Saturday, March 27, 2010

Cartoons



Since I had Aedyn almost 2 months ago, Rylee has been spending alot more time at her Nana's house, which I mentioned before.
So all of a sudden, when she comes home, she is telling me she wants to watch cartoons.
I have never even told her about cartoons or showed them to her or anything.
I would really rather wait as long as I could before she has an interest in TV. I would rather her play with her toys or being playing outside, just being active instead of sitting in front of the TV all the time.
So my mom tells me that she loves them and she puts them on for her.
I realize she didn't know I didn't want her watching them, so I can't really be mad.
But there is no going back now, Rylee has the best memory of any 2 year old I have ever seen.
She begs and begs me to let her watch them, so I usually do for a certain amount of time a day.
But I put on Sprout, those shows are usually more educational.
Now I am mad because, I told my mom to put on Sprout for her if she is going to play cartoons for her instead of nickelodeon.
But still everytime I come back to get her, she's watching Spongebob, she can't get anything from that!?
I don't want to have to stop taking Rylee over there because that is the only help I get, but she doesn't listen to me!?

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

OH NOOOO

So about a week ago, I was taking our puppy, Bella outside on our back porch, usually Rylee comes with me, but since we dont have a gate up around our back yard yet, Rylee & Bella can just run around and I don't like that because there is a busy road right there.
Bella doesn't usually run around unless Rylee is out there to chase her. So for the first time I decided to leave Rylee & Aedyn inside while I took the dog out.
Aedyn was just sitting on the couch like a good boy.
Well, I come back to the door literally like 5 minutes later and Rylee has turned the lock on the knob!
And this is not something she has ever done before so she really didn't understand it at all.
She just thought I was not coming in to torture her.
I was trying to talk to her through the glass on the back door to tell her to turn the botton on the knob to let me in.
But she didn't get it at all. So she was just standing there screaming and crying.
So I was stuck outside by myself without keys or a phone.
If this were in the old apartment, no problem, i would have went downstairs to Amanda's and used her phone or walked to the office to have maintenance let me in.
But at our new house I don't really know any of the neighbors and we don't have an office here.
So I decide I have to start ringing doorbells, I have to use someone's phone.
No one is answering the door, finally the last neighbor does.
So I am calling, calling, calling the landlord, no answer! oh my god!
I finally call my mom and tell her to come over because I don't know what else to do!
I get ahold of my landlord and she says it will take 10 minutes to get to our house.
My mom comes before then and that really made it worse for Rylee because she really wanted my mom and she could'nt get to her.
For some reason Rylee keeps saying Aedyn! Aedyn!, and I can see him on the couch, he is just there sleeping, by this time he had fallen over though. Luckily not off the couch!
But Rylee didn't know what else to do and didn't have anyone else's comfort, so she just kept going up to him and kissing him.
It was kinda sweet but at the same time I was so worried that she was going to pull him off of the couch or something.
Finally the landlord comes and lets me in.
I am so relieved for this nightmare to be over!!!
Rylee didn't calm down for a long time. It really upset her. I hope she learned her lesson!

Monday, March 15, 2010

GETTING MORE GROWN EVERYDAY!

Rylee is growing up sooo much faster now.
Everyday she is less and less like a baby. She talks all day long and makes sense.
I can tell her almost anything and she understands what I am saying.
Like for example, when I can tell she is fake crying, I will call her a "faker" and she will usually stop crying because she was caught.
Well, the other day we were watching tv and on a show there was a guy who I knew was fake crying, you would think a kid would believe it, but she was like "faker"!
It was so funny :]
And I usually tell Rylee when she is coming down the stairs to be careful.
Well the other day I almost fell and Rylee was like "be careful mommy!"
it was so cute, I had no way of knowing before this that she even knew what I meant.
She is putting her words together so good, I can get her to say 3 words together at any given time really, I just have to break each word off and tell her 1 at a time and then she will say all 3.
We are still working on colors, she's getting better, but slowly. lol.
Rylee has been spending alot of time at her nana's during the day while I run errands or just while I take a break.
Just last Friday, my mom asked to keep Rylee for about 6 hours. I ofcourse said yes...
I would love a good break. Rylee really enjoys being over there anyways so it was win win win.

Last week we bought a pitbull puppy named Bella.
Rylee loved having a puppy, she would play with her all day long.
But the Rylee started liking tp pick her up and sit on her and hit her, so we had to sell the dog.
It was really too much on me having 2 kids and a puppy top look after especially having to watch constantly so Rylee wasn't hurting her.
She went to a really good couple and I know she has a much better home than she had here.
Since Bella has been gone, Rylee really doesn't mention her much. She remembers her, but I am so glad she wasn't sad that she is gone. :]

Thursday, March 4, 2010

GREAT BIG SISSY!

Rylee adjusted so well to our move to our new house and becoming a big sister.
She hasn't seemed to be jealous at all!
And while I was in the hospital she stayed with her Nana & Pappaw, so she bonded alot with her, so if I am ever having a bad day and I need a break from her my mom is usually happy to take her for me.
And Rylee definately loves to go see her nana! Anywhere else I leave her she screams for me, even if it is with her own daddy. But not with Nana or Pappaw.

Rylee loves to give Aedyn kisses and try to help me with him, she gets me diapers for him or her and throws them away.
The only problem I have had is when she thinks shes helping and she is soooo not!
Like the other day I had the bulb suringe on the couch and Rylee picked it up and put it in her mouth and I told her to take it out.
I looked away for about 30 seconds and I turn back around and shes sticking it down Aedyn's throat gagging him bad.
I felt so bad for him.

She is very protective of him. I was using the bulb suringe on his nose and he was crying, Rylee started crying and saying no! no! no!
She gets really upset when he goes to the doctor because she is scared of the doctor herself, so she gets scared for him too!
Its very cute!
But I definately have my hands full!

Rylee has learned her left and right almost perfectly.
She will say "left hand", "right hand", "left foot", and "right foot" and she gets it right almost everytime.

I try to teach Rylee just about every word I know myself.
I want her to be as smart as she possibly can be.
She now says "housewives" when the show Desperate Housewives is on.
And she knows "Reba".
She even knows the "progressive" commercial as -car insurance.
Shes too funny sometimes!
--Aedyn being here has helped alot with her putting words together instead of just saying 1 word all the time.
She will say stuff like "Love you Aedyn" and "bless you Aedyn".
Now she has taken it and saying alot of words together, like "thank you mam" "hey mommy (or whoever she is saying hey to).
I really feel like she must be one of the smartest 22 month olds ever.
I am so proud of her :]