we all crashed that night.

Yesterday was crazy too!  In the morning we went and spoke at a class for new adoptive couples and Aleana got babysat by the Kjar's.  When we got her home she went down for about a 40 min nap.  We were thinking it was going to be a 2 hour nap so we just kind chilled and then had to get our stuff done and get a treat made for the Date Night we were hosting at our house that night while Aleana was awake.  Curt went off to priesthood meeting and we played. I put in a pizza and came back 20 mins latter to find it still cool because the oven decided to stop heating.  I restarted the oven and cooked the pizza.  We got dinner really late and Aleana kept crying.  I got her over to the babysitter and got back and people were already here.  We had fun playing and talking but I think that if we were not FSA Chairs and that I had not asked the Mora's to plan the date night and then said we would host it I think we would have cancelled it or not gone.  We did not get Aleana down to bed until after 9 and she was so tired, but she was pretty good for our friend. 

Today has not been much better, she woke up crying, cried though breakfast, and wined through getting ready.  We were debating on taking her to stake conference, but we did and just let her play with the other kids in the cry room. She mostly did alright besides throwing a couple of the other kids toys into the baptismal font.  She only took a 40 mins nap today and has been super fussy.  We took her on a walk and she cried when we did not let her go back out.  I hope she sleeps good tonight and that this next week goes better.

On a better note Aleana learned how to take her zip up jacket off all by her self, we just say do you want to take your jacket off and she unzips her jacket and works her arms out of her sleeves, sometimes she needs a little help.  Now she can take her shoes and Jacket off by herself and helps get her shirt up over her head, she is learning so fast.  She also will respond to other command when we ask her unless she is teasing us.  It is fun to see what she can understand already.