Doing new things everyday

Shes so cute sometimes, Lately she has been obsessed with getting her picture taken...
I wonder what could have made her that way....? :]
Maybe the camera that has been non-stop in her face since she exited the womb. lol
Lately she has been sneaking to get my camera out the diaper bag and turning it on and holding it above her head pointed at her.
When she does this, she doesnt completely get how to take the picture.
She knows what button to push but she holds it down instead of just pushing it.
So she sits there with it pointed at her saying "cheese" "cheese".
She is so conceited too, she loves to look at herself and everytime I take a picture of her, she says "see".
She wants to look at herself as often as she can, and when she does see the picture of herself, she says "aw" or "pretty".
She occassionally likes to pretend like shes taking pictures of mommy and daddy.

Also on the topic of her being conceited.... Everytime she puts clothes on that she thinks is cute or gets a bow in her hair or anything like that, she says "mirror" and runs into our room to look at herself in the mirror.
She is too cute sometimes. :]

Another new thing for her is when she is pooping in her diaper, she feels the need to run and hide.
I dont know what could have given her the idea that this is embarassing, we have never made her feel bad about doing it?
She has this one particular wall in our apartment that she runs behind and stands there until she is done.
When she is done, she comes to us and says "poopie".
If she cant leave the room she will just go to a corner and cover her face.
I really dont know how she picked this one up.

About a week and a half ago we took Rylee to JCPenney portrait studio to get her christmas pictures done and while we were waiting for it to be our turn we were sitting out in the little waiting area.
Well they have toys there to keep babies occupied.
And there was a little girl waiting with her mom too, I would say the little girl was about 3?
And she was playing with a toy and Rylee came up to her and started playing with the toy with her, didnt even try to take it away from her.
And the girl says "mine!" and takes the toy away.
Well ever since that day, Rylee has loved the word mine, and I hate it soooo much.
I want her to be a brat. And she completely gets how to use it. I dont know how hearing it one time has taught her to keep using the word over and over again.
Every time she says it she gets popped and I tell her we dont say mine.
But its an every day thing.
She takes toys from Lexie now and says it, or takes the phone from me or jake and says it.
I have to put a stop to it, I am not going to have a little brat on my hands.

ALMOST POTTY TRAINED

I would say she is for the most part potty trained.

While we are at home, she will not have a diaper on.

If there is even 1 pee in it she will say "change"! She absolutely doesnt like pee on her now that she knows she can do it in the potty.

So pretty much as soon as we get home she takes off her pants and her diaper and goes to the potty.

I try to keep a diaper on her, but that definately doesnt happen, she ends up getting her way.

And I really dont want to hold her back from learning, because it is good that she wants to go on the potty.

I wish that she would just keep her clothes on until she needed to go!

Especially when people are over, and theyre like "whys your kid naked" lol.

Or when we go down to Amanda & Lexies house, she gets naked there too!

I really would hate for her to have an accident in someone elses house.

But in general she has done really good. She rarely pees on the floor anymore.

For some reason her potty is messing up though, it is only supposed to sing when she goes in it. But now it is singing even when she just sits down. So she says "yay!" for herself even when she didnt do it! Its annoying.

We havent mastered going on a big potty yet.

The other day when we were at Amanda's and she had taken off her diaper, she said "tee-tee" and I was like oh, no, she doesnt have her potty here!

I tried putting her up on the regular toilet and she didnt go, about a minute later she said "tee-tee" again, I thought she just wanted to get back up on the potty because it was fun.

I didnt believe her and she peed on the floor.

I quickly stopped her and got her on to the toilet and she finished going on the big potty.

I still havent let her try to go while we are out in public. I think Im just too lazy for it.

It is alot of work on my part and I would rather her just pee in her diaper while we're out.

LOG OF "TEE TEES & #2S IN POTTY"

12/9- 5 TEE TEES

12/10- 8 TEE TEES, 1 #2

12/11- 4 TEE TEES

12/12- 3 TEE TEES, 1 #2

12/13- 8 TEE TEES, 1 #2

12/14- 7 TEE TEES, 2 #2S

12/15- 8 TEE TEES

12/16- 8 TEE TEES

SHES GROWING UP BEFORE MY EYES!

Well, Rylee has been reading this little book of colors she has had for about a month.

Her daddy and I have been trying to teach her a couple of colors with it.

Usually I think she just guesses what color it is and always says pink. lol.

Yesterday she brought the book to me saying "Red", and it was actually on the red page.

I congratulated her on getting it right but I thought she had just guessed.

Well today I was flipping through the book with her and I turned it to red, and she said "red".

I turned it to pink and she said "pink". Then I turned it to yellow and she said nothing. I told her yellow.

And the next turn around she got pink, red, and yellow.

I dont think I want to give her too many different colors to remember yet. I think I want to ingrave these few in her head first. lol.

I am so proud.

POTTY TRAINING :]

I have been keeping a little log of the number of times Rylee goes on her potty each day.

And so far --- 12/4- 2 times

12/5- 1 time

12/6- 0 times

12/7- 2 times

12/8- 6 times

Yesterday with the 6 times -

The first time Rylee just came out of her room where she was playing with Lexie with no diaper on.

And she went in the bathroom saying "tee-tee". I honestly didnt believe that she was going to go.

Because alot of times she just says it for attention and does nothing.

But a second later I heard the music on her potty.

I am really glad we got her a potty with music because sometimes I probably wouldnt have known that she went without it.

And all through out the day she would take her pants off by herself and go.

Alot of times I stop her from taking off her pants and diapers just becuase it is a pain for me and she does have alot of accidents on the floor.

But I am trying to get past that so she can learn.

And she does alot better if when she says "tee tee" and goes in the bathroom if me or her daddy goes with her.

Because if we dont usually she starts going on the potty and then when the music starts she gets up to see if we are going to come watch her and pees all over the floor.

But if we go with her she completely pees in the potty.

I am really proud of her, but I am still not pushing the issue.

We are just taking it day by day because I do not want to get frustrated with her if she stops going in the potty.

Such a little character!

So not too long ago, Jake was getting onto Rylee for something and he said "Rylee, I'm gonna pop you".
And She said in the cutest, happiest voice, "pop you". So ever since she thinks its so funny to say it to me and her daddy.
She doesn't actually pop us, she just likes to say it.

Lately Rylee has liked to be held like a baby, probably because I have been teaching her to hold babies.
My mom will hold her like a baby and sing "Rock a bye baby" and Rylee loves it, she will let her hold her as long as she is singing.
Well today Rylee was on the phone with my mom and my mom started singing it to her.
So Rylee, holds the phone like a baby and rocks it back and forth. I thought it was the cutest thing. When she saw how much attention I gave her for it she started hysterically laughing. She loves attention!

Another BIG THING right now is... Bribery!
I mainly just have to bribe her to eat. It all started with those graduate meals with ravioli and a side of vegetables. Well she didn't seem to think that she had to eat the vegetables, just the ravioli. I told her that she couldn't have anymore until she ate the vegetables. And right away she did it. Now when we eat those, she eats every other bite a vegetable. She really seems to understand everytime I try to make a deal with her.
She doesn't particularly like her yo baby yogurt, so I tell her that she will get candy or a cookie when she eats it all, and she comes up and eats it, no problem.
Or I will tell her just one more bite and it will be gone gone. and she will say "gone gone?" and then eat it. I end up telling her this a few times. I'm sure soon she won't believe me anymore and I don't know what I will do then. But I always hold up my side of our deals.
She loves to be Mommy's helper. When she brings her toys into the living room, once she's done playing with them, I will say, be mommy's helper please. And she says"box" like her toybox. She automatically knows what I am talking about and cleans up her toys.
When she walks into her room, if there are toys on the ground, she says "messy" and starts picking them up. I think I might be creating a neat freak!
But when her friend Lexie is over she always pulls out every last one of her toys!
I don't know what shes trying to prove? If she's trying to show off all of her toys or if shes trying to show Lexie all the things they can play with or if she's just trying to be bad?

POTTY! --- the past few months Rylee's potty has been sitting in the bathroom just waiting to get used. I haven't been pushing the issue with her because she is only 19 months old.
Well she used it 1 time when we first got the potty.
And yesterday right after her daddy went to school, she took her diaper off. (it's such a struggle to keep anything on her, clothes, shoes, socks, diaper!).
So I just let her keep it off, thinking she doesn't pee that much, I will probably put a diaper back on her before she goes.
Well we were about to go into the kitchen and she just stops and says "tee tee". She peed on the floor. Well while I was running a bath for her, we were sitting in the bathroom waiting for the tub to fill up, and she just willingly sits on her potty and pees!
I clapped and cheered for her and she was sooo proud of herself. I don't know if I have ever seen her smile so big and she is always smiling!

So today, she strips down again without saying a word and goes and sits in the dark bathroom and all of a sudden I hear the music to her potty (it goes off when it senses #1 or #2 in it)
So I rush in there to see her getting off the potty saying "tee tee". I am so proud of her. She could have very well just left her diaper on, but she knew she should go in the potty.
Well I came back into the living room and was on the computer and about 5 minutes later I hear the music again & she did it again.
She obviosly knows this is where she is supposed to go. I am trying not to get my hopes up about it, I know that it might not stick. But I am so proud of her. :] Words can't really explain how proud I am :]

19 Months :]

Rylee is such a happy girl. She is always playing and making up games with her mommy and daddy.

We even taught her to say "happy" and im pretty sure she understands the full meaning of it. We only say happy to her when she is laughing or smiling.

Now she will just randomly walk up to us and say happy and smile.

She loves to talk on the phone. She is always bringing the phone to me and saying " nana" (my mom), so I have to call her for her.

She will talk to her for a little while and then hang up and bring the phone back to me, usually she doesn't realize that she hung up on her and wants me to call her back. She is also trying to be really pursuasive it seems like, when she says something that she wants she nods her head yes while saying it.

Like she knows she is gonna get it or something and she is so sure of it.

It is cute, but it can be a pain when I tell her no, because she was so sure she was gonna get it that it upsets her so bad.

She tells us when she is hungry, which sometimes I feel like she can't be hungry that often. I wish I could tell when she was really hungry. Like if she had some kind of hunger meter that I could see. lol.

But she tells me she's hungry and takes my hand and guides me to the kitchen.

She eats so much now that she is off the bottle.

Still not drinking any milk!

My mom got her some chocolate soy milk and I try just putting the slightest amount in her cup of juice, just so she gets a little bit of milk.

Usually she will drink it as long as there isn't too much.

I have been feeding her more macaroni and cheese and things like that to help her get more calcium.

We have still been talking about "brother Aedyn" ofcourse, and how he will be here in 2 months.

I know she has no idea how long that is. lol

We have been practicing how to hold a baby, and putting a baby doll to sleep in a crib and how we have to be quiet.

She hasn't really gotten that part down, she will "shhh" and then say " nite nite baby" real loud. lol

Also I took her by myself to go visit Santa, I figured with all this extra - scaredness she's been going through lately that we should go visit him a couple times before we actually take her 2009 Santa pic.

Before it was our turn to go see Santa, Rylee was looking at him through the gate saying her version of Santa, Santa.

I had been showing her the picture from last year with him.

(different Santa this year btw)

And she seemed to be excited to see him, but as I expected the closer we got to him the more she wanted me to hold her.

By the time we were standing in front of him she had her head down on my shoulder.

I was showing her that he had boots, because she is obsessed with her own boots.

I put her down to stand by him because I thought that would be the next step to sitting on his lap.

She immediately started crying and saying "up. up". He gave her a coloring book and she still didn't like him.

I didn't want to stay there forever trying to make her like him, there was a whole line full of people. So we left. I plan to take her back again on a day where Santa isn't very busy.

Hopefully by the 3rd time she can go in her pretty dress and get pictures with him.

I don't want to give up the tradition of Santa pics!

18 Months :]

Rylee had her 18 month doctor visit with Dr. Wiley.

Her very nice doctor.

When we got into the room and the nurse was measuring her Rylee flipped out.

She didn't want this stranger anywhere near her.

And she definately didn't want to be on the little patient table by herself so daddy sat up there with her.

While we waited on Dr. Wiley to come in we taught her to say "Dr. Ben".

But ofcourse when he actually came in she was scared of him and she didn't want to show him that she learned his name.

This was an even huger flip out! because he needed to check her hips and Rylee was fighting him the whole time screaming like someone was torchering her.

Same thing happened when he tried to look in her ears.

She is at a very scared age. He said its pretty normal at 18 months.

But Rylee is scared alot of the time!

Before Jake would make a monster sound and come play bite her, now when he does that Rylee runs to me and says "mean", she used to love it.

I don't know if all of this started because of Halloween and scary costumes?

Also ever since I last blogged about Rylee still being on the bottle, I haven't given her one.

She has been drinking out of a sippy cup.

Not happily though. At first she wouldn't touch it.

Now she will, the only problem is that she will not drink milk out of it at all. Even if i put juice or chocolate milk in it, if she tastes a hint of milk she puts the cup down.

Her doctor said that this happens alot when you switch from a bottle to a sippy cup.

He said to just try to feed her more cheese and stuff like that.

It's really alot more pressure now to keep her healthy.

I have to make sure she's eating enough fruits and vegetables and now calcium.

It was so much easier when all she needed was milk or formula.

I'm still waiting for the day when she will drink milk out of her sippy cup!!!!

Rylee's 2nd Halloween!

My little BEE!

From the time Rylee woke up on Halloween I started trying to teach her to say "Trick or Treat".

She ofcourse didn't get why I was teaching her this yet, but she learned it.

We had so many places to go this year (very different from last year when she was only 5 months old.)

First we went to Jake's parents house. We rang their doorbell to trick or treat, but when Jake's mom opened the door Rylee just tried to walk in.

She didn't understand standing outside.

Jake's mom got her candy bowl and was picking out tons of things to give Rylee. But Rylee just kept grabbing out suckers, that was the only thing she wanted.

We stayed at her house for an hour while Jake dressed up his brother, Austin like a hobo.

He had a painted on beard and messy hair - this really scared Rylee.

She knew it was Austin, she just didn't get why he looked like that, she wouldn't go near him.

So I knew early on in the night that she would be getting scared alot by scary costumes.

When we were leaving their house Austin decided to come with us for the night.

The next stop was Chase Meadows neighborhood to go trick or treating with Lexie but by the time we got there Lexie was leaving to go to another neighborhood.

So we trick or treated at a few houses in the neighborhood including Amanda & Josh's house.

This was Rylee's first taste of trick or treating. While at these other houses she really didn't get why we were not staying to talk to people for a long time.

Once she got her candy she didn't want to just leave. She would stand there talking to them and looking at them. It was really hard to get her to leave.

She also thought she could take as much candy as she wanted. So it really wasn't good for the people that let you get your own candy, because Rylee took a ton of it.

And also at first, she didn't want to put her candy in her pumpkin (which I guess is understandable) she wanted to eat it already. And also she wanted her mommy to go with her and hold her hand every single time, she was very un sure about going up to all these doors by herself. Shes at a very insecure age I guess?

Once we left that neighborhood we let Rylee eat a couple of pieces of candy in the car to keep her happy until we got to My mom & dad's house.

My mom was the same way with Rylee as Jake's mom, she wanted to fill Rylee's bucket.

We didn't stay very long at my mom's house because at this point it was starting to get dark.

We trick or treated at 2 houses in my old neighborhood - just to people's houses that I knew my whole life & they were so happy to see Rylee.

We then went to our last stop that I was really excited about - it was to a neighborhood me & Jake had went to a few months back just to look at the beautiful million dollar houses. (Enclave) I knew this would be a great neighborhood because it had probably 100 houses and they were all so nice. I knew they would give out plenty of candy too haha.

It was fun for me and Jake too just because every house we went up to we were admiring and talking about what we liked about it.

It was nice too because alot of the people giving out candy were dressed up as witches or vampires. It was a whole different experience for Rylee.

While she was scared of these vampires she saw that they had candy so she got over it pretty quick. lol

She started to get tired of walking, good thing we remembered to bring the stroller! we really needed it.

About half way through this neighborhood Lexie , Amanda, & Johnny came to trick or treat with us.

Rylee is always really happy to see Lexie.

We trick or treated for 3 hours total I think and by this time me & Rylee were wore out & we decided to call it a night. It was a great Halloween :]