A Post about Alyse--Finally!

Well, my goal was to start blogging about Alyse a while ago, but I guess it really is better late than never.  :)  I mean, especially since now Alyse is fifteen months old, teething and walking around causing utter destruction.  


I was so excited to have Alyse start walking, and like everyone said, I now miss the time when she was just crawling everywhere, or even when she was a little baby in my arms.  
Don't get me wrong, I love that Alyse is walking now, it's just that she gets into EVERYTHING!  And I really mean everything!  She also loves to climb, which makes it even easier for her to get into anything she wants to.  She loves to take dirty clothes out of laundry baskets, open up drawers and cabinets, take anything she can reach off of counters; and those are just a few of her new hobbies.


Basically, Alyse loves to go anywhere she's not supposed to be.  And unfortunately for me, it is still adorable.  It's hard to keep from laughing when she does something new and amusing.  Like one day she got one of my curling irons (when it was sitting in the cabinet) and put it to her head like she was curling her hair.  Another time she got into my makeup bag and took out the powder and the powder brush, opened the brush and started putting the brush in the powder (with a closed lid) and then put the brush on her face like she was putting powder on.  Clearly she watches me a little too closely as I get ready in the morning.  :)


While she does get into anything she can get her hands on, Alyse is also experimenting with words and sounds she hears.  One she hears from me all the time is "uh-oh." Now she says "uh-oh" all the time, and not just when she does something by accident.  She says "uh-oh" when she drops her sippy cup on purpose, when she throws a book, when she throws a ball, as well as when she accidentally does things like trip or have something slip through her fingers.


Another thing she just started saying recently is "Go Dog, Go." This is a result of her love for books.  She loves reading books and any books she has near her, she wants to read.  She even wanted to read an old copy of A Midsummer Night's Dream.  Obviously she just looks through it and reads it aloud to herself, but it's cute that she'll even pick up a regular book to read, not just her toddler books.  So anyway, back to "Go Dog, Go!" My mom keeps some books at her house for Alyse and "Go Dog, Go!" is one of those books.  Recently my mom and sisters have been reading "Go Dog, Go!" to Alyse every time she is over there, and now when Alyse has that book she says "Go Dog, Go."  Again, it is just so adorable to hear a 15 month old speak.  And I know those of you with kids know what I'm talking about. :)


Although it took me a long time to write this first post, I will make sure to update this blog regularly from now on, or at least actually update it.  :)