here we go again :]

Well... well... well... On June 7th we found out that Rylee is a big sissy :]

We are so excited...

I keep trying to tell her that there is a baby & i point to my belly, but she just doesn't get it yet.

She just says button when I do that.

I hope she gets it before the baby comes.

Which should be early February.

But I am alot more scared this time around.

When I was pregnant with Rylee I don't think I ever worried about losing the baby.

But this time I am, I'm like scared to tell people,

I have only told close family & friends.

I think it is because I have seen my cousin lose 2 babies now & that is after she had her 1st-Aralynn [who was born the same week as Rylee]

I kindof just thought before once you've had one baby there would never be any problems having others.

It's just scary & I hope this worry doesn't come true.

& Dr Patel can't even see me for 3 weeks! Im ready to go now.

So she can tell me that Im pregnant & maybe get my 1st ultrasound.

I love being pregnant.

My motherly instincts tell me that it's another girl.

But we will see because I thought Rylee was a boy. lol

I'm just so excited!

MY BABY IS A WHOLE YEAR!

Where did the time go?

She had 2 birthday parties this year!

her first one was a family party, but jakes parents didnt show up.

so it was just my family :]

the second one was a cpl wks later & only a few friends came.

I think i decided that next year i wont do a friends party, i want it to be more about family.

Guess which big girl started sleeping in her crib!!!

I know i have said it before, but its been going on since she turned 1.

She doesnt even cry when i put her in there anymore, she just goes right to sleep almost.

But the crib is in her mommy & daddys room, im not ready for her to go to her own room yet.

Other than that.... she has started adding more words to her vocabulary.

She can say well- MOMMY, DADDY,BOO, EYES, HI, HEY, HELLO, BYE, BABY, BITES, BATH, BABA, MUAH, BUTTON, OWIE, KITTY, THANK YOU, TRAY, NITE NITE, NINNY, {head} BUT...

i might have forgotten some

Its cute too because, when you say "tray" she knows that means the tray to her walker, where i put her snacks.

so she runs right to it without even thinking about it.

& "owie" means... well she will pinch you & give you an owie and if you say owie or cry she will give you a kiss.

but now she has started giving herself owies and kissing it.

I dont know how her brain comes up with all of this.

she loves to talk & it seems like everyday shes repeating us.

Its great, like i dont really think of her that much as a baby any more , shes like a lil lil lil person. lol

But now we've got to start thinking about who we let her be around, because alot of people we know cuss, or maybe we could just ask them not to cuss around Rylee.

Because i would hate it if she repeated something like that.

This month we switched Rylee from whole milk to soy milk.

I found out that it has the same amount of calcium and protein as cows milk but its just alot better for you.

And she adjusted really well, really quick.

My reasons for switching were mainly because i found out that it was just as good for her if not better,

but also she was going through like 5 gallons a month of cows milk & as everyone i know knows that i am a vegetarian & if i can in any way cut down on dairy i will.

Because i read an article that really showed me something,

it said that with every glass of milk there is a side of veil becuase that milk was made for that baby cow, but instead they took the milk & the cow.

And i really think of Rylee as alot more innocent and sweet because she is for the most part vegan.

And she already loves animals, i hope that is something we can have in common while she grows up.

Ive decided for her 2nd birthday party we are going to do it at Mckamey animal shelter & adoption.

I volunteer there and i found out that they do birthday parties and they will bring out dogs for them to play with.

I think she will really enjoy it.

Well we took Rylee to Chester Frost park for the first time.

The water was really cold and at first she hated it.

She wouldnt even let her daddy hold her in the water, she only wanted her mommy.

It was so sweet,

eventually she started getting over it and had some fun.

We went with amanda, johnny, and lexie.

I cant wait till rylee and lexie can actually play together.

They still dont even seem to care too much when they are around eachother.

Something not so good this month is the day after chester frost her eye was all gunky.

So throughout the day it got swollen so i took her to the doctor.

And he said that she has a left ear infection & a double eye infection!

Poor baby.

After i took her home i noticed her pulling on her left ear.

And she was just crying non stop, I even gave her the phone and she threw it down.

Nothing could make her better,

but the i pulled out some soy ice cream and she was happy after that.

she loved it and she doesnt normally like cold stuff.

I thought it was really good though too.

11 Months

Running Outside!!!

I can never get a clear picture of her anymore because shes always running!

This month she finally learned the word "baby".

And she has been saying it almost constantly ever since.

We went to an easter egg hunt at my church on april 11th & there was a newborn baby there & all of a sudden she started pointing at her & saying BABY! BABY! BABY!.

She lovvvvvves other babies!

She also has become obsessed with her baby doll.

She hands her to me & says baby! and I rock the baby & hug her & then I hand her the babydoll back and she copies what I just did.

And I just told her to give the "baba" [bottle] to the baby & she did, she fed her baby doll. haha

I think this is a good opportunity to start getting her prepared for a little brother or sister.

Because me & jake are trying for another one :]]

So I think by the time the new baby is born Rylee will be pretty well adjusted to me holding another baby & hopefully she won't be too jealous :].

Rylee also just recently learned to bounce a ball. She got a bouncy ball in her easter basket & so her daddy taught her how :] Its so cute.

Also Im realizing that Rylee is really a very good baby - I mean I never thought she was bad or anything but she is getting more well behaved.

& its great!

I see other babies who they do something & their mom tells them no & the baby just laughs.

But when I tell Rylee no, she stops immediately & drops what she is doing.

I think she will grow up to be a great kid, instead of some crazy ones we have living in our apartment complex.

---BUT she still sleeps with her mommy & daddy.

I dont think I will ever be able to break it. She is wayy too attached now. & the books say that she is able to be insecure now & that is why she wants to be with me so much.

I dont want to make her more insecure by having her cry herself to sleep in a place she doesnt wanna b [her crib].

So my master plan is to wait until she is like 3ish & she can understand me really well & Im gonna bribe her. haha. Think it will work?

But I atleast know now to never let another baby sleep with us!

The next baby is going in the crib for sure!

OOOOO & my camera broke!!! so i dnt know how i am gonna live without one until we can get another one! I guess I will have to borrow my dads....

10 months

This month Rylee has changed sooooo much!

All of a sudden she quit needing us so much.

She got walking down perfectly.

And before she used to need something to help her stand up. but this month she learned to get up pushing off the floor with her hands.

We're so proud of her.!

Walking at 10 months!!

We decided that now that she can walk that maybe we could take her in the little playground inside of Northgate mall.

She loved it!

There were like 4 different tunnels she crawled under.

She really didn't even feel the need to be around her mommy and daddy.

She's not as needy anymore.

She started chasing some big kids. And she was keeping up. :]

And then there was a tree slide, she started climbing up the steps all by herself. BUT when she got to the slide part she got scared and turned around and went back down the stairs. It was cute, shes pretty smart.

Something funny that happened...

By the end of 10 months, she never wanted to crawl at all.

So when she would go through the tunnels she would try to stand up and go through them. but that way she was too tall. it was cute.

O!

And we showed her her belly button and ever since she always looks down at it nd says her lil version of "belly".

She says BITES perfectly.

And now she says BATH and DADDY.

and ofcourse HI and BYE.

Now she takes 1 nap a day usually lasting an hr and a half.

and then sleeps around 10 hours at night with less waking up.

Still sleeping with mommy & daddy.

but we are getting a king sized bed instead of a queen. so soon there will be enough room!!!! :]

----I LOVE MY LIL FAM

9 months

18 pounds, 4 ounces, 30 1/8 inches long and 95 percentile!

This month we went to Vandergriff park & Coolidge park alot...

Mommy & Daddy have tried to get me out alot on the pretty days :]

More & more every day, Rylee is getting more brave.

Before she would only walk with us holding her hands, & then it turned into cruising & then she would start walking by herself only if it is only a short distance, if it were long she would just crawl. But towards the end of the month she is really showing independance, she wants to walk all on her own and she can walk about a room's distance before falling.

One of her main problems with walking is that she gets really excited at the end and falls.

A BIG THING THIS MONTH

Rylee had her 1st trip to the emergency room.

2/20/09

The day started with her throwing up early in the morning.

We weren't too worried because this had happened a couple of months ago and it just got better on it's own,

so we did nothing, went about our day, but after the 3rd time she threw up for no reason, we called the dr.

They said that if it keeps up then to give her pedialyte, and if she doesn't keep that down then to take her to the ER.

& if you didn't get it by now, she didn't keep it down.

The doctor there pretty much said it was ROTOVIRUS.

He didn't ask too many ?S and neither did we because it was like midnight.

so the next day we looked it up online and it didn't sound right.

She was only throwing up when she drank formula, so I started thinking that maybe she was becoming lactos intolerant.

Never really got an answer on that one. but her doctor Wiley have her a really easy to digest formula and shes been fine since.

But this was a big big scare for us, I have never felt so bad for her. :[

8 months

This month we didn't get to find out her weight or height. :[

It seems like she grew up alot this month.

WOW, well she is standing up by herself alot better now. She is working on her balance. My friend told me that her baby did that for a couple weeks and then all of a sudden started walking, so I am excited for that. :]]]

She started watching us on the phone talking, -which she has always had a fascination with phones.

But this month she started putting her hand to her ear & saying "hi".

It is soooo cute, she does the sweetest things now.

And she gets cuter with time.

I also caught her flushing the toilet. :]

I am actually really surprised by how much she does and says at only 8 months. I never thought that she would be doing so much so soon.

She actually got onto the couch by herself at about 8 1/2 months.

This month mommy & daddy finally got the guts to get Rylee's ears pierced.

She was much braver than we were.

Daddy was pacing and was so nervous.

I was literally feeling like i was going to faint. I think I almost cried.

We both felt bad because she didn't even know any thing was going to happen to her.

I held her while she got it done. The women there & daddy were in front of her making all kinds of funny noises just to keep her attention.

And then once they did the first ear, , we were both mad because the old lady got the gun stuck to her ear so her ear was being pulled .

I could hear the pain in her cry so I felt so bad for her and she was looking to me for comfort. I really just wanted to quit and just have one ear done. lol

She really cried after they did the second one.

She cried for about a minute and then drank a bottle and was fine.

And she hasn;t acted like it botherd her since.

Shes so cute with her pink earrings :]

I really wish we had gotten them pierced earlier on because at this age she is so alert and happy.

It would have been easier if she was a small baby who was asleep or something.

7 months

18 pounds & 2 ounces. 29 1/4 inches long. 95 percentile.

This was a big month, Rylee started traditionally crawling,=before she would just scoot herself around. She also started pulling herself up to things; the couch, table etc.

Shortly after that she started "cruising" , or using the couch or walls to help her walk.

It won't be long until she starts walking.-She really wants to.

BABYS FIRST CHRISTMAS

She had so much fun on this day. She had probably around 50 new toys to play with.

She took about 3 naps that day, which is very abnormal for her.

She wore herself out playing.

We spent the first half of the day at Nana & Pappaw's house [My parents house],

& the other half at her daddy's parents house.

She got soooo much attention.

She also had her first taste of Birthday cake :]]]

on mommy & daddys birthday

-which ofcourse she LOVED!