A Title? Don't have one today.

So I guess the latest and greatest Kornelson news is that we got a fence!! So far half of it is up, the other half is still stacked in the back driveway! I'm not a happy city dweller, I don't think mankind was meant to live smashed up 3 feet from each other with yards the size of a postage stamp, but to each their own. So add to the fact that we have houses on each side of us that I could almost touch, with French neighbors who live on their deck all summer, (they may even sleep out there I'm not sure) I was in DIRE need of a little privacy. We used our tax refund money, and now have a very decent looking fence going up. Thanks to Dad Kornelson who helped us a whole bunch when him and Mom were down a few weekends ago. The only problem I have now is I'm finding for the first time really, how difficult it is to get something done with a baby. The weather has been brutal here lately, and has snowed the last couple of days, so today finally it is sunny again, and not exactly warm, but decent. The wind is cool. So to go out there and paint I need Jesse to be home to look after Athena, and there is lots that he needs to do out there too, so it's a little frusterating, beacuse it would be best for us to be out there working together. Oh well, it will get done....just maybe not as fast as I would like!!

The lastest on Athena is she has become an accomplished roller. Last week she finally figured out how to roll from her stomach to her back, so now she can go anywhere she wants to. She used to be stuck on her stomach because she couldn't roll back, but now she's got it all figured out. Yesterday she rolled all over the room and ended up against a wall, and then cried and was mad becasue she couldn't roll any further, and kept bonking her head against the wall trying to turn that way. It was funny. Bed time is becoming more of an issue again. Jesse and I are undecided as to how to proceed which probably makes it worse for us. We need to have a plan and stick to it, but we just don't know what to do. We're not sure if 6 months is old enough yet to put her down and let her cry till she falls asleep, and if she will learn to not cry after a few nights of that and just accept that it is bedtime. My issue with doing that is I don't know if she is old enough to understand and learn what betime is, and if she will just think that I'm deserting her and not coming to her cries. I don't want her to feel afraid, so that is my big thing with that. So if anyone has any advice I'd love to hear it. Right now we put her down around 10 with her bottle, she finishes it, cries for 10 minutes, I break, go and get her, and she is up till 11 or 11:30, where I then nurse her after she is drooping over tired, and then she finally falls asleep and I can put her down. I'd like her to be able to go to bed alone, but don't know the best way to proceed with this. Like I said, any advice is welcomed!! Once she is older and can understand what bedtime is, and is crying just because she dosen't want to go to bed, it will be different, but I just wonder if 6 months is too young yet to be letting her cry it out.

I am headed home to Kola in 2 weeks, for a MONTH!! I can't wait. It seemed so far away and now it is so close. I never like leaving Jesse but he will be taking 2 weeks vacation and driving down on the 18th. When we live so far away from everyone, it just dosen't make sence to go for a short time. Well, guess that is all for now. Jesse should be home soon, and then maybe I can go get some things done outside.

:)