Alicyn Jeanne Bliss Turns 8

My baby girl turned 8 years old today! What a nice young lady she is turning into. I am so proud of her. My official due date was August 19th. My Doctor was going out of town and kind of talked me into inducing labor before she left. I was naive and just did what she told me she thought would be best.

I love to remember the day she was born and how much Dave and I wanted her. We were so excited. Since I was induced we had to be to the hospital at 6:00 am. On our way to the hospital I looked out my window the whole way with tears running down my cheeks. I didn't want him to know how scared I was. I was really glad that it was dark....I was trying to be tough. It was scary, exciting and wonderful all at the same time. What a roller coaster of emotions I felt that day.

Alicyn Jeanne Bliss was born at 2:46 in the afternoon on August 16th, 2000. She was 8 lbs 9 ounces and 19.5 inches long. She has been a little blessing to our lives ever since.

A couple funny things I remember:

She used to be scared of Swiper on Dora. One night when she was saying her prayers she said... "if Swiper comes to my house please make him go to Jade or Ella's instead". Oh it was hard not to burst out laughing.

One of the very first movies that Dave and I took her to was Piglet's Big Movie. She was glued to the screen and ate her popcorn. The second the movie was over she asked us over and over for about two weeks... "What happened to the bees?" In the very beginning of the movie Pooh and friends are chased by a bunch of bees and they ended up getting away. They out smarted the bees and made them go inside of something to trap them. She was so worried they were hurt. That is the only movie on DVD that I have ever seen actually wear out from watching it so much. Ali and Zach loved it when they were little. The DVD peeled apart. We don't have that one anymore.

Ali loved throwing the laundry down the stairs as I sat on the couch trying to fold it. She was pretty fast though and I ended up folding things over and over.

She is a water baby, anything to do with water and she is there.

She didn't like the Grinch either (How the Grinch Stole Christmas).

One day I went to my mom's house after work to get her and she was in the backyard on the pony. My mom told me when I walked in "I have a little bad news, Colby cut Ali's hair" He said he was playing doctor and cut her hair. I told him that doctor's don't cut hair and he said, YES THEY DO!. So I went in the backyard to see how bad and just started to cry when I saw her mullet head. She said, oh mom don't cry, it really is ok. It was just hair but man she looked like a little punk rocker 3 year old boy.

Another time at my mom's I went in the back yard and she and Colby we covered in grey dirt. Their clothes, hair, mouth, eyes, shoes were full. I said what did you do? She said, oh Colby and I were making snow angels. I asked her to show me where, so she did. It was in my dad's fire pit. They were both covered in soot.

Ali has always loved to play house. When she was young this is where her baby would sleep while she did other things that mom's do. The oven was also a place to store things that she was playing "house" with. After I melted a few things turning on the oven....I learned to look in the oven first before turning it on....still do, thanks to little Ali.

A few things about Alicyn:

*Loves her family

*Loves her cousins and friends

*Loves to play house

*Loves to wrestle with her brother

*Loves 4-H (horse club)

*Loves her puppy Lexi

*Loves her cat Simon

*Loves Ginger Ale

*Loves makeup

*Loves to hang out with Grandpa

*Loves school

*She is the sleep over queen

*Loves to go camping

*Loves Yellowstone

*Loves Sea World and wants to work there

When she grows up she wants to be a mom, babysitter, work at Sea World, Be a singer so she can be rich and buy mom and dad a huge house - ha ha!

I don't know what I would do without her. She is my sweetheart!!