daddy's little girl!
Alivia LOVES her changing table! She will begin crying and as soon as we put her on that table she starts smiling and laughing! Part of this is because she absolutely HATES wet diapers. The minute that she wets herself she starts to cry and she wants to be changed. We are hoping that because of this she will be easy to potty train...I hope that is not wishful thinking! We like to sing songs, talk about the Sesame Street characters on her diaper and speak in high pitched voices (ok...only mommy does that!) to get her laughing on the changing table.
Every Wednesday mommy and Alivia go to the mall and meet up with a few other new mom's to walk...ok, sometimes we just go to Starbuck's and we don't walk. She has met a couple of new friends...Ethan Billman and Cole Lovelady. When we come home and I tell daddy that Alivia went walking with her new boyfriends, daddy quickly corrects mommy that Alivia will not have a boyfriend until she is 30!We suddenly find ourselves as parents questioning everything that we do with her and wondering if we are going to ruin her life...Should we let her cry, or should we run to her side when we hear those sweet little cries? Will she become too spoiled if we do or will she resent us for not running to her rescue? This worrying, I'm afraid, will only get worse as she gets older. Every book that we seem to read only seems to cloud our view of what to do. Sometimes I would like to throw them all out the window and just do what I think is best. As they say, mom's know best, yet I always seem to second guess myself. How funny, when I look back that I thought my parents had all the right answers in life and yet now that I am a parent myself I find that they really didn't...they just went with their gut instinct. Our children will ask me for advice one day and they will think the same thing and they will have no idea that I am contemplating myself of what is right and wrong. One thing is for sure...no one has done this perfect and no one ever will. We will inevitably make some wrong decisions, but we pray that we make more right.
