We have been in Rochester, Minnesota a year! I can't believe it- we have another year to go and then we are outta here! I am excited about that but I also think when our last year is up I'm going to be sad about leaving new friends that I have made here. We are still not sure where we are going to end up but hopefully in the next couple months we will have a better idea. Anil had his first interview in the Twin Cities today. He will probably have a couple more up there then we will do a couple in Idaho. I am soo ready to settle down somewhere, buy a house, and just have us be done with school/training. Anil and I have been together 6 years and during those years one of us have always been in school/training.

This week poor Zahra has been a teething monster. She is getting 3 teethers all at once. The past couple days she has had a runny nose and a fever. Luckily, her sleeping has been unaffected from her teething but you can just tell she is miserable. She hasn't been eating 'food' very good at all but has been eating everything else. Let's see yesterday she ate: grass, dandelion, woodchips, dirt from my plant. I put on my fb status that I think she is suffering from pica- hehe. The thing is that she just doesn't taste it..she actually eats it and will continue to until I stop her. Last night I was upstairs and Anil was kinda watching her. So I kept looking down from our balcony to make sure she was okay. Well I was looking over at her and she was shoveling dirt into her mouth from our one plant that she can get to. I had to run downstairs to stop her...I might have to put the plant out of her reach for a while until she is out of this stage.

Today was 'our' Amy's last day with Zahra. I feel so incredibly sad about this. Amy has been with us for 7 months and is seriously the best nanny EVER! I already feel sorry for our next nanny...when she was over a few weeks ago- I found myself saying...and Amy does this...Amy does that.... BUT there still maybe a possibility of Amy coming back- fingers crossed for us but for her sake I hope she can do her internship which is best for her career.

Zahra & Amy

I've been meaning to document Z's schedule on here so I can remember when she was doing what.
So anyway we are on a 4 hour schedule right now- and we have been on this schedule for almost 5 months. This is what our typical day looks like:

8am: wake up time
milk & breakfast
20-30 min of independent pak n play time
playtime with Mommy

9:30-Noon: Naptime

Noon: Wake Up
milk, and lunch
playtime

2pm-4pm: Naptime

4pm: Wake up
milk & dinner
playtime

8pm: Milk, bedtime stories & prayer
Sleep 12 hours

We have been doing the sleep, eat, wake schedule (babywise) with Zahra since she was born. It has been the best thing I could have ever done with her. I absolutely love it! It wasn't always easy but it definitely paid off. Zahra has always slept in her crib and I have always laid her down while she is still awake since the night she came home from the hospital. She first slept thru the night at 7 weeks and by 9 weeks she was consistently sleeping thru every night. Since then she has had 5 bad nights. Those have been when she was sick with H1N1 and when she got her first tooth. I get so many comments on how she is such a happy content little one- I really believe it is because of babywise!