Alana at Daycare

After a lot of hard decisions, we decided to put Alana in a new home daycare. We are very thankful for my sister, Jenny, and her family along with a family friend, Linda Horn, for watching Alana. Her new babysitter, Jen, has 2 older children, Connor, 9, and Lauryn, 6. Lauryn just loves to play with Alana. Jen took a few pictures for us of Alana hard at work.

5 Months

Alana turned 5 months on March 8th. She continues to prove that she is such a good little girl. She typically has very little to complain about. She is always "talking" away. Shawn claims that she has finally rolled over from her stomach to her back on Thursday, March 18th, but since Mom didn't see it, it didn't happen. We really haven't been out too much lately so here are a few pictures that we took earlier this month.

SuperBowl 2010

For our annual SuperBowl party, we traveled to Poplar, WI to our friends, Scott & Anna Harms' house. They were very gracious guests and the kids were very thankful that Ethan & Addison were so generous and shared their toys. We were of course also joined by the Kroening family: Kyle, Robin, Miles & Henry (just days old); the Maio family: Matt, Sarah & Genevieve. All the children were very well behaved and the parents had a great time catching up.

The Super Kids: Ethan; Genevieve; Miles; Addison; Henry & Alana

Alana loves the exersaucer!

We know. We're the world's best parents. Alana kept grabbing for our beer bottle.

She gave us "the lip" when we would take it away from her. Too funny not to snap a pic.

Henry Alana & Addison - just 12 days apart

4 months - February 8, 2010

Alana turned 4 months on February 8, 2010. She is talking a lot and rarely stops smiling. She is a very good little girl. She is working really hard on rolling over but just doesn't quite get there yet.